Alec M Resnick

Now that's a mission statement I want to see on a social media site. - Alec M Resnick

Pretty nice white/brown/pink noise generator, with oscillating volume. A little ridiculous how calming and focusing it can be. - Alec M Resnick

I would love to be on the inside of an advertising agency, sometimes. How meta- on their cultural role do they go? Is cultural anthropology a stepping stone to an ad agency? The appeal of this type of awareness to me feels like what draws me to and deeply impresses about some of the posts on Slaughterhouse 90210, like [this one](http://bit.ly/64JlgR) - Alec M Resnick

Just as taking away forums for civic discourse can push civics toward extinction, it might be worth thinking about media as sharing some properties of ecosystems and habitats. If a group is found in a certain cultural and social niche, taking away its habitat (in this case, scholarly printed media seeking large audiences) might be something worth thinking about more carefully than simply saying that progress will take care of it. That said, I have a hard time think that the media analogue of the Endangered Species Act would be anything more than backwards-looking protectionism for certain forms of expression. (It reminds me of teachers banning cell phones in classrooms: hopelessly hopeless.) - Alec M Resnick

Whenever I see people embracing the opportunity to be anonymous, I can never decide if I think it's freeing (it clearly is, in the near term) or constraining (because it sets you up to be satisfied with a limited amount of self-exploration and development amid mitigated social pressures). Either way, we're fascinating when we're offered [anonymity]. - Alec M Resnick

Inversions like this consistently catch me off guard; they highlight that pretty much everything we laud is put on a pedestal through many independent, parallel stories which are inevitably from one point of view. - Alec M Resnick

Leading wine expert fumbles blind taste test. The fact that I don't expect this fact to have much of an implication for the cultural position or potency of wine critics is weird. At the same time, maybe my expectation that a gotcha! moment should have more significance than a career is weird. - Alec M Resnick

Compelling and generative design criteria for games but not-just-for-games, too. - Alec M Resnick

Awesomely depressing diatribe against our foreign policy in the Mideast. It is very difficult to keep a sense of scale about your daily life when everything you think and do can be easily put against the backdrop of stories like this. - Alec M Resnick

via Star -- good rhetoric. - Alec M Resnick

I find frustrating the fact that exactly those people most embedded in various creative productions (journalism, game design, industrial design, oftentimes even fiction and art) are frequently exactly those people who assume their audience is the least flexible or mutable. For instance, in UX/UI design: in general, the assumption that a powerful design is one which is easiest to swallow is frustrating. And I suppose the impulse to pander can often be complicit in the act of rendering someone a consumer. This is part of why I appreciate so deeply the simple language of "low floor, high ceiling, and wide walls" [1] I would love to see creative output whose explicit mission was to empower or enable, and made clear the associated contract of user-provided effort. [1] http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers... - Alec M Resnick

This idea is showing up more and more (cf Bruce Sterling's recent reboot talk [1]) -- particularly confusing are those cultural instances which seem to combine them. . .to return to Sterling's talk [1]: """ The other side of Reboot in power is low-end: Favela chic. You’ve lost everything but you’re wired to the gill and still big on Facebook. Everything you believe as geeks is Favela thinking. This venue is itself a stuffed animal. The unsustainable is the only frontier you are. You’re old in old-new structure, a steam punk appropriation. """ Don't know where to take that, yet. Also, Gratuitous Art Productions [2] are pretty amazing. [1] http://video.reboot.dk/photo... [2] http://gratuitousartproductions.com/ - Alec M Resnick

Programmatic bounding boxes that follow an images outline, as a jQuery plugin. - Alec M Resnick