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10 Principles That May Make Your Work Better Or May Make It Worse, by Frank Chimero
“A little over a year ago, just down the block from us, Solomon Smith Barney disappeared in an afternoon. One day, the courtyard where we’d eat sandwiches from Pret-A-Manger was full of handsome young bankers; the next, they were all gone. It was like Brigadoon but with assholes. Those young investment bankers were as victimized by their own irresponsible behavior, their own reckless office culture as the characters of Mad Men are, or will surely be when the series turns the time machine up to 1969.”
Sam Biederman on representations of office culture in pop culture. Good stuff.
1960s Oswald Vermaercke ultra low V-form ‘Paola’ sideboard, from City Furniture.
I’ve been having one of those “read everything on AisleOne and hope for an epiphany” kind of days. One post in particular kept my brain a-buzzing: a Flickr set of the Barbican Identity Guidelines. It’s so lovely. So very lovely.
The “i-Pod”: it’ll never last
Khoi found this fascinating little gem from the depths of the Internet: the Macrumors forum on the day that the iPod was unleashed on the world. What’s interesting is the amount of negative feeling and general disappointment. It seems like a lot of people were holding out for a new Newton, but were incredibly cautious following the failure of the Cube.
And remember this is October 2001, so when the inevitable squabbling erupts, pretty much everyone accuses everyone else of being “a Taliban”.
Here are some gems:
All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently! Why oh why would they do this?! It’s so wrong! It’s so stupid!
— WeezerX80
I’d call it the Cube 2.0 as it wont sell, and be killed off in a short time … and it’s not really functional.
— elitemacor
All that hype for an MP3 player? Break-thru digital device? The Reality Distiortion Field™ is starting to warp Steve’s mind if he thinks for one second that this thing is gonna take off.
— nobody special
This iPod is for spoil rich kids with insane parents or an Apple fan as fannatic as a Taliban. It has good features but forget about getting it for $399!!!! Never, who gets that thing is a very stupid person. Steve Jobs is under terrible consuling or is under too much pot. This propusal is not realistic at all. If Apple does something like this again is going down. This unit may work for an audio engeneer to record some conference or rock band on the field in place of buying a expensive DAT machine, that is the only real good market this machinne is gonna have.
— mymemory
I particularly like this one, where the person doesn’t quite seem to realise that they’ve summed up the brilliance of the iPod in a nutshell:
Doesn’t a Mac with a CDR undermine the need for most of this? All that’s left is the number of songs you can play and the ability to listen to all of them with headphones anywhere … Won’t last. Another Cube.
— guest
Great stuff. Isn’t it weird that there’s stuff this old still floating around out there?
Curated Chelsea Home, at Loft Life.
See George? See how much better it looks with real locations? DO YOU SEE? Star Wars on Earth, via @mightandwonder.
