Links (& blurbs about them)
What technological/scientific advances/discoveries are you most looking forward to in the next 25 years?
A few years ago I read John Maddox’s What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race
Check out this series of animated reconstructions of M. C. Escher’s Print Gallery. Move over, Hasselhoffian recursion.
Looks like my Interface design guidelines are required reading for a course in user interface design at the University of Baltimore.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to grant first amendment rights to corporations, Murray-Hill Incorporated is running for congress:
Danny O’Brien sums up all the talk about the closed nature of the iPad/iPhone/iPod operating system perfectly:
But the truth is, the cyclical fight against locked-in systems has been the recurring theme of computing since the mainframes.
Neil Freeman’s recent Electoral College Reform map:
is reminiscent of C. Etzel Pearcy’s 1973 Thirty-Eight states of America:
Both suffer from a problem that the National Popular Vote plan doesn’t have: what happens when the population distribution changes?
On Black Friday, artist Michele Pred “shop-dropped” prints of her artwork at Ikea. The prints are barcodes, which, when scanned, read “You are what you buy.” Ikea ends up with unexplained extra cash on their books, and a bunch of unsuspecting people have art hanging on their walls that’s both making fun of consumer culture, and worth a whole lot more than they think.
Here are two nifty visualizations of the evolution of open-source projects:
When Banksy makes a film, even I will play the viral video game:
Looks like Jackass crossed with Wild Style. One thing, though. Helvetica? How could a world renowned artisté such as Banksy stoop so low?
