“American culture is nothing more than a pastiche of fixations. We are obsessed with health. We are…”

akthegreat: danhacker: Start Back-To-School Right With A ‘Gran…

akthegreat:

danhacker:

Start Back-To-School Right With A ‘Gran Torino’ Lunch box

From the brilliant (and possibly disturbed) mind of artist Brandon Bird comes the Saturday Morning Cartoon version of Gran Torino. Just in time for back-to-school you can get a brand spanking new ‘Gran Torino’ lunch box to show off to all the kids at school who will be super-jealous. Considering that Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’ came off as more unintentionally hilarious than thought provoking and moving, I can think of a better film in need of a Saturday Morning cartoon treatment than ‘Gran Torino’.

Only $20 + shipping! I think this is a definite buy!

Cuz every kid should have their lunch in one of these bad boys.

The woman I’m marrying. Sometimes she’s Sassy Pants.

The woman I’m marrying. Sometimes she’s Sassy Pants.

Moving… Once again. Reminded of Ben Anderson. And Alicia -…

Moving… Once again. Reminded of Ben Anderson. And Alicia - we got the spider again! (Taken with instagram)

Hanging out in the new digs, pre-move-in. (Taken with…

Hanging out in the new digs, pre-move-in. (Taken with instagram)

You’ve done it to me again, Bon Iver; I can’t stop…

You’ve done it to me again, Bon Iver; I can’t stop listening to your self-titled album.

Bon Iver - Hinnom, TX

seldo: This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”,…

seldo:

This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.

The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:

Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:

Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.

andrewharlow: Anthony Burrill

andrewharlow:

Anthony Burrill

So cool. Want. Russian designer Vadim Kibardin brings us…

So cool. Want.

Russian designer Vadim Kibardin brings us this lovely wall clock containing only figures with no casing. Each figure has self-contained power supply and independent control, it can be fixed to any surface autonomously.

No PC should be without it! (Taken with instagram)

No PC should be without it! (Taken with instagram)