The content on this page comes from
Livejournal,
Nonlinear,
Johnny Citizen,
Delicious,
Twitter and
Google Reader.
(And a very specific Flickr request.) I can also be found at
Sugarfilled,
LinkedIn,
Vimeo,
YouTube,
Facebook,
Last.fm and
Amazon.
- iphone & desktop wallpapers for font freaks & typenuts
- Yahoo! Query Language - YDN um, holyshit?!
- Download the AIRFare beta AIRFare, an Adobe AIR application that allows you to search for Flights and Hotels built by Universal Mind.
- The Brightkite Wall
- FOCUS: TechnologyThere's info-arbitrage in cyberchatter - Financial Week
- SkyGrid To Offer Free Version Of Real Time News Service. Future Of News Aggregation?
- About 1.5 years later, I’ve become enamored with Spoon’s “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” 17 hours ago
- Needs lunch. Who’s near downtown? 18 hours ago
- “Cradle of Filth” for Best Band Name You Thought Was a Joke But Was For Real award 18 hours ago
- Train is nonop? Hard to tell from DART attempts @ comm. But def no train has come. 20 hours ago
- RT @jasonfried: a prediction for 2009: Microsoft buys 37signals for $300 million. http://bit.ly/jIb1 21 hours ago
- Missed 9:40 train due to being parked in. Next one is 10. :/ 21 hours ago
- Getting Innodb on Xampp for Windows
- Gainesville State high school football gets the best gift of all, hope
- Magnetic Mount iPhone Lenses
- Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey
- There Will Be No Web 3.0 No one motivates me like Ted Dziuba
- Design Decisions: The new Highrise signup chart Great post detailing design process/decisions at 37s
- The untold millions
- The Year In Pictures
- Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa « Roger Alsing Weblog Love this kind of stuff
- QUOTE: When I compare the various iPhone chess apps “When I compare the various iPhone chess apps (I bought them all), Deep Green offers pretty much the same functionality as the rest, and sometimes more, but with a fraction of the UI. Achieving this is why I’m 4 months later than the rest.”
- Pegs, an experiment in page layout and interaction. The experiment looks like a normal page until the scrollbar is used. Content areas scroll only as high or low as their content.
- The Mother of All Demos Turns 40
- QUOTE: Rather than survey a bunch of users on every “Rather than survey a bunch of users on every decision, the Mac team decided each issue among themselves, invariably going for the option that might amuse a user the most, that would give a user the most pleasure, and therefore imbue the Mac with personality…
“‘absence of pain isn’t the same as pleasure.’ In other words, it’s not just enough to strip away all the complexity. There should be some frosting in the mix to also make it a pleasure. - LINK: Advice to carmaker CEOs driving hybrids to DC (instead of private jets)
- In case you didn’t see either video and totally missed it…
This was Carissa’s way of telling me. :) …this was the week of Thanksgiving. We had told immediate family and a couple of friends but wanted to wait to tell the world until we were well along… - From Rhetorical Device:
How’s a man supposed to work under these conditions? Ample free time, money in the bank, a supportive girlfriend. This is no way for a man of letters to live. Hardship. Suffering. These are the cornerstones of artistic achievement!
A brilliant blog, by the way…
This is pretty much me last night.- It’s still too soon for me to go into detail about what happened prior to the paramedics arriving—suffice it to say it was really scary…I’m still dealing with that part—but, yes, about 8:30 on Christmas morning 2008, I placed a 911 call; less than 5 minutes later the paramedics arrived.
I tweeted throughout the hospital stay, and called immediate family. Penn’s dad came to the hospital to pick him up and kept him while Carissa mostly slept and I mostly waited and prayed. All told, we were at the hospital about 6 hours. The neurologist’s diagnosis was that it was likely Synope, with some inexplicable symptoms during, and we were happy to take an optimistic diagnosis. The ER doc still wanted to admit her, but she decided to go home and so we did, by way of Burger King and picking up Penn, who immediately tore into all of Santa’s presents, the opening of which had been entirely interrupted.
At home the anti-nausea medicine they gave her was still making her really sleepy, so she slept some more on the couch and the kid (who really had no mechanisms with which to deal with the entire situation) and I tried to quietly pass the time. Eventually I think she woke up and put the child to bed after I had fallen asleep on the floor, then we went to bed very early.
Today she has been a terrible patient, insisting on doing all her normal activities and refusing all help, so I have had to watch her like a hawk. No matter the diagnosis of whatever it was that happened yesterday, there is not much to do other than to hope that it never happens again.
Carissa blogged about it here. - I remember Mary and Joseph. They were a nice couple. It took Joseph forever to finally pop the question.
You see, they met at our church, a medium-sized un-affiliated Baptist, the only church in a nothing-special midwestern town of 1277. Our town doesn’t have much time for church, or for semi-stable interpersonal groupings at all for that matter. It exists primarily as a pass-through for the cattle drivers; there are stables for the old-fashioned kind and truck stops for the modern ones. One of the stables bought some bleachers in 1953 and has since hosted a mid-sized rodeo that draws a statewide crowd in June.
