Links for January 29th through February 15th
processing.core the processing developer reference is very handy.
Muhneer blog fantastic student blog, including his experiences building a multitouch display. definitely a cool resource.
Siftables Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them – piling, grouping, sorting – to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.
the daily mariks > documentary about objectum sexuals if you had to marry an object, what would you choose?
Taking Apart the $819 billion Stimulus Package – washingtonpost.com not the clearest visualization. could benefit from some compactness, perhaps via mouse interaction/exploration. but definitely a lot of good research and data in here.
Craigslist Foundation Blog craigslist foundation started their blog
Trackmate sweet tangible media project open sourcing and DIYing a nice, simple, inexpensive webcam-based tangible interface. via kjhollen.
Installing Oracle Instant Client on Mac OS X | Digital Sanctum nice basic sqlplus+oracle setup for mac.
www.lettersfromvietnam.com “For the first time, I’m reading hundreds of letters that my father sent to my mother before, during, and after his tour in Vietnam. I don’t know what they say and I don’t know where this is going, so we’ll be finding out at the same time. He passed away in 1992 when he was 44 years old, but they begin when he was 19. She was 17…”
Seed: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic bruce sterling’s more pessimistic take on the future. “Indeed, the year 2009 is shaping up as a planetary Enron. Enron was always the Banquo’s ghost at the banquet of Bushonomics. The moguls of Enron really were the princes of contemporary business innovation, and the harbingers of the present day.”
Seed: The True 21st Century Begins “Eight years late, the 20th century has finally departed us this year. It will never return.” bruce sterling’s optimistic piece on what we’re collectively in for next.
Bacolicio.us ~Mmmm, Bacon~ this really is helpful. these guys are genius.
Bacolicio.us ~Mmmm, Bacon~ amazing bacon on the taco
BRIO Wooden Toys – Network wow, amazing brio network playing toys.
The web in the world great presentation by Timo Arnall on the web of things, pervasive/ubicomp, etc. via oreilly radar
I LEGO N.Y. – Abstract City Blog – NYTimes.com cute lego depictions of nyc. via tang.
build.kiva: Blog – Introducing the Kiva API wow, the kiva api is out. so great to see them continue on this awesome trajectory.
Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project big distributed database using http/json api. written in erlang. weird.
making friends with hill shading (tecznotes) lovely article/tutorial on hill shading.
transit data (tecznotes) stamen dude’s transit database, scraped from 511.org
Jump Associates via huned. growth strategy firm. some combo of social research, design, and business. gotta say, it looks a little too new age though.