April 2012
1 post
Knight News Challenge: Water Canary →
newschallenge:
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
To provide with the world a crowd-sourced first alert system for identifying unsafe water conditions in real-time.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
No appropriate sensors exist for measuring…
February 2012
2 posts
Findings Blog: How We Will Read: Steven Johnson →
fndgs:
Reading. It’s a simple act. You’re doing it right now. You probably read something off of billboards, screens, and packages hundreds of times throughout the course of a single day. Can something so fundamental really be changing?
Here at Findings, we believe it is. We engage in conversations with…
Findings Blog: You can now enter book quotes... →
fndgs:
As part of our effort to bridge the physical and digital print worlds, we are proud to announce our newest and most-requested feature…manual clip entry for printed books!
When you go to your Findings page (click the “Findings” link at the top when you’re logged in), you’ll now see a button next…
December 2011
1 post
Watchcuriositycounts:
Central Park (Listen to the Light) – ingenious new location-aware app-slash-album by BLUEBRAIN
November 2011
2 posts
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October 2011
9 posts
“At its core, Findings is a service that allows you to capture, store, search,...”
– stevenberlinjohnson.com: Introducing Findings (via Findings.com)
“early modern Englishmen read in fits and starts and jumped from book to book....”
– The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton (via Findings.com)
“A message had seemed to be a physical object. That was always an illusion; now...”
– The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (via Findings.com)
Apple's Three Laws of Developers
yourhead:
A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.
A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
— I. Developer
“Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with...”
– Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs - BusinessWeek (via Findings.com)
“Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the...”
– Ghost Busters (1984) - Memorable quotes (via Findings.com)
Occupy Wall Street - Analysis by Felipe Ribeiro
ITP Alum and all around smart guy Felipe Ribeiro wrote this interesting analysis and observation of the Occcupy Wall Street protests…
My impression of occupy wall street, having hung out there for the first time tonight, from about 6:15pm to about 9:30pm:
Anyone who is interested in emergent/meta anything (software development, feedback systems of any kind, consciousness, system theory),...
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“A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a...”
– 26 years ago today, the world lost E. B. White – remember him with his poetic letter to children on the love of libraries
(via curiositycounts)
August 2010
1 post
“And let’s remind ourselves why web applications are amazing things. They work...”
– Introducing Sencha Touch: HTML5 Framework for Mobile - Sencha - Blog
July 2010
1 post
March 2010
2 posts
The Pre, one week on...
So, it’s been a week since I got the Palm Pre, and I promised some people I’d write about my impressions at this point. So here are some things that I’ve observed about the Pre and WebOS. Unlike last week, I’m gonna start with the annoyances this time: 1. Sluggish/Laggy - I wouldn’t exactly call the phone “snappy”. It sometimes gets hung up on scrolling...
Jumping Ship
I’ve been getting a lot of heat about my decision to switch from an iPhone to a “dead” platform in Palm’s WebOS and the Pre Plus on Verizon. I looked at it as a leap of faith. I’m fully aware Palm has its back to the ropes, and that the prevailing wisdom is that while WebOS is a nice product, Palm didn’t execute properly and is therefore dead in the water. ...
January 2010
1 post
The pale blue fuzz of readership > Robin Sloan →
Although reading has been moving away from paper for several years, the only real advantage digital technology has had is over distribution of content.
But things get exciting when people utilize the processors of digital devices to change and measure the experience of reading. Robin Sloan has posted a fascinating visualization of how readers scroll through his short story The Truth About the...
October 2009
6 posts
Book of Odds - The Odds of Everyday Life →
“To fulfill our mission of providing the odds of everyday life, we conduct research in many different topical areas. To date, we have researched over 50 topics and are always adding more. Book of…
trendwatching.com's October 2009 Trend Briefing... →
NOWISM | âConsumersâ ingrained* lust for instant gratification is being satisfied by a host of novel, important (offline and online) real-time products, services and experiences. Consumers are…
10/GUI →
“Over a quarter-century ago, Xerox introduced the modern graphical user interface paradigm we today take for granted. That it has endured is a testament to the genius of its design. But the industry…
IDEO Labs: Rear-Projection TV Turned into a... →
“Continuing our multi-touch research, weâve been working on turning an off-the-shelf rear projection TV into a multi-touch display. This screen has the best width-to-depth ratio of any multitouch…
May 2009
4 posts
The Rosetta Project →
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. Since becoming a National Science…
NYC Subway Ridership, 1905-2006 →
Check out this amazing visualization of MTA ridership from 1905-2006, built on top of Google Maps.
April 2009
4 posts
WatchMy recent interview about the Kickbee with Reuters correspondent Karina Huber.
Finding Utility in the Jumble of Twittered... →
The NY Times April 13 edition features an article about Twitter…with a mention of the Kickbee and a photo of the Menscher Family!
March 2009
4 posts
THRU YOU | Kutiman mixes YouTube →
PHENOMENAL YouTube remixes…
Can you hear THIS? Musicians high frequency... →
“Here is a list of tones that go from 8Hz all the way up to 22,000Hz. Itâs fairly common for people who are over 25 years of age to not be able to hear above 15Hz, so this will help you find out…
WatchEvan Williams, co-founder and CEO of Twitter (@ev), gave a presentation at TED 2009 discussing many of the ideas that drove the huge growth of Twitter in 2008, and how they came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves. At about 4 minutes 53 seconds in, he talks about my Kickbee project! I am humbled.
ARToolKit - Augmented Reality Library →
ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to…
February 2009
17 posts
I'm on Engadget.com
My friend Robert Carlsen created an eyebrow switch for triggering sound effects in our Thinking Physically class, and his picture of me demoing it ended up on Engadget’s write-up of it.
“I love adapting programmers’ tools for my writing. They tend to be...”
– Cory Doctorow
All known connectors @ pinouts.ru →
This site illustrates every pinout diagram for an unbelievable amount of hardware…cables, cell phones, pda’s, computer peripherals, gps receivers, a/v hardware…
WatchOren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance | One of the best stop-motion videos I’ve ever seen!
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should... →
This article should be required reading by any Facebook user.
sserial2mobile - Google Code →
This library implements the Software serial Arduino library to establish a serial connection to a Mobile phone. The methods methods hides the AT+ commands from the user allowing messages to be sent…
WatchKickbee was mentioned on CNN’s News of the Absurd” (second story). Yay, I guess?
ihardlyknowher.com →
I Hardly Know Her is a minimalist Flickr viewer. Simply plugin the account name after http://ihardlyknowher.com/ (i.e. http://ihardlyknowher.com/crackhead)