September 2009
44 posts
SU - 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines &... →
Reminder: Twitter was started in 2006 →
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it. Try to fake...”
– Lenny Bruce (via rachell)
Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how... →
Federer between the legs shot at US Open →
iomegadrive:
Federer says “it was the greatest shot I ever hit in my life”.
Caterina.net: Products and how to build them →
iomegadrive:
First Five Minutes. If someone can’t figure out what to do in the first five minutes of your interactive experience, you are hosed.
Book Titles, If They Were Written Today
yourmonkeycalled:
Then: The Wealth of Nations Now: Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from Them
Then: Walden Now: Camping with Myself: Two Years in American Tuscany
Then: The Theory of the Leisure Class Now: Buying Out Loud: The Unbelievable Truth About What We Consume and What It Says About Us
Then: The Gospel of Matthew Now: 40 Days...
“… I find myself thinking of a checklist [Piotr] Wozniak wrote a few years ago...”
– Gary Wolf on Piotr Wozniak’s & his SuperMemo learning methodology. (April 2008) (via fascinated)
On 9/12/01 Hunter Thompson Penned the following:
soupsoup:
Fear And Loathing In America
It was just after dawn in Woody Creek, Colo., when the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday morning, and as usual I was writing about sports. But not for long. Football suddenly seemed irrelevant, compared to the scenes of destruction and utter devastation coming out of New York on TV.
Even ESPN was broadcasting war news. It...
“Impressionism - painting outside of a studio with quick, loose brushstrokes to...”
– A history of modern art in three paragraphs
"The Government"
squashed:
Try something. Every time somebody complains about the evils or failings of “the government,” strike out “the government” and see what results.
Here’s an example from Sarah Palin’s WSJ editorial:
Common sense tells us that the government’s attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones.
Attempts to do anything often have undesired and unforeseen consequences. The...
“For a country to have a great writer is like having another government.”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn (via soupsoup)
Legal Documents For Your Startup →
alexpopescu:
Thanks to Sillicon Alley Insider and law firm Cooley Godward Kronish, you can get now samples of the documents needed for your next startup: Employee Non-Disclosure (with Non-Compete), Employee Non-Disclosure (without Non-Compete), Action of Sole Incorporator, Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws, Initial Board Resolutions, Choosing a Name
“Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are.”
– Marc Andreessen (via davemorin)
“Long before there was “Silicon Valley” there was “Oil Creek Valley,” with the...”
– The Pennsylvania Start-up That Changed The World - Forbes.com (via fred-wilson)
TEDTalks as of 09.02.09 →
Reduce, Reduce, Reduce
fillup:
continuations:
My two favorite quotes these days are Ward Cunningham’s “What’s the simplest thing that could possibly work?” and Einstein’s “Simplify as much as possible, but no further.” I believe these to be essential to startup success, especially in a highly connected world, where what might have previously been a feature can now be a company.
The temptation, however, always goes...
web browser elements [PSD] →
nikography:
for happy mockups :D
this site is pretty sick, they are organized by browser/OS.
azizisbored:
Jay-Z feat. Aziz Ansari and Kanye...