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Oh, and the slogan 'We know' is incredibly sinister. :D

This seems poorly thought out in a lot of respects, but I think specifying "unusual people" is emblematic. The kinds of people who describe them selves as 'unusual' brings to mind …

The Medium Design blog is a great resource if you want to unpick their design. They talk in great detail about the various typefaces they have chosen over the years, and why. https…

I really want a fully-featured podcast player that syncs with an app on my phone. I want to be able to manage subscriptions, ask about new episodes, play episodes at different spee…

As if the ergonomics of laptops weren't bad enough already. Makes my neck tense just looking at it.

New when? The 90s? I'd rather just use plain text.

"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough ca…

See also ReMarkdown: http://fvsch.com/code/remarkdown/ I'm sure there was another one too. I was going to make a WordPress theme with it at the time, but never got around to it. Yo…

I was wondering this recently. It's hard to imagine this happening here in the UK. The thought of police in riot gear kicking down doors and waving guns around sounds beyond crazy …

Ironically when I read this on my iPhone the text size was much smaller than an average novel. (Also, the line-heights need some TLC). I like larger text, but I find this too big (…

I agree. If I don't want to be interrupted, I close down the client. I don't really see how this is much different to manually setting my status to 'busy'.

Relevant: 'Here’s how central London would look if the Tube map was geographically correct' http://www.mapfodder.com/london.html

Same here. In addition, I usually attempt to perform an action that will result in a visible response, like scrolling or selecting text, so that if/when the app does start respondi…

The Wired PR one is too much. I read WIR :D PR. I quite like the idea of having a smiley in a company name actually…

The idea needs a lot of development - and a name better than a 'thinkerspace'. Math and music? What about philosophy, literature, other branches of science? I can think and write w…

[Wondering aloud] Would a better approach be to activate the sharing icons on mouseover? Sure, users would do this accidentally, but those concerned about privacy could learn to av…

And I don't think the site has improved in any meaningful way. Someone should fork it and make something better. (Also, the headline should be 'Dark Patterns: Are They Ethical?' no…

I could have written this myself! I wish I had some answers for you...

Unexpectedly awesome! I kinda wish you could navigate from it though. Eg: When I click on the TED laptop, load the talk in below.

Dropbox should rename mods 'Support Volunteers' or something, just so users know what kind of help they're getting. I don't understand why the mods were so quick to defend DB, espe…

Like a priority inbox for Twitter. I've wanted this since very early on. Some of the best tweeters get drowned out. It says a lot that Twitter basically gave this power to advertis…

SMS will never take off. Why would anyone fiddle with a tiny keyboard when they could just use the same phone to call someone?

Vive la revolution!

Kudos.