Archive for January, 2007

• Par­ents are Teach­ing Their Infants Chi­nese to Com­pete in the Global Economy
  And remem­ber: Check the teacher’s man­darin skills before­hand “I don’t want my daugh­ter to grow up and sud­denly start talk­ing like a tramp at age 9″.
  (tags: amer­i­can cul­ture chi­nese lan­guage via:pinds glob­ale­con­omy skill)

In the future, the boss key will dis­play a blog.

• Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Sec­ond Life
  “First Life is a 3D ana­log world where server lag does not exist”
  (tags: satire sec­ondlife life)

• dr.dk › Bog › Tek­ster › Orig­inal­tek­ster › Det smukkeste ord af Knud Romer
  “Når vi taler reklamer og markeds­føring, er det nok den første regel – at tage udgangspunkt i omgivelserne og deres behov og kæle for deres største inter­esse: sig selv.”
  (tags: cul­ture text mar­ket­ing via:classy knudromer bodum kunde)

Ved en brønd i Afrika står en lille dåse med en sprække til møn­ter. Her er et billede af en AD’er fra Dan­mark og en opfor­dring til at betale for van­det. Over­skud­det går til cafe latte lan­det langt væk. Det lyder for­nuftigt tænker brønd­brugerne — omend uddel­ingssys­temet er lidt svært at gen­nem­skue og de fær­reste rent fak­tisk husker at betale…

I’ve always envied musi­cians car­ry­ing their instru­ments around. No one can actu­ally see if you’re good or not if you carry your gui­tar with con­fi­dence — but they know you wanna be a star. Knowl­edge work­ers are hard to dis­tin­guish from data­base admin­stra­tors, pro­gram­mers from accoun­tants etc. Some bag with a hid­den lap­top inside is all we have to show…

What I sug­gest is this: Let’s start car­ry­ing our lap­tops like there’s no tomor­row. Fit­ted bags or a tight grip on the lap­top itself, show­ing off the beat­i­ful mod­i­fi­ca­tions and patina. You’re the rock­star. Tell the world. You’re just as close to sign­ing the deal as the boy with the gui­tar and the dark eyes. Be proud.

And now excuse me, I have to go cut out the ass of my jeans.

Ever noticed how cer­tain peo­ple have a ten­dency to use a lit­tle too much jew­elry, have high­lights in their hair, pat­terns on their jeans, striped sweaters and shoes with too many colors…all of it with no sense of style? Every aspect that’s pos­si­ble to mod­ify or add to gets tam­pered with.

Instead of look­ing at the whole pic­ture and set­tle on a dis­tinct style, they are all over the place, adding bits and pieces they hope will improve their expres­sion. The ‘more is better’-crowd. I bet you’ve seen them around. Usu­ally they are more than will­ing to include you in the process of decid­ing what to do.

Com­pare that with unfo­cused appli­ca­tions with lots of fea­tures. High­ligts and bling bling — fea­tu­ri­tis … is about inse­cu­rity. In the hope that some­one will like them, they try to have a lit­tle some­thing for every­body — and leave no area empty. Fear of white­space, fear of focus.

So next time you see a web app stand­ing in a bar look­ing ner­vous all pimped up, resist the urge to have a quick shag. Go for the hot one stand­ing to the side, with a relaxed look and an eye for com­bi­na­tion and color. Your future you will thank you.

• : slipped on a book of Freud :
  Good title…
  (tags: mag black­hand freud slip)

Sådan knækkes meme-kæden:

Jeg er som sagt ikke så stor på blog­memes så jeg tag­ger fem af mine helte ist­edet:
Ernest Hem­ing­way, Alfred Hitch­cock, Dim­itri Sjostakovitj, Lud­vig Wittgen­stein og Win­ston Churchill 

Uden tvivl den mest ele­gante lukn­ing af sådan en sag jeg har set til dato.

Fra iByen’s ‘Djæve­lens advokat’:

Er det ikke bare sådan, at der er ved at gå lidt for meget oplevelsesøkonomi i den for dig?

»Der har altid været to mål­sæt­ninger for forestill­inger her på teateret: den ene er gode oplevelser, den andet er god økonomi. Og de mål­sæt­ninger er de samme i dag«.

Så er der vist svaret og forklaret…