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Hurray! DVD of galactic simulations now online for free. TED2008: Who are we? Answers from Louise Leakey, Wade Davis, Jill Taylor, Stephen Hawking and Chris Jordan. (Running notes from the TED2008 conference in Monterey, California. First session.) TED2008 goes under the theme "The Big Questions", and it opens with THE big Shakespearian question: "To be, or not to be". Actor Michael Stuhlbarg offers a stunning interpretation of the entire soliloquy from "Hamlet": To be or not to be, that is the question;Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing, end them. Etcetera. Stuhlbarg is a rising star among Shakespearian actors. This next summer, he will play Hamlet in Shakespeare in the Park, in New York’s Central Park. And then Chris Anderson, TED’s Curator, introduces Louise Leakey. "Who are we?
Jay Walker is next. Anthropologist Wade Davis is probably one of the most influential western advocates for the world’s indigenous cultures (and has already given a speech at TED in 2003, watch it here). "Culture is the product of imagination. Zoom in: Glass Disk Icons - Free Icon Set For OS X. Add Better Sleep to Your MacBook with SmartSleep [Featured Mac Download] SyncTwoFolders - Synchronizes Two User Folders. TED2008: A bag and its contents. (Running notes from the TED2008 conference in Monterey, California.) The conference will be on in just a couple of hours.
Attendees are lining up at the registration desk to get their badges. Then some head for the Google Café for a free latte, but most get into a new line in front of another station, to fetch their "gift bag". In conference circles, the TED gift bag is the stuff of rumors and legends, and every year TED’s partnerships director (and resident fun guy) Tom Rielly and his team manage to outdo themselves. The cute animal on the right is the first thing that jumps out of the bag when you open it.
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We're interested in two complementary questions with respect to maze design: Complexity: What makes a maze difficult to solve? The more we consider this question, the more elusive it becomes. It's certainly possible to begin defining mathematical measures of a maze's complexity, but complexity must depend on aspects of human perception as well. Gallery We have addressed these two aspects of maze design in separate sub-projects. We then studied maze design as a problem in non-photorealistic rendering. Clicking on the examples below will link you to a very high-res PNG.
Papers Other resources Karan Singh has put together an excellent page about maze and labyrinth design, motivated by his NPAR 2006 paper on labyrinths. Mazes can be used to represent images in a couple of different ways. Thank you to Ronald Koster and Claudio Pozas for the use of the source images for the snails and minotaur mazes. Home - Adobe Open Source - Confluence. Adobe AIR. How to Increase Your Metabolism. ● Design and the Elastic Mind. On view at MoMA through May 12, 2008: Design and the Elastic Mind. In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality.
Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design's most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change. I was surprised at how many of the show's ideas and objects I'd seen or even featured on kottke.org already.
Michiko Nitta's Animal Messaging System (AMS), part of a larger project she did called Extreme Green Guerillas. Molecubes are self-replicating repairing robots. 14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time | Computers. Supercomputers are expensive, so investigators with lots of data and little budgets have turned to distributed computing: relying on free help from volunteers who download programs onto their home computers and run the software to analyze small chunks of data.
The results are then sent back to researchers to crunch further. Just what has come from a decade of such homegrown efforts? We look at 14 programs to see if they’re worth your processor’s time. Stardust@HomeWhat it is: In 2006 the NASA spacecraft Stardust brought back cometary and interstellar dust. This program continues the scrutiny of minute aspects of the universe from Earth.
How it works: Lets users examine Stardust’s collectors in search of bits of cosmic dust. Our take: It’s on to phase II for this innovative success. SETI@HomeWhat it is: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence scans the sky for signs of life. Our take: Eight years and no contact, but there are 720,000 participants. Our take: Join the Fold. Practical PHP Web 2.0 Applications. The book was published by Apress, on 20 December 2007, under the ISBNs 1590599063 and 978-1590599068. On the book's Web page, visitors can read and submit errata (apparently none, as of this writing), read the online table of contents, download Chapter 11 ("A Dynamic Image Gallery") as a PDF file, and purchase an electronic version of the book. Given the number and complexity of the technologies discussed in the book, it is little wonder that it is 569 pages long. The first two chapters set the stage for the rest of the book. Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of Web 2.0, the sample Web-based application to be developed in the book, database connectivity, search engine optimization, PHPDoc, templating, and security, as well as the major features of the sample application, namely, a blog site.
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London's Barbican Art Gallery will soon feature a fun and intriguing group show called the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, an exhibition curated by extraterrestrials for their otherworldly peers. The show includes 150 works from the likes of Joseph Beuys, Damien Hirst, Bruce Nauman, Andy Warhol, Mona Hatoum, Rebecca Warren, Cai Guo-Qiang, and more than 100 others.
The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art show opens March 6 and runs until May 18. The Guardian has an article about the exhibit and a slideshow of some of the artworks. Seen here, Julus Koller's "Universal Futurological Question Mark (UFO)" from 1978 and Dr Larka's 2006 piece "Untitled (Cupida Lupita). " From the show description: Anthropologists from outer space set out on a mission to understand life on earth. Imagine that they begin their mission by examining the curious phenomenon that human beings call ‘contemporary art’. Link to show page, Link to Guardian slideshow, Link to Guardian article (via Cabinet of Wonders) Manage Your Online Reputation [Feature] Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy. - By Chris Wilson. It's getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater. The user-generated and -edited online encyclopedia—which doesn't even require contributors to register—somehow holds its own against the Encyclopedia Britannica in accuracy, a Nature study concluded, and has many times more entries.
But even though people are catching up to the idea that Wikipedia is a force for good, there are still huge misconceptions about what makes the encyclopedia tick. While Wikipedia does show the creative potential of online communities, it's a mistake to assume the site owes its success to the wisdom of the online crowd. Social-media sites like Wikipedia and Digg are celebrated as shining examples of Web democracy, places built by millions of Web users who all act as writers, editors, and voters. In reality, a small number of people are running the show. According to researchers in Palo Alto, 1 percent of Wikipedia users are responsible for about half of the site's edits.
Every model has its drawbacks. Breathtaking Typographic Posters | Fonts, Monday Inspiration. Advertisement You can’t design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate their ideas through their works. The results are sometimes crazy, sometimes artsy, sometimes beautiful, but often just different from things we’re used to. Thus designers explore new horizons and we explore new viewing perspectives which is what inspiration is all about. You can’t design without type: this1 is an argument for it. This post showcases over 50 breathtaking typographic posters designed by artists across the globe.
You may also want to take a look at the article Typography In Motion2 we’ve published few months ago. So what can be achieved out of simple letters and symbols? Breathtaking Typographic Posters Christina Koehn / University of Washington, USA Alex Banks3 / United Kingdom Emiliano Lionel Suárez4 / Argentina Juanma Teixidó5 / Asunción, Paraguay Emil Kozak6 / Spain. iPod Touch Pixelizer turns your iPod into abstract art. 99 Graphic Design Resources. Below is a list of 99+ graphic design resources, in English and (and a few other languages), that all designers must know about. It is sorted by category (click to go to category): For more resources you can check out the 101 Places To Get Design Inspiration. Also don’t forget to subscribe for more graphic design resources. 1 Spunk United An excellent magazine with a selection of the worlds best artists providing inspiration, interviews, articles and more. 2 FreeLance Switch (No longer active) The community site of reference for all freelances. 3 Computer Arts The site of the excellent international magazine Computer Arts. 4 David Airey A graphic and logo designer who shares his knowledge on these areas. 5 Behance A site gathering the portfolios of the artists of the whole world, a true inspiration. 6 Pdf Mags References all the PDF mags out there!
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