Nov
23
Amys Puzzleteile & Fundstücke
Lesetagebuch, Fundstücke, Lektüre, Suchen & Finden, Lernen & Lesen … mit Amy
“Lego, like language, benefits from context.”
A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News
Nov
22
“These PC makers are lacking in neither financial resources nor opportunity. What they’re lacking is ambition, gumption, and passion for great software and new frontiers. They’re busy dying.”
Daring Fireball: The OS Opportunity
“Imagine how much better the industry would be if there were more than one computer maker trying to move the state of the art forward.”
Daring Fireball: Herd Mentality
“It’s not just that Apple is different among computer makers. It’s that Apple is the only one that even can be different, because it’s the only one that has its own OS.”
Daring Fireball: Herd Mentality
“Conformity is a powerful instinct. There’s safety in numbers. You have to be different to be better, but different is scary.”
Daring Fireball: Herd Mentality
“The subtitle of The Original of Laura is Dying Is Fun.”
Nabokov’s ‘The Original of Laura’ - TIME
“Nabokov observed that if you want to know whether a piece of writing is any good, you should wait for “the telltale tingle between the shoulder-blades”. Laura is packed with these moments, although tingling is too gentle a sensation to capture what happens when one of Nabokov’s phrases really strikes home. It is more like being hit by a dum-dum bullet. His phrases enter through the eyes and expand in the mind.”
The Original of Laura: a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov: review - Telegraph
“Pagehand”
MacUser: Product Reviews: Pagehand
“Verdict: Even if you never write code, get TextWrangler: one day it will save you from some text-related nightmare on your Mac.”
MacUser: Product Reviews: TextWrangler
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