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“In an age before globalisation, products from rockets to radios sprang from local roots. Together they reveal a fascinating ‘lost world’ of British design and invention – a glimpse of a time when the TV in the corner was a Murphy, not a Sony.”
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“I always want to see more marketing that solves problems, and liked the idea that a loyalty scheme could solve more problems than the fake “I have to pay for ten out of ten coffees rather than nine out of ten” kind of problem.”
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“If the intangible human benefits of communicating through our devices are the rewards, it’s the physical things we produce and consume that are the costs.” Great expansion on the Homegrown project.
delicious links for 2008-04-29
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“We can now deal with forms in the language of our stories, something that the customer understands and relates to.” Webrat lets you navigate your Rails app through the DOM, rather than HTTP.
delicious links for 2008-04-28
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Lovely little Photoshop jsx script. Might tweak it to make the horizontal lines a config option - I’ve hacked it to disable them for now.
delicious links for 2008-04-27
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“The way you explore complex ecosystems is you just try lots and lots and lots of things, and you hope that everybody who fails fails informatively so that you can at least find a skull on a pikestaff near where you’re going.” Wonderful talk from Shirky.
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“…what exemplars like Dopplr and Fire Eagle demonstrate beautifully is [that]… the seams between systems are as important to the way a service is ultimately experienced as the more obvious interface between system and human user.”
delicious links for 2008-04-26
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Lots of hex codes for Crayola crayons. Lovely.
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“When faced with a roblem you want to solve, or even to find out where the real problems are in the first place, try what the native americans called the Medicine Walk.” I’ve been doing this a lot recently, and the pairing tip is spot-on.
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“This is a port of Tyrian for the Nintendo DS.” Wonderful top-down shareware Shmup, now abandoned, and put on your portable.
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The first of Joe Deaver’s adventure gamebooks translated to a rather beautiful NDS port.
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“Not necessarily the completest ‘best’ collection, but some of the more notable games, applications and emulators that have grabbed my attention long enough to stay on my DS.”
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“This exhibition rediscovers the intriguing work of the Festival Pattern Group. This creative conglomerate of X-ray crystallographers, designers and manufacturers was inspired by the patterns discovered in crystal structures…” Anyone want to go?
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“Favorit is a unique product that not only allows you to aggregate content like a newsreader but also allows you to post comments, all without leaving its site.”
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“Git is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master. I’m recording what I’ve figured out so far in these pages.” Really excellent.
delicious links for 2008-04-25
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“This is an important game - … important because it is so ambitious, so detailed, so confident in its originality and inventiveness. It would sort of be an act of cultural irresponsibility not to play it.”
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“You are viewing Modernista! through the eyes of the Web. The menu on the left is our homepage. Everything behind it is beyond our control.” Inventive, certainly. Not quite sure how much I like it, though.
delicious links for 2008-04-24
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“Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence.” Gorgeous.
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“Funnel is a toolkit to sketch your idea physically, and consists of software libraries and hardware. By using Funnel, the user can handle sensors and/or actuators with various programming languages such as ActionScript 3, Processing, and Ruby.”
delicious links for 2008-04-23
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Robots made out of sans-serif fonts. Squee!
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Not quite sure what point Poynor’s trying to make; in many ways, his list of examples at the end really is a list of design thinking examples - architecture, engineering, etc, seen with a design hat on. Lots of statements I’m uncomfortable with in this.
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“When I first learned this at RubyConf I thought this was mind-blowing. I have since never used it.”
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“Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.” No IE6 support, but it’s not half bad so far.
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“…if you put those two ideas together, you get something surprising. Make something people want. Don’t worry too much about making money. What you’ve got is a description of a charity.”
delicious links for 2008-04-22
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“Syncopation from Sonzea provides a hands-free solution to keep your iTunes® music collection synchronized across multiple computers running Mac OS X.” And this is what might make a Squeezebox practical chez nous.
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“The only price comparison website worth drinking to as well as the only travel and short-break holiday guide you really need.”
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“Osmo Wiio is a Finnish researcher of human communication. His laws of communication are the human communications equivalent of Murphy’s Laws”
delicious links for 2008-04-21
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“You never see anyone with a degree eating a fry-up; they’re too intelligent to consume it, says Times restaurant critic.” What rot. Terrible article, lots of lazy journalism, somewhat sensationalist. Grr.
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“We take interesting or representative elements and create something new from them. It’s about taking inspiration from real places and producing something that captures the essence of it.” Interview with Rockstar’s art director on building cities.
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“In 1984, the British Conservative government banned scores of horror films under the Video Recordings Act. … They became known as Video Nasties. … There are 73 Video Nasties in all, and I aim to watch them all.”
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My name is Tom Armitage. I write, I design and develop for the web, and I think quite hard about many things best described as “new media”. I also take photographs, play videogames, and cook. This is my personal website.
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