Hawaiian MVNO Mobi collapses
Taking my cell service and phone number with it. The CEO allegedly failed to pay T-Mobile for it’s network, then fled to Brazil.
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Taking my cell service and phone number with it. The CEO allegedly failed to pay T-Mobile for it’s network, then fled to Brazil.
“It is undoubtedly a rap album. however, to truly understand it, one must approach the album as if it were blues”
The trial to ban a book was rooted in a false moral superiority born from a widening class disconnection.
How grocery store layouts manipulate our shopping behavior.
Five people improvising live techno for seven hours.
Beautiful font (with a perfect name) based on SF Muni destination displays.
A data driven top 10 list of US cities that are changing for the better.
Practical advice.
1.Prioritize long-term relationships 2.Fund art not ads 3.Put humans in control
Phil Ford: “Walking is a dream of landscape.”
Assembled from start to finish (no talking).
Featured on a local morning news show.
Leah Reich: “Do you want to be inventory? Or do you want to be a human being?”
Talking about brand design is awkward - Doubly so when that brand sets out to be counter-cultural.
Big words like: perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.
Jeffery Zeldman ponders the moments of inspiration, the hours of plodding, and the ultimate mystery at the heart of a creative career.
“That sounds nice, but how is a tiny software company supposed to compete with huge and well-funded companies?” The answer is that you don’t really have to. You just have to get an understanding of the proper pace and scale of whatever your endeavor is.
“We get into what it means to build trust with an audience, how community gets harder in a platform-driven world, and why ‘working for the people’ still feels like the best job [Jesse Thorn’s] ever had.”
After 17 failed pickoff attempts, Vince Coleman steals second base.
Guillermo del Toro: “In a way America is the carnival, but America would be a better carnival if all of us knew the games were rigged.”
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science, and mythology of the moon.
“[The web] used to mostly consist of little things made by people, and that was pretty cool! You would see more than four websites in a day. Websites would have colors!”
There’s a lot of web out there, it’s just gotten harder to find it…
How do various AI models perform when prototyping in real design contexts?
Fruity Loops was initially dismissed as a toy. Now FL Studio is one of the most popular DAWs in the world.
Blush Response examines the tradeoff between artistic aesthetics and user friendly interfaces in synth design.
Frank Chimero: “I want to carve out a small creative place for myself in everything that is happening. Is it possible?”