September 2008
47 posts
The Comics Reporter: The 50 Things That Every... →
Reading Will Eisner’s “Contract From God” makes me love this stuff again.
Escape Pod » EP176: How The World Became Quiet: A... →
Humans laid the foundation for the sixth apocalypse in much the same way theyâd triggered the previous ones. Having recovered their ambition after the Apocalypse of Serotonin and rebuilt their…
Every night, the Brazilian ant Forelius pusillus takes self-sacrifice to a whole...
– 3quarksdaily - Last Ant Standing
Ignite Boston 4 -- Videos Uploaded - O'Reilly... →
Metamorphosis on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“Metamorphosis is programmed entirely in Processing, it’s the follow up to my Music is Math video. I developed my ‘zeno’ animation system a bit more to allow for nebulous additive blending as well as a few other things. The music is by Boards of Canada again - the track ‘Corsair’ from the Geogaddi album. Further info on this video at butterfly.ie”
Get Your War On: Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits - 236.com - Video
I hate them. These [expletives] deserve to be hurt. Hurt, I say!,” the...
– PETA video shows pigs abused at Iowa farm - CNN.com - people are so goddamn great.
The New Yorker - Audio: Tobias Wolff Reads "Dog... →
Tobias Wolff reads Stephanie Vaughnâs short story “Dog Heaven,” and discusses it with The New Yorkerâs fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. “Dog Heaven” was published in The New Yorker in January,…
90 Mobiles in 90 Days →
“For the next 90 days, Iâm going to think about, sketch, draw, and prototype ideas about mobile design and post them here.”
Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering:... →
I am chairing the tutorials and we tried a new approach for the tutorial, having 6 sessions/chapters that all together make up an introduction to mobile HCI. After 10 years of mobile HCI it seems…
Bond Art + Science Fair Audit Deck: Content and... →
Bond Art + Science looked at how traditional media and online publications invite, manage and benefit from user participation, and we identified some best practices and common pitfalls
Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is… |... →
“Last week was the end of our FlowingData personal visualization project. I asked readers to collect data about themselves or their surroundings and then visualize it some way. “
User Experience Week - Boxes and Arrows: The... →
“Miss UX Week 2008? Catch up with interviews and recorded presentations in UX, IA, IxD, and Human Factors captured and shared by Boxes and Arrows, in co-operation with Adaptive Path.”
When asked how Chrysler plans to shift toward more energy-efficient models in...
– Chrysler Names ‘83 LeBaron CEO | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
The replacement playground was distinctly less fun than the original. What I...
– GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - Fall Down, Go Boom