David Ehlers

Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at Berkeley, has a nifty essay on Power and it’s not Machiavellian.

Read the essay here

I’m currently evaluating this service, after using some of the other amazon services such as s3, this looks super sexy in a techy way. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.  Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios

Heck, create a drupal site on EC2 with a single line: ec2-run-instances ami-4c7b9e25 -k gsg-keypair

and for us Mac OSX users, here’s a getting started on ec2

Amazon’s Getting Started Guide

Clay Shirky’s Situated Software:

Clay says, “I teach at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between technologists who care about aesthetics and artists who aren’t afraid of machines, which makes it a pretty good place to see the future.”

Handy snippet from massivecube for distributing exact amount of points on the surface of a sphere.

http://blog.massivecube.com/?p=9

My favorite tweener engine for Flash - in both AS2 and 3. Simple, clean and fast.

Docs are here:

http://hosted.zeh.com.br/tweener/docs/en-us/

Combine the Wii Controler and Flash by using the wiiFlash api this great work by Joa Ebert and Thibault Imbert

The WiiFlash project is divided into two parts:

• WiiFlash Server (C++ or .NET server that handles Wiimote communication)
• WiiFlash ActionScript API (SWC component)

Check it out:  http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/

I LOVE Mootools and here is another reason why - Mocha : “Mocha is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework. The Mocha GUI components are made with canvas tag graphics.”

http://code.google.com/appengine/

Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.

Check out this great work done in processing. 

Untitled Mirror is a Processing based program that reads incoming video from a camera and triggers particles from points of the video frame that have changed by a certain level. The result is an image that is fairly representative, yet disappears within moments.

Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more. Flare is written in the ActionScript 3 programming language and can be used to build visualizations that run on the web in the Adobe Flash Player. Flare applications can be built using the free Adobe Flex SDK or Adobe’s Flex Builder IDE. Flare is based on prefuse, a full-featured visualization toolkit written in Java. 

And view some other visualization api’s here - more links here at reddit