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Mom Was Right: Go Outside
"What this research suggests, however, is that we need to make time to escape from everyone else, to explore those parts of the world that weren't designed for us. It's when we are lost in the wild that the mind is finally at home."
nature  mind  behavior  psychology  brain  childern 
4 days ago
microjs
"Micro-frameworks are definitely the pocketknives of the JavaScript library world: short, sweet, to the point. And at 5k and under, micro-frameworks are very very portable. A micro-framework does one thing and one thing only — and does it well. No cruft, no featuritis, no feature creep, no excess anywhere."
js  framework  webdevelopment 
8 days ago
Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible
"People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality.... I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself."
culture  religion  morality 
10 days ago
Egg case (Chondrichthyes)
"An egg case or egg capsule, colloquially known as a mermaid's purse or devil's purse, is a casing that surrounds the fertilized eggs of some sharks, skates, and chimaeras." from Wikipedia.
nature  biology  marine 
19 days ago
Privacy Patterns
"Privacy patterns are design solutions to common privacy problems - a way to translate 'privacy-by-design' into practical advice for software engineering."
privacy  patterns  webdevelopment 
4 weeks ago
Voyagers' Never-Ending Journey
"Should extraterrestrials ever intercept it, that fact may speak volumes. It suggests that however primitive and ignorant we were, something in us was expansive enough to consider that we were not the universe’s only scientists, nor its only explorers."
space  astronomy  culture 
5 weeks ago
On the Trail of the White Horse
"Looking back, that's when I knew the search was over. We didn't ease up—we soon got back on the trail and kept beating the brush until daylight faded—but the adrenaline charge which had kept us hammering for three days had been subtly re-channeled from urgency into potency. No one said it, but we'd begun to enjoy the run, to the point where it felt less like a rescue and more like a tribute."
running  ultrarunning 
6 weeks ago
The Crisis in American Walking
"...in an America enraptured by the cultural prosthesis that is the automobile, walking has become a lost mode, perceived as not a legitimate way to travel but a necessary adjunct to one’s car journey ... As with many forms of physical activity, walking has been engineered out of existence."
exercise  health  culture  fitness 
6 weeks ago
Dotsies
"Dotsies is a font that uses dots instead of letters. The latin alphabet (abc...) was created thousands of years ago, and is optimized for writing, not reading. About time for an update, no? Dotsies is optimized for reading. The letters in each word smoosh together, so words look like shapes."
reading  typography  experimental  fonts 
8 weeks ago
Wind Map
"Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. These are near-term forecasts, updated once per hour. So what you're seeing is close to live data."
map  visualization  weather 
8 weeks ago
Alan Lomax Music Archive: 1946 - 1990s
"The Sound Recordings catalog comprises over 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s.... Alan Lomax was a musicologist, writer and producer who spent his life capturing in sound, photographs, video and research what today is termed our 'intangible heritage.'"
music  history  culture  sound 
8 weeks ago
Cowbird
"Cowbird is a small community of storytellers, focused on a deeper, longer-lasting, more personal kind of storytelling than you’re likely to find anywhere else on the Web.... Our long-term goal is to build a public library of human experience."
communication  storytelling  web  culture 
9 weeks ago
Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Are Great for Creativity
"The larger lesson is that those sleepy students, like a brain-damaged patient, benefit from the inability to focus. Their minds are drowsy and disorganized, humming with associations that they’d normally ignore. When we need an insight, of course, those stray associations are the source of the answer."
science  brain  creativity 
10 weeks ago
List of fictional medicines and drugs
"This is a list of fictional medicines and drugs from works of fiction (usually fantasy or science fiction). Some of the items listed as medicines or drugs, may be used as both or in other capacities, but fictional works are often vague on such distinctions." from Wikipedia.
fiction  medicine  fun 
10 weeks ago
A World Without People
"Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more."
photography  environment  culture  nature 
10 weeks ago
Two Ways To Think About Nothing
"I'm going to show you two kinds of nothing. The first is a small patch of space, way, way out in the universe, remote from everything, with nothing in it ... And next, I'm going to show you a painting. Except it isn't a painting, it's a canvas, on which you see...absolutely nothing."
