Gregor Ranft recommended Who Will Solve Wearable Computing's "Jetpack" Problem? | MIT Technology Review from technologyreview.com:

Can we build jetpacks? Sure. Does anyone actually need or want them? No. 

Gregor Ranft recommended A Liberal Arts Degree Is More Valuable Than Learning Any Trade from forbes.com:

If you teach students one trade, that skill might be obsolete in a few years. But if you teach people how to think and look at lots of information and connect dots – all skills that a classic liberal education gives you – you will thrive.

Gregor Ranft recommended Why Buying An iPad Mini Is An Incredibly Dumb Idea from huffingtonpost.com:

I'm wondering if Betsy has ever used an iPad before, or if she did any research prior to writing this piece, or if she knows how to tie her shoes without having to tell the story of the rabbit going through the hole in the log.

Gregor Ranft recommended On Sinofsky's Departure from Microsoft from curiousrat.com:

Microsoft is a dinosaur with lasers mounted on its head.

Gregor Ranft recommended Pruning: Making room for something new from 37signals.com:

It’s so easy to create (because creating is fun), but it’s also easy to ignore (because ignoring doesn’t involve work). Over time, if you create too much and don’t clean it up, you can lose control over quality.

Gregor Ranft recommended Die Schere im Kopf from birgit-rydlewski.de:

Haben die Menschen uns denn wirklich dafür gewählt, möglichst schnell zu werden wie die anderen Politiker?

Gregor Ranft recommended Barack Obama And The Death Of Normal from davidsimon.com:

Not that there’s anything wrong with being a white man, of course. There’s nothing wrong with being anything. That’s the point.

Gregor Ranft recommended Crappy Computers from ignorethecode.net:

proficient users can deal with a crappy computer, but casual users need as good a computer as possible.

Gregor Ranft recommended Apple Shake-Up Could Lead to Design Shift from nytimes.com:

You can be sure that the next generation of iOS and OS X will have Jony’s industrial design aesthetic all over them,” said a designer who works at Apple but declined to be named as he is not allowed to speak publicly. “Clean edges, flat surfaces will likely replace the textures that are all over the place right now.

Gregor Ranft recommended Sterben hautnah — eine AZ-Media-Reportage und ihre Folgen « Stefan Niggemeier from stefan-niggemeier.de:

Der Kreisverband Hamburg-Harburg des DRK, für den die gezeigten Sanitäter arbeiten, erklärte mir: »Das Filmteam hat die Ehefrau des Verstorbenen bei Betreten der Wohnung gefragt, ob es in Ordnung ist, wenn in der Wohnung gefilmt wird.« Man stelle sich das kurz praktisch vor.

Gregor Ranft recommended An Open Letter to Ann Coulter from specialolympicsblog.wordpress.com:

Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor.

Gregor Ranft recommended Why the Violentacrez Story Isn't About Free Speech from gawker.com:

Additionally and independently, the sort of person who who says "free speech" when they mean "I like doing creepy things to other people without their consent and you can't stop me so fuck you ha ha ha ha" is pretty clearly a mouth-breathing asshole who in the larger moral landscape deserves a bat across the bridge of the nose and probably knows it.

Gregor Ranft recommended I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave from motherjones.com:

"Leave your pride and your personal life at the door," the lady at the chamber of commerce says, if I want to last as an online warehouse worker.

Gregor Ranft recommended Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson) from okdork.com:

The BEST way to get famous is make amazing stuff. That’s it. Not blogging, networking, etc.

Gregor Ranft recommended Verführt vom Schimmer des Todes from einestages.spiegel.de:

Die Mutter eines Erkrankten hatte kurzerhand einen Cäsium-137-Brocken in der Toilette runtergespült und damit die Kanalisation verseucht.