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  • Yugo Nakamura

    Clockblock “Yugo Nakamura is a creative director, designer and engineer exploring various forms of interactive system in digital and networked environment.

    Yugo has exhibited and lectured in Asia, U.S.A and Europe.

    Some artworks from his personal website yugop.com have recenly been shown at Center Pompidou (Paris), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna), Design Museum (London).

    His commercial works have received many international awards including Cannes Lions, OneShow, Clio Award, and NY ADC.”.

    Above: Clockblock 1.0, web clock and screensaver, detail.

    See also: Industrious clock.

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  • The color of the bikeshed

    Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?

    “The really, really short answer is that you should not.

    This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so.
    Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change.”.
    (Poul-Henning Kamp)

    Tip: refresh the page to change the background color.

  • 100

    (This is the post number 100).

    I always liked to imagine myself working in a radio, playing records.
    In my imagination, this radio is a quiet and little room, isolated and nearly dark, where only a single person can stay: with a table lamp, just to read the titles.

    As I said, I used to imagine me there, in a dim light, with my records.
    I have usually thought, also, that I would not like to speak so much. Indeed, I would rather try to speak less than possible.

    Speaking to fill the time, I don’t know how to deal with this. This need that certain style, and it seems to me to add uselessly things, things just explain themselves.
    Actually, I never worked in a radio. I have this site.
    (Andrea Pacquola)

  • The 48 Laws of Power

    The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene and Joost Elffers).

    Collection of cynical business laws, for example:

    Law 19

    Know Who You’re Dealing with – Do Not Offend the Wrong Person

    “There are many different kinds of people in the world, and you can never assume that everyone will react to your strategies in the same way. Deceive or outmaneuver some people and they will spend the rest of their lives seeking revenge.”.

  • The Straight Dope

    What are the dreams of the blind like?

    If all Chinese jumped at once, would cataclysm result?

    Which will keep you drier, running through the rain or walking?

    The Straight Dope: home of Cecil Adams’ weekly question and answer column “fighting ignorance since 1973 (It’s taking longer than we thought)”.

    What’s Cecil really like?

    “Only his editors really know.
    When you ask them, their eyes glaze, their bodies become rigid, and they start to spit.
    They are struggling to express their joy, we figure. More than that we cannot say.”.

  • Armagetron

    “A Tron clone in 3D.
    This has been the tagline of Armagetron, since, well, a very long time, and is probably the shortest and most accurate description possible.”.

    “Tron was an arcade game based on the movie of the same name, released by Disney in 1982.
    The player uses a left/right joystick to control a Light Cycle which leaves a wall behind it wherever the cycle it goes, turning only at 90 degree angles.
    The player must then get the AI to crash into their wall while avoiding hitting the AI’s own wall themselves.”.

  • Idioms by Kids

    Idioms by Kids “has over 1000 pictures of idioms.”. read

    “Sometimes the children knew what the idioms meant and drew pictures of the actual real meaning but most of the time the students drew the literal meaning and the results are often funny.”.

    Above: Read Between the Lines.

  • The Movie Cliches List

    The Movie Cliches List: “a list of the most annoying and common logic flaws and stereotypes found in movies.”. A sample:

    War
    “You’re very likely to survive any battle in any war, unless you show someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.”
    Weapons
    “Shots fired at the rear of a vehicle will cause the gas tank to explode.”.

    Helicopters
    “In movieland, there’s an abundance of corrupt helicopter pilots. Villains have no problem renting a helicopter complete with pilot who doesn’t mind shooting total strangers, or being shot at.”.

  • Gladwell dot com

    “Can you read people’s thoughts just by looking at them?”.

    “Mustard now comes in dozens of varieties. Why has ketchup stayed the same?”.

    “When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions.
    Well, Blink is a book about those two seconds.”.
    (Malcom Gladwell)

    Gladwell dot com: “Malcolm Gladwell, blink, tipping point and New Yorker articles.”.

  • Hoy te amo

    “Whenever the treasure-hunter girl is in trouble, someone comes to help her.”.

    Hoy te amo. Music: Tus Ojos by Belanova.

    From Vinnie Veritas by Alejandro Cordova.

    		 smile

    Right: Papalote, Flash animation, frame detail. (Alejandro Cordova)

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