thoughtcatalog I have a secret game that I play in every conversation I have. Until now, no one knew about it… but I’m about to dish the deets. ;) I try to get every person I interact with to say, Wow. To win at this game, I have to stay super present and plugged in to who I’m chatting with so I can artfully select a question that pushes them to lean into an area of their brain they don’t normally hang out in. It’s fascinating watching them dig deeper into who they are. Why do I play this silly game? Because I believe it’s our responsibility to discover something awesome every person we meet. I thought it would be fun (and hopefully valuable) to give you a sneak peak at some of my favorites to ask (especially on first dates or with partners). My hope is that you too can tuck this list in your back pocket and together we can rid this planet of all the effortless and boring questions people ask each other these days. Every breath you take is killing you. Here’s some of the favs on my hit list: 1. 2. 3.
Your Serif Is Served: Typefaces Imagined As Food It used to be so simple: We’d experience things through five fairly well defined senses. But these days you can capture a scent like a photograph, feel renderings in the palm of your hand, and see web browsers projected onto the sidewalk. So why not taste your type? Lithuanian design studio Prim Prim decided to serve up four common fonts--Times, Comic Sans, Courier New, and Gothic 821 Condensed--as meals to match their personalities. For Taste the Font, each type-inspired food is created with equal parts historic consideration and wackiness. The sensible, informative Times font is newly appropriated as the most important meal of the day: breakfast. Times was created (supervised by Stanley Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent) in 1931 for the newspaper The Times and for decades every morning this font was being gulped down by the eyes of the British families while eating fat fried eggs with the pig strips. Courier New morphs into the more casual sandwich: [h/t Designboom]
Game about Squares www.entrepreneur Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox We rarely think twice when sending an email, or adding a few CCs just for good measure. But these small interactions add up, and when deconstructed en masse, will reveal more about you than you might ever expect. Immersion is an interactive network data visualization created at MIT Media Lab’s Macro Connections group by Deepak Jagdish, Daniel Smilkov and Cesar Hidalgo. All you do is give the site access to your Gmail account. It promises to look only at the email headers: From, To, CC, and timestamp fields within your email history. “We are basically counting each multi-personal email as an expression of a connection between the people involved in that email,” Hidalgo tells me. Interestingly enough, Immersion started as a quest to redesign the email inbox. My last week. “Certainly, we would like to evoke feelings of reflection,” Hidalgo explains. Trying Immersion for myself, the overloaded servers took the better part of a day to pull in 150,337 of my Gmails from the past several years.
2048 Join the numbers and get to the 2048 tile! New Game How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with the same number touch, they merge into one! Note: The game on this site is the original version of 2048. Apps for iOS and Android are also available. Created by Gabriele Cirulli. Donate BTC 1Ec6onfsQmoP9kkL3zkpB6c5sA4PVcXU2i Mom, I Have Two Boyfriends: How I Discovered I Was Polyamorous at 27 I used to be poly, for about 5-6 years in my early 20s, until I realized that there's a physics problem involved. Love requires time and energy. Time and energy are finite. If each person gets half your time and energy, you have two half-assed relationships. Granted, these were all emotional relationships and not merely superficial ones. Flagged Hi there! I've been non-monogamous for nearly 10 years, and openly poly for the past 5. The novely isn't a major component, but it can be nice to have. For me, I'm able to date a lot and long term (or short term) because I make my own hours, and I'm a poly blogger and activist. Yeah, that's what I have a hard time wrapping my head around.
A Typeface Where Every Letter Is An Optical Illusion A good illusion is a few different things all at once. Depending on how you look at it, you could say it’s a work of art, a puzzle, or a piece of graphic design (Or an old woman! Or a young woman! The typeface was created by Jacques Le Bailly, a Dutch type designer who works under the pseudonym Baron von Fonthausen (apparently not your typical stuffy aristocrat but rather one of those eccentric noblemen you occasionally read about who were into building secret passageways and joining science cults and stuff like that). At first, Le Bailly tried to base all his letters on a single shape--the rounded rectangle--but he found the results unsatisfactory. Some letters were easy to construct, others were far more complex. As the project developed, Le Bailly spent more time ensuring that the final product would be a cohesive, coherent typeface, rather than simply a collection of loosely related illusions.
Kongregate: Play free games online April Fool’s Ice! Mar24 by Brenda Ponnay Picture this: Dad comes home from a long day at work and the kids are anxiously waiting for him at the door. “Dad! He gives them a funny look. “Ahhh,” he says, sinking down into his favorite chair. “WHAT!!?” The kids erupt into uncontrollable giggles. The ice was plastic and the water was warm! 1. some blocks (the size of ice cubes) 2. some clear plastic beads (any old kind you can find at a craft store) 3. tinfoil 4. an oven! Take your blocks and stack two up. We had to do this several times until we got it right. Once you’ve wrapped your blocks, dump out the blocks leaving an empty mold. Then pop them in the oven at 375 F for about 20 minutes, or however long it takes your oven to get the beads nice and melted. When they are done, let them cool and then unwrap! Some cubes will need rough edges filed off or even clipped off with some heavy-duty yard clippers. Put your cubes in a glass of warm water. Ice water anyone?
Pressing This Button Will Find Tweetable Sentences In Anything On The Web "Sharing. It’s hard work," writes Paul Ford on his cheekily named website SavePublishing.com. Don’t we know it: Any digital publication worth its salt has at least one full-time staffer devoted to picking and choosing and curating and sharing the most clickable snippets of its content for the hordes on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. (Okay, not that last one. That’s what Ford has created: The SavePublishing bookmarklet, when clicked, greys out everything in an article except for the passages that are pithy enough for the Twitterati. "I doubt it," Ford admits. Ford hacked the tool together in about week (spread over several months, he says), and it’s not exactly the HAL 9000 of social media: It decides what sentences are "tweetable" by checking their length, and nothing more. As a piece of interactive satire, SavePublishing is smarter than it seems. In other words, they want to grab the best part of the content and share that, not just the headline. [Image: Hands via Shutterstock]