Yesterday it would have been the 60th birthday of Steve Jobs. For a mere coincidence Fonts in Use posted this archive image of this movie about him…
Category: on the Web
all things Web !
and the Oscar to the best actress goes to…
On the (italian) blog The Wardrobe there’s an interesting post on the look of the latest 10 actress awarded with an Oscar and the attached illustration with a recap of the all-time fashion look of those magnificent women…
Coca-Cola introduces the emoji-URL era
Read more on this ground-breaking news on the AdWeek post by Tim Nudd.
on becoming a better professional
David Carr’s Last Word on Journalism, Aimed at Students →
A nice reading over New York Times today.
5200 days in Space
We’ve got a permanent space colony, inaugurated a year before the setting of the iconic movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s a stunning achievement, and it’s completely ignored.
via The Atlantic
CSS Puns
The God Login
The God Login is a little essay on the design of login / registration forms by Jeff Atwood. A real nice read if you’re into this kind of things…
Life in online communities
8 italian words that you don’t have in english
My Favorite Italian Words →
… by Ed M Wood, over Babbel blog.
why so sad?
So being unsettled and wanting more out of life is not a millennial problem or a hipster problem or a ‘whatever new word marketers are using to describe young people’ problem. It’s really a problem of being ‘plugged in’ all the time, and never being given the freedom to shut off.
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You need a break. Just retire. Then start on something new. You may fail. But ultimately you’ll thank yourself later.
Paul Cantor on Medium: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/the-new-retirement-age-is-thirty-547114ab60ef
The opposites
And that’s the thing about the standard PC user experience. Between the adware and crapware that’s preinstalled it’s hard to figure out what’s actually malware. Microsoft has tried to help by selling computers through its own stores that are bloatware-free and by allowing OEM customers to make clean Windows installs for a nominal fee.
You don’t have to do this. You can instead choose to live in the equivalent of a 19th century workhouse, continuing to slave away for free for a PC OEM or an adware company. But at some level the cost of cleaning up the computer or the opportunity cost of not cleaning it up should be factored into the price. Yes, I technically got the computer for $719, but this extra junk reminds me that I didn’t get something approaching Apple’s level of user experience (and something only vaguely close to Apple’s build quality).
