January 2010
163 posts
The Setup →
Interviews with a lot of high-profile people about what hardware/software they used. Depressingly large representation for OS X, but they seem like mostly designer-y types, so I guess it’s forgivable; they don’t know any better.
Michele Pred →
Shopdropping: putting random stuff in stores, for sale by the store. In this case, framed barcodes reading “You Are What You Buy”, in Ikea.
WatchHaiti earthquake: 360° video - Special Coverage on CNN.com Panoramic camera, but it’s video too! Very cool.
School District Bans Webster's Dictionary For... →
Barack Obama as Parent →
An interesting take on the President’s method of leadership.
Floor collapses at weightwatchers meeting →
WatchSurfstation - Gone Goodbye
Prague TV Tower - World's Largest Spherical... →
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– Daniel Burnham
WatchChange Congress Not that I think this will fix things, but I think it’s a real start that has a chance of getting people behind it.
“We may not enjoy the way things are, but we endure them in a way that seems...”
– Letter From London - My American Friends Kind of interesting. I have noticed this quality, in fact.
11 Things You Didn't Know About Pinball History →
Did you know that they used to be illegal a lot of places?
“I had Japanese friends here once,” he said. “And when they left, they bowed and...”
– Living Without Heat
Whoops, passed 1000 posts without noticing.
This will be #1011.
“Carefully selecting targets and aiming to remove them with a minimum of other...”
– Killing with a personal touch Of course, I understand the idea behind the ban on assassinations (sort of), rules of war, and the like, but anti-drone/anti-sniper sentiment has always made little sense to me. Sure, it’s kinda creepy, but it’s certainly better than mass destruction...
Rock Band Opens to Musician Submissions →
Seems… really freaking obvious.
Code-used Time-used Shapes →
The “big graph” is arranged in the same shape as the individual graphs.
The State of the Union Is ... →
Honestly, I didn’t like the design, and some of the stats they presented seemed a little tilted in favor of certain views. But some interesting facts nonetheless.
Chemical solves maze →
2010: Living In the Future | the book →
Pretty interesting. He got the internet basically right, but some things are pretty off. The jumpsuits, for instance.
Official Google Blog: Helping computers understand... →
Something people don’t often realize, I think. But to be fair, synonyms really aren’t too difficult, when you have as massive a data set as Google’s: even taking words commonly occurring in very similar environments is a pretty good heuristic. The bolding bit is a bit trickier, though.
WatchPeripetics on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchCOMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Every day the same dream →
Clever art game about monotony. I thought it was funny how automatically I did exactly what was expected (and what the game was clearly speaking “against”). Jamila, on the other hand, went straight for the other stuff (although to be fair, she had already seen me playing).
