2009 Aug 11, 5:21"Michael Niggel took a look at Journey Under the Sea, and mapped out all possible paths. It turns out that death and unfavorable endings are in fact much more likely than the rest."
visualization via:ethan_t_hein literature fiction if interactive flowchart infographics chooseyourownadventure 2009 Aug 6, 8:06"Man shaves head, walks across China for a year, grows beard & crazy hair, and takes daily photos and short videos of himself along the way". Like the hair and the ska!
via:kottke hair photo video timelapse china travel ska 2009 Aug 5, 2:18"Mythbuster Adam Savage attended this year's Con ... he roamed the convention floor in his own costume and egged his Twitter followers to sniff him out." He dressed as The Joker from the opening
scene of The Dark Knight.
comic-con humor adam-savage myth-busters tv 2009 Aug 5, 7:57"Ten times smaller than barcodes, Bokodes’ low-cost optical design can be read from as far as 4 meters away, much farther than barcodes, by taking an out-of-focus photo with any off-the-shelf
camera." Love for stuff like this to catch on, however compared to QR codes, these are much more difficult to produce than barcodes in that you can't just print them out and they require changes to
the photography technique (must be out of focus) rather than just analyzing any photograph of a barcode. They seem to be solving slightly different problems.
qrcode qr barcode camera information design bokode augmented-reality technical 2009 Aug 5, 7:22Weird Al relates the awesome exploits of Charles Nelson Reilly in the style of the White Stripes. Notice the head of Chuck Norris mounted on CNR's trophy wall at 0:55s.
humor video weird-al charles-nelson-reilly music music-video 2009 Jul 29, 5:48The new draft IRI spec to replace RFC 3987. "To accomodate widespread current practice, additional derivative protocol elements are defined, and current practice for resolving IRI-based hypertext
references in HTML are outlined."
iri uri rfc html reference technical 2009 Jul 27, 11:28Olivia Wilde (I know her from House) who will appear in Tron Legacy gives an interview at Comic-Con that includes "...her experiences working with Jeff Bridges (she had to put her fist in her mouth
to not ask about “The Dude”)."
humor interview house olivia-wilde tron tron-legacy wired jeff-bridges dude video 2009 Jul 27, 5:34"This specification provides an API used to prompt the user with a file selection dialogue and obtain the data contained in files on the user's file system."
web w3c api upload script dom technical 2009 Jul 27, 5:29"A twice-daily updated collection of some of the best reading on Wikipedia."
wiki wikipedia daily reference blog via:ethan_t_hein 2009 Jul 24, 5:29Contains a few operators I hadn't seen, like '~[word]' for results that contains the synonym of the word, '*' for wildcards within quoted phrases, and 'info:[URL]' for their cache results, links to
and from the page, etc.
via:sambrook google search operators technical 2009 Jul 24, 5:13"Question Box, a service which effectively provides a speaking Wikipedia for people in remote villages in India and Africa without access to the internet and those unable to read."
africa wikipedia internet literacy india 2009 Jul 23, 10:32Toyota's 3rd gen Prius ad. campaign features giant solar powered flowers that seat ten, provide free wi-fi and power, and will be placed outdoors in major cities across the US.
wifi power prius solar advertising toyota 2009 Jul 23, 10:22Using dumpsters (clean ones) as pools
dumpster pool recycle 2009 Jul 21, 5:56"Well crumble me in a salad too!"
humor video tv snake bacon 2009 Jul 20, 11:40"My interactive media project this semester is about the augmentation of the classic communication medium business card... what came to my mind pretty quickly was Augmented Reality." Ever since I saw
those AR things you print out I've wished they were based completely off of QR codes that would tell the client app where to download the 3D scene to project.
3d business-card qrcode qr augmented-reality research technical video 2009 Jul 20, 11:27Various Weezer songs remixed on Game Boys, NES, etc.
music mp3 free remix weezer 8bit via:xblah 2009 Jul 20, 8:07Includes plenty of variations on the quote like Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
humor quote paranoia 2009 Jul 20, 5:20"what better way to celebrate the tremendously fascinating week ahead than with a special behind-the-scenes look at all the incredible energy — physical, intellectual, emotional — that goes into the
making of a TED talk?"
blog ted conference design video 2009 Jul 20, 5:04"We had five people, over about six months, research and come up with the tens of thousands of words present on the Scribblenauts dictionary."
game scribblenauts videogame nintendo dictionary
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