Using brain waves to levitate ping pong balls. from WaPo, via Mike Industries
2 weeks ago
HardTimes :: Art Hour (via zefrank)
2 weeks ago
Very late, very funny reaction to Kris Allen winning American Idol. (thx, Whitta)
3 weeks ago
There are several varieties of this kind of innovation, and they go by different technical names. MIT professor Eric von Hippel calls one “end-user innovation,” in which consumers actively modify a product to adapt it to their needs. In its short life, Twitter has been a hothouse of end-user innovation: the hashtag; searching; its 11,000 third-party applications; all those creative new uses of Twitter — some of them banal, some of them spam and some of them sublime. Think about the community invention of the @ reply. It took a service that was essentially a series of isolated microbroadcasts, each individual tweet an island, and turned Twitter into a truly conversational medium. All of these adoptions create new kinds of value in the wider economy, and none of them actually originated at Twitter HQ. You don’t need patents or Ph.D.s to build on this kind of platform.
— Steven Johnson from How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live (TIME)
jQuery Tools
1 month ago
A UI library for jQuery with tabs, tooltips, expose, overlay, scrollable, and flashembed — all under 6Kb. From the homepage:
Let’s face it: do you really need drag-and-drop, resizables, selectables or sortable tables in your web applications? Websites are not desktop applications. They are different.
How to Start a Dance Party (via ze frank)
1 month ago
The plot-obstacles to an Alien prequel
1 month ago
Den of Geek looks at why the proposed prequel(s) are difficult to fit into canon. I’ll give them lots of credit for detailed analysis…
…but they’re wrong. Or at least, they’re overthinking it.
H.R. Giger’s drawings aren’t canon. Art direction isn’t cannon. Events are canon.
So whether the space jockey is fused to the chair or part of the chair, the relationship whatever it was and the eggs can go a dozen different ways.
As far as Weyland-Yutani’s involvement, there’s nothing in canon which establishes they’re the only company around.
I’m not saying an Alien prequel is a good idea. At all. But as the kind of guy who writes these movies, the biggest challenge will be making it great, not making it fit canon.
Yet, when we buy something for a very low price, we are conditioned to see it as expendable. What costs a dollar these days? Hardly anything. A cup of coffee. A pack of sticky notes. A Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger. A lottery ticket. Stuff we use up and discard.
Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version (via dascottjr)
1 month ago
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