I swear. I just have to let them congeal a little bit and form a cohesive whole. SB06 rocked. More to come soon.
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Google Mars
First there was Google Maps. Then there was Google Earth. Eventually we got Google Moon. Finally, we have Google Mars. (It’s about time.)
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Musical Jackpot
So Puneet told me about this a while ago, but I’ve stumbled back upon archive.org’s Live Music Archive. It is quite awesome, and I’m currently listening to a Toad the Wet Sprocket that I was at, but showed up late to…
Check it out, perhaps your favorite bands are there. Oh, and in case it’s not clear, the files are in shn (Shorten) format, so just Google “convert shn wav” to figure out how to play them. It’s not as complicated as one might think.
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Arms Race
Arms
Originally uploaded by Square714.Alternate title: “Photograph: Funny Human Being (Circa 2006 AD)”
Oh Puneet, I love it when you break out the engineering diagrams when discussing everyday events. Why yes, it seems that your right is longer than your left. Way to make lemonade from the lemons.
On that note, I could really go for some lemonade right now. I was up this morning at 3am in order to catch a bus, in order to catch a plane, in order to catch another bus, in order to get to Karen’s place in Chi-town. I’m here now, but over-tired and under-slept (despite a glorious 3 hour nap this afternoon). Either way, lemonade would do me some good.
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Techmology Frenzy
I keep bumping into new technologies thingies today. It seems like web 2.0 is really pumping out some new ideas lately…
Thumbstacks: Online presentation creation and playback. Cool idea (one that I’ve had for my capstone for a while), but I think the execution is a little weak so far. I have a feeling they’re gonna put some sort of lame Web 2.0 skin on it to try to fix the UI…but it’s a kind of broken UI at this point. (Thanks for the link, Kynthia)
Skobee: Make plans with people and related stuff. Sort of like Evite, but prettier. I’d like to try this with some of my IU friends…anybody up for it?
Zoho Creator: This is a little tool that helps people program little web widgets without needing to know how to program. Seems like a cool idea.
That’s enough for now…
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It is time we set fonts free
Here is a great article and comment thread on the topic of browser fonts. I agree that we as designers should be outraged that there are such huge limits in type choice on the web. Choice of font does matter, and it is important to give designers the freedom to make web content as easy to read as possible.
Anyway, give it a read…and don’t call me a Type Geek 😉
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DC is back
Today was the first Design Club meeting in a long long time. It returns relatively unscathed, perhaps in a new format, and with a brand new name. It is now happily dubbed “Design Club!”, though without the quotation marks and with the exclamation point.
The first thing I want to say about this topic is that the club is in good hands. A major goal for many of the initial DC members was that the club help to foster a spirit of design throughout the HCI/d program, and that this feeling lasted throughout the generations of graduates in the program. I hope the excitement that I felt today continues for the rest of the semester, and that that excitement leads to a continued spirit in the fall, so the new new students can learn what DC is all about.
I’d like to encourage everybody in the program to give Design Club! a(nother?) shot. It’s fun, limitless, and you get a chance to employ your mad design skills. It’s a win win.
Hoopty.
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Dammit Gmail
I’m suddenly reminded of the earlier beta days when Gmail would go down all the time… I just tried to log in and it won’t let me. Dammit Gmail! Perhaps they’re installing some sort of super awesome tool that’s gonna re-revolutionize email, though that’s doubtful. Anybody else having an issue?
[Update: As of 8:03 pm, gmail is back. :-)]
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On Bidding Adieu
I didn’t mean to say that I won’t blog until I’m done testing ma.gnolia. Come on, don’t mince my words… 😉