kirabug’s idea files

For your perusal:

The Green Monster

Boston Apple Store in progress facade.

Mmmm, baseball and apple store.

The Beauty of Simplicity is a look at making technology simple. It looks at Google, Phillips, and (believe it or not, I didn’t) Intuit, as examples.

And it leads me to a question: what links have you never used on this site?

Merging Galaxies is a collection of 50+ images by Nasa of, well, merging galaxies, to celebrate the Hubble Telescope’s 18th birthday. Now that it’s old enough, it’s allowed to see science porn.

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - linked from a number of sites I hit this morning (but Daring Fireball gets first credit), and definitely worth the read. Because, y’know, just by being here you’re looking for the mouse too.

For all of us who owned bunnies but don’t have any right now, I present: Disapproving Rabbits: Cinnamon Sunday aka Grunty McGrunt Grunt

For those of us who have never owned a rabbit and didn’t know they’re verbal, it’s also a nice lesson in rabbit noises.

The ideas about criticism that Andy Rutledge puts forward in this article are true not only of visual design, but any other form of criticism as well. They’re worth reading, especially if (like me) you’re a n00b at something and thus there’s lots and lots of fair criticizing to do.