One of Steve Jobs biggest heroes is Edwin Land, the inventor of Polaroid. Former Apple CEO John Sculley describes a meeting they had years ago and how both Land and Jobs felt that products existed all along — they just needed to discover them.
37signals: The story of Polaroid inventor Edwin Land, one of Steve Jobs’ biggest heroes
An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly. In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.
There’s a new form of graffiti in town, and it’s so pleasant that i can’t imagine even the harshest critics of regular graffiti getting wound up. I mean, who in their right mind would come face to face with a sweater-wearing tree and do anything but smile?
Deputy Dog: urban knitting – the world’s most inoffensive graffiti
Politics is the practice of doublespeak. Fortunately, through the magic of creativity and relatively cheap digital audio editing tools, the speech of political creatures can finally be unspun, and the truth laid bare.
These are galleries of translations of popular politicians as made by audio collage artists from around the planet… Those who are easily offended by heavy doses of irony should probably leave now.