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(Via BMD Love Blog)

Thriving in a wet environment

Seth Godin makes an apt analogy about how things go fascinatingly wrong when wetware (now there’s a term I haven’t thought about in years) gets involved:

That’s one reason why the web is so fascinating–it’s a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.

No software design survives a collision with the user.

Dr. Terry Wahls’ TEDx Iowa City presentation is the best TED talk ever. Take 18 minutes out of your life to watch; you won’t regret it.

“Between the unexpected, unpleasant events in our lives and our response to those events is a space, and in that space we have a choice in deciding what our response will be. We can either give up or get up each day and do our best.”

So the Apple TV is now officially a high-definition device, capable of 1080p output. Still officially a hobby for Apple, but the strategy behind it is becoming increasingly clear: year after year, chip away at the dwindling reasons to subscribe to cable or satellite.

Netflix and iTunes have pretty much eliminated (non-reality) TV series now, for a large segment of the population. Movies are coming along nicely, with Netflix streaming and iTunes movie rentals, along with sharing from computers and devices on your home network.

Today, John Gruber linked to an article at PCMag by Eric Grevstad, and quoted this bit:

That’s because, for all the talk about whether the iPad 3 will have a quad-core processor or a retina display or a VW Beetle bud vase, we already know one thing about it: It won’t be a laptop. And we know, if we’re honest, that the iPad is no substitute for a laptop. Never will be. Isn’t supposed to be.

Click the link to see a sterling example of how to sell a snowblower.

Do you like shoveling snow? Then stop reading this and go back to your pushups and granola because you are not someone that I want to talk to.

(Via Shawn Blanc)

Ghost in the Pixel has a really nice list of design resources. Numerous books, articles, films, and organizations. Some great stuff in there.

The Acoustics FREQ blog has a great how-to on building your own DIY acoustical panels. The cheaper Roxul insulation is not available for viewing in my neighborhood, but apparently Lowe’s down the road can special-order it. (In other words, Johns Manville or Owen Corning may prove to be cheaper, even at 4x the price.)

Go watch How to Put Yourself Inside of a Coat, a video by Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half. It explains very well why I choose not to write end-user documentation.

I can hardly wait for our upcoming daughter to be old enough to appreciate Mark Twain’s Advice to Youth. It’s some of the best advice I’ve read in ages. (I really do want her to read it, along with everything Oscar Wilde ever wrote, for starters…)

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient.