tech

177 posts

  1. A few weeks with my iPad
  2. My iPad mockup
  3. Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville invented the Dreamachine, which I first heard…
  4. Is it Art?, an essay on videogames
  5. How to make a $10 macro photo studio light tent thing
  6. Poetry and the Microphone
  7. The Stylophone is a pocket-sized organ you play with a stylus
  8. ambient Skype
  9. A list of obsolete skills
  10. Scott Rosenberg is giving away paperback editions of his book, Dreaming in Code
  11. Email Apnea
  12. Fun with Flickr stats
  13. The Twitter Curve
  14. The Web that Wasn't
  15. LibX for Emory University Libraries
  16. Is it me, or is there subversive body language in this Apple promo video?
  17. Liz Danzico analyzes the closing phrases we use in e-mail
  18. A note from Management
  19. A friend at work got a RipStik
  20. A timeline of things that have gone or will go extinct from 1950-2050
  21. Scott Underwood and Merlin Mann talk about productivity stuff
  22. NYT article about fashion
  23. Wikimindmap maps out the subtopics and links in Wikipedia articles
  24. The:- emoticon is now 25 years old
  25. I would very much like to own a Monome 256
  26. picnicking with your hover station wagon
  27. Those mechanical models of the solar system are called orreries
  28. Stripping down, cleaning up
  29. My employer has a new blog, BrainStuff
  30. A brief little comedy routine about how not to use Powerpoint
  31. A very cool bit of wisdom from Hugh MacLeod
  32. Octavo publishes old, significant books in digital form
  33. The Dvorak Zine is a 24-page web comic about the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
  34. monitor calibration
  35. A photo collection of handmade, miniaturized synthesizers from yesteryear
  36. The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop
  37. The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture
  38. Here's an analysis of the economy of Second Life
  39. Anil Dash noticed the recent popularity of pixel graphs
  40. Your spreadsheet has been attacked
  41. There's a Star Trek wiki, almost 26,000 articles
  42. Merlin Mann talking to Google employees about Inbox Zero
  43. Spook Country
  44. Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload
  45. quiet structure
  46. five sentences or less
  47. The Oregonian newspaper is publishing its daily photos on Flickr
  48. A long essay exploring Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies
  49. I just found Moon River a few days ago
  50. The Turk was a novelty chess-playing machine hoax
  51. A pretty cool collection of experimental thumb pianos
  52. makers of Splenda have bought off hundreds of negative domain names
  53. Whitney Music Box
  54. Cinema Redux
  55. Twittervision lets me act like Big Brother, and other people do all the work
  56. Bruce Sterling thinks blogs will die out in another decade or so
  57. Web Typography Sucks, a pretty cool presentation at SXSW Interactive this week
  58. Dreaming in Code (review: 4.5/5)
  59. Interview with Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield
  60. January 31, 2007
  61. Grid systems in web design
  62. Spreeder is another web speed-reading application
  63. Gawker analyzes why your New York Times Magazine always falls apart
  64. I love the Onion: Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling Product
  65. Wayne Gerdes can get 59 miles per gallon of gas out of a 2005 Honda Accord
  66. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (review: 2.5/5)
  67. Chimpanzees are making weapons
  68. released a ginormous.torrent file
  69. LilyPond looks like an interesting musical notation program
  70. The Readius looks like it could be a worthy contender against Sony's Reader
  71. Paul is going off the Flickr Grid
  72. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (review: 5/5)
  73. Steve Jobs suggests that there is an alternative to DRM for music
  74. Go grab a Useless Account
  75. A pretty cool video demo for a multi-touch computer interface
  76. multi-dimensional maps of dark matter
  77. wee obsessive about following the trail backwards
  78. A few weeks ago
  79. Control Mac Software with the Apple Remote Using iRed Lite
  80. Umberto Eco's 1994 essay on the Future of the Book
  81. collection of electronic literature
  82. updating the RSS feeds for Kottke.org
  83. Why chicks don't dig the singularity
  84. Cory Doctorow writes about giving away his books for free
  85. comics, games, and world-building
  86. Here's some clever comment spam, the bastards
  87. A bevy of fake Apple i-products
  88. Star Trek vs. Batman, a fan film in one, two, three parts
  89. thief was persuaded to return the cellphone
  90. weekly map of the downtown homeless population
  91. A Version of Pong Using Real-Time Fluid Dynamics
