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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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from the salon

10 October 2010

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Affirmation of Israel’s Jewishness, however, is the very foundation of peace, its DNA. Just as Israel recognizes the existence of a Palestinian people with an inalienable right to self-determination in its homeland, so, too, must the Palestinians accede to the Jewish people’s 3,000-year connection to our homeland and our right to sovereignty there. This mutual acceptance is essential if both peoples are to live side by side in two states in genuine and lasting peace.