Blind Text Generator
Nice to have a few alternative options besides lorem ipsum. (via Tina Roth Eisenberg)
Top 100 Urban Thinkers
Planetizen’s 2009 reader’s poll on the top 100 urban thinkers. Can’t say I agree or not with the list, as ashamedly I’ve only read a fraction of it. I’d go with Jane Jacobs any time though.
50 things that are being killed by the internet
#41 The usefulness of reference pages at the front of diariesWell, the problem is, do we even still use diaries? That said, I used to be fascinated by the reference pages.
If anyone still digs out their diaries to check what time zone Lisbon is in, or how many litres there are to a gallon, we don’t know them.
Click on the Google logo to switch to Wikipedia, YouTube or Twitter. (via minimalissimo)
Website of the week: Minimal search I think it is this, that has finally replaced my default browser home page.
keyboardr
Website of the week. Would have been perfect if it searches images too, and pressing arrows doesn’t work well after opening a search result.
Created by Julius Eckert (the creator of the BezelHUD Quicksilver Interface), Keyboardr is a search engine that doesn’t require the mouse at all. Simply type in your query, and instantly results from Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia appear. Very cool user interface.
(via minimalmac and Pat Dryburgh)
Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment
Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.
Reading on the web is finally possible, without serious eye strain. (via minimalmac)
Website of the week: Team Society League
From the authors themselves: Jam comics of questionable merit. This one’s titled ‘Child Star’. (via Lost at E Minor)
The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine
The world has sped up, become more connected and a whole lot busier. As a result, what consumers want from the products and services they buy is fundamentally changing. We now favor flexibility over high fidelity, convenience over features, quick and dirty over slow and polished. Having it here and now is more important than having it perfect.
Website of the week: Learn Something Everyday / designboom
An ongoing, self initiated project from Young. Each day a trivial fact is illustrated with a simple and humorous drawing.
Top Five ‘Green’ Buildings That Defeat The Point of Being Green
Exposing eco-bullshits. Don’t you just love that?
Abandonment: 8 Cities That Might Not Make It
What factors turn towns into ghost-towns, city centres into wastelands and treasured homes into piles of crumbling debris? Here’s a look at eight modern urban settlements that are either in danger of or in the process of losing their inhabitants - places that might gives clues about how to keep our cities alive.
IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View - a very thought-provoking article on Google Street View’s cameras casting an unseeing gaze on the everyday, revealing a whole lot more than just privacy concerns, even creating a kind of “noisy amateur aesthetic” for the author.
This very way of recording our world, this tension between an automated camera and a human who seeks meaning, reflects our modern experience. As social beings we want to matter and we want to matter to someone, we want to count and be counted, but loneliness and anonymity are more often our plight.The detached gaze of the automated camera can lead to a sense that we are observed simultaneously by everyone and by no one.
