Now the year can really start.

Got the post-holiday blues? Having a hard time getting back to work? Feeling that mid-winter ennui? I know I am.

Maybe this will help:

Yes, that’s Steven Tyler, Alice Cooper, and Weird Al Yankovic singing “Come Together.” If that doesn’t make you feel better, I don’t know what will.

Recent Links

  • Does Culture Matter for Product Design? – Core77
    ‘Many of our activities are determined by the technologies we use…. Once the technology determines the activity, the influence of culture dissipates. These observations have important implications for design. Modern products are driven by technology, which in turn dictates the activity.’
  • Raph’s Website » Is immersion a core game virtue?
    ‘Immersion isn’t a mass market activity in that sense, because most people are comfortable being who they are and where they are. It’s us crazy dreamers who are unmoored, and who always seek out secondary worlds. It’s just that games aren’t just for crazy dreamers anymore.’

The world will not end in 2012.

Here’s to 2012, a year in which things will happen!

The only Christmas carol you need to hear.

Merry Christmas.

Back to the Houses of the Holy.

Hollywood brings us fresh covers of Zeppelin classics.

A contrast in contrasts.

I thought the iconography was pretty good, but no one could ever saw the pixel work, since the icons all bled into each other and your eyes just slide over all of them.

Today’s Happies.

Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, and Björk are all making me happy today.

Design is design.

The different media of video games, software, web sites, are getting less different all the time, so expect to see crossovers like this happening more and more often.

How to succeed in business while trying too hard.

How startups work during an investment bubble: 1. Profit! 2. ??? 3. Big idea.

Who Run the World

Who Run the World? Beyonce and St. Vincent.

“Koko’s Earth Control”

The world did not come to an end yesterday. But when it does, I hope it goes out something like this 1928 Max Fleischer cartoon.