Category Archives: Design
Disruptive Thinking @ Singularity University
“Singularity University (SU) is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges. With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, SU hopes to [...]
BP Spill Infographics
Typically the nytimes.com has the best, timely infographics – but the Wall Street Journal easily topped them with great, clear infographics aof the BP spill and the complete mess from the Deepwater Horizon Rig. Short BP stock. WSJ BP Infographic Nytimes Gulf Oil Spill Topic
Department of Defense Power Point Graphic – WOW!
Look at this simply AWFUL graphic, from a NY Times article on Powerpoint – “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter. Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?src=me&ref=general Powerpoint, oh how I hate thee… My question is, “Why is [...]
Google Maps by Niemann
maps.google.com is the vocabulary for Niemann – some nifty stuff here: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/my-way/
2010 Winter Olympics on NBC – Fail
what a mess. NPR shares our frustration. And I quote, since I live in LA, “West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever “live” coverage there actually is in prime time, even though they are in the time zone where the Olympics actually are. What [...]
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
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 [...]
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/