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Field – Experimental Code and Art
Love this: http://www.openendedgroup.com/field/ Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind: Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and [...]
Web Dev Icons
Some useful stuff here: http://speckyboy.com/2009/12/21/the-top-50-web-development-icon-sets-from-2009/
to be nobody but your self
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156 http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm
Pandora and the Song Decoders
I love Pandora and its human based suggestion engine, the Genome Project. In this article, The New York Times explores Pandora and how it and others find your new favorite song. And it isn’t by collaborative filtering… “However things play out for Pandora as a business, its approach is worth understanding if you’re interested in [...]
ProtoDojo’s Nintendo Controller Secure USB Drive
My pal Joven, over at ProtoDojo has been at it again, this time creating a secure Nintendo USB drive. Now THAT is a USB drive. He writes about his motivation, “When cleaning out the garage a few weeks ago, I found my original Nintendo Entertainment System. Rather than sell it on ebay, I decided to [...]
Flash CS5 for iphone – well sorta…
Wonder about the performance, but worth checking out. From Mike Chambers’ Blog, “The next version of Flash Authoring will enable developers to create stand-alone iPhone applications using Flash technologies (including ActionScript 3). These applications are just like any other iPhone application and can be distributed via the Apple iTunes Application store. Indeed, there are already [...]
Harvard’s First Online Course: Justice
Take a front row seat at the first class Harvard has ever made available online, and perhaps meet the inspiration for Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Now it’s your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 [...]
Value of Front End Developers & the Web
Paul Carvill, a uk based web developer, interaction designer, user experience expert and information architect has a nice post on his blog about the role and value of the front-end developer: http://www.paulcarvill.com/2009/09/why-front-end-developers-are-so-important-to-the-future-of-businesses-on-the-web/
Why Apple Supports HTML 5 (Sorry Adobe/Flash)
Interesting article over at apple insider on standards, apple, and html 5. While the standard isn’t yet finished, Apple is already using HTML 5 as an important component in the company’s strategies, ranging from the iPod touch and iPhone’s mobile browser to Safari on the Mac and PC, from Dashboard widgets to new iTunes LP [...]
The Profiler (Facebook + PaperVision 3D)
Super-slick facebook connect experiment where you navigate your facebook network via a 3d papervision UI. http://www.theprofiler.be/