Ceramic Speakers designed by Joey Roth. WANT.

"Websites have been trying to use their RSS feed to monetize their site for nearly a decade. But much of it is based on the same idea that “impressions equal value”. Impressions do not equal value, impact does. And impact comes through trust."

— Shawn Blanc

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“Ironing techniques by professional craftsmen (shirt)” - プロの職人によるアイロンがけテクニック(ワイシャツ)

This short instructional film showcases unmatchably masterful ironing technique that we’d all do well to learn from, but it’s also one of the most absorbing, delicious demo videos I’ve ever seen.

via Joel Zimmer, from a series of similarly beautiful instructional videos at Garra.jp (WARNING: ALL-FLASH and Japanese)

Bring it on, motherfuckers. Let’s do this shit.

The “duh.” is implicit.

"We’re Americans, goddammit. Ye shall know us by the tang of our bitter and untenable jadedness."

— Why are you so terribly disappointing?

If you read things digitally at all, and you own an iPhone/iPod touch, you owe it to yourself to buy this app. It’s the best $5 I’ve ever spent.

"As the publishing industry wobbles and Kindle sales jump, book romanticists cry themselves to sleep. But really, what are we shedding tears over?
We’re losing the throwaway paperback.
The airport paperback.
The beachside paperback.
We’re losing the dredge of the publishing world: disposable books. The book printed without consideration of form or sustainability or longevity. The book produced to be consumed once and then tossed. The book you bin when you’re moving and you need to clean out the closet. These are the first books to go.
And I say it again, good riddance."

— Craig Mod. This shit is good.

"It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you."

— School is killing you.

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But what if Apple had patented these things in 1984, and had successfully protected these patents from being used by other U.S. companies? (Or at least the features and designs which weren’t derived from earlier work at Xerox.) It’s not just Microsoft that would’ve been blocked from creating Windows as we know it. A company called NeXT would have been blocked from creating NeXTStep. Every single Mac feature I described above was part of the NeXT UI as well.

Good ideas are meant to spread.

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— Chairman Gruber

SOFA’s realigned site is stellar. Take note, designers.

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

— Frederick Douglass (via fyeahsocialism)

Valve’s Steam is coming to Mac. Yussss.

"He peppered his talk with oft-told hip-hop tales and intriguing nuggets of cultural history. He told hip-hop’s creation story, of the famous 1973 party in the Bronx, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in Morris Heights, whose host was the legendary Jamaican immigrant disc jockey, D.J. Kool Herc. He described how the looting of hi-fi stores during the 1977 New York City blackout propelled D.J. culture. (“It was like Christmas for black people” he said. “The next day there were a thousand new D.J.’s.”)"

— Via the New York Times.