Elegance cuts through the noise, captures our attention, and engages us. The point of elegance is to achieve the maximum impact with the minimum input. It’s a thoughtful, artful subtractive process focused on doing more and better with less. That’s especially important during this economic crisis when everyone is trying to move forward while consuming [...]
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Fun ads by Microsoft
These are of course to counter Apple’s ads with the two guys showing the PC person as a totally nerdy styleless geek.
The QWERTY Myth
Reason Magazine – Typing Errors This article goes on at length about the myth of of the QWERTY typewriter being slow and the Dvorak one being so much more efficient. I’ve told the story before but now I see that I am partly wrong. The story is that the original mechanical typewriters had to have [...]
Amazing Robot
Though clearly it can carry a lot but I get it will run out of gas pretty quick.
Tame the computer cables
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control If I only had access to all the stuff you can get at Home Depot here in Kuwait. Such a cable mess we have. Partly due to the mix of cord end types: British, two types of European and even American. And cheap power [...]
Mideast telecom cable damage may have been sabotage
“Some experts doubt the prevailing view that the cables were cut by accident, especially as the cables lie at great depths under the sea and are not passed over by ships,” From: » Mideast telecom cable damage may have been sabotage, no really, we’re serious this time Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.
The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos
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Should you be worried about global dimming?
Not only global warming, there is also global dimming. Should you be worried about global dimming? – By Brendan I. Koerner – Slate Magazine
Using Hydrogen Instead of Oxyacetylene
This is interesting. I wonder how popular it will get though. The number of people needing this isn’t what is used to be now that plumbing is mostly plastic Hydrogen Technology Applications, Inc. Makers of Aquygen™, a combustible gas made from water that is a safe, cost-effective, and an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional industrial gases.
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