(I’ve been a bit busy recently, and I’ve missed out on pointing at a lot of things that some very clever people have been doing on the web. This is the first post in a series, where I try to remedy that.)
There’s really very little on the web that can beet Flickr for sheer, utter [...]
Warren Ellis has found my ramblings about his Digital Shadows Ministry column, where I blather about how a comic book could be used as a paper nexus to hold together world-building information, software to build more things like it, and a history of the project.
Thought I’d put up some links to more ideas along those [...]
Dave Seah has had an epiphany:
The big insight is that I’ve not taken responsibility for my adult existence, and instead have been rather more indulgent of my childhood impulses that I’ve realized. And while I’m not a parent, I can perhaps repurpose the mentality to create my own “sense of mission” toward myself: [...]
So, the Washington Post has a pretty good article from a month or so ago; it says that design software weakens classic drawing skills.
Robert Anthony Annable agrees, and takes it one step further: he disagrees with the contention that design software lets you move faster:
Firstly, there’s not a way made that I [...]
As soon as I saw the Make blog’s iPod cassette case hack, I had to try this out.
Presenting, the ghetto index card bleachers:
No modification necessary.
Hey, I bet zip disk cases would work even better….
I’m disgustingly infatuated with Dave Seah’s Information Graphics. Stop me before I build a little shrine and start camping out on his lawn.
[EDIT] Oops.
Dave Seah is not Dave Shea.
Which I had just read.
Don’t think of your tongue.
I first ran into Sacha Chua online, when I was flirting with learning emacs planner mode, after John “Genehack” J. S. Anderson demoed his GTD setup for me.
The combination of wiki, planner, and plaintext was seductive, but in the end, I just do too much paper and digital sketching, which can’t be shoehorned into [...]
Via Dave Seah, I bring you the Productivity Geek’s Dating Kit.
Dave says:
I have to admit I’m a little curious about how they put everything together from a packaging perspective…is it actually useful, or is it primarily a novelty gift?
Hmm…
Douglas Johnston has outdone himself with an update to the DIY Planner Hipster PDA Edition.
Go check it out.