→ Host your own muxtape style MP3 player with OpenTape. This is a .12 release, bit it works for the most part. I made walking paper music in about as much time as it took to upload three mp3s.
→ Make Google Reader easier on your eye with Helvetireader, a userscript for any browser that can handle it. You lose a bit of functionality but you probably aren’t using it anyways.
→ Don’t talk to strangers — scan them instead.
2D codes + fabric + mobiles phones = people wearing hyperlinks to their social networking profiles. Next up is RFID chips broadcasting your profile wherever you go. It could make for serendipitous connections!
→ Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not
Short answer: Because they take fun and pleasure into account.
→ Rule of Thumb – Giving a Speech
When giving a public science lecture to a general audience, there will always be one weirdo who asks questions that have nothing to do with your lecture. There will also be one smart-aleck who asks questions to show how smart he is. The faster you silence both of them, the happier your audience will be.
→ Obama’s Victory Speech Does Well on BitTorrent
Within 24 hours of president-elect Barack Obama delivering his victory speech to the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Chicago, another hundred thousand gathered in a BitTorrent swarm, to download a copy of the historic event.
→ Type Tester
A handy CSS tool. 1. Choose values for different elements and see them displayed. 2. Three columns let you compare. 3. Snag the CSS.
→ Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites
Language guru David Crystal tells John Crace that txt spk is responsible for neither bad spelling nor moral decay
→ Multicolr Search Lab Flickr Set
Search Flickr photos by color by selecting up to 10 colors.
→ Planes fly into virtual doughnut
People flying virtual planes race meatspace pilots flying through virtual hoops.
→ Rules for Computing Happiness A few from the list:
- Do not buy a desktop computer unless your daily computing needs include video/audio editing, 3D rendering, or some other hugely processor-intensive computing task. Buy a portable computer instead.
- Do not use your phone/smartphone/PDA/UMPC for tasks that would be more comfortably and effectively accomplished on a full-fledged computer.
- Use a Mac for personal computing.
→ Alphabet Bags
Librarians sure love tote bags!
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