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Don't. Waste. Time. - humbledMBA

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One tool would be chosen as primary and the others reduced and simplified to conform to it, or they would be crudely patched together with ugly seams. Seamfully integrated tools would maintain the unique characteristics of each tool, through transformations that retained their individual characteristics. This would let the user brush some characters with the paint tool in some artful way, then use the text editor to ‘search and replace’ some of the brushstroked characters, and then paint over the result with colour washes. Interaction would be seamless as the features of each tool were “literally visible, effectively invisible”. Seamful integration is hard, but the quality of interaction can be improved if we let each tool ‘be itself

— Beautiful seams | otrops

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The Kindle, much like a paperback book, is just as happy “asleep” as it is in use. It’s a reminder that the design of genuinely ubiquitous devices and products is not just about what they are like in use; it is also about what they are like when they are just present.

— Asleep and Awake – Blog – BERG

Linear Dollars Per Win, Again | FanGraphs Baseball

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azizisbored:

YES! Cannot overstate my love for Chris Pratt or his alterego Bert Macklin. I just wish this was the opening title sequence to a full on Macklin feature film.

gigglemonster:

SABOTAGE:
You thought he was dead? So did the President’s enemies.

[music: the beastie boys]
[for tobyziegler & fujiidom]

Reblogged from Aziz is Bored

Tags: tv: parks and recreation burt macklin fbi this is so short. i'm so sorry. maybe it could be like the opening credits of his spin-off show?!

The AP:

A day after Albert Pujols complained about hitting in late-afternoon shadows after a loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, his manager backed him up.

Tony La Russa said Tuesday he’d been hesitant to criticize conditions after a 4-1 loss because it might be perceived as sour grapes.

I don’t understand. Why don’t they just rotate Busch Stadium so that it points the same way versus the sun that it did back in the years when the Cardinals were contenders?

Yeah!

Reblogged from American McCarver

Tags: baseball Tony La Russa Albert Pujols

Neven Mrgan's tumbl: The Apple Logo

mrgan:

The logo of Apple Inc. is among the best-known and best-designed in the world. It has lasted thirty-four years, and we have little reason to think it’ll be replaced any time soon.

It wasn’t designed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Paul Rand, or Jonathan Ive. It was designed by an advertising…