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Makematics
Mathematics for Makers - see sidebar for first articles.
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7 weeks ago by TomC
Being Funny | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
"This was my 16th appearance on the show, and the first one I could really call a smash. The next day, elated by my success, I walked into an antiques store on La Brea. The woman behind the counter looked at me.

"Are you that boy who was on "The Tonight Show" last night?"

"Yes," I said.

"Yuck!" she blurted out."
stevemartin  articles  careers  fame  people 
7 weeks ago by TomC
The Great Tablet Flood | Punchcut
Nicely presented overview of forthcoming hardware and trends in tablets.
tablets  hardware  apple  ipad  android  ios  sony  google  business  punchcut  articles 
10 weeks ago by TomC
The Wheels Of Steel: An Ode To Turntables (in HTML)
Amazingly thorough article about Scott Schiller's "Wheels of Steel" CSS/JS prototype. There's a lot to learn from this demo about how to structure a page, wire up dynamic javascript elements, etc. And also how to document things. *applause*
html  css  javascript  css3  html5  audio  wheelsofsteel  articles  scottschiller  from delicious
june 2011 by TomC
Cross-Browser Event Handling Using Plain ole JavaScript
Thorough overview of the issues around cross browser DOM events.
javascript  events  dom  articles 
june 2010 by TomC
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Unusually concise Paul Graham article that nails a point I've been trying to make for years.
paulgraham  management  programming  time  articles  planning  work  productivity  meetings  business  human_condition 
july 2009 by TomC
Tom Steinberg: Open house in Westminster - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
mySociety's Tom Steinberg on why the current vogue for political reform should focus on things that just weren't possible before the internet. Everything else has had 200 years of chance and clearly isn't compelling enough.
mysociety  tomsteinberg  uk  politics  reform  activism  independent  articles  digitalbritain 
june 2009 by TomC
Starting a Design Studio In a Downturn, Part 1: Taking Leaps | Design for the New Economy | Fast Company
"We knew who we wanted to be when we grew up and how we would avoid becoming our parents." ... "the downturn hadn't quite hit its full stride when we decided to start the company, now called Kicker Studio. The economy wasn't rosy, as I recall, but we still had banks."
jennbove  sanfrancisco  design  companies  kickerstudio  fastcompany  articles  friends 
june 2009 by TomC
Predicting Flu With the Aid of (George) Washington - NYTimes.com
“People have a very weird perception of large numbers,” he said. “If you have 2,000 cases of flu in a country of 300 million, most people think they’re going to be one of the 2,000, not one of the 299,998,000.”
statistics  flu  maps  money  epidemics  wheresgeorge  nytimes  articles  quotes 
may 2009 by TomC
Obama's energy secretary outlines dire climate change scenario | Environment | The Guardian
"We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California. I don't actually see how they can keep their cities going."
california  agriculture  climate  usa  energy  environment  quotes  guardian  articles  politics 
february 2009 by TomC
Generate URIs and IRIs from Templates
Good overview article about URI templates... "http://example.com/{user}" --> "http:/example.com/TomC"
uri  templates  web  urls  ibm  articles 
february 2009 by TomC
Twelve (12) emerging best practice for adding user experience work to agile software development
I guess we have to make sure there's no category error involved when applying methodologies?
agile  ux  articles  diagrams  quadrants 
january 2009 by TomC
OpenStreetMap grows, spawns ecosystem
Ed Freyfogle from Nestoria guest-posting on Techcrunch. Good article.
openstreetmap  nestoria  articles  techcrunch 
november 2008 by TomC
A signal to rebuild public transport - Building Design
I like the spirit of this article, but "The great infrastructure buildings of Europe in the past decade or so have been train stations, occasionally airports, but never car parks or motorway bridges." is wrong. Millau Viaduct anyone? It's a stunning bit of bridge building.
cars  transport  architecture  europe  transit  articles 
november 2008 by TomC
The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Print - Portfolio.com
So basically, colossal risk was transferred to ignorant shareholders and the majority of people involved just cashed out and looked the other way.
wallstreet  housing  realestate  finance  crisis  economics  business  culture  subprime  investing  articles  stories 
november 2008 by TomC
Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run | Film | The Guardian
"If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death. Drink less, cut out red meat, exercise, practice safe sex; these are our shotguns, our cricket bats, our farmhouses, our shopping malls."
