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Feb 07

“I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing–smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it–until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.” — Liz Phair on Why Lana Del Rey Scares Rock’s Boys Club - Speakeasy - WSJ

Took me a minute to see the captions.

Took me a minute to see the captions.

(Source: redsuspenders)

vimeo:

Attention universe! The wait is over. Take the new Vimeo for a spin today!

vimeo:

Attention universe! The wait is over. Take the new Vimeo for a spin today!

Feb 06

[video]

redsuspenders:

“The use of passive voice when we talk about violence against women, shifts focus off of male perpetrators and onto female victims and survivors.”- Jackson Katz
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

pt 1: http://youtu.be/79ijDA_1FVYpt 2: http://youtu.be/vBQz921BBlIpt 3: http://youtu.be/EgXCyvQIRaApt 4: http://youtu.be/sTa_E-jCrNspt 5: http://youtu.be/V3LhqzuCPtQ pt 6: http://youtu.be/IzVUifBnSzMpt 7: http://youtu.be/n1UNLYcfANo

redsuspenders:

“The use of passive voice when we talk about violence against women, shifts focus off of male perpetrators and onto female victims and survivors.”
- Jackson Katz

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

pt 1: http://youtu.be/79ijDA_1FVY
pt 2: http://youtu.be/vBQz921BBlI
pt 3: http://youtu.be/EgXCyvQIRaA
pt 4: http://youtu.be/sTa_E-jCrNs
pt 5: http://youtu.be/V3LhqzuCPtQ 
pt 6: http://youtu.be/IzVUifBnSzM
pt 7: http://youtu.be/n1UNLYcfANo

Feb 02

[video]

Feb 01

Pinterest Often Confuses Me

I signed up for Pinterest way back when, I was excited that I got “justin” as my user name. I think it’s an interesting service and have been quite glad to see it grow in recent months. It is, by far, the place where things I share get the most attention/repinning. I fully appreciate the growing pains associated with the kind of scale they’re seeing but there are just certain things that I don’t understand. I’m hesitant to criticize since I know decisions are not made arbitrarily when it comes to UI design but I have to ask: Huh?

This is a module under a pin showing how many people shared it. It shows me repinners. Well, some of them. The “+## more” looks like I should be able to click it to see them all. But I can’t.

This is the “my boards” view. I would expect that clicking on the name of the board takes me to it. I would also expect clicking an individual thumbnail takes me right to that pin. This is not the case. Only the group of thumbs is actively clickable and goes to the board. I cannot click the title. I only today realized the thumbs go to the board. For the longest time I was hitting the small area of padding between the top line of thumbs and the title. Why can’t I just click the title?

It is a testament to Pinterest that I bitch about these little things. Like Tumblr, if I didn’t really like the service I’d just stop using it. There just seems to be some obvious UI fixes that would help a lot, usability-wise.

buttons!

buttons!

Jan 31

[video]

Jan 27

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' -

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…