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Learn Meteor Fundamentals and Best Practices

You only got in because you're a girl...

Same here. Me versus the 3 boys that I had all of my classes with. We were the guinea pig group at my hs and someone eventually made up a rumor that I had slept with someone to get in. At that point I hadn’t had so much as a boyfriend so it was embarrassing. 

mansplained:

When I was a senior in high school, I got into MIT, a prestigious engineering school, during early admission and several boys, who also applied to MIT early but were either rejected or deferred, and even some girls, who did not apply, quite profusely told me that “the only reason…

You only got in because you're a girl...

nico muhly on 2 chainz

"Mainstream Ratchet" also cites, with its pipe organ and near-constant piano arpeggios, Philip Glass’ score for the 1992 horror movie Candyman, a score which found itself sampled (by Lil Jon) and imitated throughout the early part of this century. The soundtrack to that film is daring: while the majority of the film takes place in the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago, the soundtrack consists of amplified pipe organs, a music box and a piano, and a choir outlining simple harmonic cycles with increasing intensity.  This technique gives “Mainstream Ratchet” its power: the exposition of a cycle sets up the anticipation not of a chorus, or a bridge, but of an intensification of the same cycle.  You add an element, you take something away, or you insert a digital silence, changing the footprint of the beat.  It’s a slightly different musical economy, but one in which I think we will all be participating in a post-Yeezus landscape.  

nico muhly on 2 chainz

The “Pin/Pen Merger”: An Example of Neutralization

Yes! I called it! Dated enough texans in my life to hear the pin/pen giveaway. 

via Nico Muhly http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/nico-muhly-2-chainz

The “Pin/Pen Merger”: An Example of Neutralization

the science behind fonts and how they make you feel

sites that are like “yoga studios for content.” lol

the science behind fonts and how they make you feel

Excerpt from "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest…

Excerpt from "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus

A thing that happened yesterday

That doesn’t sound like a free pass. It sounds like you confronted a stranger really peacefully about hate speech that’s become so ingrained in him it’s habit. That took a lot of courage. 

thekeri:

I was at an intersection in Davis Square around 4:15 when an older white man next to me stepped into the crosswalk and into oncoming traffic, all against the right-turn light. He nearly got hit by a turning car, so he flipped off the lady in the driver’s seat and shouted, “Fuck you!” She pointed…

A thing that happened yesterday

From now on, I'm "Bing-ing It!"

lessig:

[#tl;dr translation: Bing now let’s you easily filter on the basis of licenses, aka, the right to reuse (beyond the rights of fair use). Bravo, Bing!]

For years I have been arguing that there’s something ridiculous about the way search engines enable people to find and use content — given…

From now on, I'm "Bing-ing It!"

Medium-Style Page Transition | Codrops

An article on how to achieve Medium’™s next page transition effects, an effect that can be seen by clicking anywhere on the “Read Next” footer at the bottom of the page. This effect is characterized by the lower article easing upward as the current article fades up and out.

Medium-Style Page Transition | Codrops

Sophie Dahl writes about sweaters.

I remember reading Roald Dahl’s memoir, when I was 10 or 12. He wrote about having a motorbike and riding it around disguised when he was in school.

“I never told anyone, not even my best friend…I had learnt even at that tender age that there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.”

I’ve thought about that line often through the years. Having a true secret has always seemed like a coming of age. A real big kid thing to do.

The first cashmere sweater I owned was dusty sugar pink, and I wore it so a boy I liked would want to put his arms around me. I imagined us at the pub, his hand resting with ownership on my soft shoulder. I was 15 and had yet to understand boys or see “ownership” as a rather…

Sophie Dahl writes about sweaters.

What's the simplest way to set up a home studio or the cost effective way to record voice and keyboard at home?

so-called “social media”

You need 6 ingredients to record and play back voice and keyboard at home:

1. A Computer. […]


2. Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software […]


3. A good-quality microphone and an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. […]  I’d get an A/D converter with all of the following inputs: MIDI, 1/4” stereo, and XLR. Hey, look at that, I already did. [MOTU UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid]. Then get a decent-sounding microphone […]

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What's the simplest way to set up a home studio or the cost effective way to record voice and keyboard at home?

