(Source: maybeitsaboutlove, via curvedwhite)
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Physical credit cards aren’t going away — and forget NFC. “Every American of almost any age and certainly any demographic knows exactly how to use one of these pieces of plastic
There’s absolutely nothing better about taking a phone and kind of waving it around than pulling out a credit card and swiping it. It’s actually more complicated because usually the phone is locked behind a password and there may be a separate password for your NFC app.
” — http://www.businessinsider.com/keith-rabois-qa-with-the-square-coo-and-angel-investor-2012-4[video]
Vegas
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“You can make a game without code or art. You cannot make a game without design (ie rules).” — @br
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
” — Bernard Shaw (via tomazstolfa)
Stamps used as early emoticons in 1890
Found in an 1890 edition of the Szarvas és vidéke, a weekly Hungarian newspaper
Source: BoingBoing
Beeman’s meddling matrix, or why clients feel that they need to meddle so much.
Borrowed from Jesse Schell’s talk: http://t.co/SJSYceni
Not a typical winter morning
“The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw