Thomas Bøhm´s blog about convergent technology, design and æsthetics, lifehacking, and the occasional maniacal rant.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
Stephen Jay Gould /via butdoesitfloat, jeremyturner and merlin
The Internet hasn’t changed the way we think,” argues neuroscientist Joshua Greene of Harvard. It “has provided us with unprecedented access to information, but it hasn’t changed what [our brains] do with it.” Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker of Harvard is also skeptical. “Electronic media aren’t going to revamp the brain’s mechanisms of information processing,” he writes. “Texters, surfers, and twitterers” have not trained their brains “to process multiple streams of novel information in parallel,” as is commonly asserted but refuted by research, and claims to the contrary “are propelled by … the pressure on pundits to announce that this or that ‘changes everything.’
Begley, “Does the Internet Change How We Think?” /via newsweek
A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.
The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox) (via marco)
24 ways: The Web Is Your CMS
Great tutorial on the use of Yahoo Query Language for mashing up APIs and combining them in Yahoo´s server farm before return.
Tablet devices that are just for viewing magazines have an audience the size of Darlington Football Club. The iPhone has typified a trend towards convergence of devices: my iPhone is my mp3 player, phone, camera, portable computer, and on the very rare occasion gaming device. So why would I buy a piece of chunky hardware to view magazines now-and-again?
/by @andjdavies: Tablets. So hot right now…
I so agree about the current tsunami of pure “e-readers”.
Soulver for iPhone, the iPhone port of my favorite calculation scratchpad, was just released. I’ve been beta-testing it for months (and may have bugged them into making it in the first place), and its beta version (“Sums”) was even in my First & 20 profile.
Soulver for Mac is always open on all of my computers — home, work, and laptop. It’s a calculator, a numeric scratchpad, and a simple spreadsheet all in one simple, fast, inexpensive program with almost no interface.
Nobody ever knows what it is, but everyone who sees me use it always asks, “Hey, what’s that?” And when they see what it does, they instantly download their own demo copy.
If you frequently perform calculations throughout the day, you need to try Soulver. If you like it, buy it. And strongly consider the iPhone version as a Calculator replacement.
Both the mac and iphone version looks like great apps to have instead of traditional calculators (and perhaps also spreadsheets in some cases), the only thing is that the iPhone version seems to miss the benefit of the mac version´s word-processor style interface (on account of the keyboard being used).
mowglii - Itsy Twitter app for Mac
Small and minimal but some tricks up its sleeve like inline images. Maybe something for the Mrs. ?:)
Where zen ends, ass kicking begins.
Hyde (That 70s Show) /via mnmal
Web Analytics in Real Time - Clicky.
Seems like a nice (and popular) real-time alternative to Google Analytics. It also tracks shorturls and twitter, but I guess Google won´t be far behind on that after just launching goo.gl and all.
Perfect animation (and funny):
No Time For Nuts
Digital short from the dvd Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Reblogged from stevenbeelen´s most awesome blog.