  92. Where Audiophiles Go When They Die
  93. Area man loses weight by playing the Nintendo Wii
  94. Here's a nice mock-up of the iPhone
  95. DS Tie-In Games I Wanna Play
  96. Seth Godin on Cingular CEO Stan Sigman's anemic performance
  97. The iPhone Announcement Meta-Buzz
  98. Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (review: 3/5)
  99. Well, the new iPhone is big, heavy, expensive, and only for Cingular
  100. A pretty cool Line Rider video, including an insane jump over a busy freeway
  101. YouTube Gives Deaf Signers an Expressive Channel
  102. The Nonist mulls the next step in blogging and more importantly, in art
  103. The iA Trend Map shows all the big
  104. These Are a Few of My Favorite Things from 2006
  105. The Saints Row videogame for Xbox 360 has some pretty severe bugs
  106. Every Finishing Move from Mortal Kombat 3
  107. The library at Chicago State University uses
  108. Just for Fun (review: 3/5)
  109. Visual Complexity created a cool mosaic of the first 360 projects
  110. Lifehacker collected their most popular posts from this year
  111. Ray Kurzweil and David Gelernter talk about machine consciousness
  112. Three Laws of Robotics
  113. predictions for where search engines are headed in the next year
  114. Swivel is a web service that lets you compare public statistics
  115. New York Times article on our hapless Transportation Security Agency
  116. Chris Anderson on the Future of Wired and Media
  117. What happens when you put an iPod into a blender?
  118. A map of the internet, using contiguous IP addresses
  119. Gangs are now actively recruiting and educating people for cyber crime
  120. The Rise of the "Automagical"
  121. page dedicated for searching patents
  122. Leah Peterson has a great set of interviews with bloggers
  123. Chris Anderson
  124. I've been playing around with Rita, a cool little paint program
  125. A catalog of Batman's gadgets
  126. The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (review: 3.5/5)
  127. The Beginnings of Flickr
  128. First metrosexual, and now there is technosexual
  129. WPopac made an even bigger splash after winning a Mellon prize recently
  130. At long last, the new computer arrived tonight
  131. I just got a sweet deal on an iMac 24
  132. 10 Minute Mail is a service that gives you a temporary e-mail address
  133. giving sedentary gamers some exercise with its motion-control gameplay
  134. Here's a weekly rogues gallery for the world's worst spammers
  135. Version 1.0 of their standard service requisites
  136. Anyone else getting a lot of Italian spam lately?
  137. Productive Talks
  138. ReputationDefender
  139. a fairly 'blah' review of the Zune
  140. I love how the content on Design by Fire fades in and out as you scroll
  141. The New York Times has a nice infographic for election results
  142. A future society will very likely have the technological ability
  143. I’m Glad to See This Message Again
  144. Richard Dawkins
  145. You probably have a certain special someone in your life that just looooooves
  146. Some interesting thoughts on blog readability
  147. Game mechanics are rule based systems / simulations that facilitate
  148. Apple is sponsoring the Insomnia Film Festival for students
  149. National security employees have been using a wiki to share
  150. The Americans with Disabilities Act could apply to access to websites
  151. If only everyone knew about research beyond Google
  152. A documentary on one of the greatest games ever: Tetris
  153. Thank you thank you
  154. soon available in paperback
  155. NaBloPoMo is the new NaNoWriMo
  156. fresh, current article on internet phenomena
  157. Photos of computer monitors that look transparent
  158. 37 Signals’book Getting Real is now available for free
  159. lucid comments at 43 Folders
  160. Thinking out loud on outside.in
  161. Firefox 2 was released today
  162. Worldchanging: A User's Guide
  163. Great Zeldman post and excellent comments about Web 1.0 versus Web 2.0
  164. A New York Times feature on the tortured life of Friendster
  165. Google Docs and Spreadsheets
  166. We all know hypertext, but hypervideo, hopefully, is not too far away
  167. writes about pop culture and the Long Zoom
  168. Play a bunch of NES games online
  169. Ditto this: Feel free to use real paragraphs and explain stuff
  170. Daring Fireball
  171. a year's worth of the bi-weekly Geek to Live posts
  172. HP’s Digital Camera Slimming Feature
  173. Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment
  174. Function keys rule
  175. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
  176. Looks like some folks need to brush up on the whole managing sensitive
  177. It seems like people like to click on eyes and brightly-colored things