How trends propagate

Very interesting read about rebutting the ideas of Gladwell and his “tipping point” viral epicenter. Especially this sentence strikes a point with me:
“[...] researchers like anthropologist Pascal Boyer, who studies the psychology of religion, argue that our brains have evolved with an overactive agency-recognition system: We look for—and find—individual intention and design behind any pattern, [...]

Note to self

Create a feed for monitoring new releases of all my favourite recording artists at Music-Alerts.com. That way I won’t miss out on any new releases for the major artists at least.
Another note to self:  Why use a crappy site like this and don’t get the releases I need? build a feed-builder myself which scrapes information [...]

Tag clouds

Tag clouds can be hammered for a certain two-dimensional feel to them – “they’re missing the point!” so to speak.
However, as long as the limitations are understood, I think tag clouds are a seriously cool technique that can add value to many a site. And, in this example, to a speech…
Check it out [Pattern Recognition [...]

Awwww..

Give me time. Give me space. Give me the ingredients to make this utterly cool gingerbread house before Xmas is over.
“Structural drawings for living cake houses” (this is the babelfish translation of the original Baupläne für Lebkuchenhäuser)

espresso magic

I saw this espresso maker a few weeks ago on some webshop and noted it looked like something I might like to own (I never gotten around buying a maker – partly because the good ones are expensive and take up an even more valuable commodity – counterspace!). Ran across a coffee geek’s “review” of [...]

Religion is almost always funny

Check out the 9 most badass verses in the bible. Hilariously funny stuff. [via Boing Boing]
(Ok, religion isn’t always funny, having bomb-strapped people running around your kids isn’t very funny. Then again, I would argue it has almost nothing to do with religion…)

Proof: Mac users are more stupid

This has to be definitive proof. The fact that Apple has this supportpage up is surely positive proof….
Apple Support

cool folding bike

Very cool looking – but it must be a pain to ride, right? Those wheels are so tiny… imagine trying to get up a curb. Oh well, pure eye candy in any case MAS design – x-bike [via Boing-Boing]