Cecil Kleakins

Steve and Steve in 1977
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on how he invented the Apple II computer:
I took a lot of lucky, accidental directions, and they all converged… I stumbled into it so accidentally.

Link to BusinessWeek Interview
I love this idea that great things can come about by accident. Or rather, how seemingly random sets of […]

It was just reported that Tribe.net laid off half its staff on Thursday [via FC]. No official announcement yet, so perhaps there is still hope for an upturn. Despite the recent disasterous UI redesign, the site was definitely my favorite among such social networking sites.

Some really smart and talented friends have started a really smart and talented company built around the idea of sharing collectively annotated maps (based on the Google Maps API). The implications of such a system are stunning It unlocks a whole layer of reality–the meta-narrative of human memory–and infuses it into the physical […]

Peter Jackson’s Production Diary on the set of King Kong details how they are dealing with building and filming New York City entirely in New Zealand. This clip [20 MB QT] shows scenes which were taken during Peter, Dan, and Grant’s trip to NYC where I got to work with them. Here are more […]

This page has one of the most beautiful columns of text I have seen on the web in quite some time.

stunningly beatufiul fonts at misprinted type.