“Is it true?”

I’m taking this directly from Sebastian Marshall’s blog. Brilliant quote!

From B.H. Liddel Hart’s “Why Don’t We Learn From History?”

We learn from history that in every age and every clime the majority of people have resented what seems in retrospect to have been purely matter-of-fact comment on their institutions. We learn too that nothing has aided the persistence of falsehood, and the evils resulting from it, more than the unwillingness of good people to admit the truth when it was disturbing to their comfortable assurance. Always the tendency continues to be shocked by natural comment and to hold certain things too “sacred” to think about.

I can conceive of no finer ideal of a man’s life than to face life with clear eyes instead of stumbling through it like a blind man, an imbecile, or a drunkard—which, in a thinking sense, is the common preference. How rarely does one meet anyone whose first reaction to anything is to ask “Is it true?” Yet unless that is a man’s natural reaction it shows that truth is not uppermost in his mind, and, unless it is, true progress is unlikely.

Don’t know why I’m loving simple more and more…

I’ve been a Beatles fan since I can remember…

I’ve become quite impressed by some of Portman’s performances too… :P

heralding:

Paul McCartney enlisted Natalie Portman to be her usual flawless self in this low-key video for his new song, My Valentine. It’s strangely hypnotic, beware.

Source: heralding

From time to time I bump into one of those rare gems of software so well executed that it’s simply impossible not to notice. Of course, my definition of what’s good execution may be slightly or totally different from yours but, in by book, simple software performing what’s expected from it comes close to getting the badge. If, on top of it, you add a beautiful interface and a great user experience completely handled by keyboard shortcuts, that puts it shoulder to shoulder with the winners. I’ve never really got into the mind map hype. Lately, however, I’ve felt a need to quickly organize ideas. After all, our mental processes change gradually over the years and I must be getting too old to fit so much info into my 640Kb of creative canvas memory. So I started a quest for something to help me in the process. I must say that I tried a lot of mind map apps and it all came down to one - MindNode - but I’ll save that for another blog post. Because a mind map, in its purest form, is simply an outline on steroids, and because a growing mind map tends to get a bit difficult to read, I started looking for simple outliners. My only needs were the ability to add a color here and there and a way to attach small notes to any given item. Eventually, I landed on Tree from the Japanese developer Top of Tree. And it was one of those “love at first sight” (i’m pushing it, I know) occasions that, fortunately, is happening once every other month or so. To make this post short, Tree simply doesn’t get in my way of doing things. It seems perfectly aligned with the way my mind works when I’m set into creative mode, because it’s simply a breeze to use. The shortcuts are just a few and in a couple of minutes I was cruising at full speed using only the keyboard, which is a plus for a developer like me. Plus, it’s beautiful, it’s priced at 11.99€, works great in full-screen mode and has two different outline layouts that are handy in different situations. Overall, it was a no-brainer. Well, not quite, as I’m still using the trial version and I still have 13 days to go. Finally, I’ve just re-read the post and it feels like a bad commercial. Except for the fact that I don’t know the people behind the app and I’ve never heard of it before. So, congratulations to Top of Tree. You’ve just got a new customer. You’ll have to wait another 13 days, though. ;)
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From time to time I bump into one of those rare gems of software so well executed that it’s simply impossible not to notice. Of course, my definition of what’s good execution may be slightly or totally different from yours but, in by book, simple software performing what’s expected from it comes close to getting the badge. If, on top of it, you add a beautiful interface and a great user experience completely handled by keyboard shortcuts, that puts it shoulder to shoulder with the winners.

I’ve never really got into the mind map hype. Lately, however, I’ve felt a need to quickly organize ideas. After all, our mental processes change gradually over the years and I must be getting too old to fit so much info into my 640Kb of creative canvas memory.

So I started a quest for something to help me in the process. I must say that I tried a lot of mind map apps and it all came down to one - MindNode - but I’ll save that for another blog post.

