Links for 2005-04-07
Posted April 7, 2005 1:18 AM.
- Amaztype - awesomely beautiful book search engine using the Amazon API
It creates the search terms out of the books it brings back. You can click on the books too. Sweet.
- A picture of the Odeo recording studio from Ev's presentation at ETech
How do you get people to take up a new media delivery system? Help them create content for said delivery system. Very smart.
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A breakdown of where each UK political party stands on key issues
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I think it generally went pretty well - I'll post the notes sometime soon...
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Inspired by Jason Salavon's work - merges together images with a similar tag to create ghostly beautiful composites
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"This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished engineer, Lord Broers who is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee."
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This is possibly the most ridiculously stupid thing I've ever read in my life. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Mike!
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It's called Beyond Human-Centred Design. I want to design for Beyond Humans. That would rock.
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"Indeed, now that the Beyonder realized that he himself was not all that existed, he saw himself as incomplete and felt desire."
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Glad you like the toy, old chap. Missing you already.
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"Lots of fans and even some pros characterize Batman as being crazy. However, the rationale given for this judgment has often had little to do with the realities of mental illness."
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The article seems to imply that these should be used for web use - hopefully designers won't be stupid enough to go along with that...
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And it has a really dumb little visualisation of the people you're getting your bits from...
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Constructed on a helipad at the top of a skyscraping hotel. Astonishing. Extraordinary. Also a little bit freaky and dangerous looking...
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Mm. Classy. Shiny. And most importantly - really really easy!
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Really interesting piece that references some of the work that other people are doing in the area...
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John Belcher and colleagues ... developed a computer applet into which students put the mathematical expressions that describe a given field. "It then pops out a visual representation of what the field looks like," he said.
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"Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on her."
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
Microsoft pulled this screen face trick once already with Verdana / Georgia / Tahoma / Trebuchet. Those fonts are fine and they took bloody ages to become standards in the Macverse. We don't need any more. Did they think we forgot already?
→ Posted by: Miss K at April 7, 2005 6:05 AM
the bbc also have a more comprehensive issues guide where you can choose the parties to be compared...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/issues/html/grid.stm?s1=CON_UK&s2=LAB_UK&s3=LD_UK&x=9&y=11
→ Posted by: tom at April 7, 2005 9:11 AM
So, there are only 3 political parties in the UK now?
→ Posted by: Aaron at April 7, 2005 2:32 PM
"Ivan Pope has rebranded Social Software as 'sMedia'
This is possibly the most ridiculously stupid thing I've ever read in my life. "
You obviously haven't read much then.
→ Posted by: Ivan Pope at April 7, 2005 9:33 PM
Might I suggest this post by The Little Professor as a suitable antidote to Tanya Gold's one-dimensional reinterpretation of Charlotte Bront�?
→ Posted by: ionfish at April 7, 2005 10:06 PM
"Amaztype - awesomely beautiful book search engine using the Amazon API"
Yes... it does look lovely, but sadly it doesn't actually *work* in Mozilla.
→ Posted by: Ava at April 9, 2005 8:12 PM