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Vintage “Internet-age” posters

akie — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:10:17 +0000

Of Skype, Facebook and YouTube. Utterly brilliant

Not being an employee…

akie — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:40:43 +0000

Switching jobs had not solved my problems. The truth was that I hated working in a conventional structure. I hated having a boss, working on someone else’s creation and sitting in an office all day. My time was not my own, and I was miserable. I could not bear it for even one day longer. So I quit and decided to become an entrepreneur.

Exciting as it may be, however, the entrepreneurial life is far from easy. Stress is a regular part of the day. Money is tight. There are frequent emotional highs and lows, and the desire to succeed can become all-consuming. Underlying all of this is the knowledge that failure is the most likely outcome.

Yet, no matter how tough things get, I wake up every morning with renewed hope and excitement for what lies ahead. The fact that I am working on my passion gives meaning to even the most mundane tasks.

My future is perhaps more uncertain than it ever has been. I may end up wealthy, or I may earn barely enough to support myself. But the realization that I face a high likelihood of failure is not enough to send me back to the corporate cubicle.

Very true. From The New York Times.

Television is a drug

akie — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:24:50 +0000

It’s true!

Link

Flexible grid & flexible images

akie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:36:27 +0000

Open this web page and resize it - from iPhone-size to XXL. Notice how the design changes based on how much space is available. Notice how the images scale based on big your screen is. Explained here and here (thanks A List Apart!).

This is why I’ll never be an adult

akie — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:25:41 +0000

Read the funny comic that follows: link

Where can I fly for how much?

akie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:25:20 +0000

Link

Sculpting

akie — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:25:02 +0000

Artist Philippe Faraut shows how it’s done.

Make any song swing

akie — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:21:19 +0000

Take a song, time-stretch the first half of each beat and time-shrink the second half - and what you get is a remarkable swing version. Some examples:

Daft Punk’s “Around the World”

“Every breath you take” by the Police

More examples - including a link to the source code so you can do it yourself (to any song).

Prince of Bel-Air

akie — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:15:23 +0000

The theme song for the Prince of Bel-Air, as performed by Gandalf

and Neil Young

Immer mussen die blöde Holländer uns ärgern

akie — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:34:17 +0000