A Great UI is Invisible | Codrops

A user interface that is invisible and that provides seamless interaction possibilities will help the user focus on their goals and direct them to what they need.

A Great UI is Invisible | Codrops

Sidebar Transitions

Sidebar Transitions: Transition effects for off-canvas views

ideas for revealing the navigation menu

Sidebar Transitions

Sidebar Transitions

Sidebar Transitions: Transition effects for off-canvas views

Sidebar Transitions

uhm japanese music blog anyone?

via debyoon

uhm japanese music blog anyone?

InsideSalk - 10|08 Issue - Institute Friends Take 'Journey' Through Françoise Gilot's Exhibit and Life

On Francoise Gilot’s relationship with Jonas Salk. 

 She also recently began a new series of paintings, which Gilot describes as some of her best work to date because she’s now painting with more ease and spontaneity – something that Yoakum believes she also found in her marriage with Salk.

"I think what Françoise found was the dialogue that she had earlier (with Picasso), but without the combativeness. Jonas and Françoise experienced fame early in their careers and one might think that having that would be a really solid platform to continue the rest of your work," Yoakum said.

"However, creativity is an experiment, it’s trial and error — and with the loss of anonymity, there is also the added scrutiny. This creates an additional burden that they had to carry," he said. "I think they both understood that very well, and one of the many characteristics that they each brought to their relationship was their ability to understand that in each other."

InsideSalk - 10|08 Issue - Institute Friends Take 'Journey' Through Françoise Gilot's Exhibit and Life

Progressive Reduction for UI Design

The mistake isn’t biasing your UI towards one type of user, it’s failing to realize that your user’s bias is changing.

User profiling could really come in handy with animations that are designed to instruct changes to the model. 

Progressive Reduction for UI Design

Your app makes me fat (via @aresnick)

In 1999, Professor Baba Shiv (currently at Stanford) and his co-author Alex Fedorikhin did a simple experiment on 165 grad students.They asked half to memorize a seven-digit number and the other half to memorize a two-digit number. After completing the memorization task, participants were told the experiment was over, and then offered a snack choice of either chocolate cake or a fruit bowl. The participants who memorized the seven-digit number were nearly 50% more likely than the other group to choose cake over fruit. Researchers were astonished by a pile of experiments that led to one bizarre conclusion: Willpower and cognitive processing draw from the same pool of resources. Spend hours at work on a tricky design problem? You are more likely to stop at Burger King on the drive home. Hold back from saying what you really think during one of those long-ass, painful meetings? You’ll struggle with the code you write later that day.

Since both willpower/self-control and cognitive tasks drain the same tank, deplete it over here, pay the price over there.

Maybe we’ll think more about what our users really care about. Maybe we’ll ask ourselves at each design meeting, “is this a Fruit-choosing feature or a Cake-choosing feature?” and we’ll try to limit Cake-choosing features—the ones that really drain them — to that which supports the thing they’re using our app for in the first place.

But if it’s “content” designed solely to suck people in (“7 ways to be OMG awesome!!”)  for the chance to “convert”, we’re hurting people. If we’re pumping out “content” because frequency, we’re hurting people. 

Your app makes me fat (via @aresnick)

'Post Tenebras Lux' by Carlos Reygadas

Reygadas prefers to think of cinema as “not an art of representation, it’s an art of presence,” using reality to capture the essence of things even within a fiction.

Reygadas, 41, came to filmmaking somewhat late in life, after a career as a lawyer working in Europe specializing in armed-conflict resolution. “I liked what I did very much, and at a certain point I just felt it was not my work I didn’t like but the kind of life I lead,” he said. “I didn’t want to go to an office from Monday to Friday, dressing in a suit and a tie. It is something as banal as that, but in the end it’s your life, what you do every day.

'Post Tenebras Lux' by Carlos Reygadas

on breaking from the evils of efficiency

"I worry I’m losing my linger, no longer taking the time to tarry. I don’t see the point of finally getting round to things if I have to lose my dawdle skills.”

"There is a reckless and rollicking abandon in our sleep time that we must try and bring into our waking hours. Our minds and our bodies do what they will without constraints when we enter the land of nod, and that is exactly how we want to walk the world till the end of days."

"Think of yourself as a sphincter and just try and unclench" 

on breaking from the evils of efficiency