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  • Daring Fireball: Homage vs. Rip-Off
    „The old joke is that homage is when you copy someone else; a rip-off is when someone else copies you. But to me, it’s about the difference between drawing inspiration to create something new, versus slavishly copying to create something derivative. That’s the difference between great artists stealing and bad artists copying.“

John Gruber nimmt schön auseinander, warum die Ähnlichkeiten zwischen Dieter Rams’ Entwürfen für Braun und Joni Ives’ Entwürfen für Apple nicht auf demselben Blatt stehen wie Samsungs Plagiate von Apples Produkten.

  • World Wide Wasteland | Zemanta BlogZemanta Blog
    „People turned to the whispernet of their time – social networks. Links were whispered. Carefully protected as the lore of a people long gone. Tiny parcels of information adapting to shifting conditions like a message in a game of telephones. When spammers caught wind of this they started shouting their own crap. For a small fee you could get content shared to a huge, huge tribe, thousands of people would see it and pass it onwards, the spammers would laud. Just like that, all useful content was screamed out of the collective mind. Only spam remained. But the spammers had another trick up their sleeves – bots started clicking on links. You have to drive those metrics, y’know! Actionable, measurable metrics! Nobody cares about the users. The users have all gone anyway. What matters is proving to your boss that X was shared a bazillion times and seen ten bazillion times.“

Warum wir uns alle wieder mehr verlinken sollten.

  • Happy 100th Birthday, Frank Thomas!
    „When asked whether Frank considers himself a romantic: “Yes, don’t you? Aren’t we all? You’d have trouble defining what a romantic is, but I think it has a lot to do , to me, living with your dreams and dreaming quite a bit about connections between things. Trees, the sky, the grasses, the birds, the animals and you being a part of the whole thing. A Realist would have trouble with some of those concepts, but if you get into an imaginary field like animation, you’d better come equipped with that kind of nonsense.”“

Andreas Deja gratuliert Frank Thomas.

  • Remembering Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon | Science and Space | TIME.com
    „And then, of course, the boulders appeared. All over the prime landing zone were massive rocks impossible to navigate and deadly to try even to approach. Armstrong took the stick from the harried computer, tilted the half-upright LEM into a head-forward lean and flew in the flat across the boulder field, finally touching down on a spot of soil that had been wholly unremarkable for the entire 4 billion years of the moon’s existence and would now become the most powerfully evocative patch of real estate in all of human history. There were, NASA later calculated, about 30 seconds of fuel left in the tank.“

Toller Artikel über den Mann im Mond.

  • Die berittenen Buddenbohms
    „Die Reitlehrerin sah auf die Uhr und sagte: „Der Muskelkater beginnt in einer halben Stunde. Viel Spaß, da haben Sie jetzt drei Tage etwas davon. Sehen Sie lieber zu, dass Sie es noch auf ein Sofa schaffen.““

Familie Buddenbohm war reiten. Müßte ich auch mal wieder machen. Aber der Knaller ist ja, daß man hierzulande nicht einfach so ein Pferd leihen und losreiten kann, wie in so ziemlich jedem anderen Land der Welt. Nein, hier braucht es a) einen Helm und b) einen Reiterpaß! <vordieStirnpatschGeräusch>.  Bevor man überhaupt aufs Pferd darf, muß man voltigieren lernen. Also, wie man ein Pferd an einer langen Leine im Kreis herumführen kann. – Langsam wundert micht nicht mehr, warum uns keiner für voll nimmt …

So ist es.