A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm Jacob, a peripatetic interdisciplinary designer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently working on online e-Commerce and identity. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
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Posts tagged “interweb”
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working. —Paul Graham
“ It’s not about repurposing old software, it’s about writing everything from scratch […]. Finally, the industry is fun again. ”
Marc Benioff, in ‘Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2.’ guest-posting on TechCrunch.
Interview with a scammer
I’m 23 years old and was released from prison in Nigeria in October last year where I served two years for fraud. I am now doing a business studies course at college and am in the UK
Even without cookies, a browser leaves a trail of crumbs
Those with no technical knowledge generally believe that they are anonymous when simply browsing the Web
Hybrowse
Hybrowse is an elegant way to browse the huge quantities of stuff on sites such as Etsy, using simple category (tag) filters by drilling-down through them—from most common to least. With no interface crud, you may only add or remove categories to narrow or widen the scope of items shown, serendipitously limited to a single page of results. If there’s less items than this, you can be sure you’ve found a niche!
I’ll look forward to seeing more sources, merged results across sources, and perhaps even top categories trawled from current trends, my interests, or my network—that would be nifty.
“ The whole internet, from top to bottom, is a series of nested foil-wrapped pigs. ”
Comments from ‘On HTML 5 Drag and Drop « alert debugging’
‘Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think’ by Social Media Blog. “What happens in Vegas stays [on] Facebook…MySpace…Flickr…YouTube”
