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“it doesn’t sound particularly astounding on paper, but within a day it recommended to me a couple of albums i that was very excited about but had no idea they were forthcoming.” Excellent stuff.
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“The more you play, the more you get to build things” Which is only how it should be.
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“Here’s Román Cortés’ Homer, animated to show the structure.” Click the animate buttons, and be amazed. It’s all just text and CSS.
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“Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to.”. It’s here, and it’s very much real. Congratulations to Matt, Jack, and all involved.
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“The Man is not only keeping us down, he’s got an annual 8.5-ton carbon footprint”. An MIT class calculate the average carbon footprint of authority.
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“What’s so remarkable about this series is that it seems more apposite, subversive and thought-provoking than ever”. The book certainly shaped some of my own approach to art and criticism when I was at university
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“cv.jit is a collection of max/msp/jitter tools for computer vision applications.” Yasser just showed me these – very impressive, and quite simple, really.
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People are playing Cheddar Gorge on Nature Network. Awesome. Let’s hope this playdiates elsewhere on the network.
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“I set out to find the longest distance for which Google Maps would give Driving Directions. Now that they’ve shut down the fun “swim the Atlantic” feature, things have changed a bit.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”