9-bits A tumblog by David Kaneda about design, technology, and business. Broadcast from Palo Alto.

You understand Google, person? I index many things and if I am very good I get to go to Bot Park and have more processors.
Robot Exclusion Protocol, a brilliant little piece from Paul Ford.
Sebastiaan de With details his creation of an icon set he did for Interarchy, Mac FTP client.

Sebastiaan de With details his creation of an icon set he did for Interarchy, Mac FTP client.

Apple apparently thinks you can have the benefits of the Internet while at the same time controlling what programs can be run and what parts of the stack can be accessed and what developers can say to each other.
Tim Bray discussing why he’s happy to now be working at Google. Except, Android doesn’t provide any more access to web applications than the iPhone, and—if anything—has far worse performance.
matthewb:

This is not helping my H&FJ addiction.

One of Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ finest emails: Four Techniques for Combining Fonts.

matthewb:

This is not helping my H&FJ addiction.

One of Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ finest emails: Four Techniques for Combining Fonts.

37signals teams up with Steve Delahoyde from Coudal to make this excellent “attack ad,” demonstrating why Rework is a better, and fairer, book than Karl Rove’s autobiography. Fantastic.

Keep finding myself returning to this roundup of 35 logos with transparency.

Deaxon »

Stunning little portfolio site for a studio that designs “web applications and native software for Apple devices.”

Artificial Smile has to be the creepiest technology this year:

The camera „Artificial Smile“ is an apparat, whose pictures show in principle only smiling people, irrespective of their former emotional state.

(via CreativeApplications.net)

Artificial Smile has to be the creepiest technology this year:

The camera „Artificial Smile“ is an apparat, whose pictures show in principle only smiling people, irrespective of their former emotional state.

(via CreativeApplications.net)

SXSW Inspiration

So, for all those in attendance, what are your favorite quotes from SXSW?