Michael O'Hare, professor of public policy at Berkeley welcomes back his students: "you can be better than my generation. Take back your state for your kids and start the contract again. There are lots of places you can start, for example, building a transportation system that won’t enslave you for two decades as their chauffeur, instead of raising fares and cutting routes in a deadly helix of mediocrity. Lots. Get to work. See you in class!"
My neighbor Caitlin's business: "We are a partnership of two women who love to garden and want to be immersed in the dirt of our food system"
Super strange blog(?) with hundreds of picutres of an interestingly-haired gentleman of a guru- or musician-nature.
"a project in contemporary generative print design and art. Its final products will be a book that presents programmed images by various artists. Each print in process will be calculated individually – which makes every single book unique." Site layout is nicely done, here.
Beautiful bicycles from New York City.
On Formless Content, Definitive Content and designing with the options of printed matter or iPad, depending on content and disposability.
"Cheerful software, above all, honors the truth about humanity: Humans are not rational beings."
On redesigning e-readers or how we read digital text. Of note:
"Show me the overlap of 10,000 readers' highlighted passages in a digital book. This is our ‘Cliff Notes.’ We don’t need Derek Sivers' brilliant summaries[14] anymore (sorry Derek!) — we’re collectively summarizing for each other as we read and mark our digital copies.
Show me a heat map of passages — ‘hottest’ to ‘coldest’. Which chapters in this Obama biography should I absolutely not miss?(Fig 7)
Let Stefan Sagmeister publicly share the passages he’s highlighted in the new Murakami Haruki novel. This is something I want to see. And I bet you do, too.
When I’m considering buying a book, show me how far the average reader gets. Do most readers get through the whole novel or give up halfway? How many notes do they take? How many passages do they highlight?"
iPhone app for bicyclists to "record location, heading, speed, altitude, accelerometer, sound level, trip duration and distance to storage on the device"