Khoi Vinh's Blog, page 64

The John Feathers Map Collection

This is phenomenal. When longtime Los Angeles resident John Feathers passed away in 2012 at age fifty-six, he left behind…

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Finding iPad’s Future

Former Wall Street analyst Neil Cybart now focuses on Apple and writes at Above Avalon. In this excellent article, he…

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Three Questions for Makerbase

Last week my friends Gina Trapani and Anil Dash of ThinkUp launched a long-simmering side project called Makerbase—basically an IMDb…

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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

This looks phenomenal: a feature-length documentary about the origin of seminal satirical magazine The National Lampoon, which changed the way…

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Blurring Is the Auto-Tune of UI Design, and Other Things We Thought About While Designing Wildcard 2.0

After over six months of incredibly hard work, I’m so proud to say that today we’re releasing a brand new,…

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Auteurist Roots in Mission: Impossible

I went to see “Mission: Impossible–Rogue Nation” over the weekend. It’s the fifth installment in a franchise that’s nearly twenty…

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Poking Holes in the Vinyl Revival

This Stereogum article looks at the less well publicized drawbacks of the putative resurgence in vinyl sales of the past…

Pixelated Deck of Cards by Susan Kare

In 1990, designer Susan Kare, who created the original fonts, icons and graphics for the Macintosh, designed the artwork for…

Job Spotlight: Carbon 3D

Carbon3D’s premise is the question “What if 3D printing was 100X faster?” Just two years old, the company has already…

Major Update to Kidpost

I’m very happy to announce that Kidpost, the service some friends and I are building to make it easier for…