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Alex Payne’s Minimalism in Software

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Minimizing the Dashboard.

Reader W. Malo sent me this picture along with the following description:

Most people don’t minimize their Dashboard because they don’t see it often.
If you go in username/library/widgets you will find packages that control your widgets they are only images with javascript and css files and are very easy to edit without any knowledge in coding. Just edit them to your liking to make them minimal.
my dashboard contains:
a homebrew clock widget
a homebrew mail notification widget
calcboard (heavily minimalized)

This is more than a little BadAss™.

I’m not sure what the weather’s like where you live, but here it’s all snow and ice: Weather to gather around the fireplace.

Roll Fire is a bio-ethanol fireplace that can be rolled anywhere. It would be perfect for a loft, and a great conversation piece for parties.

Roll Fire was designed by German designer Michael Sieger (a.k.a. Sieger Design) and produced and sold by fireplace manufacturer Conmoto (thx, Austin!).

“Because everyone uses Word, so we have to. And why does everyone use Word? Because everyone uses Word. It starts to make sense if you just hit your head on the wall enough times.”

- Jeremy Reiner, on The prospects of Microsoft Word in the wiki-based world. Ars Technica

At first glance, this chair seems to defy gravity, by standing upright while only having two front legs.

It is only on closer inspection that you see that the shadow is part of the chair, and made from steel, which is attached to a metal frame built inside the chair: the chair is resting on its own shadow.

This Shadow Chair is a design of Chris Duffy of Duffy London, a British design firm producing furniture, lighting and interior products.

Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics:

When coming back to Tokyo from abroad, my first impression usually is: What a dull airport! And yet it’s clean, neat and the floors deeply polished. To the Japanese eye, there’s a particular sense of beauty in the work of the cleaning staff. It’s in the craftman’s spirit — “shokunin kishitsu” — which applies to all Japanese professionals, be they street construction workers, electricians or cooks…