A Duet With Siri (iPhone 4s Song) (by therockcookiebottom) [via Andrea]
Can someone give me $6000, because I really want this (and no, I don’t write music, I just think it looks cool). (via Music Typewriter | The Ministry of Type)
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
Submarine Cable Map: All Cable Systems and Landing Stations - information aesthetics - This is probably one of those things that I find a lot more fascinating than anyone else does
Dear websites, please let me enter phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and similar, using any combination of spacing and hyphens I choose, please especially do this if the number is always displayed with the spacing included. It is a lot easier for me to enter the number, and check I’ve entered it correctly, if you let me do this. The code to strip any spaces out, if you can’t cope with them being there, is almost as simple as the code you must already have to detect they are there and complain about me using them - don’t make your users do it for you manually, it’s unhelpful, and kind of rude.
Security questions on websites for password recovery
Are so dumb and annoying.
“Have you forgotten your password? Well, all you need to do to get it back is remember which of these questions you selected when you signed up for this website (and not any other website, which probably has a very similar list of questions) and which answer you gave for it at the time.”
Aggggghhhhhh, fuck off!!
Firstly, sorry, but I can’t remember question which I chose when signing up for this website, so I guess I’ll have to try each in turn.
Secondly, lots of these I could have given multiple possible answers to. ’Place of Birth’? I could have put ‘Madeley’ or ‘Telford’ or ‘Shropshire’ or ‘England’ or ‘Home’ or ‘26 Canonbie Lea’. ’Favourite Animal’, I don’t know, if I’d seen a squirrel that morning I’d probably have said that, ‘Cat’ perhaps?, narwhals and nudibranchs are both very cool, and I may have put that if I’d seen them on TV recently. ‘Favourite Food’? God, I don’t know, ‘Bacon’?, or, ummmm, well, errrr, … yeah, probably ‘Bacon’ for that actually.
Thirdly, lots are questions that lots of people would know the answer to, or could easily find out, so aren’t that secure at all, like mother’s maiden name, so I either pick a question with a less obvious answer (which takes us back to the second problem), or I lie, and then forget what my lie was.
The only real solution to the first and second problems are to always chose the same question (if possible) and always give the same answer, but that doesn’t seem all that secure.
Just give me my password back!!!
(thank god 1Password usually protects me from this hassle)
