Lingo the Clown
Textastrophe made me laugh and feel good about people who offer their services online. Not everyone’s a creep or a scammer, eh?
Bonobos always gets it right. (And their product is amazing to boot…cut? Pants pun?)
Bonobos - The checkout page shows the credit card date you already entered as a credit card.
/via Douggles
Flickr - When you enter a comment on in all caps, the comment is posted with proper capitalization.
/via Russell Heimlich
She knows how to make you feel appreciated, even if you need to be redirected.
- J.Crew Art Director Ashley Sargeant Price on working with creative head Jenna Lyons in this Fast Company article.
The assumption driving these kinds of design speculations is that if you embed the interface–the control surface for a technology–into our own bodily envelope, that interface will “disappear”: the technology will cease to be a separate “thing” and simply become part of that envelope. The trouble is that unlike technology, your body isn’t something you “interface” with in the first place. You’re not a little homunculus “in” your body, “driving” it around, looking out Terminator-style “through” your eyes. Your body isn’t a tool for delivering your experience: it is your experience. Merging the body with a technological control surface doesn’t magically transform the act of manipulating that surface into bodily experience. I’m not a cyborg (yet) so I can’t be sure, but I suspect the effect is more the opposite: alienating you from the direct bodily experiences you already have by turning them into technological interfaces to be manipulated.
- MIT Technology Review takes on Google Glass. H/T Ampersand Spur. For follow-up fun, see White Men Wearing Google Glass.
![Beautiful and bananas. (Sidenote: Bummed me out to find a typo in that article.)
theatlantic:
Saturn’s Hurricane Is a Super Storm on Steroids, Even for the Solar System
[Image: NASA]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a49cfb2747e2f6204257672f4e350f8f/tumblr_mm2lse1jvP1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Beautiful and bananas. (Sidenote: Bummed me out to find a typo in that article.)
Saturn’s Hurricane Is a Super Storm on Steroids, Even for the Solar System
[Image: NASA]
Ida Frosk Food Art
Just discovered Ida Frosk’s food art blog. Love her creations and mission to keep food fun and healthy.
It also reminded me of my friend Malaka and her fantastic food zine, The Runcible Spoon.
People Can Change
I’m not proud of it, but I used to loathe Natalie Merchant. My trouble with her was almost entirely wrapped up in the song “Kind and Generous,” in which I found her voice grating.
I sort of love her now (thanks almost entirely to Ophelia), and very much enjoyed this Hairpin piece looking back on Natalie Merchant’s role in Lilith Fair. (The piece gets bonus points for mentioning other 90s goodies like BMG, hidden tracks (!) and when we saw Paula Cole’s hairy armpits on the Grammys).
So, there you have it. People can change. Although I still don’t care for Alanis Morissette as a singer/songwriter. She did just fine in her role on Weeds, though.
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