May 2008
79 posts
WatchDEKA’s Bionic Arm: Demo | D6 Highlights | AllThingsD - “Kamen queues up another video that features an amputee who’s lost both his arms, using the Luke Arm after less than two hours of training. After passing a small ball to a colleague, the man pours a drink and then feeds himself for the first time in 13 years.”
Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library →
Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG)
::GotDarker - Dutty Dubz - Promomix Volume 3 →
Bruce Sterling on Design: "Physical objects have... →
Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web →
The Semantic Web is an ecosystem of interaction among computer systems. The social web is an ecosystem of conversation among people. Both are enabled by conventions for layered services and data…
Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It... →
So combating greenhouse gases must be our top priority, even if that means embracing the unthinkable. Here, then, are 10 tenets of the new environmental apostasy.
“…urban living is kinder to the planet, and Manhattan is perhaps the...”
– Urban Living Is Kinder to the Planet Than the Suburban Lifestyle
Observations on Twitterdom | Outside the Lines -... →
“The reality is that humans in the early 21st century will be required to process and buffer more discrete, loosely coupled bits of data than in the past of human history.”
IA Summit 2008, Day 1 - Boxes and Arrows: The... →
Boxes and Arrows captured audio of most sessions from the 2008 IA Summit (April 10 - 14). Also includes links to days 2 and 3.
Brand Tags: the really effective tag cloud... →
Brand Tags, a new-ish site where you can play a tagging word-association game with brands, flouts this aesthetics-over-information convention to good effect. Darren Barefoot calls the site ad hoc…
WatchFOOL’S GOLD » Blog Archive » Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
“According to the Zoological Society of London, between a quarter and a third of...”
– Nine things I learned this week, 04 (kottke.org)
Design Observer: The Brannock Foot-Measuring... →
Fantastic! I was just thinking about how an uber-cheesy modern-strip mall place like “Famous Footwear” could have these seemingly anachronistic devices tucked away under abstract-shaped stools and…
Yahoo! Gallery - Discover and share applications... →
WatchLame, boring, douchey response from Bill O’reilly. (mediabistro.com: TVNewser)
Watch“You can’t even get it right after five takes, why would I agree to do it live!?” (Behind The Scenes: Bill O’Reilly On Inside Edition is Today’s BIG Thing - MAY 15, 2008)
Luis von Ahn launches 'Games with a Purpose' -... →
GWAP and the new games - Tag a tune, Squigl, Verbosity, and Matchin, puts von Ahn and his team at Carnegie Mellon by a wide margin at the forefront of tapping into human cycles to do jobs that…
Wuapi - Batman - The dark knight - Trailer 3 (in... →
Sigh, so excited.
SlideShare » Ignite Web 2.0 Expo SF II slideshows →
All 19 presentations (with synched audio) for O’reilly’s recent Ignite SF conference.
Cobblestone Jazz - On The Move 05/08 - New Mixes -... →
“The unique trio Cobblestone Jazz use early computers and analogue instruments to create pared down sounds that retain the quality of improvisational jazz but with a techno dancefloor aesthetic.”
WatchBill O’Reilly Flips Out: Dance Party Megamix is Today’s BIG Thing - MAY 14, 2008
Microsoft Research - WorldWide Telescope →
“The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a…software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescopeâbringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in…
The Echotron - My Nest →
Your personalized window to the music web.
Forensics: BunZer0 ft MrJo, SubFM > 08/05/08 →
Subeena’s “Noise Trigger” is a bad tune.
dubstepforum.com :: View Forum - Mixes →