science  space  art 
10 weeks ago
Science Hack Day
"Imagine a Venn diagram showing the intersection of web geeks and science geeks ...that's a pretty big intersection. Science Hack Day is for anyone with an interest in bringing science and technology together. If you're a coder, designer, scientist, hacker or just an enthusiastic person with good ideas, Science Hack Day is for you."
web  science  community  coding 
11 weeks ago
Synthetic Digital Ecologies
ACADIA | 2012 Conference. "The conference will highlight experimental research and projects that explore the reciprocity and synergy between bits and atoms, the digital and the physical, and between digital code and material logic. The conference will bring together designers, researchers and practitioners who engage, question and aspire to stretch these boundaries. Architects, fabricators, engineers, media artists, technologists, hackers and others in related fields of inquiry are invited to participate."
conference  digital  technology  media  art 
11 weeks ago
Responsive.is
Display and present responsive web designs.
responsivedesign  webtools 
11 weeks ago
Vim Commands Cheat Sheet
linux  cheatsheet  reference 
11 weeks ago
REDbot
RED is a robot that checks HTTP resources to see how they'll behave, pointing out common problems and suggesting improvements.
http  web  testing 
11 weeks ago
The Scale of the Universe 2
From Planck length to gigaparsec ... and beyond!
science  awesome 
february 2012
Pears
"Collect, test, and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS & HTML. Pears is an open source WordPress theme, enabling people like you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly."
wordpress  patterns  html  css 
february 2012
Nychthemeron
"Nychthemeron is a period of 24 consecutive hours. It is sometimes used, especially in technical literature, to avoid the ambiguity inherent in the term day." from Wikipedia.
words 
february 2012
Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic
"...clicking the like button 1 billion times will never give you an orgasm or a hug or a high five....Get on, make the most meaningful information and connections, and then get offline. Then, live purposefully towards happiness."
culture  happiness  psychology  technology 
february 2012
Industrial Piping, Recycled Into One of a Kind Shelving
It's been years since I disassembled my iron pipe furniture. Now, for all the patient iron in the basement, my next project. [January 14 at 11:27am]
craft  project 
january 2012
The Rise of the New Groupthink
"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in." from NYT.
culture  ideas  creativity  education 
january 2012
Blue Marble
"Taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP, this composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012." Original size: 8000 x 8000.
earth  photography 
january 2012
Ellipsis
"The triple-dot punctuation mark is also called a suspension point, points of ellipsis, periods of ellipsis, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot." from Wikipedia.
typography  punctuation  writing 
january 2012
Years
"A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music, 2011." Bartholomäus Traubeck.
art  sound  music 
january 2012
The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram
"Relative to the témoins and to the national standards, Le Grand K has been losing weight — or, by the definition of mass under the metric system, the rest of the universe has been getting fatter."
physics  science  standards 
january 2012
Amazing Archive of High-Res Photos from NASA’s Gemini Missions
"The Project Gemini Online Digital Archive, released this weekend by NASA and Arizona State University, features high-resolution digital scans from the original Gemini flight films."
space  photography  digitization 
january 2012
McGurk effect
"The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound." from Wikipedia.
audio  cognition  perception  psychology  visual 
january 2012
Why Ignorance Is a Democracy's Bliss
"Nevertheless, this research helps to explain the importance of indifference in a partisan age. ...It's the people who don't know very much who make democracy possible."
psychology  research 
january 2012
The Dangerous Effects of Reading
"In our personal lives we tend to optimize for one of two things: input or output. Reading or writing. Consuming or creating. The environment we live in – the prevailing culture – by default is optimized for consumption."
creativity  productivity  happiness  information  culture 
january 2012
The Whole Fracking Enchilada
"I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time." from Orion.
environment  energy  climate  water  health  geology 
january 2012
Nature's Spoils
"If they have a connecting thread, it’s their distrust of 'dead, anonymous, industrialized, genetically engineered, and chemicalized corporate food.'" from The New Yorker.
food  health  nature  gmo 
january 2012
Anatomy Of An Idea
"The discovery process is remarkably social, and the social interactions come in amazingly diverse forms....People who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly."
books  ideas  research  methodology  internet  web 
december 2011
Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
"Chris Poole - founder of anonymous image sharing den 4chan - gave us a rousing and principled picture of what the big players get wrong about online identity."
internet  web  identity 
december 2011
Mind vs. Machine
"As computers have mastered rarefied domains once thought to be uniquely human, they simultaneously have failed to master the ground-floor basics of the human experience—spatial orientation, object recognition, natural language, adaptive goal-setting—and in so doing, have shown us how impressive, computationally and otherwise, such minute-to-minute fundamentals truly are." from The Atlantic.
brain  mind  technology  human  hci 
december 2011
Support Vs Optimization
"As more connected devices enter the landscape, it’s important to discuss how we as web creators are going to deal with the sheer number of devices, browsers, operating systems, and form factors. Moving forward we need to consider the difference between support and optimization."
web  mobile  browsers  futurefriendly 
december 2011
Graham's number
"Indeed, the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies at least one Planck volume." from Wikipedia.
math 
december 2011
What I Learned About the Web in 2011
"Embrace change, complexity, and most importantly, the community." from A List Apart.
web  webdesign  webdevelopment  technology  trend 
december 2011
Apps and web apps and the future
"I think instead that we’ll see a more tangled future. Native apps will use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript more. Web apps will appear more often on smart phones as launchable apps. Native apps will support linking in and out more. Web apps will move more processing to the client — they’ll be written more like native apps."
web  apps  api  mobile  linking 
december 2011
Why apps are not the future
"The great thing about the web is linking. I don't care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can't link in and out of your world, it's not even close to a replacement for the web."
web  apps  mobile  linking  hypertext 
december 2011
Click consonant
"The essence of a click is a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism. However, in nasal clicks the nasalization involves a separate nasal airstream, generally pulmonic egressive but occasionally pulmonic ingressive. Similarly, voiced clicks also require a simultaneous pulmonic egressive airstream to power the voiced phonation." from Wikipedia.
language  mind 
december 2011
China's Abandoned Wonderland
"In Chenzhuang Village, China, about 20 miles northwest of central Beijing, the ruins of a partially built amusement park called Wonderland sit near a highway, surrounded by houses and fields of corn."
photography  culture 
december 2011
Planetary Landscapes
"In the last decade, the multimedia artist Michael Benson has staged a series of large-scale exhibitions of planetary landscape photography. He takes raw image data from deep-space missions run by NASA and the European Space Agency and digitally processes it to create large-format landscapes." from NYT.
space  photography 
december 2011
The Extraordinary Syllabus of David Foster Wallace
"Wallace doesn’t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students."
education  literature  learning  thinking 
december 2011
again with the post digital
"Post Digital was a suggestion that, maybe, we needed to get over that and start thinking about the next phase, the phase where it got integrated into the world. What will we do, I was asking, when we can take all this connectivity for granted? When it’s no longer special or interesting? What will we build then?"
technology  culture  future 
december 2011
Move The Web Forward
"You love web standards. You want to give back to the community. Curious about where to start? We're here to help."
web  webstandards  browsers  webdevelopment  html5 
november 2011
The Pummeling Pages
"They’re filled with ads and social-media sharing buttons — and more ads. And Google plus-onesies and Facebook likeys. And also more ads. Plus tweet-this-es. Plus ads. (And, under-the-hood, a whole cruise-ship-full of analytics. The page required well-more than 100 http calls.)"
reading  web  content  ux 
november 2011
Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus
"'Octopuses,' writes philosopher Godfrey-Smith, 'are a separate experiment in the evolution of the mind.' And that, he feels, is what makes the study of the octopus mind so philosophically interesting." from Orion Magazine.
biology  brain  animals  mind  intelligence 
november 2011
Amblypygi
"...Amblypygids are also known as whip spiders and tailless whip scorpions..." from Wikipedia.
nature  biology 
november 2011
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
"I call this technology Pictures Under Glass. Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade....Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It's a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it's the star player in every Vision Of The Future."
