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  • Hitotoki — About
    "Hitotoki stores literary 'sketches' of moments you experience every day. No check-ins. No bullshit badges. We think the most interesting stuff happens in the space between places. Hitotoki is built to help you capture those moments."
    (tags: writing travel hitotoki narrative world slow )
  • An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances
    Bookmarked because I'm fed up of watery allusions to this (last seen: Malcolm Gladwell, Freakonomics (which is annoying because it's watery despite Levitt having *worked on the paper*)). $5 for the *actual information* seems far more interesting than any volume of popular economics books.
    (tags: economics crime academia levitt venkatesh antigladwellism )
  • Soundshapes: Amit Pitaru/Zach Gage bring Sonic Wire Sculptor to iPhone – Boing Boing
    Hard to explain, but a must-watch; lovely spatial music sequencer/toy. (And: I miss Offworld :( )
    (tags: sound music 3d spatial sequencer iphone )
  • Sun's path June to December
    "The picture clearly shows the path of the sun through the sky over the last six months." Brilliant. (And: so simple!)
    (tags: photography sun solarpath pinhole )
  • Philip K. Dick – Book Cover Art Gallery
    "Philip K. Dick fans from around the world have contributed to this scanned collection of over 650 PKD book covers." Some of these are awesome, from the crazy french covers for VALIS to the German editions of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – retitled as "LSD-Astronauten".
    (tags: illustration pkd scifi covers books philipkdick design )
  • Corbis Readymech Cameras
    "Take a break from your computer! Download, print and build your own pinhole camera. Follow the instructions and enjoy!" Beautiful.
    (tags: pdf print pinhole camera pinholecamera photography beautiful )
  • JeffBridges.com – Ironman book
    I love Jeff Bridges as a photographer, and his pictures from the Iron Man set are no exception.
    (tags: jeffbridges ironman photography films movies behindthescenes blackandwhite panoramic )
  • The Screens Issue – If You Liked This, Sure to Love That – Winning the Netflix Prize – NYTimes.com
    "Mathematically speaking, “Napoleon Dynamite” is a very significant problem for the Netflix Prize. Amazingly, Bertoni has deduced that this single movie is causing 15 percent of his remaining error rate; or to put it another way, if Bertoni could anticipate whether you’d like “Napoleon Dynamite” as accurately as he can for other movies, this feat alone would bring him 15 percent of the way to winning the $1 million prize."
    (tags: data prediction movies netflix modelling napoleondynamite )
  • Gamasutra – Share Your Experience: YouTube Integration In Games
    "In a detailed technical feature with sample code, Team Bondi programmer Claus Höfele delves into the practical steps for your users to get gameplay footage automagically uploaded online." Good that this stuff is being published. This kind of stuff really isn't that difficult; the hard bit is recording footage from your game or framebuffer; the rest of the process is trivial, and hopefully coverage on sites like Gamasutra will help publicise this kind of interaction.
    (tags: youtube games programming development integration sharing web20 )
  • Just What is Innovation Really Worth?
    "The point in pointing out these numbers, since we’re throwing out analogies to films and videogame innovation, is that it seems that no matter how well a movie is interpreted as “innovative” by a reviewer, the truest mark of success lies in its ability to inure itself with the consumer." No. Commercial success is just one kind of success, and films like Eraserhead have had a far greater impact on young filmmakers than any amount of box-office smashes. The real rarities are films such as the Godfather or Citizen Kane, which manage to be box-office smashes and innovative masterpiece.
    (tags: wrong criticism innovation success games films movies reviews )
  • Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Ubicomp is like a 5 year old wishing for a pink pony
    "Anytime I hear the alpha futurist-y featurists get all excited about some kind of idea for how the new ubicomp networked world will be so much more simpler and seamless and bug-free, I want to punch someone in the eye. They sound like a 5 year old who whines that they want a pink pony for their birthday." Julian has ubicomp fail.
    (tags: ubicomp fail design interaction futurism julianbleecker )
  • Wii.com – Iwata Asks: Wii Fit
    Satoru Iwata interviews the product designer and producer behind the Wii Fit balance board. There's some interesting stuff on the prototyping process on the second and third page of the interview.
    (tags: wii wiifit games fitness hardware interface controller design interaction prototyping )

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