Getting into trouble is one thing — getting into trouble without learning why you’ve gotten into trouble in the first place is quite another. One of the key components of any Flow experience is receiving feedback, allowing you to optimize your performance by knowing that you are doing well or badly. This is fine for immediate tasks — like, say, writing a song or creating a CSS stylesheet — but what about rare and irregular activities like project management.
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Twitter is an absurdly simple social networking site that asks you one absurdly simple question: What are you doing?
Its success amongst the geek community derives from the fact that it lowers the expectations of personal publishing to the point where talking about mindless ephemera – i.e. geek stuff – is almost justifiable.
So what are people doing? Well, check out Twittervision, a site that cleverly situates the viewer in amongst the global twittering.
It’s incredible, but strangely depressing. A sea of nothing.
Twitter would be good if there was a way to get it to ask you the question randomly, rather than only when it occurs to you to Twit. Ten times a day it would ask you without warning – what are you doing? That way people could learn something about their habits, perhaps plotting the Twits on some kind of chart. Is this possible? Does anyone know of a way to set up a random reminder?
Most rundowns of the best free fonts concentrate on the quality of the kerning and the resemblance to expensive commercial typefaces. This, I think, is to miss the very point why people download free fonts in the first place, which is surely to find something outside of the mainstream, full of kinks and peculiarities. In view of this, I’ve put together this list of the best distinctive free fonts.