design  future  interaction  ui  ux  body  hci 
november 2011
Space Ipsum
"Have you ever needed filler text, but wished you had more exciting options then the generic 'lorem ipsum' variations? If so, you are in luck! We’ve created this space themed random content generator that uses phrases from historic moments in spaceflight."
webdevelopment  fun  words  space 
november 2011
Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
"Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion."
brain  neuroscience  fitness  movement 
november 2011
Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize
"Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the processes and skills of the subconscious mind, which our conscious selves rarely consider."
brain  neuroscience 
november 2011
In conversation: Alison Gopnik
"On what’s wrong with the way we teach." Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.
education  learning  children  brain  philosophy  psychology 
november 2011
Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness
"Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life."
culture  space  stuff  happiness 
october 2011
1197
"The first camera phone photo was taken on June 11th, 1997. In honor of that date, 1197 is a one-day conference dedicated to mobile & iPhone photography."
mobile  conference  photography 
october 2011
It’s the end of the web as we know it
"The promise of the open web looks increasingly uncertain...But all the things that matter will be controlled and owned by a very small number of Big Web companies. Your identity will be your accounts at Facebook, Google and Twitter, not the domain name you own."
web  social  technology  data  identity 
october 2011
the average font - a set on Flickr
"Every character from a to z is drawn using every single font with a low opacity."
typography  design  fonts 
september 2011
Being vegetarian a dangerous idea: Foer
''There are ideas that can literally put you in physical danger, which this one can,'' he says. ''There are ideas that are socially dangerous, which this one is. There are ideas that are dangerous because of their potential to change things in a dramatic way, which this one also is. So by most definitions, I would say that not eating animals is a dangerous idea.''
vegetarian  food  culture  ideas 
september 2011
Why the Impossible Happens More Often
"Connected, in real time, in multiple dimensions, at an increasingly global scale, in matters large and small, with our permission, we will operate at a new level, and we won't cease surprising ourselves with impossible achievements."
future  web  technology  culture 
september 2011
LukeW | Future Friendly
"Only reacting to what's happening today puts us further behind as new changes come quicker and quicker. We need to look to the future. Yet we don't know exactly what will happen, so we can't be future proof. But we can be future friendly."
webstandards  future  technology 
september 2011
ugEXPLODE Records
music  label 
september 2011
Future Friendly
"In today's incredibly exciting yet overwhelming world of connected digital devices, these are the truths we hold to be self-evident:"
manifesto  future  technology  webstandards 
september 2011
The Elusive Big Idea
"We have become information narcissists..." from NYT.
culture  ideas  history  technology  philosophy  innovation 
august 2011
Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
a side-by-side reference sheet
php  python  perl  cheatsheet 
august 2011
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
"But how do our browsers and the web actually work? How has the World Wide Web evolved into what we know and love today? And what do we need to know to navigate the web safely and efficiently?"
browsers  html5  web 
august 2011
Food Sense
"Food Sense is a unique resource for thoughtful, food-loving eaters and home cooks who have a palate for plant-based eating."
food  recipe  wdi 
august 2011
The UX of Learning
"While roughly consistent with Bloom’s Taxonomy, her research yielded much greater insight into the sequential nature of learning and its implications on the digital environment." from A List Apart.
design  education  learning  usability  ux 
august 2011
#rorschmap
"Rorschmap is cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything."
map  fun 
july 2011
Content management, markup, and doing it wrong
"In short, I think that markup is too important to be left in the hands of the people who make content management systems. They all too often don’t care enough about it, and they can never know the context that you will be using it in, and so in my opinion they shouldn’t be trying to guess."
cms  markup  frontend  webdevelopment 
july 2011
Don’t use IDs in CSS selectors?
"Save IDs for fragment identifiers or JavaScript hooks."
css  bestpractices 
july 2011
Free WordPress Themes: 2011 Edition
from Smashing Magazine.
wordpress  theme 
july 2011
CSS1K
A demonstration of what can be accomplished with only 1 K (Kibibyte) of CSS.
css  design 
july 2011
loads.in
loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide.
web  performance 
july 2011
The Connected States of America
"The Connected States of America illustrates the emerging communities based on the social interactions through the use of anonymized mobile phone data."
map  interactive  data  visualization 
july 2011
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