Check out this lovely laptop cover in orange felt wool (above).
Yoink is an iPhone app for dumpster divers and freecyclers.
Sumedicina is a piece of experimental short fiction told entirely in charts and infographics.
Draw! The neuroscience behind Hollywood shoot-outs.
The iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing.
Sync/Lost (above) is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music.
Philip K. Dick: A ‘plastic’ paradox. Sneak peek at an upcoming Philip K. Dick film, Radio Free Albemuth.
Steven Frank of Panic Software fame, on the next phase of computing.
The “My” water bottle from Stelton.
Humor: Laugh at those quirky, Unhappy Hipster (mostly from the pages of Dwell, it seems).
The different kinds of people that there are. Funny.
If the newspapers think they’re such hot shit, they should make their own Hulu and stop whining.
A long, rambly exploration of the state of computing with no real conclusion…, by Steven Frank of Panic software.
U2′s Linear is a short-film to accompany their latest release. Yay, Anton Corbijn.
A court rules your MySpace page isn’t private. So, don’t post anything you wouldn’t want published in your home town newspaper without your consent.
Paul Frank’s partnership with Bugaboo = two great tastes that go great together.
Denon’s new DP-200USB turntable rips vinyl straight to MP3; no computer required to record and encode, just to edit.
The secrets of making a vinyl record (video).
The secret, social lives of bacteria; they talk to one-another.
I recently finished Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg. It covers the development of Chandler, an open source, cross-platform personal information manager (PIM).
A project of the Open Source Applications Foundation and led by Mitch Kapor, Chandler was meant to revolutionize desktop PIM software by eliminating the ‘silos’ that separate email messages, contacts, calendar events and to-do tasks and enable peer-to-peer sharing of such information (as opposed to being proprietary and locked-in to a central server, ala MS Outlook and Exchange).
Along the way, Rosenberg delves into the bigger picture of software development by reviewing its history and thought leaders, differing ideas on organization and project management, methods of information sharing and collaboration tools, the open-source and free software movements, contemporary programming languages, modular and object oriented programming concepts, user interface design challenges, coding and quality control issues, and much more.