Need a costume for tonight? In a pinch, going as Google Image Search seems relatively easy, but you’ll probably need body armor or a helmet to stave off the inevitable beating.
Month: October 2005
How to Survive a Robot Uprising
How to survive a robot uprising. I want it. This book will be essential in helping us deal with the future robot rebellion.
The case of the 500 mile email
Here’s a weird sys-admin story about a statistics department that couldn’t send email more than 500 miles. It would definitely be one of those tech-support calls that you choke on.
Introduction to visual math
An introduction to visual math. For those unfamiliar with the likes of golden ratios and the Mandelbrot sets.
How to keep four feet on the ground
A physicist has shown that when you get a wobbly table at a restaurant, it’s pretty much a given that you can rotate the table so it’s no longer unstable. Research courtesty of the great minds at CERN.
Another addictive flash game
Start a chain reaction, another one of those flash games that seems innocuous at first but becomes hard to let go (via cyn-c).
Learning from Times Square
Advertising for the sake of advertising, learning from Times Square. “It has become its own entity; an attraction in its own right. Who cares what its selling?”
Clubbed to death
We have loads of new Seal Club action coming at you. First off, a quick redesign. Got rid of the old look in favour of a cleaner, whiter layout. The page is now entirely swathed in Garamondy goodness or some other serif font.
Now for the fresh meat. Two new interviews for 5Q: Naz Hamid of Absenter and Joen Asmussen of NoScope. They’re fairly short and won’t take too long to read. While we’re on the subject here’s a quick visual recap of the five interviews so far:
That is all.
myStatus plugin for WordPress
Introducing my latest plugin for wordpress: myStatus. It allows you to create a simple personal status page to let the world know what you’re working on.
Great designers realign
Retroscope
A RetroScope is kind of like a personal security camera on a time-delay. Setup a video camera, tivo it, watch yourself 10 minutes later. Sounds like a good party trick.
Helping out an artist
Hey kids, if you’re a fan of the erasure vintage look and want to help out an artist in need, check out Tiphanie’s artworks on the cheap. She was nice enough to help me out on the first new conform series last year (image 16). I ordered one of her Luminary Bliss prints.