The biggest problem facing Danny Dorling’s tongue-in-cheek proposal for Our Museum Future is surely that it leaves Britain’s prosperity dependent upon the continued interest of the rest of the world in what the British royal family gets up to and where they live. Possibly not a great bet. If we work hard enough, we will… Continue reading Museum Future
Month: April 2018
Punish David with Marvel Movies to Help End Gun Violence!
Film critic David Ehrlich, who is a significant part of the reason Fighting In The War Room is my favourite film podcast, as well as the author of end-of-year YouTube video countdowns, but who is not a big fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is organising Punish David with Marvel Movies to Help End Gun… Continue reading Punish David with Marvel Movies to Help End Gun Violence!
Getting the picture right
In case you were wondering, Netflix go to great lengths to select the most enticing preview image possible for you when you’re presented with a list of possible viewing choices: For many years, the main goal of the Netflix personalized recommendation system has been to get the right titles in front each of our members… Continue reading Getting the picture right
Kindles and touchscreens
I had no idea that my post earlier today was going to be eclipsed by a much better, deeper take on the whole topic of how touchscreens make for a user-hostile interface, this one from Craig Mod: I’ve been using Kindles on and off ever since they launched. Our relationship has been contentious but I’ve… Continue reading Kindles and touchscreens
Reasons why touch interfaces are terrible as tools for discovering new features, part 89
From Federico Viticci’s post 11 Tips for Working on the iPad: [Here’s…] a list of my favorite long-press shortcuts in Safari. 9: Tap and Hold in Safari Safari Reader (text icon on the left side of the address bar). Display settings to always use Safari Reader on the selected website or for all websites. Considering… Continue reading Reasons why touch interfaces are terrible as tools for discovering new features, part 89
Quiet!
So, it turns out that Peter Watts had less tolerance than I did for the plot holes in A Quiet Place: [Spoilers follow, especially if you click on that link to go to the original post.] I really wanted to like this one. I did, too, at first. The layered, multidimensional, never-quite-silence of the movie’s… Continue reading Quiet!
Small pieces, very loosely joined
In writing The Missing Building Blocks of the Web, Anil Dash reminds us of the future we’re missing out on, the future where the web is for publishing stuff on a human scale: Though the world wide web has been around for more than a quarter century, people have been theorizing about hypertext and linked… Continue reading Small pieces, very loosely joined
WALL-E, revisited
Seeing WALL-E BUT IN 7 DIFFERENT GENRES – especially the Jony Ive / Apple Keynote variant – serves as a reminder of the power of trailers (and clever editing) to sell us on a film, but mostly just makes me want to watch WALL-E again for the first time in a few years.[note]Was it really… Continue reading WALL-E, revisited
Hybrids
Digital Collage Artist Creates Weird and Wonderful Animal Hybrids From a sealion/horse creature named a Horseal to a Labrador puppy/albatross combo called a Labratross, Fredriksen renders his weird and wonderful critters by first finding two images that go well together. “The angle has to be right, and it helps a lot if the skin/fur textures… Continue reading Hybrids
Mark Zuckerberg’s 14 year apology tour
Zeynep Tufekci on Why Mark Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook: At a minimum, Facebook has long needed an ombudsman’s office with real teeth and power: an institution within the company that can act as a check on its worst impulses and to protect its users. And it needs a lot more employees whose… Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg’s 14 year apology tour