Not that I’m pottering around this afternoon after a big deadline, nooo. But now I’ve finally found this, writer Neil Gaiman’s commencement address from a couple of years ago.
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Times New Roman – because Helvetica shouldn’t get all the attention
Watch Susan Kare talk about icon design
Only this weekend, I wrote about the ⌘ symbol and that inevitably led to mentioning Susan Kare. And now she’s here on video, talking about the icons she designed for Apple and many more.
Susan Kare, Iconographer (EG8) from EG Conference on Vimeo.
Full disclosure. I swear I’m alert to Susan Kare in the news because I had a drama character I loved named Susan Hare. Complete coincidence, but.
More Microsoft visions of the future – this time from 2009
This was made around 2009, apparently, but it’s set in the year 2019 so we’re about halfway. Compare it to Microsoft’s 1990s vision of the future.
Life in 2019, a la Microsoft, seems glossier and thinner, but.
A short slice of Jim Carrey
Reportedly actor and comic Jim Carrey just gave an inspirational graduation speech. He did it at the Maharishi University of Management and I’m sure the full thing will be online soon but already we get this.
This is one minute and two seconds from it in which he genuinely is inspirational. I think the top half of the minute is a bit cloying but it becomes sensible and good and strong:
What you can do when you’re alone
This fella, Richard Dunn, was stuck overnight at Las Vegas airport with a smartphone, some duct tape and presumably a copy of Celine Dion’s All By Myself. I’d have napped or read a book, but he made a movie.
All by myself from Richard Dunn on Vimeo.
Microsoft’s home of the future (as seen in the 1990s)
You could choose to be impressed: there is not one thing in this 1990s Microsoft video about computer-controlled houses that didn’t come true. But what was true then and what remains true today is that Microsoft simply has no taste.
Embarrassingly true: how WWDC is watched
Specifically, how it’s watched by me. And so many others, too.
Jeff Goldblum and Steve Jobs on connecting to the internet
Inspired by the video of today’s teenagers reacting to how the internet was in 1990 and also by how today is WWDC day where Apple announces something or other, let me show you two things.
One is the Apple way of getting online back in the olden days:
And then there’s this. This is the Apple announcement in 1999 when Steve Jobs demonstrated wifi. It’s now impossible to imagine there was a time we didn’t have this so, strangely, it’s also impossible to conceive how jolting this Jobs presentation was. As ever, wifi existed before, but as ever, you wouldn’t know it from how no other firm got us using it so completely.
Watch Today’s Teens Reacting to 1990s Internet
Today’s teenagers – all of them – watch a family-friendly introduction to the internet that was made in the 1990s when we thought Windows was cool and even wifi was unimagined.
Naturally, today’s teenagers – all of them – like it and wish we could return to these good old days.