Infovore : tag : obituary

14
January
2012

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economist, molesworth, obituary, ronaldsearle.

Ronald Searle | The Economist

"Molesworth sa on the contry the most beatiful form in art is a Ronald Searle GURL from St Trinian’s in a tunick with black suspenders and armed with a hockey stick to beat the daylites out of another gurl or maybe just a teacher chortle chortle." Economist obituaries are always worthwhile, but this Ronald Searle one is marvellous

(tags: obituary ronaldsearle molesworth economist )

20
October
2011

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c, dennisritchie, economist, obituary, technology, unix.

Obituary: printf("goodbye, Dennis"); | The Economist

"All operating systems know when they were born. Their internal clocks start counting then, so they can calculate the date and time in the future. It is unclear whether it was Mr Ritchie or Mr Thompson who set the so-called start Unix time at January 1st, 1970. That moment came to be known as the epoch. Mr Ritchie helped bring it about. And with it, he ushered in a new era." Which is as poetic a way as any of expressing how deeply rooted K&R are in the modern world.

(tags: dennisritchie economist obituary technology unix c )

15
August
2011

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awesome, martinwoodhouse, obituary, polymath.

Martin Woodhouse – Telegraph

"Martin Woodhouse, who has died aged 78, was a psychologist and medic, but worked variously as a novelist, scriptwriter, engineer, programmer, government planner, artificial intelligence researcher and perfumer." Early AI and writing for the Avengers. Blimey. When I grow up, I would like life to be like this.

(tags: obituary martinwoodhouse polymath awesome )

17
December
2009

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art, bots, chariswilson, community, distributed, drama, drink, economist, homealone, narrative, network, obituary, online, performance, photography, social, twitter, via:blech, whisky.

: Charis Wilson | The Economist

"In [Nude] she was always sorry for the clumsy pins, and the uneven parting in her hair. But Edward Weston regretted the shadow on her right arm, which spoiled the symmetry of her body curving like an architectural form or a tree, or like a curling wave on the coast, lines as lovely as any in Nature. To her lasting astonishment, he had glorified her." I love Economist obituaries, and this one – of Charis Wilson – is no exception. Lovely.

(tags: photography economist obituary art chariswilson via:blech )
Twitter / @HATProject/HomeAlone

"All the characters fom Home Alone, the project starts on the 22nd." 22 Twitterbots, performing Home Alone, in realtime, starting Dec 22nd. Awesome. Bonkers, but awesome (and takes the concept I used in Twit 4 Dead to a new level).

(tags: drama performance twitter bots homealone narrative distributed )
Connosr – The Whisky Social Network (Beta) – Discover, Review and Share Single Malt Whisky

"The whisky social network". Ooh. Has potential, at least.

(tags: whisky community online social network drink )

04
August
2009

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brucearcher, design, designresearch, obituary, theindependent.

Professor Bruce Archer – Obituaries, News – The Independent

"Archer trained a generation of design researchers, showing them how the procedures of scholarly research based on well-founded evidence and systematic analysis were as applicable in design as in the more traditional academic subjects. For design practice, he argued there was a need for method and rigour, and for decisions to be recorded and explained so that they could, if necessary, be defended." Great obituary from the Independent.

(tags: design designresearch brucearcher obituary theindependent )

21
January
2009

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analogy, architecture, atari2600, books, boxart, design, development, doner, donerkebab, food, free, games, git, graphicdesign, history, illustration, kebab, marketing, metaphor, mirrorsedge, music, obituary, ollymoss, packaging, pastiche, pc, programming, racing, reverting, scm, soundtrack, spaceinvaders, timeattack, timetrial, tips, vcs, versioncontrol, videogames, worldofgoo.

Wot I Think: Mirror’s Edge | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"When it’s just you, the rooftops and Faith’s slim repertoire of jumps, shimmies, slides and rolls, it’s something like the urban Tarzan game we all hoped Mirror’s Edge would be. Time Trial mode rewards practice and it rewards perseverance, and it’s the only reason to buy Mirror’s Edge." An interesting take on Mirror's Edge, which has a lot of truth in it.

(tags: games mirrorsedge pc racing timetrial timeattack )
http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack/

"Thank you to everyone who emailed asking about a World of Goo Soundtrack. This is probably as close to an "official" soundtrack I'll ever make for the game World of Goo. I'm making it available here on my personal portfolio for free." No, thank you, Kyle.

(tags: games music soundtrack free worldofgoo )
Cyclopedia Square: 'git revert' Is Not Equivalent To 'svn revert'

A useful guide, although perhaps more detailed than you'd normally need. Still, clear instructions for handling reverting changes in git.

(tags: tips git versioncontrol vcs scm reverting )
Tales of the Rampant Coyote: The Black Triangle

"Afterwards, we came to refer to certain types of accomplishments as “black triangles.” These are important accomplishments that take a lot of effort to achieve, but upon completion you don’t have much to show for it – only that more work can now proceed. It takes someone who really knows the guts of what you are doing to appreciate a black triangle."

