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"While nerdiness implies a certain social awkwardness that’s ultimately endearing, dorkiness connotes..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:40:36 +0200

“While nerdiness implies a certain social awkwardness that’s ultimately endearing, dorkiness connotes social obliviousness that opens you to deserved ridicule.”

- Marcus Wohlsen | WIRED http://bit.ly/105b0J5

"Not having a persistent record allows us to present a nuanced identity to different people, or..."

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:33:59 +0200

“Not having a persistent record allows us to present a nuanced identity to different people, or groups of people; it provides the space to experiment with what we could be.”

- J. Chipchase “You Lookin’ at Me? Reflections on Google Glass.” http://dthin.gs/10Xp1vU

Just favorited Dummy Mix 129 // Two Inch Punch by DummyMag on...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:28:17 +0200

Just favorited Dummy Mix 129 // Two Inch Punch by DummyMag on Mixcloud

"Like porn, techno interfaces are more focused on what looks good than what feels good. And like..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:17:01 +0100

“Like porn, techno interfaces are more focused on what looks good than what feels good. And like porn, it’s pretty hard to get people to stop buying.”

- C. Brown: How ‘Minority Report’ Trapped Us In A World Of Bad Interfaces http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/how-minority-report-trapped-us-in-a-world-of-bad-interfaces

Just favorited Soosh for Habitat by Alive Lab on Mixcloud

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:54:36 +0100

Just favorited Soosh for Habitat by Alive Lab on Mixcloud

"Legibility is a baseline requirement for typesetting anything. It’s like edible food. It shouldn’t..."

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:31:52 +0100

“Legibility is a baseline requirement for typesetting anything. It’s like edible food. It shouldn’t really be a measure of what is good or not. Just like audibility and comprehension are baseline requirements for speech. There is more flavour in words; spoken or printed. There is more flavour in type, that if applied well, transcends content from being merely legible, to that of being pleasurable.”

- Mark Boulton - UI is visible. Type is visible. (via bashford)

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Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:14:47 +0100

Just favorited Diplo & Friends on BBC Radio 1 Ft. Baauer/Schlachthofbronx 6/17/12 by Diplo and Friends on BBC1 on Mixcloud

Just favorited Episode 6 ft. LOL Boys (LA/UNO NYC) |3.11| by...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:41:21 +0100

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"It’s only in terms of what’s old that the newest technologies make initial sense."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:09:59 +0100

“It’s only in terms of what’s old that the newest technologies make initial sense.”

- R. Goodman, Bad Metaphors, Bad Tech, The Millions

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Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:00:15 +0100

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Bruce Sterling - The Design-Fiction Slider-Bar of Disbelief

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10. Holy relics, attributes of sainthood and divinity; transubstantiated Hosts, Arks of Covenant, teeth of Buddha

9.5 - Supernatural objects and services associated with elves, vampires, fairies; magical charms, garlic, silver bullets etc

9.4 New age crystals, lucky charms, protective pendants, mojo hands, voodoo dolls, magic wands

9.3 Quack devices, medical hoaxes

9.3 Fantasy “objects” in fantasy cinema and computer-games

9.2 Physically impossible sci-fi literary devices: time machines, humanoid robots

9.2 Perpetual motion machines; free-energy gizmos, other physically impossible engineering fantasies

9.0 State libels, black propaganda, military ruses; missile gaps, vengeance weapons, Star Wars SDI

8.9 “Realplay” services, “experiential futurism” encounters, military and emergency training drills, props and immersive set-design, scripted personas

8.8 Online roleplaying scenario games

8.7 Net.art interventions, diegetic performance art, provocative device-art scandals

8.6 Guerrilla street-theater; costumes, puppets, banners, songs, lynchings-in-effigy, mock trials, mass set-designed Nuremberg rallies, propaganda trains

8.5 Fake products, product forgeries, theft-of-services, con-schemes, 419 frauds

8.0. For-profit frauds and false commercial advertising

7.9 Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson devices, chindogu “unuseless objects”, parodies, whimsies and comical contraptions; Albert Robida satirical prognostications

7.0 Vaporware; “Fear Uncertainty and Doubt” campaigns

6.0 “Design Fiction” diegetic prototypes from sci-fi media, “concept cars,” “conversation pieces,” provocative laboratory curiosities

5.9 Blue-skying Internet-based “theory objects” and congealed techie pundit scuttlebutt; socially-generated rumor and tech speculation; crowdsourced speculative objects and services; Kickstarter projects

5.0 “Brand Management” by design

4.9 Design pitches to the board of directors; untested business-models

4.8 The plans and schematics for as-yet-unborn yet genuine objects and services

4.0 Real-life product descriptions and users instruction manuals

3.5 Product reviews and opinions; user feedback, public assessments

3.0 Design criticism; material-culture assessments; scholarly studies

2.0 Legal regulations and government protocols concerning objects and services

1.0 Engineering specifications, software code

0.5 Historical tech assessment of extinct technologies, the “judgement of history’

0.0 The ideal and unobtainable “objective truth” about objects and services

"audio-visual feedback in a casual game provides the grammar of the experience for players who..."

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:45:35 +0100

“audio-visual feedback in a casual game provides the grammar of the experience for players who don’t speak the vocabulary of gaming”

- Popcap: the 10 secrets of casual game design | http://bit.ly/RK9g6E

"The B2 Bomber, despite the essential ugliness of a machine dedicated to mass-destruction at enormous..."

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:35:31 +0100

“The B2 Bomber, despite the essential ugliness of a machine dedicated to mass-destruction at enormous cost, addresses the constraints of its task (of combining extreme speed with invisibility to enemy radar) with such ruthlessness that, like a viking long ship or a renaissance suit of armour, it has a purity of form that cannot but be interpreted as beautiful.”

- John Pawson on the B2 stealth bomber. (via bashford)

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:12:49 +0200

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

- A.C. Clarke on A. Rothstein “Guide to Future-Present Archetypes Pt. 2” | http://bit.ly/Or02xJ

"Fiction gives us everything. It gives us our memories, our understanding, our insight, our lives. We..."

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:04:36 +0200

“Fiction gives us everything. It gives us our memories, our understanding, our insight, our lives. We use it to invent ourselves and others. (…) And we all, it turns out, know how to do it.”

- “All is Fiction” K. Ridgway | http://nyr.kr/PgCWtj

"we should “… start seeing the interface as an aesthetic form in itself that offers a new way..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:21:40 +0200

“we should “… start seeing the interface as an aesthetic form in itself that offers a new way to understand digital art in its various guises…””

- S. Pold on Interface Aesthetics: An Introduction by Jason Huff | Rhizome http://bit.ly/MA364t

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Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:13:36 +0200

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Just favorited “Four Tet - Diplo and Friends...

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:41:00 +0200

Just favorited “Four Tet - Diplo and Friends (07-15-2012)” by themixfeed on Mixcloud.com

Just favorited “Rustie - BBC Essential Mix...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:22:18 +0200

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Just favorited “FACT Mix 79: Rustie ” by FACT Mix...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:36:29 +0200

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Just favorited “Falty DL mix - Xfm 16/07/11” by Mary...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:25:59 +0200

Just favorited “Falty DL mix - Xfm 16/07/11” by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud.com