March 2015
March 31, 2015
March 30, 2015
March 27, 2015
- If you touch this plant it will make you vomit in pure agony. And such an innocuous name: “Gympie Gympie”! #
March 26, 2015
- Quora: Technical surveillance countermeasures. What techniques exist to prevent yourself from being captured on camera or video? #
- Mad Mike, the homeless blogger who became a millionaire overnight. #
- EUWin: Workplace innovation. “Product and service innovation is popularly associated with R&D and ICT investment. However this association turns out to be misleading. A Dutch study suggests that research and technology-led activity accounts for only 25% of innovation; the remaining 75% of successful innovation is generated by changing managerial, organisational and work practices at enterprise level.” #
- Paul Boag: Five tools to kick start your web design business. #
- Chris Wright: Using flexbox today. #
- BBC News: Will the Dalai Lama reincarnate? #
March 24, 2015
March 20, 2015
- What are the established learning theories? There’s a lot of them. #
- Matter: The boy whose brain could unlock autism. The “intense world” theory supposes that autistic people don’t have diminished mental capabilities but rather are oversensitive to stimuli (including other people’s emotions). #
March 19, 2015
- Regex101. An online regex tester and debugger for JavaScript, Python, PHP, and PCRE. #
- Planets in the fourth dimension. This mind-blowing gif truly illustrates the phenomenon. #
- 30 endangered species in 30 pieces. Amazing CSS animations illustrating the plight of 30 endangered species. #
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recherché — adj.
- exquisite, choice; exotic, rare
- excessively refined, affected; pretentious, overblown
- You are almost certainly starting salary negotiations wrong. Tl;dr: ask for a “bolstering range” with the bottom number being fairly ambitious — i.e. above the number you’d settle for. #
March 18, 2015
- Brothel creeper. “In the late 1950s, these shoes were taken up by the Teddy Boys along with drainpipe trousers, draped jackets, bolo ties, quiff and pompadour haircuts, and velvet or electric blue clothes. [...] Self-made brothel creepers were picked up by the Soviet subculture stilyagi (rus. стиляги) in the mid 1950s. They were called ‘ботинки на манной каше’, literally men’s ‘shoes on semolina’, because they used to call the thick crepe sole ‘semolina’.” #
March 17, 2015
March 13, 2015
- V&A: 11 tips for writing a killer proposal. Great read, really useful feedback from a client’s perspective. Also reminded me of how TED wrote about choosing the right agency — incidentally mentioned (and linked to) in one of the comments. #
March 12, 2015
- The Double Ampersand Mixin. #
- Never work with agencies, recruiters, or companies that use them. A pretty vicious take on recruitment and corporate HR practices. #
March 8, 2015
- Scott Jenson: The paradox of empathy. “Design isn’t a deliverable, it’s a process.” I love the observation of designers “burying the lead” and the comparison to Asimov’s quote on “that’s funny...” being a much more common precursor to scientific discovery than “eureka!”. #
- CSS Wizardry: More transparent UI code with namespaces. #
- Stratechery: Why BuzzFeed is the most important news organization in the world. #
- How to talk to girls on Twitter without coming off like a creepy rando. #
- Why you? Follow this 3-step interview preparation method. #
- NY Times: Two theories on Berkshire Hathaway. #
March 6, 2015
- NY Times: How men can succeed in the boardroom and the bedroom. Part four of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant’s series. #
- NY Times: In short-lived fish, secrets to aging. #
- Raw Dames to Swish Bottom: X-rated illustrations banned in the 1950s — in pictures. #
- Soviet space propaganda: rocket porn from the past. #
March 5, 2015
March 3, 2015
March 2, 2015
- Jonathan Libov: Futures of text. “Comfort, not convenience, is the most important thing in software.” #
