Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Hello World… Ahem, Hello Carrier IQ
How would you feel if your every location, keystroke, button push, SMS, URL and Web search you made on your mobile was monitored, read and stored by a piece of factory pre-installed software that automatically sends it to a company you’ve never heard of, plus this software cannot be switched off or removed? AKA a…
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Too Much of a Good Thing
Here’s a great article from Smashing Magazine on “improving customer experience by limiting choice.” It’s an issue I’ve encounter numerous times, when a client thinks they are doing me a favour by giving me an open brief, as in reality there’s no worse type of brief to get! So I’ve often said “Give me the flexibility…
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Earth
There’s not much I can say except… watch this, you won’t regret it [vimeo 32001208 width=”600″] full screen version
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Don’t Have Regrets
[vimeo 27582815 width=”500″] If you recognise yourself in this video, change your life! (oh and look out for banana skins) “Never regret… if it’s good, it’s wonderful, if it’s bad, it’s experience” – Victoria Holt “A man is not old until regrets take place of his dreams” – John Barrymore “Twenty years from now you will be…
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Thinking Differently from 1955 to 2011
Here’s to the Crazy One. The misfit. The rebel. The troublemaker. The round peg in the square hole. The One Who Saw Things Differently. He wasn’t fond of rules. And he had no respect for the status quo. You can quote him, disagree with him, glorify or vilify him. About the only thing you can’t…
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New Truth
I was having a conversation just now and it reminded me of a sketch from the BBC Three animated series entitled Monkey Dust In this sketch the Advertising Agency Labia, are pitching “New Truth” to a Government Ministry that has to deliver some bad news! “By reclassifying things that aren’t entirely bad as things that…
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eBooks Are For Weirdos
According to a new survey by Harris Interactive 1 in 6 Americans now use an eReader with 1 in 6 likely to purchase one within the next 6 months. That’s 15%, which is almost double what it was this time last year, 8%. Also eBook readers purchase more books and read on average more than paper…
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iPad Movie Mount
I’ve posted info on iPhone mounts and lenses previously (Glif, Owle, Olloclip, SLR adapter) but this is a first, an iPad 2 mount! This has been really well thought through, and at $70 / €50 it’s not a bad price either. More info at Makayama [youtube http://youtu.be/J2mKeAmEwOM]
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The Cosmonaut is The Write Stuff
I posted about the Scribbly a while ago, but I just stumbled on the Cosmonaut by Studio Neat, the guys that created the Glif, which in case you missed it is a cool iPhone tripod mount and stand, that had a very successful Kickstarter launch. Well it looks like they’ve done it again with another…
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Don’t Build It and They Will Come, 90k Of Them!
That appears to be Martin Hasek’s philosophy, the creator of Noteslate, and it appears to be working. I posted about the Noteslate back in January, I was sceptical then and unfortunately my scepticism was founded, as this CNN report confirmed shortly afterwards, but that doesn’t appear to have stopped 64,000 people clicking the like button on their homepage,…
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