May 2011
1 post
Tie It Down With Chains
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” —Thomas Jefferson
March 2011
1 post
My $500 Tablet is Not Your $200 Laptop
First, I should clarify that I don’t own an iPad, at least not yet, but I get why it’s different.
Tom Dunlap, writing for PCWorld, says “My $200 laptop can beat your $500 tablet.” His point is that he can do a lot of things an iPad cannot with a cheap netbook. This is the sentiment I constantly hear from those who don’t see the iPad as a fundamentally different...
July 2010
1 post
“When the Lisa team was pushing to finalize their software in 1982, project...”
– From the history of MacPaint: http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/
December 2009
2 posts
More Than Pretty
We have a slightly different perception of what designers are at 37signals. It is not so much about making things pretty as it is about figuring out what things should be and how they should work. That requires looking at the things themselves and not at the frame, or other elements that will fall into place naturally later. Once you have a really good message design, creating the rest in some...
Twitter Phishing
People on Twitter are being “phished” not “hacked” here’s the diff:
“Hacked” in this case would imply that someone circumvented Twitter’s security which is not what happened.
“Phished” means that a nefarious website, email, tweet or whatever tricked the person into entering their username and password into a login form pretending to be...
November 2009
1 post
Hello.
I’m going to play with this Tumblr thing for a while.