(tags: development programming architecture analogy metaphor )
Box Art : Space Invaders (Atari 2600 version, by Telegames)

112 different games1 It's amazing to think that "Moving Shields" and "Zigzagging Laser Bombs" could be counted as different game-types, though, and presumably that number comes from all possible combinations. The videogame industry's obsession with bullet-points on the box is deep-rooted, it seems. (From Simon Parkin's lovely "Box Art" blog).

(tags: games marketing videogames packaging boxart spaceinvaders atari2600 )
The man who invented the doner kebab has died – Telegraph

"Mr Aygun once said: "I thought how much easier it would be if they could take their food with them." The first of the new snacks was served on March 2, 1971, at Hasir, his restaurant in Berlin. It was called a doner kebab after the Turkish word "dondurmek" which means a rotating roast." So now you know.

(tags: history food obituary kebab doner donerkebab )
Videogame Classics – a set on Flickr

Olly Moss has now moved from movies to videogames, pastiching classic Penguin covers; the Goldeneye one is superb.

(tags: design games pastiche illustration books graphicdesign ollymoss )

20
January
2009

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arduino, art, calendar, children, comfort, comics, connected, crossmedia, date, delicious, dontcrossthestreams, education, etching, flickr, folksonomy, games, ia, laseretching, learning, left4dead, mac, making, maps, menubar, microprinter, names, networked, obituary, osx, paper, papercamp, paperverse, pixelart, programming, ruby, search, socialprinter, socialsoftware, software, sphinx, supermarioland, tagging, tags, taxonomy, technology, thinkingsphinx, time, tomtaylor, tonyhart, tshirt, ultrasphinx, utility, watchmen, web.

Louis & Bill & Zoey & Francis. T-shirt from Zazzle.com

"It's just 4 names, on a t-shirt. Buy it now because you know whats coming and by then, it'll be too late. Good luck." Want, so bad. And the kerning's not a million miles out.

(tags: left4dead tshirt names )
MagiCal | Software | Charcoal Design

"MagiCal is a FREE menu-based clock and calendar. It features a huge range of configuration options for how the time and date are displayed, and can operate either in conjunction with, or as a replacement for the built in system menu clock." Quite pretty, and makes a nice companion for FuzzyClock.

(tags: osx software calendar mac utility time date menubar )
tomtaylor.co.uk : projects : microprinter

"The microprinter is an experiment in physical activity streams and notification, using a repurposed receipt printer connected to the web. I use it for things like reminders, notifications, and my day at-a-glance, but anything that can be injected from the web and suits text only, short format messaging, will work." Tom writes up his printer in more detail.

(tags: programming making arduino paper tomtaylor microprinter socialprinter networked connected )
ReinH — A Thinking Man's Sphinx

"We’ve recently switched a number of projects to ThinkingSphinx here at Hashrocket. These projects were originally using SOLR or UltraSphinx. Today, we’ll explore the differences between UltraSphinx and ThinkingSphinx and why we chose to switch." Detailed explanation of the advantages of ThinkingSphinx over UltraSphinx or other alternatives.

(tags: ruby search sphinx ultrasphinx thinkingsphinx )
Etching overview on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

"Last night I laser-etched the top of my Eee PC with the complete level maps of Super Mario Land ( on the Game Boy)." Just beautiful. (Thanks, Offworld!)

(tags: games maps pixelart laseretching etching supermarioland )
scraplab : saturday saw the inaugural papercamp prototype…

"Compared to a standard web (un)conference where everyone knows their space, expertise and opinions, here lots (most?) of us were exploring stuff outside of our day job and business-as-usual. It was passionate and interesting and I felt completely out of my depth, which was was great. So in 2009, less of the comfort zone stuff please, and more like this." I can get behind that.

(tags: web making technology comfort papercamp )
Obituary: Tony Hart | Media | The Guardian

"Morph was sometimes supposed to copy Hart's own artistic work, but not perfectly. In this way nervous children were reassured that even their endearing hero Morph could get it wrong, which made them determined to pick up their pens and pencils and other objects and do better… He believed that most of the things he did could be done only [on television]: "I hope that by example, and by humour, children will start to make pictures for themselves. Show them, don't tell them!"" I was terrible at art, and most forms of drawing, but I could watch his hands work all day.

(tags: art learning education children obituary tonyhart )
MINUTEMEN 1940 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

The New Frontiersman is on Flickr. The paperverse is collapsing. (Although: "taken on August 10, 2008" breaks the illusion a little).

(tags: flickr comics watchmen dontcrossthestreams crossmedia paperverse )
Tags do work (for me, at least) – 0xDECAFBAD

Leslie roughly captures a few thoughts I've had and some reasonably opinions. In a nutshell: the social value of tagging is broad, fuzzy, and a second-order effect. As a loose, freeform taxonomy for personal use, they're superb, and delicious captures that excellently. I tag for me; if it's useful for you, that's a nice side effect.

