Today LinkedIn is releasing an overhauled iPhone and Android app, as well as a matching mobile website, all with a cleaner, sleeker layout that makes it much easier to navigate. The company’s old design featured a sequence of nonstop gray blocks that were packed with information, but now LinkedIn is replacing those with big and bright tiles that give more room to each of the stories in the news stream, similar to the iPad app that it released last year. Larger photos and text fill up every story, and each update is separated by a simple break between the tiles. The new app also replaces the previous version’s icon-based navigation menu with a left-hand sliding pane, which includes personalized shortcuts and generally lets users move…
– LinkedIn releases redesigned iPhone and Android app with big, bright news stories http://bit.ly/ZAYoJiIt seems like a great idea: Provide instant corrections to web-surfers when they run across obviously false information on the Internet. But a new study suggests that this type of tool may not be a panacea for dispelling inaccurate beliefs, particularly among people who already want to believe the falsehood.
These pieces have given me much to think about today regarding US gun control laws: http://t.co/LhxMLPqT
– These pieces have given me much to think about today regarding US gun control laws: http://t.co/LhxMLPqT http://bit.ly/WhnFsyShameless plug: please click this link bit.ly/TIpX5e to help me win this stuff. No registration or form filling necessary!
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I love this poster:
(via @ptak)
Tags: solar system space – 1850s poster of the planets http://bit.ly/QOT0zf
“And still, I loathed being a child. Plainly stated, being a child was not—as used to be said around the time I was a child—my bag. Childhood was a foreign country to me. Everyone has an internal age. A time in life when one is of not one’s best, then at the very least one’s most authentic self. When your outside and inside are in sync, and soma and psyche mesh as perfectly as they’re going to. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.”
—David Rakoff, Half Empty
I am super visual, so when someone draws something for me, I process it ten times faster. Put those drawings on a single piece of paper for easy reference, and I’m likely to marry you.
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“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within—can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
Richard Feynman talking about the beauty of science and of the natural world over a bunch of video footage taken from NASA, Microcosmos, and BBC nature docs like Planet Earth? This is fantastically right up my alley.
http://kottke.org/11/10/richard-feynman-on-beauty
