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Designing the Computer UIs In Movies
xandroid points out an NPR interview with Mark Coleran, who "...designs the fancy-but-fake graphics that flash across computers in the movies.
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A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction
unc0nn3ct3d writes "This article makes an interesting point about the necessity of science fiction — or, more specifically, speculative fiction as a tool to aid in the long-term survival of the
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Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All
cremeglace writes with this excerpt from ScienceNOW: "You've heard the controversy.
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Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows
theodp writes "An article in the NY Times begins, 'In the digital age, filing income tax returns should be a snap.
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Surveillance Backdoor Enabled Chinese Gmail Attack?
Major Blud writes "CNN is running an opinion piece on their front page from security technologist Bruce Schneier, in which he suggest that 'In order to comply with government search warrants on user d
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Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264
We recently discussed news that YouTube and Vimeo are each testing their own HTML5 video players using the H.264 format.
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Rumor — AT&T Losing iPhone Exclusivity Next Week
MojoKid writes "An inside source over at HotHardware reports that AT&T will lose their iPhone exclusivity on 1/27, coincident with Apple's upcoming press event next week, though it's not yet clear
in Slashdot
Misa Digital Guitar Runs On Linux
conner_bw writes "Imagine strumming a guitar without any strings, on a touchscreen. Think the idea is too far-fetched? The Misa digital guitar claims to be exactly this.
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UK's Freeview HD To Go DRM
gbjbaanb writes "The BBC has been granted provisional approval to introduce copy protection for Freeview HD after they resubmitted an amended plan.
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Ursula Le Guin's Petition Against Google Books
Miracle Jones blogs about the petition against the Google Book Settlement created by science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin, winner of five Hugo awards and six Nebulas.
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Artwork Re-Sells Itself Weekly On eBay
Lanxon writes "How much would you pay for a piece of artwork that you could only own for a week?
in Dezeen
Frame House by The Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative
Canadian studio The Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative have completed a timber-clad house designed to frame views from a hill in Invermere, Canada.
in magCulture
SPD judging II
Judging wrapped up earlier today, sooner than expected partly because there were less entries than last year.
in Dezeen
Cultural Centre Association by RMDM Architects
French Architects RMDM have completed a cultural centre near Paris, clad with horizontal strips of poplar wood and ceramic tiles.
in swissmiss
Stelton Vacuum Jug
I simply love the classic Stelton Vacuum Jug. Just noticed that it’s heavily on sale over at abitareshop.com! (And yes, I designed that site!)
in Dezeen
Tripod table by Noon Studio
Designers Noon Studio of London and Avignon have designed a table with wooden legs pushed through its terracotta top.
in Design Observer: Main Posts
Today, 01.23.10
Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's TODAY.
in AIGA Design Forum: Home
The Wide, Wide World of Graphic Design
Design educator Vavetsi prepares students for the real world of designing for clients’ needs, not their own.
in Dezeen
Booth-generator by students from Trier University of Applied Science
Cologne 2010: students at Trier University of Applied Science in Germany have built a stand at design fair imm Cologne by stacking up pizza boxes.
in magCulture
SPD judging
Yesterday afternoon and all day today has been taken up with judging for SPD, poring over tables of magazines and giving each marks out of five.
in Six Revisions
Amazing Computer Concept Designs You Wish Were Real
Concept designs are wonderful because they give us a glimpse of the future and push the industry towards innovation and outside-of-the-box thinking, but agitating because we know we can't have them ri
in Fontblog
Ein historischer Abend [Update 2]
FF Nuvo Medium Web (.woff) laden …
Firefox 3.6 (D) laden auf mozilla.de …
Mozilla über das .woff-Font-Format …
Typeforum: Ein neues Schriftformat für das Web?
Hintergrundwissen aus de
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So kannst Du den ersten .woff-Font testen
Seit vorgestern bietet FontShop den ersten .woff-Font zum Ausprobieren an (vgl.: Ein historischer Abend).
in Six Revisions
60 Sites with Attractive Typographical Introductions
We've managed to put together a collection that features 60 website designs with amazing use of typography for introductions for your design inspiration!
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Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases
adeelarshad82 writes "In an attempt to put an end to dangerous police high speed chases, scientists at Eureka Aerospace have developed an electromagnetic pulse gun called the High Power Electromagneti
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Red Hat Support Continues To Flourish
ruphus13 writes "As the pure-play Open Source companies continue to dwindle, Red Hat has thrived through the recession. Its support revenues have grown 20+%, and account for 75+% of its revenues.
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News Experiment To Rely Only On Facebook, Twitter
snydeq writes "With a setup ripped right out of a reality show — or, perhaps more fittingly, 'The Shining' — a French-language public broadcasters association will put five journalists in
in Slashdot
Data Mining Competition To Improve Drug Safety
An anonymous reader writes "The OMOP Cup is a competition to find new methods for detecting drug side effects.
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15-Year-Old Student Discovers New Pulsar
For the second time in as many years a student has made a discovery while participating in the Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC), a joint program between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and W
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Judge Lowers Jammie Thomas' Damages to $54,000
An anonymous reader writes "Judge Michael Davis has slashed the amount Jammie Thomas-Rassett is said to owe Big Music from almost $2,000,000 to $54,000.
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Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise
superapecommando writes "Too many hours spent playing videogames indoors is contributing to a rise in rickets, according to a new study by doctors.
