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“So, instead of drawing boxes and arrows that represent a real screen, we just dive in and design the real screen. And tweak, iterate, and adjust.”
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“A showcase of self-portraiture all from my current teenage years, some using multiplicity (which I adore)”
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“Many Americans forget or ignore both the short- and long-term benefits and avoid exercise due to a sedentary lifestyle, allowing a “perfect” workout to be the enemy of one that is “good enough,” (…)”
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“”Second Life” currently runs on 2,579 servers (…) Each server is responsible for an individual “sim,” or 16 acres of virtual “Second Life” land. At peak usage that means that each server is handling about three users.”
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“The one-man flying wing is the latest military tool, allowing special forces troops to glide undetected up to 200km (125 miles) into enemy territory.”
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“In 1973, the tree was knocked over by a drunken Libyan truck driver. It has been replaced by a simple metal sculpture.”
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“In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every last person in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he’s doing it again, creating a unique portrait of heartland America”
links for 2006-06-06
June 6th, 2006 · Comments Off
Comments OffTags: biology,design,gaming,health,jason fried,niger,photography,second life,signal versus noise,usa
links for 2006-05-30
May 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“(…) here are a few shots of that new building in Harajuku that I’ve been so curious about.”
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“My home in SL now sports a simple picture frame. Touch it and it looks up your avatar name to see what your favourite Flickr tag is, picks a random picture with that tag from Flickr and displays it on its surface.”
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“Why not create a video game that’s playable inside Second Life?”
Comments OffTags: flickr,gaming,photography,second life,stats
links for 2006-05-12
May 12th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“The Phoenix 1000 is a 65-meter (213′) personal luxury submarine.”
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“GIANTS FROM TIMES PAST”
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“The BBC has staked a claim to a virtual tropical island where it can stage online music festivals and throw exclusive celebrity parties.”
Comments OffTags: bbc,culture,design,giants,second life,submarine,yacht
links for 2006-04-30
April 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Short profiles of top-ten 2ndLife personalities “
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“…a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.”
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Berkeley courses podcast
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“remote-controlled web presentation”
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Stanford courses podcast
Comments OffTags: berkely,design,education,gaming,gui,keynote,podcast,second life,stanford
links for 2006-03-23
March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Hoewel de directe effecten op de economie - denk aan extra consumptie in de horeca - klein zijn, kunnen goede prestaties op het veld indirect wel degelijk een economie stimuleren.”
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“Van alle Amsterdamse fietsen die worden gestolen, wordt na intensieve controles 0,68 procent teruggevonden. Preventie tegen diefstal helpt echter wel.”
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“In the new show, Chef is brainwashed by the “Super Adventure Club” - thought to be a veiled reference to Scientology.”
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“Flickr Backup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore.”
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“American’s increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesn’t extend to those who don’t believe in a god, according to a national survey by researchers in the University of Minnesota’s department of sociology.”
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“A new jet engine design able to fly seven times the speed of sound is to be test fired over Australia on Friday.”
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“So this will be around for a few years. What happens if YOU die?”
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“Sir, you dropped something! is one of the entries of Positive Alarm, an open call to designers to send statements, products and projects that turn something negative into a positive message or solution.”
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“It is a recent shot of a snowflake that’s been sitting in chemist Tryggvi Emilsson’s desk for 27 years, locked in a drop of that miracle of modern chemistry we call superglue. “
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“London, Paris and New York are dying – the 21st century belongs to the fertile chaos of the third-world metropolis. Rana Dasgupta heralds the arrival of an alternative vision of modernity”
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“It is difficult to think about torture honestly.”
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Howto: second life
Comments OffTags: amsterdam,art,atheism,aviation,back up,bikes,crime,economics,engineering,flickr,isaach hayes,photography,religion,science,scientology,second life,south park,torture,urban,usa,waste,world cup
links for 2006-03-22
March 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off
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“”What went wrong with Friendster? Why is MySpace any different?”"
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“New legislation in France would force Apple Computer to open the iPod and iTunes to competitors — and that’s a good thing for consumers, in the long run.”
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“Apple, whose Macintosh design team once famously flew the pirate flag above its Silicon Valley hideout, immediately branded France’s move “state-sponsored piracy.”"
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“Laura visits Linden Labs, the folks behind Second Life, and learns about this new virtual world.”
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“(…) That leaves Why we built it, How we built it, and what Lessons you might want take away from the experience.”
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“Waar moet een omroep die toekomstbestendig wil zijn rekening mee houden? De ontwikkelingen op rij. Afvinken maar! Klaar voor de strijd? “
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“Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. “
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“They (blogs - hvi) are threatening because they unequivocally demonstrate that commercial publishing does not necessarily represent the best writing that is available.”
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“As many people know, today’s Internet has its roots in the huge silk and cotton mills which grew up in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution.”
Comments OffTags: apple,business,danah boyd,design,drm,france,friendster,internet,itunes,linden labs,marketing,media,myspace,nl,publishing,second life,signal versus noise,social networks,vpro
links for 2006-03-21
March 21st, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Are you considering giving away some content to try and increase the number of people paying for your site’s premier content? Read on for a look at how Linden Lab tested and implemented this tactic to radically improve its paid membership rates.”
Comments OffTags: economics,second life
links for 2006-02-28
February 28th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“to free up space on what Jobs gave you. “
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“In 2020 zullen we een groot deel van onze tijd in de virtuele werelden van de ‘online roleplaying games’ doorbrengen. In deze spellen worden vriendschappen gesloten en harten gebroken, maar wordt ook lucratieve handel gedreven.”
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“Richard Wagner’s 15-hour Ring Cycle will be broadcast in its entirety on one day over Easter on BBC Radio 3.”
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Install 800MB wikipedia on iPod
Comments OffTags: gaming,ipod,music,os x,second life,tv,wagner,wikipedia
links for 2006-02-01
February 1st, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Op het adres Europarchive.org is straks een grote collectie gratis te downloaden klassieke muziek en mirrors van talloze Europese websites te vinden.”
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“Most nerds know Bob Kahn co-wrote TCP/IP; earlier he worked at Bolt Beranek & Newman where he was the primary architect for the Arpanet.”
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“web page bookmark with a note”
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“‘Dit is cyberseks in een compleet nieuw jasje.’”
Comments OffTags: arpanet,cybersex,europe,firefox,history,internet,nerdtv,os x,safari,second life,video
