Welcome back, dorks. We’ve processed the messaging habits of over a million people and are about to basically prove that, despite what you might’ve heard from the Obama campaign and organic cereal commercials, racism is alive and well. It would be awesome if other big websites would go out on a limb…

This week we will confront an unfortunate truth of online dating: no matter how much time you spend polishing your profile, honing your IM banter, and perfecting your message introductions, it’s your picture that matters most. We’re going to look at how your photos affect both the messages you get…

Concept phones are always an interesting, as they allow the artist to experiment with radical user interfaces and concepts that aren’t necessarily bound by technology or a target market. Robin Zhu has

iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in Fla

All around the web, hover states are being abused. Let’s put a stop to it. Whatever a mouse user is doing, they are perpetually hovering. They may be hovering over a specific control, or over several places in the course of another action: dragging a scrollbar, selecting a word, even just idling…

by Lori Fradkin The word is douche bag. Douche space bag. People will insist that it’s one closed-up word-douchebag-but they are wrong. When you cite the dictionary as proof of the division, they will

[ Editor’s note: Steve Jobs had a lot to say Monday during his conference call with analysts following Apple’s announcement of record earnings and sales . Here’s the Apple CEO in his own words. ] Hi,

« Previous Next » Suck It Up And Ship October 19th, 2010 When I introduced the rich HTML editor in MarsEdit 3, I knew there would be some issues. WYSIWYG editing is freaking hard. I don’t pretend to h

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program. It wasn’t for a lack of trying either, it was just that I was trying the wrong way. I tried to learn to program by following tutorials

Children who are able to pass the marshmallow test enjoy greater success as adults. Illustration by Barry Blitt In the late nineteen-sixties, Carolyn Weisz, a four-year-old with long brown hair, was i

A powerful article by Brent Simmons. Alternate title could have been: “Building Software That Does One Thing Well.”

The micro-blogging service Tumblr is among the most impressive startups I’ve seen rise in popularity over the past few years and yet when I look at it, I’m filled with ambivalence. On the one hand, it

Stay on Top of Emerging Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community Many have touted the availability of Flash on Android (s goog) devices as a competitive

Last week, Amazon sent me some free money in the mail - Amazon MP3 credit which I spent on Glenn Gould’s lovely Bach Partitas Vol. 1 and Bach Toccatas Vol. 1 . I’ve been listening to these on my daily

What’s in your Simplenote? Some of the old timers may remember one of Apple’s most famous ad campaigns – “What’s on your Powerbook?”. In it, celebrities and some regular folk were pictured with their

This Best of Kottke post was easy, because I wanted to write something about Steve Jobs over the years anyways. The kickoff is Jason's link to a 1995 interview with Jobs for Smithsonian Magazine. It's

One of the most fundamental rules of user experience on the web is that developers are rarely qualified to evaluate it. As developers, we know far too much about the web in general, and intuitively gr

I don’t usually get all that excited about forthcoming films, but ever since seeing the first trailer for Inception I’ve been like a kid at Christmas time. Everything about it looked like it was going

Two broad-hipped American women stumble through the revolving doors of the Rio Hotel and Casino into the arid Las Vegas afternoon. One is holding the kind of yard-long plastic vessel that in this town

Among the many interesting things about Christopher Nolan’s superb new movie “ Inception ” is the fact that it borrows so clearly from so many genres and yet seems to belong to none of them in particu

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"We are What We Choose" Remarks by Jeff Bezos, as delivered to the Class of 2010 Baccalaureate May 30, 2010 As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix wind

As the usual string of expensive summer blockbusters unspools, with its unpredictable array of commercial triumphs ( "The Mummy Returns" ) and disappointments ( "Pearl Harbor" ), it should be hearteni

Even before it hit theaters on Friday, Christopher Nolan’s "Inception" was one of the year’s most talked-about movies, and one of its most argued-over. But before you can form an opinion, you need to

Three years ago I waited in line to buy the original iPhone and I haven’t upgraded since, so I’m definitely warming up my credit card for Apple’s newly announced iPhone 4 . I admit that it took some w

Entrepreneurial hope is essential. It gets us over the hump and through the dip. There's a variety of this hope, though, that's far more damaging than helpful. This is the hope of the magic lottery ti