simonpegg  uk  tv  guardian  articles  writing  quotes  zombies  deadset  channel4  death 
november 2008 by TomC
interactions magazine
"I think 2005 was the year we began living in the world of commonplace ubiquitous computing devices." – Mike Kuniavsky
ubicomp  articles  mikek 
october 2008 by TomC
The story behind Google Chrome
Good overview from Niall Kennedy, via swillison
google  chrome  browsers  articles  niallkennedy 
september 2008 by TomC
the art of braid
Great gamasutra article about how the game's unique art came together.
games  design  art  painting  braid  gamasutra  articles 
september 2008 by TomC
Infoviz art. - By Amanda Schaffer - Slate Magazine
"How artists are mining data sets to make you see the unseen." – /making/ you see it!
information_visualisation  slate  articles 
september 2008 by TomC
globeandmail.com: The days of urban sprawl are over ...
Richard Florida article I haven't read yet because I'm trying to finish his new book first.
cities  urban  energy  oil  richardflorida  articles  sprawl 
july 2008 by TomC
Signs that you are a bad programmer (Bad Programmers)
It's overly negative, but there's some good stuff in there. (Who wrote it?)
programming  articles 
july 2008 by TomC
adaptive path » blog » Kim Lenox » A Rant on Design Concepts and Confidentiality
from the comments "It’s not the question if you are better or more talented but quicker! ;)"
design  adaptivepath  articles  ndas 
may 2008 by TomC
We're all big babies - Telegraph
How to be an adult, (by Michael Bywater, from 2006)
howto  human_condition  telegraph  articles  infantilism 
april 2008 by TomC
Websites | Hold the front page | Economist.com
"the novelty-based strategy for ordering stories on the home-page proved far superior to the popularity-based one. In other words, digg.com is doing the right thing. However, if the half-life is increased, the situation changes."
research  digg  economist  articles  gametheory  simulations  editing  news  web 
april 2008 by TomC
A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps
This is a really good article from Paul of Everyblock, about their custom maps and how they make them. Sadly he's still not talking seriously about what I think the hard part is: getting data in the first place!
maps  mapping  data  geo  everyblock  alistapart  articles  mapnik  openlayers  openstreetmap 
april 2008 by TomC
Traces of Inspiration » Blog Archive » URL as UI
Nice explanation of hackable URLS: made for humans, or made for machines? There's a third category though: made for SEO.
urls  ui  design  web  articles  comment 
april 2008 by TomC
Food prices | The end of cheap food | Economist.com
Best Economist article I've read for a while - fix world poverty but temporarily screw the urban poor? Who doesn't love a good dilemma?
economics  finance  food  money  politics  poverty  sustainability  economist  articles 
december 2007 by TomC
Most Casual Observer: Everything is Miscellaneous (not!)
In defense of libraries... David Weinberger and Clay Shirky: do your homework. (good book recommendations at the end).
libraries  classification  taxonomy  folksonomy  books  articles  criticism  homework 
october 2007 by TomC
Jörg Friedrich: The Mongol devastations - signandsight
(via cityofsound) "One can only rehearse for future wars in current ones. That hardens people in a different way."
articles  history  war  politics  cities  urban  fire  bombing  nuclear  future  military  world 
october 2007 by TomC
What is browsing—really? A model drawing from behavioural science research
"1) glimpsing a field of vision, 2) selecting or sampling a physical or informational object within the field of vision, 3) examining the object, 4) acquiring the object (conceptually and/or physically) or abandoning it"
browsing  search  information  data  research  articles 
october 2007 by TomC
Mapping a Medusa: The Internet spreads its tentacles: Science News Online, June 23, 2007
"A model of Internet topology using k-shell decomposition" - 20% of nodes can't communicate without using the 'core', and other such findings.
information_visualisation  articles  internet  graphs  networks 
july 2007 by TomC
cab spots
Eddie Elliot took Cabspotting's data on a powers-of-ten walk, through time.
sanfrancisco  gps  cabspotting  stamen  information_visualisation  geo  mapping  maps  graphics  art  design  articles 
june 2007 by TomC
BusinessWeek: IBM's Data-Visualization Champion
"At Big Blue, Martin Wattenberg is developing leading-edge projects to bolster the ability to read, share, and understand data in new ways"
information_visualisation  people  articles  businessweek  wattenberg 
june 2007 by TomC
Speak Up › On “Just”, <em>Awesomeness</em>, and ™
"the same sentence without the “just” sounds far more monumental"
quotes  design  language  words  articles  writing  human_condition  just 
may 2007 by TomC
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