10/GUI doesn’t seem like much of a deviation from the current trend in OS design, but I found myself watching the demo video long after I was interested because it’s so well-executed. The information is presented clearly and concisely with the perfect balance of text and illustration.
Still wasn’t enough to keep me watching until the end, but it’s a great example. Continue reading 10/GUI Demo Video More Impressive Than the Tech
We need to talk. I don’t think we have a future together. It’s not you — it’s me. Is this really what you want?
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Tao Lin’s new “sound project” from Brooklyn seeks to create something you can “authentically empathize with,” and succeeds almost instantly with the first relationship-talk soundbite over loping electronic beats. I was surprised at how quickly and efficiently it connected with me.
Looking forward to hearing the second song from the 2-song EP due in fall and “available digitally, physically, and emotionally.” No kidding. Continue reading Jesus Christ (the indie band) – “Is This Really What You Want”
Ever wonder how the big banks consistently make money as the market drops?
Automatic programs began issuing and canceling tiny orders within milliseconds to determine how much the slower traders were willing to pay. The high-frequency computers quickly determined that some investors’ upper limit was $26.40. The price shot to $26.39, and high-frequency programs began offering to sell hundreds of thousands of shares.
“Mrs. Cold,” the first single from the new Kings of Convenience album, has been released to radio.
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It’s a solid track, but it doesn’t sound like Erlend and Eirik are advancing, though this is a little bubblier than standard KoC fare.
You can actually get a preview of the album by watching their performance in Seoul last year, where they tested out nine new songs before recording the album. Check them out below. Continue reading Kings of Convenience – Mrs. Cold
Heard “Heartbreaker” for the first time yesterday. Today I noticed it’s on MSTRKRFT’s latest record, Fist of God, which I’d downloaded back in March. How’d I miss such an awesome track?
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My star rating system:
Looks like I gave up after four lackluster tracks. Thanks to Hype Machine for getting me to #5. Continue reading How Did I Miss MSTRKRFT & John Legend’s “Heartbreaker”?
Erlend sends another postcard after playing the first Kings of Convenience show since August 2008 in the Azores (Portugal).
Continue reading Kings of Convenience Postcard From the Azores
During her keynote at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, Google’s Marissa Miller (VP of Search and UX) tells us how seemingly insignificant tweaks to the code behind websites can make incredible differences.
This phenomenon is best illustrated by a single design tweak to the Google search results page in 2000 that Mayer calls “The Billion Dollar HTML Tag.” Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page asked Mayer to assess the impact of adding a column of text ads in the right-hand column of the results page. Could this design, which at the time required an HTML table, be implemented without the slower page load time often associated with tables?
Mayer consulted the W3C HTML specs and found a tag (the “align=right” table attribute) that would allow the right-hand table to load before the search results, adding a revenue stream that has been critical to Google’s financial success.
Yahoo! got the ball rolling a few years ago when some Continue reading Google’s Billion-Dollar HTML Tag
John Gruber, a tech blogger I recommend wholeheartedly, invokes Lord Northcliffe, a visionary British publisher, with this quote in his piece on the WSJ’s unusual lack of sourcing for their article on Steve Jobs’ newly-reported liver transplant.
Regarding the WSJ’s Report That Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant
Image: Olivetti Valentine 1
Got an email with some pretty encouraging scans yesterday morning.
Continue reading Kings of Convenience Postcard Says Third Album Finished
There’s something I need to make right.
The attentive person’s honest, real-time report is an imperfect approximation of her subjective experience, but it is the only game in town.
When a fruit salad, a lover, or a jazz trio is just too imperfect for our tastes, we stop eating, kissing, and listening. But the law of large numbers suggests that when a measurement is too imperfect for our tastes, we should not stop measuring. Quite the opposite — we should measure again and again until niggling imperfections yield to the onslaught of data.
Those subatomic particles that like to be everywhere at once seem to cancel out one another’s behavior so that the large conglomeration of particles that we call cows, cars, and French Canadians stay exactly where we put them. By the same logic, the careful collection of a large number of experiential reports allows the imperfections of one to cancel out the imperfections of another. No individual’s report may be taken as an unimpeachable and perfectly calibrated index of his experience — not yours, not mine — but we can be confident that if we ask enough people the same question, the average answer will be a roughly accurate index of the average experience.
One of the balls bouncing around my head for the Continue reading On Imperfect Perception, or Perceived Imperfections?