appliedthinking

I’m pretty sure, that somewhere down the line, I have been this client. Reminder to self: STOP.

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for August 15th through August 16th:

• FaceYourManga.com:
• A Fundraising Survival Guide:
• Y Combinator: Series AA Equity Financing Documents:

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for August 10th through August 15th:

• Quicksilver Changes Everything | The Apple Blog:
• quicksilver:tutorials:
• Hack Attack: A beginner’s guide to Quicksilver:
• Getting started (or reacquainted) with Quicksilver | 43 Folders: A beginner’s guide to Quicksilver.
• Quicksilver: From A Better OS X To Even More - Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog:
• QuickSilver - A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes - Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog:

CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo

Although highly informative (and entertaining?) I was hoping for more of a jaunty tune. The LHC could give us an incredible opportunity to better understand our place in the Universe. A rap just doesn’t cut it. Other suggestions anyone? Maybe this? A little obvious, but certainly a classic…

garfield minus garfield.

“Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle.”

This is simply BRILLIANT…and, the ONLY way one should look at Garfield comics ever again.

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for August 8th

• Remember The Milk: Online to do list and task management
• Todoist: Simple todo list and task manager

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for August 7th

• Twitpress: “Twitpress is a wordpress plugin which submits a user definable tweet to your twitter account notifying any twitter followers or friends that a new blog entry has been published on your blog (or an existing published entry has been edited)”

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for August 6th

• ParallelFilmGuide: “The Parallel Universe Film Guide, a sort-of comprehensive database of movies bearing uncanny likenesses to classics and not-so-classics cataloged by IMDB.”

CERN Press Release – CERN announces start-up date for LHC

Beyond a general concern about the end of the universe as we know it, nothing new to report here…just an excuse to post this great shot from inside the LHC.


Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo
“Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept series. For more, visit adaptivepath.com/aurora.”

This is an interesting concept. Highly connected, highly flexible. I wonder, however, if it suffers from a little “everything from everyone” design (as another commentor suggested). Regardless, it certainly provokes thought and discussion.

Questions to consider:

• Is this the way of the web?
• What does this design assume…about bandwidth?…about content?…about interoperability between data sets?
• Is it intuitive enough for “everyman”?
• Why so focused on the terminal?