tech
177 posts
- A few weeks with my iPad
- My iPad mockup
- Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville invented the Dreamachine, which I first heard…
- Is it Art?, an essay on videogames
- How to make a $10 macro photo studio light tent thing
- Poetry and the Microphone
- The Stylophone is a pocket-sized organ you play with a stylus
- ambient Skype
- A list of obsolete skills
- Scott Rosenberg is giving away paperback editions of his book, Dreaming in Code
- Email Apnea
- Fun with Flickr stats
- The Twitter Curve
- The Web that Wasn't
- LibX for Emory University Libraries
- Is it me, or is there subversive body language in this Apple promo video?
- Liz Danzico analyzes the closing phrases we use in e-mail
- A note from Management
- A friend at work got a RipStik
- A timeline of things that have gone or will go extinct from 1950-2050
- Scott Underwood and Merlin Mann talk about productivity stuff
- NYT article about fashion
- Wikimindmap maps out the subtopics and links in Wikipedia articles
- The:- emoticon is now 25 years old
- I would very much like to own a Monome 256
- picnicking with your hover station wagon
- Those mechanical models of the solar system are called orreries
- Stripping down, cleaning up
- My employer has a new blog, BrainStuff
- A brief little comedy routine about how not to use Powerpoint
- A very cool bit of wisdom from Hugh MacLeod
- Octavo publishes old, significant books in digital form
- The Dvorak Zine is a 24-page web comic about the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
- monitor calibration
- A photo collection of handmade, miniaturized synthesizers from yesteryear
- The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop
- The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture
- Here's an analysis of the economy of Second Life
- Anil Dash noticed the recent popularity of pixel graphs
- Your spreadsheet has been attacked
- There's a Star Trek wiki, almost 26,000 articles
- Merlin Mann talking to Google employees about Inbox Zero
- Spook Country
- Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload
- quiet structure
- five sentences or less
- The Oregonian newspaper is publishing its daily photos on Flickr
- A long essay exploring Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies
- I just found Moon River a few days ago
- The Turk was a novelty chess-playing machine hoax
- A pretty cool collection of experimental thumb pianos
- makers of Splenda have bought off hundreds of negative domain names
- Whitney Music Box
- Cinema Redux
- Twittervision lets me act like Big Brother, and other people do all the work
- Bruce Sterling thinks blogs will die out in another decade or so
- Web Typography Sucks, a pretty cool presentation at SXSW Interactive this week
- Dreaming in Code (review: 4.5/5)
- Interview with Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield
- January 31, 2007
- Grid systems in web design
- Spreeder is another web speed-reading application
- Gawker analyzes why your New York Times Magazine always falls apart
- I love the Onion: Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling Product
- Wayne Gerdes can get 59 miles per gallon of gas out of a 2005 Honda Accord
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (review: 2.5/5)
- Chimpanzees are making weapons
- released a ginormous.torrent file
- LilyPond looks like an interesting musical notation program
- The Readius looks like it could be a worthy contender against Sony's Reader
- Paul is going off the Flickr Grid
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (review: 5/5)
- Steve Jobs suggests that there is an alternative to DRM for music
- Go grab a Useless Account
- A pretty cool video demo for a multi-touch computer interface
- multi-dimensional maps of dark matter
- wee obsessive about following the trail backwards
- A few weeks ago
- Control Mac Software with the Apple Remote Using iRed Lite
- Umberto Eco's 1994 essay on the Future of the Book
- collection of electronic literature
- updating the RSS feeds for Kottke.org
- Why chicks don't dig the singularity
- Cory Doctorow writes about giving away his books for free
- comics, games, and world-building
- Here's some clever comment spam, the bastards
- A bevy of fake Apple i-products
- Star Trek vs. Batman, a fan film in one, two, three parts
- thief was persuaded to return the cellphone
- weekly map of the downtown homeless population
