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"Google." 6 Jul 2013 | 10:25 pm
In preparing the John Carter chapter of my A Hero is Born Series, I came across this bit on page 104 of Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan, my copy printed in 1975: Ed left Sears, Roebu...
Notes on Reader Interfaces 4 Jul 2013 | 07:52 pm
Google killed Reader earlier this week, and in a response which is sure to raise not a single eye brow at the Googleplex, I closed my Google+ account and started transitioning my email off of Gmail. G...
On Discipline 18 Jun 2013 | 11:43 pm
Several points are repeatedly brought up against my iOS 7 posts, I'll try and address them here. First of all, Apple is my favorite company in the whole wide world (apart from Squarespace). I love Ap...
Circles 18 Jun 2013 | 11:42 pm
Since my very first 1997 cellphone, signal strength indicators have consisted of a bar chart of some fashion. "I have four bars," is a common way of telling someone how much signal strength you have o...
White on White 18 Jun 2013 | 09:22 pm
Another one of those 'easily fixed' issues, which if you're designing the front door of the world's most popular electronic device shouldn't have made it this far to begin with. The first thing you d...
Action or State? 18 Jun 2013 | 02:20 am
Look in the lower left corner. Is it currently set to repeat album, or will that happen when you press the 'Repeat Album' label? It's an action label, you can put it after 'I want to...', which indica...
How It Looks And Feels Is Supposed To Tell You How It Works 13 Jun 2013 | 08:52 am
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs Thi...
William Friedkin Q&A 3 May 2013 | 08:19 am
Went to see a 35mm archival print of Sorcerer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music today, followed by a Q&A by the master himself, William Friedkin. The Q&A went on for about 52 minutes, and is a great li...
Kubrick's Calm 8 Apr 2013 | 10:42 pm
From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerfu...
Hiatus 21 Mar 2013 | 12:15 am
I'm taking one from this blog. Enjoy Kitbashed instead.