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IBM Sets Areal Density Record for Magnetic Tape
digitalPhant0m writes to tell us that IBM researchers have set a new world record for areal data density on linear magnetic tape weighing it at around 29.5 billion bits per square inch.
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New Brain Scans Can Spot PTSD
Neuroscientists think they may have found a scientific method to identify post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using a brain imaging method call magnetoencephalography (MEG).
in Slashdot
Slime Mold Could Lead To Better Tech
FiReaNGeL writes to tell us that recent observation of slime mold could eventually lead the way to improved tech like better computer and communications networks.
in Slashdot
The Social Media Marketing Book
brothke writes "The fact that President Barack Obama has over 7 million Facebook fans, and First Lady Michelle Obama over 650,000 fans, are confirmation that social media has come of age.
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Court Rules WHOIS Privacy Illegal For Spammers
Unequivocal writes "Spammers hiding behind a WHOIS privacy service have been found in violation of CAN-SPAM.
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Space Station Astronauts Gain Internet Access
cyclone96 writes "Internet access on the International Space Station went live this morning.
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4 Out of 5 of .gov Web Sites Miss DNSSEC Deadline
netbuzz writes "Eighty percent US federal agencies — including the Department of Homeland Security — have missed a deadline to deploy DNS Security Extensions, a new authentication mechanis
in Slashdot
Heat Engines Shrunk By Seven Orders of Magnitude
KentuckyFC writes "The vast majority of motors that power our planes, trains, and automobiles are heat engines. They rely on the rapid expansion of gas as it heats up to generate movement.
in Design Observer: Main Posts
Visualizing the Future of Environmental Design
UC Berkeley Spring Program
College of Environmental Design
2.3.10 – 2.6.10
in Design Observer: Main Posts
Why Not in My Backyard?
Mitch Epstein's photo of Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond City, West Virginia 2004, from his book American Power (Steidl, 2009).
in Design Observer: Main Posts
The Public Works
Why isn't the Great Recession inspiring a new New Deal?
in Design Observer: Main Posts
Aspen Design Summit: Update 01.15.10
Dateline Aspen. An on-going report on progress on the six projects developed at the Aspen Design Summit in November 2009.
in Dezeen
72 Collective Housing Units by LAN Architecture
Paris studio LAN Architecture have designed apartment blocks for Bordeaux where each residence will have an adaptable loggia.
in Wired
Removing Part of Skull Gives Better Brain Scans
Scanning the brain with electroencephalography without the skull in the way makes for stronger, clearer signals.
in Wired
Designers Unearth Apple Tablet Prototypes — From 1983
Designers at Frog Design recently uncovered photos of Apple tablet prototypes they created for Steve Jobs more than 25 years ago.
in Wired The United States will not reach its 2020 goal of detecting all large asteroids that may collide with Earth, a new blue-ribbon panel of scientists has concluded.
in swissmiss Another find via Bobulate:Bigger, Better Telescopes Needed to Find Near-Earth Asteroids
A long complicated sentence…
A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that it lets you stop an
in swissmiss
Limited Edition Letterpress Drop Cap Prints
If you like my studio mate Jessica’s Daily Drop Cap and also love letterpress, then this brandnew limited edition print is a must have. Jessica brought one into the studio and it made me gasp!
in magCulture
Mags on a plane
You won’t be surprised to hear I read a bunch of magazines on the flight over to NY.
I tried my best to engage with Monocle, but much of it is so willfully obscure it becomes irritating.
in Dezeen
Neil Barrett scenography by AquiliAlberg
Italian studio AquiliAlberg created angular scenography for fashion designer Neil Barrett’s catwalk show in Milan last week.
in Dezeen
The Birth by Studio Job
Artists Studio Job have opened a gallery space in Antwerp with an inaugural exhibition featuring their own projects.
in Dezeen
Eurovisions by Fantastic Norway
Designers Fantastic Norway of Olso have created an exhibition comprising overlapping cityscape silhouettes at DogA (Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture) in Oslo.
in Fontblog
Diplomschau in Nürnberg
(… ein rotes Kleid sind doch immer wieder ein Hingucker …)
Die Studierenden des Studiengangs Design an der Georg-Simon-Ohm-Hochschule Nürnberg stellen ihre Diplomarbeiten der Öffentlic
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»Best of Newspaper Design« in Hamburg
Seit heute zeigt der Axel Springer Verlag in seiner Hamburger Passage (Caffamacherreihe 1) die Ausstellung »The Best of Newspaper Design« der Society for News Design (bis 12.
in thinkvitamin
RT @ryancarson: Vimeo also announces HTML5 support http://bit.ly/4syLGN (thx @dennisimo) #tv
RT @ryancarson: Vimeo also announces HTML5 support http://bit.ly/4syLGN (thx @denn
in Boagworld
197. Energise your ecommerce
This week on Boagworld: We examine ways to improve the conversion rate on your ecommerce site, review CSS Mastery 2nd Edition and take a look at Zen Coding.
in swissmiss
Start with the doorknob
Liz Danzico liberally paraphrasing Jeff Veen’s approach of starting from the bottom up in the The Art & Science of Web Design.
Start with the doorknob.
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Minimal Notebook Shouldercase
Stylish and simple, take care of you notebook with this hip slung premium leather Shouldercase ByThreads.
in thinkvitamin
RT @ryancarson: YouTube rolls out videos in HTML5 http://bit.ly/8U6bkx #tv
RT @ryancarson: YouTube rolls out videos in HTML5 http://bit.ly/8U6bkx
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