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Cactus Friends
One of my favorite new character designs is cactus girl from tokidoki, a series of art, t-shirts and accessories by Italian artist Simone Legno. I’m pleased to see he’s launching cool new…
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RoboSapien
Oh yes, please. I’ll take a RoboSapien v2 (around $229 USD)! RoboSapien is a toy-like biomorphic robot designed by Mark Tilden and produced by Wow Wee toys. The RoboSapien is preprogrammed with…
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Kevin Kelly: Out of Control
Though it was written more than ten years ago, this caught my attention and seemed particularly relevant again. From Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and…
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Google Wants to Provide Free Wi-Fi for San Francisco
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made it a goal to provide a free or inexpensive citywide network last year and bids were submitted by competing firms this Friday, mostly by ISP companies. …
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iPod nano
For a real-world and hilarious account of Apple’s big pitch for the nano and the iTunes phone at the Moscone here in SF last week, read Nicole Lee‘s post at Metroblogging SF,…
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Crisis in New Orleans
Here you are, like me, online. Probably in the comfort of your own environment, listening to your favorite music, a warm summer night – surfing the web. Everything’s normal. But no farther…
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082905
“Geeking is not about high tech. It’s about taking stuff apart and putting https://theathleteprogram.com/buy-cheap-valium-online/ it together and making something new. It’s about curiosity and tinkering, whether it be with gardens, vacuum tubes…
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Hacker Ethic
“In general I have a hacker ethic regarding my work: I don’t really want my job to be neatly divisible from my life. The concepts and ideas that I bring to both…
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Open source
MIT Technology Review has a story, The Tech Boom 2.0, that covers a point of view that I couldn’t agree with more. I often use open-source software to develop high-end, robust, and…
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Designing Thinking
As a design-focused firm, I’m encouraged by the recent emphasis on business adopting more strategic design thinking and process techniques. I’m familiar with the same sources and I like how the author,…
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Mash-up the Web
While the term mash-up has its roots in hip hop culture, the web mash-up seems a natural evolution of our need to customize and our love of hacks. (See an earlier post…
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Choosing Blogging Software
A recent article by Susannah Gardner in the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review titled “Time to Check: Are you using the right blogging tool?” is a great starting point if you’re new…
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Offline Design
As an online designer, I’m always looking offline for inspiration and ideas. (Once you’ve been a sculptor, you can never truly escape the physical world.) Part of the beauty of city life…
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Jeremy Blake at SFMoMA
I’ve liked the ideas of Jeremy Blake’s work for some time and his exploration of “time-based paintings” and digital video DVD layered animations, having felt something similar in my own experiments and…
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Happy 10 Years
It’s hard to believe it’s already been 10 years for the commercial web! All you kids out there (that’s all of you 13 year olds that are signing up for livejournal at…
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Ajax the Web
In his essay, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications, Jesse James Garrett articulates a new use of several existing technologies – XHTML, CSS, DOM, XML, and Javascript, which, when used together…
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Blobjects & Beyond
The blobject has so much appeal. Learn more at the exhibition page at the San Jose Museum of Art… Beginning Saturday, March 5th the San Jose Museum of Art’s first floor galleries…
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Smart Cars
The MIT Smart Cities research team’s car. Image: Franco Vairani/MIT Department of Architecture Two recent articles reveal the possible future of cars – powered with intelligent algorithms, semi-autonomous, and made for urban…
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Help Tsunami Victims
There are many places to donate aid to help Tsunami victims, but here are some of them: Tsunami Relief http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent http://www.ifrc.org/helpnow/donate/donate_response.asp Save the Children…
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Asimo Robot Running
Cool video of Honda’s Asimo robot running. People-Friendly Robot: “The robot’s size was chosen to allow it to operate freely in the human living space and to make it people-friendly. This size…
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Risk Society
1) On Bush’s plan to turn America into an ownership society at the New Yorker. “The ownership society promises freedom, but at the price of a huge shift in risk, away from…
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So Blue
The BBC has a map that shows red and blue states from past elections dating back to 1948 (click on the tab “Past Elections”). Now how do we get the map to…
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Sample the Future
Just ran out to get a copy of the November issue of Wired, which includes a CD of 16 songs produced under the Creative Commons License. So, now you can truly collaborate…
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R+H Fieldbooks
I’m always on the look-out for cool notebooks. Found these nice field books from russell + hazel.
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Around the world
My travels so far… World travel by country (18 countries, 8% of the world) By U.S. state (26 states, 50%) By Canadian province (3 provinces, 23%) By European country (2 countries, 3%)…
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Hack This (Please)
In Hack This (Please), Andy Kessler writes about the benefits of true hacks (“clever solutions to an interesting problem) and the “new breed of users out there, computer-literate consumers who don’t think…
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Exhibition Compostela
5th March – 30th May, 2004 Centro Galego de Art Contemporanea (CGAC) Rua Ramon del Valle Inclan, s/n 15704 Santiago de Compostela Spain “Compostela is an exhibition which has been organized around…
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Flickr
“Flickr, now in public beta, is a real-time media-sharing playspace, where you can share photos with friends and family live and online, and create your own groups.”
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Checking your designs for the color blind
Vischeck is a site that shows you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online, run Vischeck on your own image files, or run Vischeck…
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NYC photobloggers
Photography exhibit of NYC photobloggers at the Apple Soho store.