You see, Mary and Joseph ho-hawed for quite some time, seeing each other in church when they both showed up on the same Sunday. There seemed to be this tension between the two that suggested that if they remained in the same physical proximity for too long, flammable objects located nearby would start to spontaneously combust.
So you see, it wasn’t much surprise to us church regulars when, soon after getting engaged, it turned out that Mary was pregnant. My wife and I had been trying to have a baby for years and grumbled about how it’s always the people that don’t want kids that have them, and the people that want them can’t. There was of course a church board meeting that, despite its agenda, was almost wholly devoted to the topic of Mary’s pregnancy.
For a while there you see, things became really difficult. We suggested that they go ahead with the marriage, and simply get it over with very quickly, or wait until after the birth. The problem was, however, that Joseph was insisting that the baby wasn’t his. We tried to assure him that he was forgiven and that we did not judge him for his actions, but that it was important that he take responsibility for them. After a couple weeks of this, Mary and Joseph finally decided to go together to her parent’s place back East to give birth to their son. They had a very simple, small ceremony at the church and left that very afternoon. There was still a slight hint of stress behind Joseph’s eyes.
But you see, upon their return some months later, things seemed remarkably different. The baby was a beautiful baby boy, one whose smile could light up the room; indeed just the presence of baby Jesus, as Mary and Joseph had so oddly named him, seemed to uplift all those around. But Joseph’s attitude seemed absolutely reversed. He was now a proud father, beaming about his son to any who would look like they were listening. Mary, too, had been somehow transformed into the most determined mother of the year award. We wondered if there was something magical about “back East” or if they had seen a vision somewhere on the road through Ohio, but for the most part we just shrugged our shoulders and moved on.
So you see, it wasn’t much surprise to me when a little stick of a boy, Jesus, showed up at one of our church board meetings last week…
I first saw this a year ago, and if you are one of the kids still watching MTV you probably saw it what? 2-4 years ago? But, I am more in the Christmas spirit this year so I’m posting anything remotely Christmas-related that isn’t cheesy. Which still isn’t much.
Also, LJ has changed, yet again, the way they do object embedding, so videos are, yet again, not showing up in the RSS feed, and hence, danielsjourney.com.
I had SWIM so close to a release, a little over a year ago. It would be so nice to have back at this point.
Nectar Hackathon 2.0 from Nectar on Vimeo.
I found this little time-lapse video extremely inspiring for some reason.
I need to look into Nectar a bit more, I think it might be along the lines of where I was going with SWIM…- The Joy of JOYity: Bringing “Massive Multiplayer Trans-Reality” Games To Android Phones
When you download the app you can play one of three games (YouCatch, Roads of San Francisco, City Race Munich) or design your own. In Roads of San Francisco, for instance, you have to go around the city picking up clues. When you get to a destination, a text or picture message tells you where to go next. It is a Scavenger Hunt with a story line. You can also design your own Scavenger Hunt games and play them with large groups of people.
Video reviews at the link.
Another game that comes with JOYity, YouCatch, is a version of Manhunt. Players in the same city sign up for a game. Everyone acts as both hunter and hunted at the same time. The game assigns you a player that you are hunting, while assigning you to someone else as a victim. Everyone’s location is periodically flashed on the map. When you get within 25 feet of your victim, you press the scrollball on the phone for the kill. But every time you press the button, your location is shown to all the other players as well. The last person standing wins.
In other news, I can log into Blogger like normal again, which is nice. - This image made me think of one of my songs—Closed for the Year—which I also happened to play at last Saturday’s gig (for the first time in a long time), so I decided to post it online…
read more… 
…because it is so freaking cool. And it hits me on many levels: I’ve always hated most presentations, let alone PowerPoint, that atrocity.Slides are transparent photos you slide into machines. They are not the ideas.
#
The ideology of ZuiPrezi is based our natural knowledge on how to coordinate ourselves in space; traditionally all information we have had to process and store used to be linked to physical space. That is where our minds have developed good skills in orienting ourselves. Despite all this digital information today is mostly presented to us as a moniker of printed matter. Of course printing has served us well to store (and shape) information for the the last six centuries, however, with the wide appearance of computing we saw the same old pattern: old forms got translated to new media without exploring its full potential. Most of the computer systems which present us with information today use the old paradigm of prints and slides: arranging information on a framed 2d static space. We could argue that these (at least their forms) are merely the side effect of Gutenberg’s galaxy.
This sample presentation give a high-level overview of what it is about.
Here you can find another video and many sample preso’s, including a walk through where you can play with the wonderfully intuitive creation interface.
This came out of Kitchen Budapest, a technology incubator very much like what I had dreamed Integration Research would become. Check out a ZuiPrezi presentation about Kitchen Budapest, and/or read more about them on their website (and be sure to check out their awesome “press” icon).
