While it is certainly enjoyable, it also has a deeper value. It helps you reconnect with your senses, which is of vital importance in our fast-paced and frantic world.

via The Chocolate Meditation – Perfect For Mindfulness Day | Psychology Today.

No app should annoy users with the work of downloading and installing a new release; it’s a big reason why app stores are a better way to get software.

via Invisible Autoupdater: An App’s Best Feature | Smarterware.

Rams is famous for his design principles in the sometimes messy and out-of-control world we inhabit, which are succinctly summarised in the maxim: ‘good design is as little design as possible’.

via Inside the never-before-seen archive of Dieter Rams.

The high recorded at Camp Mabry on Tuesday was 104. It was the 69th day of 100-degree or hotter weather this year, tying a record set in 1925.

Austin averages a dozen 100-degree days a year.

And it seems this year isn’t just going to tie the record, but hop, step and jump ahead of it. The high today is expected to top 100, and triple digits aren’t expected to end until early September, said Bob Rose, the Lower Colorado River Authority’s chief meteorologist.

During the summer before my sophomore year I designed the room on paper, and upon getting to campus I started building. Most of the construction happened the first few weeks of my sophomore year.