Holy Fuck!

Drop everything, forget everything and watch Zeitgeist The Movie!

Top 10 Email Productivity Boosters.

The first message one could consider email was sent more than 30 years ago, and that's probably when people began associating angst and uncertainty with the words "Inbox" and "unread messages." The tools available to read and send emails have advanced considerably since then, but what you actually do with all that chatter, without eating up entire days of work time, is up to you. More>>

Coffeebot.

I'd like one of these. Although, I am trying to give up on coffee as evidenced by five days without it. I'm not sure if I had withdrawals or not - think it might have all been interwoven with serious sized man flu, which is probably a good thing. Why not suffer two wounded birds with one stone? Or something like that anyway. I have to say, I do feel a bit more naturally alert having not drunk the black stuff though. However, a coffee substitute would be a good thing to get on now if I'm going to keep this up. And chai-lattes don't always do it like a caffeine hit does. Now if anyone knows the name of the artist that did the above piece of genius, please let me know. I sourced it via ffffound but can't recall its origin.

Update(17/05): David Cabrera is the genius artist.

Tunnel Vision.

Sometimes my mind is like this.
Sourced via ffffound

Danger, World in Crisis.

The above image is a nice illustration of populations by exploded graph. Available on flickr>>

And here's a world clock you must go see. It continues to count not only the number of births and deaths happening right now, but such morbid things like the rate of injuries, hectares of forest lost, divorces, drownings etc. etc. - all happening right in front of your eyes. Go see>>

Disconnected.

I discovered this today but I don't know who the poignant genius is that created it (Apologies).

Design Wisdom.

_You cannot NOT have a user experience.
Lou Carbone
_Easy is Hard.
Peter Lewis, NY Times
_The user is NOT a lower life form.
Ken Becker
_The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames
_Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.
Bob Baxley, 2003
_Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs, 2003
_Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.
Benny Hill

More user experience quotes>>

Car-Bus-Bike.

All in the same space. Image sourced from ffffound

Our forgotten future.

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