so a while ago I saw evan rose's wish list and saw he has a book I thought he might like (The Mezzanine). i remembered how pleasent it was when vincent unexpectedly bought me a book. so I bought it for evan, even though he had no idea who I was. it felt good.
next i bought noah a dvd off his wish list, to say "thanks for greymatter."
it felt damn good.
so now i'm asking everyone to find someone's wish list (not mine, lazybones!) and buy them a book. or a video. it's gonna cost you maybe 20-30 bucks, but you'll tingle all over.
cheap thrill.
good thrill.
and be sure to add a link to your own wish list on your site, so when goodness comes a knocking, you'll be at the door.
why not?
The newly public Carbon Log allows you to give advice to recently laid off stacia. should she look for a new job? go to spain? grow mushrooms?
From: Gleanings
To: miniyou
Subject: Gleanigns: snack sized glean
OPENING THANG
The Carbon IQ crew has started a group blog. On it find Noel's rant on customer service, my adventure setting up greymatter and Noel teasing me. And Gabe's beautiful design.
http://www.carboniq.com/log
USABILITY MATTERS
I haven't been here for quite a while, and dang it's great! Worth it for the glossary alone.
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/
Kayla Block posts her ideas on evangelizing user interface throughout a organization
http://interfacing.blogspot.com
DESIGN MATTERS
Lovely portfolio and personal site.
http://sabine.cc/frames.html
TECH MATTERS
mattjones sends this
"Writing code, he explains, is like writing poetry: every word, each placement counts. Except that software is harder, because digital poems can have millions of lines which are all somehow interconnected. Try fixing programming errors, known as bugs, and you often introduce new ones. So far, he laments, nobody has found a silver bullet to kill the beast of complexity"
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=568249&CFID=1765964&CFTOKEN=83880030
APROPOS OF NOTHING
from Kottke.org
"Ok, this is the best thing ever! Ever! All those other times that I told you about the best thing ever? I was lying! Go see Extreme Stick Death #3 right now. Now! Turn up the sound! (Note: I've had *way* too much sugar this morning....) "
http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight3.htm
I forgot to say, go see memento. amazing movie. form supports the story, enhances, disorients...
http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/arts/movies--030.html