- NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device
If this isn't vapourware, then I am at least interested in having a play with one. I've never been happy with scribbling handwritten noted on the ipad, but I do want to stop carrying paper for scribbling on.
Category: Digitalia
Links for Thursday February 3rd 2011
- Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narrating
Potentially interesting, if a bit ahead of me right now.
Links for Monday January 31st 2011
- V&A Victoria Albert Museum > ‘Pause and Wonder’ by Aardvark (Print)
Not by my employers, but by a Hastings-based operation, selling this particular object through the V&A shop. I like their work (you may recall that I linked/purchased their 2010 manifesto last year), and think this is particularly lovely. I'm bookmarking it as a memo to self, so that I remember to try and pick this up next time I'm in the V&A.
Links for Thursday January 27th 2011
- This is the Big Society, you see. It must be big, to contain so many volunteers. | openDemocracy
Philip Pullman, speaking in defence of libraries, neatly skewers the problem with Dangerous Dave's beloved Big Society, where we will all help each other and and volunteer to keep public services going: who do you know has the spare time, energy and ability to go without earning a living or looking after the kids in order to volunteer? - YouTube – "Premakes" Up! (1965)
A trailer for Pixar's Up! reimagined as a 1965 live-action Disney movie. Nice work.
Links for Wednesday January 26th 2011
- Ten Obscure Factoids Concerning Albert Einstein
Reading this made me smile. I have no other reason to link it.
Links for Tuesday January 25th 2011
- 3-D TV? How about holographic TV?
Wow. Only 15fps, and currently requires IR kit to watch, but against that – this is done with off the shelf consumer goods and was made in a matter of weeks. Are you happy with your future now? For consideration: add a second kinect/mocap device and a bit more coding, and you could have interactive 3D.
Links for Monday January 24th 2011
- Lost Bomber – Techbelly
Mentally link this with the story of the woman the other week who was looking to put her disabled daughter into care, because she couldn't cope with the cuts. Futher thoughts: anecdote != data, but anecdote is useful to understand and connect with data. - Ben Bashford – Notebook of Things – Emoticomp
Interesting idea to bear in mind when designing apps/systems – how to give it an emotional face, that it is consistent, and ideally, compelling.
Links for Thursday January 20th 2011
- Gentleman’s Dictionary and Usage: Breakfast
This is a tremendously civilised guide to making breakfast. I strongly advise following it.
Links for Wednesday January 19th 2011
- Horoscoped
Meta analysis for horoscopes, via Andrew. I may spend some time writing a horoscope generator at some point. For fun. Yes. Fun. - HIDDEN HAWAII DIGITAL – MP3 Download – £ 7.99 / Cinematic Drum’n’Bass Vol. 1 by Various on DubKraft Records
Sounds good, may need to purchase later.
Links for Tuesday January 18th 2011
- Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data – ProPublica
Handy set of guides for getting useful structured/meaningful data out of websites. - Will the ConDems allow the disabled to live? | Blogeration
Another one I imagine you've already seen. Some absolutely splendid writing on the subject of the cuts, and how grossly unfair it is to ask the disabled to bear the size of cuts we're talking about.