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- Interaction Design Classics #3: The ‘A Bit More’ button on the Breville Professional 800 Collection 4-slice Toaster
What I love about the 'A Bit More' button on this toaster is not just the functionality, though that's clearly come some from careful observation of everyday habits, but the name. It could so easily have been called 'Power boost' or 'Toast+' or 'Extend', or something else unthinkingly derived from an engineering- or technology-led process.
A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space
“this is the first occasion I’ve ever discovered where someone discovered something and immediately decided to blow it up.”
via A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space : NPR.
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I have found our new CIA Director
“They couldn’t have been spies,” she said. “Look what she did with the hydrangeas.”
via In Ordinary Lives, U.S. Sees the Work of Russian Agents – NYTimes.com.
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Couch Cushion Architecture; A Critical Analysis
At first glance the composition appears unintentional and the construction shoddy. But further investigation reveals a clear delineation between indoor/outdoor space with a design focus on protection through the use of barrier. Planes are shifted off the orthogonal to accommodate function; as a side effect it relieves inhabitants from a harsh Euclidian geometry. Grade B
via Build Blog » Couch Cushion Architecture; A Critical Analysis.
Tunnel Running
After the Duck Drop at Tumwater Falls. The kids ran back and forth through this tunnel screaming. They liked this better than the Duck Drop.
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Words to live by
Given that harsh reality, Arturo Rubio, a former cop and now Falcone’s training partner, injects a little humor offering some sure-fire tactics of his own: “If there’s a lot of them (cartel gunmen) then run. If there’s only a few, then hide. And if there’s absolutely nobody then charge my valiant comrades, we were born to die.”
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The OK Go Video: Playing With the Speed of Time
“The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.”
via The OK Go Video: Playing With the Speed of Time | Discoblog | Discover Magazine.
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Fifty-Year-Old Discovery in London Subway
I love these old posters they found in a sealed off London tube station.
“Back in the 1950s, old lifts were removed in the Notting Hill tube station in favor of more modern escalators. Recent work at the station revealed these posters in the old lift passageway.”
via Fifty-Year-Old Discovery in London Subway – DivineCaroline.
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Suspect’s mom: Son ‘stupid kid,’ not a terrorist – CNN.com
“Another image — from late in 2008 — shows Almonte at a different rally, holding a poster that says “Death to all Juice” (sic.) It’s not clear whether that rally was organized by the Islamic Thinkers Society.”
The “stupid kid” thing is pretty obvious. I am not sure about the “not a terrorist” part.
via Suspect’s mom: Son ‘stupid kid,’ not a terrorist – CNN.com.
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Stop worrying about the stupid oil and economy and get me some leg room!
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Stop worrying about the stupid oil and economy and get me some leg room!
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