Tag Archives: software
links for 2007-09-29: Ridley Scott, USB guitar, Go
Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined Most interesting Blade Runner -related interview I’ve seen in a good long while. (tags: scifi movies design urban-environment future) How to Build a USB Guitar detailed and well-documented … more…
resonance
Rotary behaviours emerging from vibrating powder. The rotation is reversed at different frequencies. I expect something similar is at work to the “fountain” audio visualiser in iTunes, and I would assume, elsewhere.
Iconistan
So, new buzzword. Iconistan is a cute coinage, attributed by Wired News to Tony Conrad of Sphere in this post, who attributes the coinage in turn to Kourosh Karimkhany of Conde Naste — which shows how carefully Wired News read … more…
The Tale of The Rights to The Picture of The Green Man, and a quiet word or two about Technorati
This image — fine as it is — nevertheless is posted here because there is a most interesting story hangs upon it. The story belongs to the maker of the image, and it’s on onionbagblog. Definitely read it, and while … more…
Accelerated calendar
This here diagram is the handmade record of the 96 day mission of Russian cosmonaut Georgi Grechko aboard Salyut 6, showing sunrises, sunsets, work and sleep schedules, resupply deliveries, and so forth. The word used for this species of chart … more…
MSFirefox
Dynamic security protection Microsoft Firefox 2007 provides security through a robust new architecture, security features that help defend against malicious software, and new ways to better protect against the theft of personal data from fraudulent websites, a practice known as … more…
KrazyDad’s Whitney Music Box
A lovely bit of ActionScripting here. I never thought I’d type those words together in the same sentence, but there you are. You could do this in Lingo just as well, I expect, and probably a dozen other scripting languages … more…
Firefox 2 config tweaks
I’ve already implemented most of the changes listed here, but I expect I’ll be wanting to use them when I find myself on other machines, so now I’ll know where to find Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks … more…
Jeff Han on TED Talks
Jeff Han, an HCI research scientist at NYU, demonstrates a multi-touch interface-without-interface at TED Talks. This stuff is coming along a little faster than I thought… (thanks, Rich)
Clustrmaps beta (+48 hours)
There’s been a Clustrmaps script running on the page for about 48 hours at the time of this writing and we’ve got all the continents covered. Exc-cel-ent. I am really tickled by this utility: traffic to this site is plotted … more…