"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
The New York Times reports on the winner of a type design contest held by the University of Minnesota Design Institute. The font, called “Twin,” takes the old Adobe “Multiple Master” idea to a new level with three axes of variability: formal/informal; hard/soft, and plain/weird.
The image above is derived from me playing with the [...]
I just had a small taste of the kind of computing coolness we should all expect from our systems.
I needed to get an address for a family friend, so I popped open Karelia Software’s Watson, which I licensed as part of the “Beyond the Browser” bundle (along with Spring and NetNewsWire Pro) and used it’s [...]
Slate reports on the unveiling of Billboard Magazine’s digital download charts. True, it’s been a long time since the Billboard charts mattered to me (although I was an “American Top 40″ fanatic for a while when I was 9 or 10). Here’s one interesting observation:
Billboard says that Apple, the most aggressive player in [...]
I never used to be a real hard-core shareware buyer, but I’ve been on a bit of a tear lately. My latest purchase: VoodooPad, winner of O’Reilly’s second Mac OS X Innovators contest.
It’s basically a Wiki disguised as a Mac OS X application. I’ve tried a million strategies for stashing notes to myself, [...]
XML and RDF-head Edd Dumbill is clued in to something I’ve been wishing for a lot lately, and he’s got the tools and the smarts to make it happen.
He’s which written a scrap of code which pays attention to web page metadata and passes that information along to other applications that might find it [...]
Thanks to TidBITs for the introduction to LEMUR:
LEMUR is a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists
developing robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by
musician and engineer Eric Singer, LEMUR’s philosophy is to
build robotic instruments that “play themselves.” In LEMUR
designs, the robots are the instruments.
There are a couple of movies of the GuitarBot in action and [...]
Continuing my experimentation with Spring, I’ve created a few Supreme Court cases to supplement the justices I created.
I also created Spring canvases for Bush v. Gore and Eldred v. Ashcroft, which I think demonstrate the potential of Spring even better than the objects themselves, but I don’t know if it’s possible to share Spring [...]
A post in today’s NewsScan triggered a revelation: all standards whose acronym begin with the letter ‘S’ are likely to become hulking, bloated messes which nobody can bear to use.
First, the set-up: I am currently working on a project to integrate with a client using SOAP to get data. However, the interchange actually uses [...]
Joi Ito has an interesting riff on issues of identity in the networked world. Here’s an excerpt:
My point is. We should have different ID’s for our different roles. Each of these ID’s will have a different bit of authentication and collateral attached to it.
If you deconstruct the different types of ID (got this [...]
Inspired by a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times (written by the presidents of Mali and Burkina Faso), Tim Bray has written a lengthy and heartfelt discussion of the inhumanity of the economics of agriculture in the “western world”.
Bray’s outlook is informed by the fact that he has family members who are farmers [...]