May 2009
6 posts
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Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in... →
A great post on the way architecture is used in video games to reflect and re-express the depravity of villains.
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If A Tweet Killed a Tuna - Energy Cost... →
Some thinking about the hidden energy costs behind Internet use, and the need to design data centers for efficiency.
Download a Free Car from BitTorrent and P2P... →
Mitsubishi runs a contest that hides 30 parts of a car as digital files on P2P sites. Find and download them all, win the car!
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Recovering Moon Images →
NASA almost lost most of the original footage of our first visits to the moon. Kevin Kelly looks at their digital archiving project of the film, but one wonders at the lack of long term thinking.
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How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People... →
Video presentation on keeping Open Source projects safe from the toxicity some people bring.
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The Do’s & Don’ts of Modern Web Design →
It really should say ‘modern web coding’, but that aside there are some excellent tips here for coders and designers alike.
April 2009
12 posts
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Pogoplug →
A hardware+website combo lets you access your external hard drive from anywhere on the Internet.
Glyphish — Icons and resources for iPhone... →
A nice set of icons for designing iphone/ipod touch application toolbar buttons
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Twitter fail on Twitter Fall at the Telegraph →
An experiment to bring Twitter into the Telegraph website backfires, sadly. Too often the crowd creates the need for the moderation they say we don’t need. Frustrating.
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Why Microsoft's ads are so bad. - By Seth... →
Seth utterly shreds Microsoft’s ad efforts over the past two years, calling more of the same lack of rudder in the consumer market, and increasingly in the biz-sumer market.
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IE6 Update: Grifter's Edition →
I’m conflicted on this trick to get people using IE6 to update. Using their worst behaviour (activeX installs) to get them into something safer? Deception for good!
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What if our tech is good enough? →
A compelling post that asks whether we rely too much on gains in technology to believe that we’re getting somewhere with what that tech can do. Not fully baked, but worth a read.
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Orbicule's Undercover for iPhone →
Makers of the excellent theft recovery app and service for Mac have brought it to the iPhone with the same cleverness.
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How Slideshare become the ultimate Fool on April... →
An upset blogger gives the rundown on SlideShare April Fool’s Day joke gone wrong.
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Happy April Fools day | SlideShare Blog →
The scene of the crime, where SlideShare faces its community over a bungled April Fool’s Day joke.
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The dark secrets of Whopper Sacrifice →
Burger King’s edgy Facebook campaign was shut down in ten days, but that was long enough to expose what Facebook is most protective of: the relationship networks of its members.
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UX Test Kitchen →
Fearless, forward and free. A nonprofit interactive agency providing free website and media development to other nonprofits.
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CuteLab →
Why haven’t I seen these people before? The site is playful, the portfolio strong, and it’s most cool that the mission is R&D for the future of Good Times.