September 2010
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WatchHuman-powered flight might be a reality. Check out Todd Reichert’s amazing flapping plane.
WatchMicro and mini-car (500cc-1000cc) show in LA. Awesome crosleys, and bmws.
August 2010
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Wordpress 3.0 custom posts? heart it
Oh, hi Custom Posts for Wordpress 3.0. I must say you are the most exciting part of this upgrade. Magic Fields has been my go-to to help create an intuitive CMS admin interface for clients so far. It’s a powerful Plugin, but 3.0 you are wooing me.
I’ve just begun to test it out and will be using it for an upcoming project. My fav features so far?
1) Labels! No more telling...
July 2010
1 post
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“oooo frozen! RT @catherinecolman: Rivers of Ice, the new exhibition by...”
– meganannemac
June 2010
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Augmented reality. Home-style.
I love the work being done to bring interactive design into the home, and show energy usage in real time. These photos are part of a joint project between Intel Labs and the University of Washington’s Human Centered Design and Engineering department.
May 2010
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Facebook knows you're browsing history. →
If you are logged in to Facebook and visit a site with a like button, that site visit is linked to your account and delivered to Facebook’s server, through cookies. Whether or not you hit that like button. Give the Technical Details test a try from the article.
April 2010
17 posts
Steve Jobs - - nail in Flash coffin →
All good reasons, but not supporting Flash because it is not open? Even with his acknowledgment of contradiction….
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“Are the brightest minds working on the most important problems? Probably not.”
– Bill Gates Talks About How To Change The World
This is one of my big problems with the tech community. Many very smart people are devoting all of their energy to selling us ads and more stuff in new ways. Meanwhile, there are these huge issues that, if solved, would lead to a much happier world.
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Foursquare's Secret: Badge Psychology
Last Friday, 4/16, Foursquare celebrated Foursquare Day. The twittersphere erupted with celebratory “Happy Foursquare Day” tweets. And Foursquare gave out a special badge to those who joined the tweet-tastic party.
Mashable used it as an opportunity to write about the startup’s meteoric rise. At nearly one million users and 22 million checkins, Foursquare, which launched in...
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Dot Dot Dot at Galapagos - THE ENTREPRENEURS tell...
SVA hosts Dot Dot Dot Lectures at Galapagos in DUMBO. Rescheduling a talk from February, last night brought us THE ENTREPRENEURS. Sounds like the latest Hollywood contribution celebrating the underdog (some look great and some will be lucky to get buried in the bottom of my Netflix). But, with numbers better than Hollywood’s, 3 of the 5 talks left an impression on me because they had clear...
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For All Your Twitter Thoughts, Questions &... →
In case you missed it yesterday, the venerable danah boyd posted this link to a Google group dedicated to discussing all things Twitter/microblogs. If you have any interest in following what some great Internet brains are thinking about the Twitter tsunami, or have thoughts of your own, sign up! We recommend getting the digest emails, unless you love frequent inbox interruptions.
Why You Shouldn't Skimp on Good Design
After spending a week reviewing the portfolios of design candidates who replied to a job posting, I learned three things:
Arrogance rarely helps, despite what Shirky says.
Great design is not as pervasive as I had thought.
It takes me about 5 seconds to decide whether a design is any good.
The latter discoveries got me thinking. What makes good design so damn good? Why do I feel fireworks...
Video shoot with Masahiro Ouchi
Gunner and I (and Rocco too) just had a fun time helping Taoist Healing master Masahiro Ouchi demonstrate Qigong for dogs. They’ll be using the video on an upcoming DVD.
http://www.taozenlife.info/About_Masahiro.php
See more photos on our Flickr page
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The Johnny Cash Project →
Many more hours to be spent participating in this crowd-sourced, beautifully executed flash video project. A stunning video tribute to the Man in Black.
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Paint sound on your iPhone
Our friend, Amit Pitaru has amazed us for years with his sonic wire sculpture. Now it’s available for iPhone:
The Sonic Wire Sculptor turns your 3D drawing into sound. It introduces a simple yet deep connection between visual and audio composition.
@sonicwire
Pump sunlight into your house
Check out the Sundolier - an active sun collector system that collects sun on the roof, and pipes it down into your house or building.
Our Sundolier™ delivers sunlight so effectively that electric lighting can be turned off when the sun is out offering excellent opportunities to save electricity while reducing heat generation through cool indirect daylighting.
5 green apps for iPad/iPhone →
Huge list of datasets
We’re fans of open data, and the possibility for smarter and smarter mashups. One place we find datasets is here on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/
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Faster pages = more conversions
Mozilla has found that increasing the performance of their download page can dramatically increase their conversion ratio:
Let’s start with the punchline: By making a few minor tweaks to our top landing pages, we can drive an additional 60,000,000 Firefox downloads per year
With 275,000 daily visitors, a 15% improvement on this single English page translates to 10.28 million additional downloads...
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Google going nuclear?
My sense of what’s an april fool’s joke today is way off balance. Is google really building nuclear reactors?
Google has acquired a company that has created a new process for highly efficient isotope separation, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The primary use of this technology, say experts we’ve spoken with, is uranium enrichment.
Enriched uranium is a necessary ingredient in...
AIGA/NY talk: How to lead clients towards being...
Just saw this post come through my inbox:
AIGA/NY & SPARK PRESENT: HOW TO LEAD CLIENTS TOWARDS BEING GREEN Do you wish your clients thought more about the impact their materials have on the earth? Would you like to introduce them to more responsible, sustainable solutions but don’t know how to begin the conversation? Or perhaps you have approached the subject and were met with budget concerns?...
RethinkDB - ultra fast database
Looking into RethinkDB. A post caught my eye that it was recently rewritten in Lisp.
After many heated debates, I remembered a phrase drilled into to me by an ex-coworker I deeply respect. He always said: “Don’t guess. Measure.” We decided to take a measured approach and use data and logical reasoning instead of emotional arguments. Because of the immense expressive power of both programming...
A look back at SXSWi 2010 →
Wonderfully concise remarks on some key talks at SXSWi - by Nick Hasty at Rhizome.
March 2010
2 posts
WatchCorey Szopinski explains why Dumbo (New York’s digital district) deserves Google’s new gigabit-speed fiber internet connection. Put together as a Dumbo collective application: http://nydd.us/