On Saturday, I sent an email to the Regents of the University of California in response to the chilling events that took place on the UC Davis Campus on Nov. 18th. Here is their response: On behalf of the Board of Regents, thank you for y

Ilyes Jaryan Music School adv by Memac Ogilvy Label (via 

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” - John Adams, 2nd Pres

“As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760–1775, in the course of fifteen year

“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.” - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

Expensive. But worth every penny.

“Do not therefore consider this life as an object of any moment. Look back on the immense gulf of time already past; and forwards, to that infinite duration yet to come, and you will find how trifling the difference is between a life of three days and of three ages. Let us then employ properly this moment of ti

Goodbye Steve.

This feels so un-Apple to me.

“I don’t always use Photoshop, but when I do, I use only one layer.”

Facebook never fails to remind me of my strange taste in things.

via Kevin Oeser

“Quality is love.”

If this is on the street, I can’t imagine what’s in the garage.

“Your best idea might be the one people laugh at.” — Bernadette Jiwa  (via David Airey)

Great example of packaging that communicates product features in a very tactile (and literal) fashion. (Designed by Ric Bixter) 

“What we’re hoping to do is shift the paradigm of what design is. Design encompasses systems now, not just ‘making things look pretty.’ Designers have traditionally been paid a lot of money to make what people want; meanwhile, most startups fail because they make things that people don’t actually want! We need mor

Got my shiny new @founderscard in the mail yesterday. 

“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime” - Honoré de Balzac

“The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.” - John Rawls

“When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost… and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.” - T.S. Elliot (via paulsalvage)

“There’s tremendous turbulence in the ecosystem, of course, in mobility. And that’s sort of an obvious thing, but also there’s tremendous architectural contention at play. And so I’m going to really frame our mobile architectural distinction. We’ve taken two fundamentally different approaches in their

Bradysaurus

Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You : rosiesiman: “Phone calls are rude, intrusive & awkward,” says the NY Times article. And I tend to agree. The only thing that’s worse? Voicemail.

Regular expression to search for Gadaffi: \b(Kh?|Gh?|Qu?)[aeu](d[‘dt]?|t|zz|dhd)h?aff?[iy]\b (via jstn)

Back to The Future, a photographic study by Irina Werning

Bridge

Okay, okay, you caught me. Yes, I was protesting in Cairo yesterday (good catch, Patrick Vlaskovits).