SHE CAME. SHE SAW. SHE BLOGGED.

good: Sitegeist: A Data-Rich Mobile App To Help You Learn About...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:07:31 -0500

Sitegeist: A Data-Rich Mobile App To Help You Learn About Any Neighborhood
- Adele Peters wrote in Technology, Community and Cities

What do you know about your neighborhood? Sitegeist, a new mobile app designed by the Sunlight Foundation and IDEO, might help you learn a little more. The app draws from publicly available data on everything from demographics, to the average cost of rent, to recommended restaurants. All of the information is displayed in easy-to-read graphics.

Continue reading on good.is

Cool.

curiositycounts: To put things in...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:01:51 -0400

curiositycounts:

To put things in perspective…

pushthemovement:

history of earth in 24 hours

Um, CRAZY. Awesome viz

timoni: “Guessers are wrong, and Askers are right. Asking is how you actually determine what the...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:11:21 -0400

timoni:

“Guessers are wrong, and Askers are right. Asking is how you actually determine what the Asker wants and the giver is willing to receive. Guessing culture is a recipe for frustration. What’s more, Guessers, who are usually trying to be nice and are holding themselves to a higher level of politeness, ruin things for the rest of us. I’m not a super hospitable guy, but I frequently find myself offering things to other people that I’d like them to take — say, leave their kids at my house to play with my kids — but they refuse to take because they think I’m a Guesser, offering hospitality I secretly hope will be turned down. Guessers are what forces people with poor social discernment, like me, to regard all kinds of interactions as a minefield of awkwardness.”

— Ask, Don’t Guess | The New Republic

Interesting. Was definitely raised a guesser, but it’s good to remember that not everyone is that way, and that an ask is not always an expectation, but something you can genuinely say no to. And while a guesser’s ability to sniff out whether a yes is likely before even making an ask may save people the awkwardness of an inappropriate request, it can also create a breed of awkwardness all its own as a byproduct.

popchartlab: Here’s our latest print: The Compendious Coffee...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:12:44 -0400

popchartlab:

Here’s our latest print: The Compendious Coffee Chart! We’ve got Percolators, Vietnamese Filters, French Presses, Aeropresses, and more!

http://bit.ly/NePfa0

#want

curiositycounts: Loving this gorgeous collection of colorful...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:22:13 -0400

curiositycounts:

Loving this gorgeous collection of colorful maps, produced in 1944 by Harold N. Fisk, showing the paths of past and current flows as the meandering Mississippi river changed course and flooded over time.

See full collection here.

Amazing. Wonder what the section in #NOLA would look like if the levees didn’t exist…

serialthrillerinspiration: Keming, the result of improper...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:47:55 -0400

serialthrillerinspiration:

Keming, the result of improper kerning.

Yay designer jokes!

good: Narrow Streets in Los Angeles Photographer David Yoon...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:17:13 -0400

good:

Narrow Streets in Los Angeles

Photographer David Yoon narrows existing streets of Los Angeles to see the effects on the city.

Thanks for the find, Katie!

Oh wow. Such a subtle change could totally change #LA… For the better.

barackobama: kelleythegreat: My brother designed and is in the...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:41:20 -0400

barackobama:

kelleythegreat:

My brother designed and is in the process of making these buttons. I think they’re pretty badass.

(C) Ethan Bennett, y’all.

This. is. awesome.

#probama! cc @ryanresella

curiositycounts: Profound wisdom is something many of us hope...

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:46:15 -0400

curiositycounts:

Profound wisdom is something many of us hope we will one day have. But until then, surround yourself with inspiration like this poster series started by Maxistentialism. Another wonderful whim brought to life by Kickstarter. Hooray for the internet!

(via)

Stamen's Watercolor Maps

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:23:24 -0400

Stamen's Watercolor Maps:

omg #DROOL. via @zachwill

#word.

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:27:08 -0500

#word.

damn, wish I would be in #NYC for @Good’s Design...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:02:09 -0500

damn, wish I would be in #NYC for @Good’s Design Hackathon!

good:

Announcing the GOOD Design Hackathon in New York City

From designers to developers, you’re invited to our Design Hackathon, a challenge on the theme of 21st-century citizenship. Participants will brainstorm, design, and demonstrate the learning tool they think will most empower average New Yorkers to become better citizens. Design Hackathon will be hosted at Parsons the New School for Design from Friday, March 2 to Sunday, March 4. Register online here!