- I’m opening for Watching Cars this Saturday, October 4 at White Rock Coffee. I play again there November 1st.
read more… - The Living Room is about the coolest thing I’ve seen all month. From 6 Angry Men:
…we use the sound, light and temperature as input. We use an Arduino – which is an open-source electronics prototyping platform – to measure the light and temperature. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors…
via mindhaven.com/blog
The state of your living room is projected on your wall. The wall gets filled by organisms that live there in an abstract world. The wall is their habitat. So if it’s dark and there is no sound, some creatures will fall asleep.
If your room becomes more noisy, the organisms will wake up irritated because there’s no light and they want to sleep. Each organism has 9 different conditions, which condition you will see depends of the balance between light and sound. It’s a living wallpaper. - Blogger hasn’t let me log in for weeks. There is a work-around I found in the support forums. Obviously. I’m posting here. But between the clunky interface (apologies to Adaptive Path) and the seeming disregard Google has for the product, it is finally time I think more seriously about moving this blog to a new location. It is the only Blogger blog I have never moved off the platform, and with no denial of the irony, is the only one that has therefore stayed stable and archive-ready for these 7 years.
Still, the trick to distributed content storage is being able to see the end of the tracks and getting off the train before they pack up the servers and turn the power off at the data center (not that that is going to happen here…it’s just a metaphor). LiveJournal is now a Russian company. I can’t log in to Blogger. It would seem that, yes, “the blog” is dead.
Speaking of, I keep meaning to work on SWIM so that the version available for download isn’t a steaming pile of security-less bug-infested referential-integrity-less shit (overstating the problems), but I actually have more interesting content-tools-related plans involving the above-linked product and/or other content tools and a clever algorithm. If I can just get any time to work on it. I’m a bit busy with the day job at the moment.
All that to say, I will forward all feeds, have some very cool ways to slice the content, and expect all this by the end of 2009. :)
Elsewhere in my newly coined nonlinear category on my Живой Журнал:…Most products are made the wrong way. The industrial design is done before the interaction designer and visual designers ever see the device, so the device feels slapped together; what’s on the screen has nothing to do with its form. Or maybe the product strategy causes the device to have too many features until it is overburdened with unnecessary functionality and controls. Or maybe the product is lifeless and has little personality aside from a list of options.
…from a post about Kicker. And“I want to reform technology. All the tools are the same; people make the same things with them. Everyone asks me, ‘Are you bringing technology to RISD?’ I tell them, no, I’m bringing RISD to technology.”
…from a post about “John Maeda taking over the presidency of RISD, ‘ambient awareness’ being talked about in the NYT, and all the noise about chrome”…all of which I have a lot more to say about, but need a bit more time to put it all together.
The “IR” tag might also be of interest to nonlinear types, which is another “temporary” category for all the stuff I would have blogged at the long-dormant Integration Research. Yeah, I still have plans for that site, too…
The “UX” tag is also stuff that should probably be over here… - Twitterlesung. …I like when a somewhat disruptive technology that almost revels in its place as a mediation (or, in Twitter marketing speak, a “communications utility”), spills into the real world. We are no longer tribal by geography, so our tools help us be tribal despite geography (and attention constraints). But we still need to gather around the campfire and re-tell. It’s again all about narrative.
Our snails are equipped with a miniaturised electronic circuit and antenna that enables them to be assigned messages from hardware located within their enclosure. The moment you click ‘send’ your message will travel at the speed of light to our snail server where it will await collection by a snail agent.
The worlds first webmail service using real snails from boredomresearch. There’s even a blog.
Once associated with the tiny electronic chip on the snails shell your message will be carried around until the snail chances by the drop off point. Hardware located at this point collects the message from the snail and forwards it to its final destination.
via Kester- Technique or skill?
Writing headlines that get dugg vs Writing headlines that get remembered
While this blog is initially about novel interfaces, primarily for narrative delivery, it is also about how we interface with life and allow novelty to change the way we do so. Much of that ability has to do with an intellectual flexibility that is highlighted in Amy’s list of distinctions. Hers is often excellent writing on these very topics, so if you haven’t already, head over to slash7 and read…
Mastery of video game controllers vs Mastery of video game / problem-solving concepts
Convincing people to pay for your stuff vs Creating stuff people can’t live without
Google ability vs Research ability
Being able to survive in a given business vs Being able to survive in any situation
Knowing how to blog vs Knowing how to write
Knowing how to prepare a lesson plan vs Knowing how to educate
Knowing how to speak properly vs Knowing how to weave a compelling 45-minute narrative
Being a CSS ninja vs Being good at learning multifaceted rule sets
Writing good Java code vs Understanding programming theory
Making pretty with Photoshop vs Analyzing the world to come up with impactful new things - you can get Happy Sounding Sad Songs for free, no strings, totally legit…plus news…plus a story….
read more… - I don’t know much about this video except that is uses and has the same name as the last song off my last record. My record is Creative-Commons licensed, so you don’t even have to get my permission to use it in noncommercial projects…I’ve already given the permission. Seeing it in a video like this is a lot of fun…
read more… - “The man wondered the streets aimlessly…” Band bio’s suck. Johnny Citizen’s is from a piece called “The Man” and does a better job of communicating the ethos of the whole Johnny Citizen enchilada.
read more…
