A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm @jacobjay, a peripatetic designer/developer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently living between New Delhi and France, working on a Lua web platform and e-commerce. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
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Posts tagged “interweb”
“Game On” by The Guild. (A Bollywood Themed Gamer’s Anthem.)
(Source: youtube.com)
“ With digital technology, as with every other information technology, the entity with greater information freedom wins. ”
A Long-Wave Theory on Today’s Digital Revolution, an interview with Elin Whitney-Smith.
"Literally Unbelievable"
“Facebook updates from people who don’t know The Onion is a humor site”—Boing Boing.
“ «1 of only 12 pairs hand sewn by small sect of silent Japanese monks» Gen Y-ers desire an authentic relationship with the sellers of the products they buy [and] more than 50% often share […] interesting products with friends. ”
Inside the Mind of a Community Manager: «Like a piñata, after being beaten with sticks, must give out candy»—Heather Champ.
Lendle: Kindle™ Book Sharing
The easiest, fastest, fairest, and best way to lend and borrow Kindle™ books. (US only for now.)
“ A programmer’s aspiration is to teach the machine to do as much of his job as possible so that he’ll have to do only the bits of work that cannot be done by the machine. ”
I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human, you must both ‘keep up’ with the internet and pursue more serious, analog interests. I blog about real life; I talk about the internet. It’s so exhausting to exist on both registers, especially while holding down a job. It feels like tedious work to be merely conversationally competent. I make myself schedules, breaking down my commute to its most elemental parts and assigning each leg of my journey something different to absorb: podcast, Instapaper article, real novel of real worth, real magazine of dubious worth. I’m pretty tired by the time I get to work at 9 AM.
—“Sad as Hell” by Alice Gregory for n+1.
“ The idea that you could make a website and not know HTML blows my mind because it’s like building a building and not knowing what a brick is…You can be a CSS wizard or you can know the basics, but you should at least have some foundational knowledge of what your building material is. ”
Ryan Singer, 37 Signals Podcast #18 ‘Design roundtable.’ Via Signal vs. Noise.
