Aw, crap. You’re tired and are supposed to go to bed, and then what happens?

Zufällig über FanPro LLC gefunden: Degenesis, ein Primal-Punk-Rollenspiel.

Some people around here would need that in a real life version: Enter the Procrastinator’s Clock. It’s guaranteed to be up to 15 minutes fast. However, it also speeds up and slows down in an unpredictable manner so you can’t be sure how fast it really is. I just love that.

Some designers at Blizzard obviously did a good job. Almost too good, in fact …

Dass Medien gezwungenermassen kreativ mit Sprache umgehen, ist nichts wirklich neues – gehört das doch zu ihrer Ressource, mit der sie umgehen können müssen.Theoretisch, zumindest. Heute schafft es dabei ohne Probleme, auf ganz neue Tiefen zu stürzen.

Made me go *rofl*.

Dear Adobe, Would you be so kind to explain me, why there is some thing like a computer, which is supposed to make my life easier and do some thinking for me, if …… I have to take a piece of paper and jot down the colour values by hand …

My kind of company: “We have lots of shiny espresso machines, and all of our new-age e-movers (that’s our cool way to say “consultants,” remember?) drive to work in VW Beetles.”

There won’t be any third-party apps for the iPhone, says Steve Jobs. Luckily, soon enough, Apple will introduce some new iPhone products, including a rather small, reasonably priced one …

Why Apple has not yet proved that they really re-invented the phone. What this business needs is a platform that is open.

infoscreen der sbb Originally uploaded by phpfreak…. Very informative, having Windows telling all travellers that it just screwed up, right?I would be so embarrassed if I were working in SBB’s IT department. This thing is failing as ungracefully as it can possibly get.Come on: let it run on something stable, far less chatty than Windows – and, most of all, program it to fail gracefully and invisibly to your customers.Can that be so hard to accomplish?

SMS-Konversation mit Dani, meinem WG-Partner:Ich: Wenn du schon so oft in der Migros bist: würde es dir etwas ausmachen, Milch mitzubringen? ;) Dani: Für dich die welt Ich: Was, gibt’s das in der Migros auch? Auch so perfektere, wie ich mir immer eine wünsche?

For me, I find it difficult to stay focused on doing things I’m not by nature interested in doing…. However, be mindful of the fact that your perception of work is something you can control. For my last tip here, I suggest you try changing your mindset or turning work into a game.

Today’s essential question: Is [habi][3] a style icon? ;-) “Nowadays, everybody wants to look like a messenger,” says the Brooklyn transplant, with her short red dreads poking out from under a camouflage cap.

After usability, there comes flow: “Thanks for giving me something useable, well-designed, and useful…. Can you keep me so immersed that time and all the clutter of daily existence drops away? Where I’m under a spell that’s never broken by an intrusion from the software itself?