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Shady URL shortener makes any link into a seriously questionable url.

Shady URL shortener makes any link into a seriously questionable url.

- gregoryhubacek

When you first open this CD case, it releases ink that bleeds through to create the cover art.

Via today and tomorrow.

- bendyspace
Socially Controlled Furniture

Socially Controlled Furniture

- jamessquires

People as Places as People

“The engineer in me occasionally ponders the rather crude software the forum runs on. The deep design mystery of how to organize and present multiple threads of conversation on a screen remains as unsolved as ever. But just when I am about to dive into a design project to improve forum software, I stop and wonder if there is really much room for improvement.

“It’s the people who make the forum, not the software. Without the software, the experience would not exist at all, so I celebrate that software, flawed as it is.  But it’s not as if the forum would really get much better if the software improved. Focusing too much on the software might even make things worse by shifting focus from the people.”

-  From “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto” by Jaron Lanier

- collected-wisdom