Map Reading - How to fold a map for use in land navigation with map and compass
I keep losing this.
Cool for maps, yeah, but it also doubles as a way to turn one sheet of printer paper into a 16-page notebook for about a penny.
Clips are lower-threshold links, words, images, ideas, and hobby-horses from the guy who does 43 Folders.
These are things that got his attention.
Pinch to fold in TextMate on Macbook Air/new Pro with MultiClutch.
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Half a dozen of these a new to me. DEFINITELY learn and use the key commands.People who live in the present often wind up exploiting the present to an extent that it starts removing the possibility of having a future.”
— An interview with Alan Kay (via jackcheng)
Dear Digg,
If you wish to provide your users with a toolbar for added functionality in browsing Digg, give them a real toolbar as a browser plugin.
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— FarukAt.eş
Procrastinating writing performance reviews by finding books on Amazon that I can’t start reading until I finish these performance reviews.”
— Pete Hopkins, to whom I officially say, “Join the club, my friend.”
So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products….”
— mathowie
Following Project - a set on Flickr
A project where I gradually add highest available res avatars of the people I’m following on Twitter.
What a cool idea. Go, Zeldman.
The inevitability of my favorite bookstore closing doesn’t make it any less brutal to watch.
Data points:
- Where I bought my Rough Guide to SF on my first trip here in 1997
- Where I bought dozens of issues of Harpers and The Atlantic
- Where we bought the first books that Ellie helped pick out for herself
- My 2nd-favorite downtown public restroom
- A store whose rent, an employee informed me last month, was $65,000 per month. Every month. Sixty-five thousand dollars.
It’s super-hard to watch good businesses with good people go down; but it truly is just the beginning of a lot of change.
As much as I adored this store, I can’t imagine the insanity of a $65k monthly nut. Especially when you’re competing with free delivery from a company that stocks every conceivable piece of media in print — let alone groceries, toys, electronics, and pretty much any other hard good on the planet that can fit into a box.
Sad, awful, and horribly overdue inevitability that, in this instance, feels like a lot more than a statistic and a shrug.
There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic. The entire quote-unquote ‘pro blogging’ industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium are new, but the craft is ancient.”
— John Gruber, as ever, encapsulating the blah blah blah into a succinct, memorable, and paint-peelingly candid précis. Damn.
Merlin Mann, The Bros. Chaps & Jeff Olsen of adultswim.com on Online Branding
Jesse just posted the aforementioned IMA panel as a podcast episode of The Sound of Young America.
An unusual Sound of Young America podcast: I talk with 43folders.com writer Merlin Mann,
Homestar Runners creators Mike and Matt Chapman (aka The Bros. Chaps), and Jeff Olsen, creative director of adultswim.com, at the Integrated Media Association conference in Atlanta. The (somewhat cheesy) title of the session was “Blow Up Your Brand.” We chatted about how to do something on the internet that people will actually give a hoot about.
June, I can just see it: Apple launches 2 new OS’s, a new phone, and Steve returns. Headlines: ‘NO TABLET. WORST KEYNOTE EVER.’”
— Neven Mrgan
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