- A Version of Pong Using Real-Time Fluid Dynamics
- Where Audiophiles Go When They Die
- Area man loses weight by playing the Nintendo Wii
- Here's a nice mock-up of the iPhone
- DS Tie-In Games I Wanna Play
- Seth Godin on Cingular CEO Stan Sigman's anemic performance
- The iPhone Announcement Meta-Buzz
- Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (review: 3/5)
- Well, the new iPhone is big, heavy, expensive, and only for Cingular
- A pretty cool Line Rider video, including an insane jump over a busy freeway
- YouTube Gives Deaf Signers an Expressive Channel
- The Nonist mulls the next step in blogging and more importantly, in art
- The iA Trend Map shows all the big
- These Are a Few of My Favorite Things from 2006
- The Saints Row videogame for Xbox 360 has some pretty severe bugs
- Every Finishing Move from Mortal Kombat 3
- The library at Chicago State University uses
- Just for Fun (review: 3/5)
- Visual Complexity created a cool mosaic of the first 360 projects
- Lifehacker collected their most popular posts from this year
- Ray Kurzweil and David Gelernter talk about machine consciousness
- Three Laws of Robotics
- predictions for where search engines are headed in the next year
- Swivel is a web service that lets you compare public statistics
- New York Times article on our hapless Transportation Security Agency
- Chris Anderson on the Future of Wired and Media
- What happens when you put an iPod into a blender?
- A map of the internet, using contiguous IP addresses
- Gangs are now actively recruiting and educating people for cyber crime
- The Rise of the "Automagical"
- page dedicated for searching patents
- Leah Peterson has a great set of interviews with bloggers
- Chris Anderson
- I've been playing around with Rita, a cool little paint program
- A catalog of Batman's gadgets
- The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (review: 3.5/5)
- The Beginnings of Flickr
- First metrosexual, and now there is technosexual
- WPopac made an even bigger splash after winning a Mellon prize recently
- At long last, the new computer arrived tonight
- I just got a sweet deal on an iMac 24
- 10 Minute Mail is a service that gives you a temporary e-mail address
- giving sedentary gamers some exercise with its motion-control gameplay
- Here's a weekly rogues gallery for the world's worst spammers
- Version 1.0 of their standard service requisites
- Anyone else getting a lot of Italian spam lately?
- Productive Talks
- ReputationDefender
- a fairly 'blah' review of the Zune
- I love how the content on Design by Fire fades in and out as you scroll
- The New York Times has a nice infographic for election results
- A future society will very likely have the technological ability
- I’m Glad to See This Message Again
- Richard Dawkins
- You probably have a certain special someone in your life that just looooooves
- Some interesting thoughts on blog readability
- Game mechanics are rule based systems / simulations that facilitate
- Apple is sponsoring the Insomnia Film Festival for students
- National security employees have been using a wiki to share
- The Americans with Disabilities Act could apply to access to websites
- If only everyone knew about research beyond Google
- A documentary on one of the greatest games ever: Tetris
- Thank you thank you
- soon available in paperback
- NaBloPoMo is the new NaNoWriMo
- fresh, current article on internet phenomena
- Photos of computer monitors that look transparent
- 37 Signals’book Getting Real is now available for free
- lucid comments at 43 Folders
- Thinking out loud on outside.in
- Firefox 2 was released today
- Worldchanging: A User's Guide
- Great Zeldman post and excellent comments about Web 1.0 versus Web 2.0
- A New York Times feature on the tortured life of Friendster
- Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- We all know hypertext, but hypervideo, hopefully, is not too far away
- writes about pop culture and the Long Zoom
- Play a bunch of NES games online
- Ditto this: Feel free to use real paragraphs and explain stuff
- Daring Fireball
- a year's worth of the bi-weekly Geek to Live posts
- HP’s Digital Camera Slimming Feature
- Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment
- Function keys rule
- Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
- Looks like some folks need to brush up on the whole managing sensitive
- It seems like people like to click on eyes and brightly-colored things