For more information, go to GOOD.is→

good: Heck yes. From 31 opponents to 101 in the span of 24...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:06:17 -0500

good:

Heck yes. From 31 opponents to 101 in the span of 24 hours.

Check out how the Web (successfully!) protested SOPA→

This is why I am Coding for America.

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:35:56 -0500

Incredibly compelling words from Jeff Casmir to the developer community, via Jumpstart Labs:

“You are in a spot of exceptional privilege. You’re well paid to move your fingers around a keyboard. Your greatest danger is probably carpal-tunnel syndrome.

In a time when almost thirty percent of our country is unemployed or underemployed, you make jokes about how annoying recruiters are wanting to offer you job after job. There’s nothing here that’s your fault. You didn’t do anything wrong. This isn’t about blame and I’m not saying you should be ashamed of anything.

But you do need to recognize you lead a life of privilege.

We need to do more.

It is easy to write software for other developers. You understand what it’s like to be a developer, so you know exactly how they think and operate. If you want to make quick money, build tools that make developers lives easier.

We can all then form a big circle and pat each other on the back.

Meanwhile, your new testing framework didn’t make any jobs. It didn’t bring significant joy to anyone’s life. In the big scheme of things, you’ve taken your gifts and used them to pleasure yourself.

Let’s take a step back.

Real people don’t use technology, at least not the technology you build. Unless you work at Facebook, the chance of anyone at this hotel having ever heard of your company, much less your product, is slim. Why is that? Why do we build so many things for ourselves?

Because it’s easy.

Solving real problems is hard. Changing real lives is hard. Making real people happy is hard. When we do write things for the public, we find out that those users are “such idiots” – they can never do things properly. “It’s not worth it!”

You wield the power to make amazing change in the world. You can fix problems with a speed and scale that no other industry can match. Your work, once created, can be replicated at almost zero cost. Your power breaks economics, terrifies governments, and endangers the status quo.

Instead of measuring ourselves by the size of our Series A or our average profit per employee, let’s measure in lives changed.

I want to look back and say “I worked harder than I had to. I gave up time with my kids, with my friends, to do what needed to be done. To give back to the rest of the world, to enable them to live just a little bit happier, a little bit better.”

The problems of our world can’t be fixed with software, that’s naive. But they can be fixed by people, and great software helps people do what needs to be done.

As a developer you can only do so much. You don’t understand all the problems, the nuances, the challenges of the world. That’s ok. The people who do understand those challenges are desperate for your help – they’ll tell you everything you need to know. Just ask.

I’m not saying you need to change a thousand lives. But if you could say that you really changed ten, what would that feel like?

You might not ever have a Wikipedia page, but you’d live on in those ten memories – in the lineage of families they start, the kids that grow up happier because their parent is employed, less stressed, or otherwise improved. When you think about generations upon generations, the compound interest on the investment you make in others pays off in the biggest way.

Your software will be forgotten, but true impact never will.

What’s your mark on the earth? Is it big enough, is it deep enough, is it good enough?

Get to work. Thank you.”

"False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:26:38 -0500

““False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.””

- #truth. (supportive) honesty is the best policy.

Sam Harris, “Lying” (via derekberes)

Rothko cookies Rothko cookies. Yes please.

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:56:45 -0500

Rothko cookies

Rothko cookies. Yes please.

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary...."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:27:38 -0500

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

- Swami Vivekananda (via teachingliteracy)

curiositycounts: New Year’s resolutions by designer Theresa...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:03:38 -0500

curiositycounts:

New Year’s resolutions by designer Theresa Wozniak, reminiscent in style of Mico Toledo’s brilliant Music Philosophy project (via)

Happy 2012!

Love these. I want the NY and SF...

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:54:07 -0500

Love these. I want the NY and SF versions.

curiositycounts:

Lineposters – stunning minimalist posters and screenprints of the world’s most iconic mass transit systems, from London to New York to San Francisco and more

curiositycounts: Next up: #OccupyCongress #occupycongress

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:55:17 -0400

curiositycounts:

Next up: #OccupyCongress

#occupycongress