July 2007
16 posts
“Having broadcast that story on the Today programme this morning as an example of...”
– Reading Nick Robinson’s blog on Downing Street machinations is, I imagine, a bit like reading script notes for the Thick of It.
“It’s almost like we’re a research and development laboratory for our own...”
– Subtraction: The YouTube Aesthetic.
Full context:
“it’s worth noting that in the Web 2.0, crowdsourcing frontier we’re all so excited about, it takes virtually no effort and no time to turn genuinely exciting social phenomena into just another technique for businesses to sell stuff to us....
“NG Direct tells their customers that to determine how much of their money they...”
– The Laws of Simplicity » Simplified Investing.
Beautiful. A very simple idea conveys:
* concept of financial risk
* portfolio apportioning due to age/lifestyle
* an actual data point to react to
* a sense of control over difficult and oblique decisions
“The book is brilliant, because it’s a really fast read (you could nail the...”
– A blog post I wrote about combining ThinkFold and a great creative thinking technique.
“I’ve just improved my life by cleaning my scroll peanut…”
– Fantastic. My Apple mouse scrolling mechanism stopped working to scroll down. A ‘vigorous’ clean of it’s little scroll peanut, it’s as good as new. How to clean your Mighty Mouse
“LITTLEJOHN: You are not still on heroin are you?
SELF: No and listen, I would...”
– a transcript of Will Self and Richard Littlejohn discuss their contributuions to literature (thanks Alex)