Mike Matas's portfolio includes original iPhone interface elements, and absolutely iconic Mac OS X features.

As @kottke puts it:

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You'd be hard pressed to find a better portfolio of digital design work than this one from Mike Matas.
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https://mikematas.com/

via https://kottke.org/quick-links #kottke #design #portfolio #macos #osx #apple

something GOOD

#comix #comics #comicbooks #sketchbook #drawing #riffs #Kottke #Hokusai

New Woodblock Prints of Hokusai’s Previously Unpublished “Book of Everything” https://kottke.org/23/07/new-prints-hokusai-book-of-everything

Jason #Kottke does a great job showing how Jamelle Bouie's most recent NYTimes editorial demonstrates Frank #Wilhoit's definition of conservatism.

The best thing I've seen online in a while.

https://kottke.org/23/05/the-four-republican-freedoms

Wczoraj minęło 25 lat bloga kottke.org. Jak ten czas leci...

https://kottke.org/23/03/kottke-is-25-years-old-today

#kottke

From #kottke: Making a very tiny watch screw.

I grew up in a machine shop and spent the former half of my childhood working with much larger versions of these machines, and watching this brings back memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKVqLTzh_z4

"They Rule" (by Josh On) is an interactive visualization of the people on the of directors at the 100 largest companies. The map lets you see explore how companies' boards interconnect and overlap.

It's built on top of Wikidata APIs, with descriptions from Wikipedia. Nicely done! (I do wonder why it queries US data only... the information mapped by the multilingual Wikidata community is worldwide!)

https://theyrule.net/

#wikidata #wikipedia #opendata #kottke H/T https://kottke.org

Ok this is pretty cool

Our First Closeup Image of Mars Was a Paint-By-Numbers Pastel Drawing

https://kottke.org/22/12/our-first-closeup-image-of-mars-was-a-paint-by-numbers-pastel-drawing

#art #science #space #mars #kottke

On 'bear', 'Quincy', 'postretirement', and other euphemisms:

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The word 'bear' was derived from a euphemism for the animal… but we no longer know the original name!
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http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2041313,00.html

#wordsmatter #english #linguistics #kottke via @kottke

Ah, just in time for 2023. Yung Pueblo’s list of life lessons from 2022 that he’s bringing into the new year.

via @kottke

#poetry #yungpueblo #kottke

The Boring Conservatism of Elon Musk. Good to see Jason #Kottke back and interested to see the direction he goes, after his sabbatical https://kottke.org/22/12/the-boring-conservatism-of-elon-musk

@jkottke
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#Kottke #Tootke

Yay! #kottke is on mastodon. @jkottke

I made an #OPML file of #Kottke's recommended bloggers to follow: https://gist.github.com/jsit/a7b0d25feffd729adefe7063fd586f44 #blogging

#Guitar
Leo #Kottke - Busted Bicycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aUWCSh4Cw