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nevver: Message to a Graduate

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:23:46 -0400

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Message to a Graduate

typethatilike: An inside look at Instagram’s brand new cleaner,...

Mon, 06 May 2013 02:47:16 -0400

An inside look at Instagram’s brand new cleaner, more professional logo

To the non-design obsessed, a logo may seem like a relatively small detail, but in reality it represents the personality and identity of a product. This is the case for Instagram, and the Facebook-owned photo sharing service has released a new logo today, built heavily atop its previous script logotype.

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TRANSFORMATIONS Journal of Media & Culture

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:17:47 -0400

TRANSFORMATIONS Journal of Media & Culture

7 Common Words and Their Little-Known Relatives

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:51:24 -0500

7 Common Words and Their Little-Known Relatives:

nevver:

When some words have hit the big time, they’ve left clunky related words behind.
EXHAUST/INHAUST
While “exhaust,” from the Latin for “draw out of,” was first attested in 1540 and went on to a great career in the English vocabulary, “inhaust,” with the meaning “draw into,” was attested in 1547 (something about a “flye inhausted into a mannes throte sodenly”) but soon became obsolete.

OMNISCIENT/NESCIENT
You know about “omniscient,” which comes from the Latin for “all knowing,” but did you know there was a counterpart meaning “not knowing”? You can now consider yourself more-scient!

RESUSCITATE/EXSUSCITATE
“Exsuscitate” was around in the 1500s, as was “resuscitate,” but where “resuscitate” was for the act of bringing someone back from the dead, “exsuscitate” was for the less impressive act of rousing or waking someone up from sleep. It didn’t stick, and it doesn’t look likely to be resuscitated.

PRELIMINARY/POSTLIMINARY
“Postliminary” has a technical use in international law, where it refers to the “right of postliminy” (stuff taken in war gets returned), but it’s also been used sporadically since the early 19th century as the opposite of “preliminary.”

INCANTATION/EXCANTATION
If your incantation turns out to be a magic spell that somehow gets you in a jam, it might be good to be able to perform an excantation to get yourself out of it. Too bad the word, attested in 1580, is now obsolete.

INCRIMINATION/CONCRIMINATION
It wouldn’t be fun to be the subject of an incrimination, but it might be a little more fun to be part of a concrimination with your friends, meaning “a joint accusation.” The word shows up in a 1656 dictionary, but we have no evidence that anyone ever used it.

INAUGURATE/EXAUGURATE
Back in 1600 the word “inaugurate” was used to describe a ceremonial act of consecration or induction into office, but there was also the word “exaugurate” meaning, according to the OED, “To cancel the inauguration of; to unhallow, make profane.”

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Interaction Design Awards

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:20:43 -0500

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designalenz: Connecting. This business of interaction design.

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:58:06 -0500

designalenz:

Connecting.

This business of interaction design.

Amadi Talks: A Gun in Every Pot

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 03:06:54 -0500

Amadi Talks: A Gun in Every Pot:

amaditalks:

Wayne LaPierre of the NRA says that the answer to school shootings is an armed police officer in every school in America, and Congress should ensure that this happens when kids come back from winter break in January.

Because cops are bulletproof, apparently, and are never shot. And a shooter with an AR-15 in his hand, finger on the trigger, will be stopped by a cop with a .9 millimeter in a holster who doesn’t know the asshole is coming.

And schools are the only place that’s vulnerable. Tell that to the Sikhs in Oak Creek, the moviegoers in Aurora, the shoppers in Clackamas, the staff and patients at the hospital facility here in Pittsburgh, Gabrielle Giffords and her constituents outside a grocery story. The women at the LA Fitness in Bridgeville, PA. The people at Tennessee Valley UU Church. The lunch eaters at the McDonalds in San Diego. The soldiers at Fort Hood.

Because cops never open fire on unarmed civilians who they “think” have guns. Because shootouts between cops and criminals never kill bystanders. (Who in LaPierre’s construction, would be children.) Because cops are inherently trustworthy and their presence in a school wouldn’t escalate the potential for school violence to turn deadly. (Where there’s a gun, a gun can be used.)

LaPierre also blamed violence not on guns, but on television, movies and video games, specifically naming “Mortal Kombat” in which none of the characters have a gun.

And LaPierre specifically scapegoated people with mental illnesses, calling for a national database of people with mental illnesses. No national database of guns or gun owners, but of those of us with mental illnesses. Never mind that people struggling with depression who can’t get out of bed don’t kill people. Just ignore the fact that two soldiers with PTSD commit suicide every day, on average, but so far, none have shot up a crowd of innocent people. Forget that people with schizophrenia, widely thought dangerous, are actually exponentially more likely to be victims of crime rather than perpetrators. And easily, casually, thoughtlessly set aside the fact that the vast, vast majority of gun crimes are not committed by a person with a mental illness.

Where there’s a gun, there’s a gun that can be used. Increasing the number of guns in vulnerable places (which would be, we’ve seen, as 2012 has shown us, is everywhere) only increases the likelihood of someone being shot there, and that’s not an improvement. Not by any means.

This is the NRA’s “substantial offering” to solve gun violence. This is the same old rhetoric they’ve been pushing for the entirety of their existence. It is anti-science, anti-statistic, anti-factual nonsense.

It’s time to be serious — which starts with no longer letting an organization that represents 1.3% of Americans dictate public policy on this issue.

Creating is terrifying.

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:16:39 -0500

Creating is terrifying.

Oh, How Pinteresting!: "You're My Pinspiration" by Jessica Hische

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:24:05 -0500

Oh, How Pinteresting!: "You're My Pinspiration" by Jessica Hische:

pinterblog:

One of the most rewarding moments on Pinterest is when you come across someone’s boards and instantly realize this person is amazing and you two would probably get along really well.

You can repin, like, write a comment or follow someone to show how you love their taste, but we’re also…

truth

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:24:09 -0500

amyqueenofthedead:

you never fully realize how strange tumblr is until you scroll through your dash in a public place

Forward

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:58:58 -0500

Its rare you get to go to sleep feeling like all is right with the world. I know it’s not true, there is a lot not working and there will be ups and downs in the next 4 years, and by 2016, who knows. But i’ll take it.

nevver: What are you gonna do?

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:02:37 -0500

nevver:

What are you gonna do?

Windows 8: The New Modernism

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:36:31 -0400

Windows 8: The New Modernism:

putorti:

Modernism is fundamentally a reaction to the past and a response to change. Windows 8 too is a response to the UI of the past and the continual change of technology. The Modernist ideas reflected in Windows 8 inform much of its core experience tenets, and understanding this past is key to understanding Windows 8 and its future.

Interesting take on it!