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Idle Words | Good Ideas I Have Had In The Past Year
"Pandas genetically engineered to eat only koala bears."
free  ideas  2006 
january 2007 by bkerr
Julian Bleecker | Theory Objects & Design Patterns
"There's a good reason for a Theory Object being a kind of Theory Object, and it's about design patterns for design itself."
design  objects  things  ideas  patterns  architecture  language 
april 2006 by bkerr
mySociety | Proposals 2006
The time has come to open the call for proposals up again, this time with one difference: we pledge to build the winning project, using a combination of some of the leftover cash and the help of any willing volunteers.
mysociety  online  social  coordination  ideas 
april 2006 by bkerr
cityofsound: How can the design of digital surfaces help engender trust?
"People are often drawn into deeper relationships with objects that indicate patterns of usage, signs of graceful aging."
design  social  patterns  ideas 
february 2006 by bkerr
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006
Like George said, best link of the year (so far).
dangerous  ideas  humans  culture  science  politics  religion  future 
january 2006 by bkerr
Perl.com: Ten Essential Development Practices
Like George says, good ideas "even" if you don't write Perl yourself.
perl  web  development  process  ideas  via:revgeorge 
december 2005 by bkerr
Edge of Sports
David Zirin's web site, intriguing columns about the intersection of politics and sport in the USA, from a left-leaning Michigander perspective. (Found in Critical Moment #13.)
politics  sport  ideas  immediast 
november 2005 by bkerr
CSCS & Physics Department present: John von Neumann Celebration
100th birthday, mega attendees. Sept 30th 1:00 - 4:30 @ Rackham.
annarbor  umich  math  science  ideas  past  future  events  awesome 
september 2005 by bkerr
Don Norman's jnd.org | In praise of Good Design
"This page illustrates products that have some special positive characteristic worthy of comment."
design  ui  ideas  brand 
august 2005 by bkerr
HobbyPrincess | Links create value
"New services are already enabling people to link to objects. They include recommendation systems like last.fm for music. There are also services for annotating physical objects ... and places ... These services are not 'only' social software."
plazes  web  ideas  future 
august 2005 by bkerr
Wired 13.08 | We Are the Web
Kevin Kelly has seen the future and it is...
internet  past  web  future  axiomatic  ideas  brand  $ 
july 2005 by bkerr
90% Crud | Google Maps thoughts
"Your homework assignment tonight is to think about what common types of data people have, and what kind of UI widget could be created specifically for browsing that data."
web  google  maps  api  humans  ideas 
july 2005 by bkerr
Wired 13.07 | God's Little Toys
"We seldom legislate new technologies into being."
rights  lit  sf  future  language  media  ideas 
july 2005 by bkerr
Business Week | The Power Of Us
"Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business"
via:vielmetti  classification  web  $  ideas 
june 2005 by bkerr
MIT Press | Disclosing New Worlds
"Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity."
toread  $  biz  brand  labor  ideas 
may 2005 by bkerr
Foreign Policy: Apocalypse Soon, by Robert McNamara
"It is time--well past time, in my view--for the United States to cease its Cold War-style reliance on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy tool."
politics  war  past  future  ideas  via:mousemusings 
may 2005 by bkerr
90% Crud: Google Web Accelerator
"Google's name on [this] one is inviting a shitstorm. ... let's talk about why Google is providing this."
google  web  storage  classification  ideas  search 
may 2005 by bkerr
mates
"A location-based social networking system" -- looks like fun.
umich  im  ideas 
may 2005 by bkerr
Social Explorer Home
"Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format, data maps."
maps  images  ideas  numeracy  via:strudeau 
april 2005 by bkerr
RoboRanch | The Illusion of Design
Richard Dawkins on "intelligent design" and the deception of appearances.
christians  design  past  science  ideas 
april 2005 by bkerr
Banksy | A guide to cutting stencils
"Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit."
ideas  design 
april 2005 by bkerr
Wonderland
Blog with interesting coverage of GDC and other game stuff.
games  design  ideas 
march 2005 by bkerr
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker
His new book, due out this fall, in part a reaction to Wolfram's recent "activity."
interesting  lit  math  science  past  ideas  $ 
march 2005 by bkerr
Smackerel | When bevelled edges were cool
"The artist in a low-res medium is never more than a collaborator; the medium always makes its presence felt, through wood grain, or NTSC interlacing, or chunky 8 bit pixels."
ideas  design  ui  past  art 
february 2005 by bkerr
Rands In Repose | Organics and Mechanics
Another part of his emerging HOWTO for surviving in an office.
productivity  ideas  personality 
february 2005 by bkerr
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin (Zarf, creator of System's Twilight)
The call-and-response (aka Rez) game mechanic in interactive fiction.
games  lit  if  ideas  love  inform 
february 2005 by bkerr
The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference
"ADOHC Is a great place to find out about programming techniques and other topics of interest to developers. Here's a collection papers from some of our past shows." (2001-2004; now called MacHack.)
mac  software  ideas 
february 2005 by bkerr
Interview with Alan Moore
"The entire universe--for one thing--only exists in your perceptions."
comics  sf  lit  ideas 
february 2005 by bkerr
The Observer | Interview: Deborah Wearing
"Twenty years ago, an everyday virus destroyed Clive Wearing's brain. Now, all he can remember is music - and his wife. Here, Deborah Wearing tells Louise France how their enduring love has become the one constant in a marriage without memory."
past  ideas  memory 
january 2005 by bkerr
Massive Change: The Future of Global Design (Bruce Mau)
"For many of us, design is invisible. We live in a world that is ... thoroughly configured by human effort ... And yet, the power of design to transform and affect every aspect of daily life is gaining widespread public awareness."
evaluate-me  ideas  design 
january 2005 by bkerr
Joho the Blog | Web as world
"We find ourselves in a world shared by others. Connection comes first. Isolation and alienation are withdrawals from the pre-existence of what is shared. I think that helps explain why some sites 'work' and others don't."
web  design  ideas  weblogs  ui  si  inspiration 
january 2005 by bkerr
New Scientist | Novel calendar system creates regular dates
"A US physicist is lobbying for people to adopt his novel calendar in which every date falls on the same day of the week each year."
ideas  numeracy  time-be-time 
january 2005 by bkerr
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