These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan Kay had just become the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work with him to continue the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the idea of an Intelligent Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the (future) encyclopedia might be used and commissioned Glenn Keane, a well-known Disney animator to render them. The captions also date from 1982.

Q was birthed out of Gabe Lyons’ vision to see Christians, especially leaders, recover a vision for their historic responsibility to renew and restore cultures. Inspired by Chuck Colson’s statement, “Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals,” Gabe set out to reintroduce Christians to what had seemed missing in recent decades from an American expression of Christian faithfulness; valuing both personal and cultural renewal, not one over the other. Re-educating Christians to this orthodox and unifying concept has become central to the vision of Q.

Make called Bill a "brilliant science-and-technology documentarian", whose "videos should be held up as models of how to present complex technical information visually" Wired called them "dazzling." You can see 10 of his best videos below. Series #4 will be out in the fall. To learn about its companion book click on cover image.

An amazing take by an anonymous user on Quora on why Apple products sometimes seem so superior. Because they are. Because they get them before anyone else.

Releasing the same month as the iPad 2, Mead has taken a big risk with its new 100 Notebook series. Built around a minimal feature set and a low price point, the company is banking that the robust word-processing capabilities and ultraportable design will offer an appealing alternative to the latest tablets and netbooks. Buzz about the Mead 100 has been circulating in the tech blogosphere for months, but with such high expectations, can the notebook deliver?

"Fitness-faking technology" - a chillingly plausible explanation of Fermi's paradox: /via @timoreilly

Projects: wii remote projects, $14 steadycam, giant paint balloon slingshot, projector calibration, brain-computer interaction, kinetic typography, electric cello,..

In this podcast James Avery talks with Scott Porad about the technologies they use to build one of the funniest sites on the web. They talk about ASP.NET, PHP, application architecture, the cost of using Microsoft tools and technologies, hiring at a startup, startup strategy, and much more.

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