Links
Original iChat UI
It's always exciting to see original prototypes of good products. Not to mention the sample conversation going on in there is rather delightful.A Boy Named Sue, and a Theory of Names
During his 1969 concert at San Quentin prison, Johnny Cash proposed a paradigm shift in the field of developmental psychology. He used “A Boy Named Sue” to present two hypotheses:
- A child with an awful name might grow up to be a relatively normal adult.
- The parent who inflicted the name does not deserve to be executed.
What will you name your child?
Donkey Kong and Me
An excellent story about the making of Donkey Kong and what it was like to work in an early video game company.Iterations of Google's logo
I'm definitely glad they keep iterating until they got to the current version, but that 2nd revision’s pretty neat too.Apple sets the design standard
A pretty good article describing Apple’s success with their high attention to design.Buy a mac
This article is so strange. It shows all the reasons why buying a PC with Windows Vista is a terrible idea, and yet the author seems perfectly happy with his Vista computer, even after paying absurd amounts of money to fix something that shouldn’t have broke in the first place.