Post-emptive week in awesome
Wednesday 27 Aug 2008
Owing to a particularly busy Friday night, the ensuing weekend-long hangover and a heavy truckload of work to do, I neglected my regular noting of random crap shiny things that caught my eye this past week…
- Some futuristic User Interface Concepts [Smashing Magazine] including this display which reminds me in a way of some work by an undergrad colleague of mine at Philips Research Labs. David’s brief was to explore the concept of a multi-touch gestural display device. He investigated Fingerworks and how we might put their tech behind a screen for a portable device. This was in 2004, remind you of something that came out in 2007? Yep, Apple bought them out not long afterwards. I miss being in R&D…
- A subtle clock that tells you the time.
- The perils of being a music nerd.
Back to some work…
Pre-emptive week in awesome
Tuesday 12 Aug 2008
Early edition because I’m buggering off to Assateague Island tomorrow for a long weekend horse-rustling and piratically eating ship debris! It will be my virgin ride on the Chi-Town Bus (disturbing entendre intended) 5 hours to DC, then a micro roadtrip to go play on the beach for 4 days, sleep under stars, clear my city head and write the short stories that have been piling up in my hypothalamus.
Anyhow:
- The Highbury Vaults was our official 2nd front room in 4th year of Uni, spitting distance from our back door. So vicariously, and middle-class establishmentally, we are now endorsed by Banksy. [BBC News] – thanks Phil for pointing out that story.
- The world will get sucked into a mini black hole THE DAY AFTER MY BIRTHDAY ITS A SIGN soon, as this shit ironic geek rap video at CERN, attests.
- Re-found SeeqPod in my bookmarks just now – I could really have used it the the day too. A viable alternative to YouTube for when you want to listen to a certain track instantly, like right now dammit! And then you can list them and create playlists and stuff. But by that time I was distracted by something else shiny.
Yes.
The week in awesome
Friday 08 Aug 2008
Stuff I liked this week:
- Software needs to be easy to use for smart people too! [Daring Fireball]
- Build your own time machine / slow-mo splashy clock. [Cre.ations]
- Proving (possibly) that its not just about the money, the connections and the looks. [MillionaireMatch]
- Communication on the net, using lots of cool tools. [Flickr]
- Internet Meme Timeline, one day you’ll look back and laugh. Today actually. [dipity]
Chortle!