Because a mind map, in its purest form, is simply an outline on steroids, and because a growing mind map tends to get a bit difficult to read, I started looking for simple outliners. My only needs were the ability to add a color here and there and a way to attach small notes to any given item.

Eventually, I landed on Tree from the Japanese developer Top of Tree. And it was one of those “love at first sight” (i’m pushing it, I know) occasions that, fortunately, is happening once every other month or so.

To make this post short, Tree simply doesn’t get in my way of doing things. It seems perfectly aligned with the way my mind works when I’m set into creative mode, because it’s simply a breeze to use. The shortcuts are just a few and in a couple of minutes I was cruising at full speed using only the keyboard, which is a plus for a developer like me.

Plus, it’s beautiful, it’s priced at 11.99€, works great in full-screen mode and has two different outline layouts that are handy in different situations.

Overall, it was a no-brainer. Well, not quite, as I’m still using the trial version and I still have 13 days to go.

Finally, I’ve just re-read the post and it feels like a bad commercial. Except for the fact that I don’t know the people behind the app and I’ve never heard of it before. So, congratulations to Top of Tree. You’ve just got a new customer. You’ll have to wait another 13 days, though. ;)

Google Play for Artists

Very good news for musicians, indeed. Too bad is still for US musicians only… Hope it opens up to the rest of the world soon…

I was just posting a new entry my colleague Emanuel sent me for on our Nostalgiqa blog. It’s about the new ad campaign for the Berliner Philarmoniker, with macro photography by Bjoern Ewers. This thing is breathtaking. Loved it! Had to share it here, too!
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I was just posting a new entry my colleague Emanuel sent me for on our Nostalgiqa blog. It’s about the new ad campaign for the Berliner Philarmoniker, with macro photography by Bjoern Ewers. This thing is breathtaking.

Loved it! Had to share it here, too!

Today, Go Daddy has reversed its stance on the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and no longer supports SOPA. Here’s what Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman had to say about the change of tune: Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation – but we can clearly do better. It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.
Go Daddy Reverses Stance on SOPA (via thenextweb)

(via thenextweb)

Source: thenextweb.com

Merry Christmas to all of you!
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Merry Christmas to all of you!

thiscitycalledearth: by Ian Howells, London. Battersea Power Plant is such a powerful sight…
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thiscitycalledearth:

by Ian Howells, London.

Battersea Power Plant is such a powerful sight…

Source: Flickr / ianhowells

GoDaddy likes SOPA, NameCheap doesn’t…

This whole SOPA thing is simply madness. Read a lot about it the last few weeks and I’m really glad there’s so much people trying to crush this tyrannical legislation.

Last news on the street is GoDaddy’s support for the thing. I’m happy I’ve transferred all of our domains from them already. We’re using NameCheap now and overall satisfied with their service and customer support. Besides that, they don’t support SOPA and they’re running a transfer promotion, as usual. You just have to use the - how appropriate - SOPASUCKS coupon code! So, for those wanting to do the same, here’s a step by step guide from Jeff Epstein on how to do that.

nostalgiqa:

Nostalgia is more about joy than sadness, or is it the other way around? Where does it hide before invading our thoughts as soon as we blink? Does it hide in an old house? Is it hidden in a black and white picture? Is it in a perfume? Or is it in a song? Perhaps in a yellow wrinkled paper of an old letter… Or does it maybe hide in a landscape?

They say nostalgia is a spell that our memory casts for us to never stop going back in time, and we can read somewhere that nostalgia isn’t but a way of letting the past make its way into the present.  

The weirdest thing though, might happen when we feel nostalgic about a place where we’ve never been before; like when we look at postcards of cities we have never travelled to, and probably never will, or like when we’re watching a movie, or a documentary showing places we’ll never go to, but somehow we know we could have lived a happy couple of days or months there, or even a happy life.

We love places.

That’s why we wanted to share this beautiful video with you today: MADE IN ICELAND by Klara Harden. We hope you’ll enjoy watching, listening and feeling it as much as we did.

Source: nostalgiqa