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from the theatre

2 February 2012

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The first social media president… through the eyes of social media:

The Story of Us: Five Years Ago Today (by BarackObamadotcom)

from the salon

8 August 2011

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Apple’s products are replete with Apple-like features and details, embedded in Apple-like apps, running on Apple-like devices, which come packaged in Apple-like boxes, are promoted in Apple-like ads, and sold in Apple-like stores. The company is a fractal design. Simplicity, elegance, beauty, cleverness, humility. Directness. Truth. Zoom out enough and you can see that the same things that define Apple’s products apply to Apple as a whole. The company itself is Apple-like. The same thought, care, and painstaking attention to detail that Steve Jobs brought to questions like “How should a computer work?”, “How should a phone work?”, “How should we buy music and apps in the digital age?” he also brought to the most important question: “How should a company that creates such things function?

John Gruber (via Daring Fireball: Resigned)

from the corridors

5 May 2011

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Sunday’s post-apocalypse front pages, today « Charles Apple « copydesk.org

Some clever spoofs of post-rapture front pages…

from the theatre

1 January 2011

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from the corridors

1 January 2011

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Nike Better World

cameronmoll:

Call it vertical parallax. Or just plain awesome, either one.

/via @jodyferry

from the corridors

10 October 2010

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