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Tag Archives: Off-Topic
links for 2008-10-23
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Interesting (and awesome) design and communications choices from the new Apple pages for the new MacBooks. Note a few things: informal copy style, the prominence of support as a valued feature of Macs—including Geniuses—and a small icon change that means a lot with very little difference.
"Managers manage by using…"
“Managers manage by using the authority the factory gives them. You listen to your manager or you lose your job. A manager can’t make change because that’s not his job. His job is to complete tasks assigned to him by someone else in the factory.
Leaders, on the other hand, don’t care very much for organizational structure or the official blessing of whatever factory they work for. They use passion and ideas to lead people, as opposed to using threats and bureaucracy to manage them.”—Seth Godin: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war…"
“I’m glad I didn’t have to fight in any war. I’m glad I didn’t have to pick up a gun. I’m glad I didn’t get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.”–Tom Hanks
links for 2008-10-21
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Is this awesome? I'm not entirely sure this is awesome, but it has at least some of the components that go into something that's awesome.
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This is a great addition to Get Satisfaction that UserVoice already had. It's good that they're paying attention, but the main weakness of GS is that you have to redirect people to the Get Satisfaction interface and theme, which quite frankly doesn't mesh with many Web sites. And the Help Center app isn't as fully-featured, unfortunately.
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Check the OSX benchmarking numbers below. The CPU usage is why you'll never see Flash on the iPhone, and one of the reasons I specifically avoid using Flash as much as possible in web development.
Ryan Markel 