Mike Kuniavsky thinks the web is less interesting than physical designs – not sure I agree, but the quote he uses is funny: “And the ephemerality and increasing sameness of the Web is pushing smart people toward physical objects (confirming what Chicken John said years ago: ‘All these dotcom people, you know what they really…more

Patterns | R.BIRD – great examples of market research reports, with recommendations for action, for different products

Architecture for Humanity – Our Projects – a chance for designers and architects to work on humanity’s real problems

Open-Source “Real” Stuff – “However, with the exception of carpooling, he acknowledges he is hard-pressed to find instances where sustained sharing of valuable things is prevalent in the world outside information technology. For most goods and services, sharing will remain the exception not the rule.”

Ian’s Shoelace Site – Shoe Lacing Methods – some decorative ones that would be nice with “cool” shoes

Rules for survival – from the founder of GoDaddy

Working Smart: The Master Task List – sounds like Life Balance’s life goals and subgoals; he says the next step is “time blocking”, which might be what I’m looking for with UpNext

Tie-a-Tie.net | Learn How to Tie a Tie – all right!

usabilityworks.org – “Study found there was no reliable difference between paper and computer prototype usability results. This has been studied quite a lot and seems to play out each time.”

The Economics of Cooperation video talk – “If you are involved in a ‘Tat-1’ situation [your partner always contributes just a little bit less than you do], the _best_ you can do is to contribute the most you can” — they will contribute a lot then, even if it is less than you did. Sounds…more