(tags: socialsoftware delicious ia folksonomy tags tagging taxonomy )

01
December
2008

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advertising, argument, artillery, ascii, ballistics, barackobama, book, books, brand, browser, charts, children, criticism, data, documentary, douglaskeen, education, food, games, hatfield, hotdogs, ianbogost, influence, infographics, information, iphone, journalism, ladybird, latimes, mechanics, military, mirrorsedge, mmo, multiplayer, newspaper, obituary, online, oratory, play, politics, proceduralrhetoric, product, reading, resource, rhetoric, rhetorics, robinhunicke, rogue, roguelike, software, speech, stats, texmate, texteditor, tips, trukz, visualisation, web.

Obituary: Douglas Keen | Books | The Guardian

"As editorial director of Ladybird Books, Douglas Keen, who has died aged 95, was responsible for the first experience of reading of millions of children." Myself included; I learned to read with Peter, Jane, and my Mum, sitting on my bedroom floor each morning.

(tags: books reading education children ladybird douglaskeen obituary )
TextMate productivity tips | 456 Berea Street

Amazingly, a few in here I didn't know – "move selection" and "delete only whitespace" for starters.

(tags: texmate texteditor tips software )
Ian Bogost – Persuasive Games

"I call this new form "procedural rhetoric," a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation. Covering both commercial and non-commercial games from the earliest arcade games through contemporaty titles, I look at three areas in which videogame persuasion has already taken form and shows considerable potential: politics, advertising, and education. The book reflects both theoretical and game-design goals." Add to cart.

(tags: ianbogost games play book rhetoric proceduralrhetoric influence argument )
Down the Rabbit Hole of the Pentagon Graphics Machine. | WallStats.com The Art of Information

"I won’t rant about how our tax dollars pay for these images and how we deserve better. But what I do find alarming is that these documents are used to brief major decision makers. These decision makers may know a thing or two about policy and politics, but if decoding and understanding the armed forces budget is the goal of these documents, then there is a huge failure here." Datafail and slidecrime, all under one roof.

(tags: military infographics visualisation data information charts )
Charlotte Higgins says one of the most interesting aspects of Barack Obama's speeches is the enormous debt they owe to the oratory of the Romans | World news | The Guardian

"The true orator is one whose practice of citizenship embodies a civic ideal – whose rhetoric, far from empty, is the deliberate, rational, careful organiser of ideas and argument that propels the state forward safely and wisely. This is clearly what Obama, too, is aiming to embody: his project is to unite rhetoric, thought and action in a new politics that eschews narrow bipartisanship. Can Obama's words translate into deeds?" Nice article on rhetoric and oratory. Cicero really is quite the writer, you know; ages since I've read him, but this brings it all back.

(tags: speech oratory rhetorics politics barackobama )
gewgaw » Mirror’s Edge

"When the mechanics are broken there – no matter what great ingredients or designs you had – the dish disappoints. Execution is very much part of the analysis there – as is service, mis-en-scene. Food is never evluated (in the Guide Micheline sense) out of context… but the mechanics are fundamental to everything else." Robin Hunicke on another parallel to games criticism; I think she might be onto something, and it's another good contribution to the mound of Mirrors' Edge coverage.

(tags: games criticism mirrorsedge robinhunicke food )
GameSetWatch – Exploring Online Worlds: The Oddness Of Trukz

"Though few gamers might be interested in long haul trucking, there is nothing wrong with concentrating on a small group of gamers and offering them the best experience they can get within their limited requirements. In fact, the more MMO developers who realize this—that a small group of loyal players is better than a huge group of disinterested players—the better, honestly." Very true – a nice conclusion to Matthew Kumar's round-up of a somewhat niche – but interesting sounding – browser MMO.

(tags: games mmo trukz online multiplayer web browser )
Whose day? | A Better Course

"The moisturiser, far from the trusted friend and counsellor of the first reading, is The Picture of Dorian Gray." Alex tries to read that Nivea ad that's all over stations right now. It is confusing.

(tags: advertising product brand )
YouTube – Hatfield Hotdog Launcher Documentary

"We think it's one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century." Awesome. This is why kids go into engineering.

(tags: hatfield hotdogs ballistics documentary mechanics artillery )
Databases, Lists, Maps, Rankings – Index – Data Desk – Los Angeles Times

"Maps, databases and other resources that help you dig deeper." A shame the raw data isn't available, but great they're collating this stuff and seeing it as another channel of news they provide.

(tags: data visualisation resource latimes newspaper journalism stats )
gandreas:products:Rogue

"A favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, Rogue popularized the dungeon crawling computer game dating back from 1980 (and spawned entire class of derivatives known collectively as "roguelikes"). gandreas software now presents the classic for the iPhone/iPod Touch." Oh god, Rogue for the iPhone. Unusual gestural interface, but it's a perfect port, and brings back memories of being 7 all over again. Needless to say, I installed it immediately.

(tags: rogue roguelike games ascii iphone )

22
August
2005

Bob Moog died. A real pioneer, who made not only revolutionary instruments, but beautiful instruments. Still, what a legacy.

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