Design hell

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Reminds me of this earlier post.

Apple brainwashing: how we do it

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Via the amazing, great, fantastic, easy, beautiful FakeSteve

The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles

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The cardapult

By akie

A catapult made from a business card…. wonderful! Build one yourself!

Business software :)

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6 secrets of persuasion

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(in dutch)

Lees “De zes geheimen van verleiding“. Verplichte kost!

Perceptions of a project

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It’s funny ’cause it’s true

TinEye

By akie

With this you can take a picture of an album cover, and find it in an online shop or on Wikipedia.

Made with the technology from this post (by the same guys (again)).

If architects had to work like web developers

By akie

I really like this:

Dear Mr. Architect:

Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.

Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the one I am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don’t have nearly enough insulation in them).

As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)

Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.
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Creative barcodes

By akie

I like these creative Japanese barcodes. Click to view all.

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The truth about meetings

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Diary of a failed startup

By akie

I’m starting a company in a few weeks, and found this blog post about a failed startup quite interesting. I hope I can avoid his mistakes.

13 tips for building a successful online product

By akie

“Much of the online literature about starting up is focused on how to create some fantastic product which will gather millions of visitors and make you a billionaire, and the “new wave”, so to speak, proposes that rather than taking a 1 in 10’000 bet that you can make billions, it is better to take a 1 in 10 bet that you can make millions.

Since I have started two such businesses already, here are thirteen tips from my own experience.”

Link - very worth a read