By Jordan Valinsky 4/30 8:00am

Linkages

Not thinking! (Photo: Flickr)

Booting Up: Jack Dorsey Isn’t Thinking About a Twitter IPO So Stop Asking

Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey said he is “not even thinking” about the company’s IPO because he wants to build a “timeless company.” Okay, buddy. [Bloomberg]

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is predicting that phones with larger screens will make tablets obsolete within the next five years. There’s a joke about Mr. Heins predicting the death of a tech trend in there somewhere. [Telegraph]

Turns out Microsoft was the impetus for sleeker site and interface design. Miss you, Metro! [New York Times]

Now two of the Twitter accounts of the U.K. newspaper The Guardian were hacked Monday by the Syrian Electronic Army, resulting in some stressed out social media managers. [AllThingsD]

Here’s a terrible idea: “Samsung reworks Gangnam Style to promote the Galaxy S4 in India.” The results were less than desirable. [TNW]

By Jessica Roy 10/01/12 12:31pm

Acquisitions

Mr. Borovsky, Mr. Knight and Mr. Lin (Photo: 8020.com)

Square Acquires NYC Design Agency 80/20

All-natural candy lover Jack Dorsey announced on his Twitter today that Square, the payment service seeking to disrupt credit card systems, has acquired 80/20, a design agency based in New York. “Square acquires 80/20, one of the best design agencies in the world, and with it, an office in SoHo,” he tweeted. “We believe in NYC.”

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By Jessica Roy 8/20/12 3:04pm

Summer Fun

(Photo: USA Today)

Fifty Shades Generator Makes Lorem Ipsum Text Dirty

If you’re a designer looking for a new way to populate your page with dummy text while you make it all pretty, Fifty Shades Generator may be able to help. The tool, created by an apparently all-male team of designers, scrapes the web for X-rated language to create the dirtiest nonsensical lorem ipsum text you’ve ever read.

We’d type an example here, but we have Google search results to consider. See for yourself.