The next time you make breakfast, pay attention to the exquisitely intricate choreography of opening cupboards and pouring the milk — notice how your limbs move in space, how effortlessly you use your weight and balance. The only reason your mind doesn’t explode every morning from the sheer awesomeness of your balletic achievement is that everyone else in the world can do this as well.
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (Four Favorite Posts From Last Year)
This essay is amazing.
Carcassonne App: Expansion details ⇒
Hi guys,
I thought it might be a good time to finally give out a few more details. Let me highlight the two available expansions and the new features of the update for you.
The River
“The River” adds 12 new tiles, that are played at the start of a game, laying out a river that divides the…
Grand Theft Auto 3 Now Available for iPhone and Android
Stan Schroeder, mashable.comAs announced, a special Anniversary Edition of the massively popular Grand Theft Auto III game is now available on iOS and Android devices.
The anniversary edition is nearly identical to the 10-year-old original game, which is…
Grandtheft Auto 3 is out for the iPhone and Android. That’s crazy.
Things I don’t like about Twitter 4 for IOS. ⇒
There are some really great points brought up here.
Asiv Mandvi interviews the CEO of Tap Fish. ⇒
And it is wonderful.
“I hope I’m wrong, but I think this is just the difference between putting your dog down and letting it free on a distant mountain road.”— John Gruber on HP’s announcement they’re making WebOS open source.
I think at the very least people are going to take advantage of all the Javascript UI stuff that was built into WebOS that is now going to be available for anyone to use.
Gowalla is Going to Facebook ⇒
The most important take-away from the sale:
Facebook is not acquiring Gowalla’s user data.
Why Siri Can't Find Abortion Clinics & How It's Not An Apple Conspiracy - Search Engine Land ⇒
“I’m standing in front of a Planned Parenthood,” the CNN reporter says, “And Siri can’t find it when I search for abortion clinic.” No, it can’t. It’s not because Apple is pro-life. It’s because Planned Parenthood doesn’t call itself an abortion clinic.
You mean the ‘Apple and Siri are pro life!’ non-scandal might—just might—boil down to the simple limitations of technology, search engines, and shoddy knee-jerk “journalism”?
Please, someone. Anyone. Say it ain’t so.
(Source: chartier)
Amadi Talks: Siri Failures, Illustrated ⇒
The recent illustrations of Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-recognition based assistant, failing to provide information to users about abortion, birth control, help after rape and help with domestic violence has gotten a lot of notice.
This seems pretty obnoxious.
