December 31 2010
Endnote to a year of massive change.
July 5 2010
An exploration of the Wrangelkiez neighborhood in Kreuzberg.
June 23 2010
What US Game Developers Need to Know about Free-to-Play in China.
May 31 2010
Positive life changes can only happen when I am able to choose when and how I work, what I work on, and who I work with.
May 25 2010
The real reason why nobody is right, even when they are.
May 11 2010
Inside the mind of an English speaking machine.
May 9 2010
“There’s a tyranny of the machine that seems to interfere with big-picture thought”
May 5 2010
The Amiga line of computers had a significant influence on many graphic artists and musicians moving into digital production.
April 19 2010
The playing-field of Twitter annotations and the challenge to the developer community.
April 12 2010
Understanding the Google Books Settlement.
March 20 2010
“Lots of unit tests are a symptom of an architecture with complex and highly stateful abstractions, which, in turn, are a sign of a low quality architecture.”
March 10 2010
The EFF examines the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, and concludes that Apple is acting as a jealous and arbitrary feudal lord.
March 1 2010
Did Saddam unconsciously model aspects of his regime on science fiction from Western popular culture?
February 19 2010
The explosion of conversation-driven web applications in today’s world is a sign of technology beginning to fold in upon itself.
February 17 2010
Interview with a Nigerian email scammer.
February 14 2010
Celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy causes an existential crisis by quoting a hoax author.
February 10 2010
As the English language evolves and morphs, there is considerable tension between retaining the humble apostrophe and getting rid of it altogether.
February 4 2010
As America flails ever closer to becoming an all-out corporate controlled polity, it's perhaps inevitable that a corporation will try to run for congress.
January 22 2010
My friends have created a noir themed game, raising funds to help sponsor people to attend Webstock.
January 16 2010
There’s still a lot of important dialogue about the standard features of modern programming languages that hasn’t happened yet.
January 8 2010
Found this waiting in a Textmate buffer...
September 1 2010
How many roads we take that lead to Nowhere, The alley overgrown, no meaning now but loss: Not that veritable garden where everything comes easy.
June 25 2010
Structural words and turns of phrase are used as social signals that carry key information about the relationship between the parties involved in a discussion.
June 23 2010
A quote by Vladimir Nabokov.
May 30 2010
“The only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is how stupid all the other programmers are.”
May 14 2010
“The Metamorphosis of Our Town ... It Happened Cheek By Jowl”
May 10 2010
A slide down the slippery slope towards a totalitarian surveillance state.
May 8 2010
Concerns about privacy are a subset of what we should be concerned about.
May 1 2010
Are Google and Facebook obliterating the web?
April 19 2010
Not everyone understands scaling for the masses.
March 22 2010
Portigal Consulting talk about the analog human and the digital machine.
March 15 2010
Fragments, factions, and turf warfare may force Digg to accomodate greater personalization of content.
March 3 2010
A new skillset for interactive designers, who must now take direct evidence into account with every design variation that affects user flows.
February 22 2010
"Copyright law is fundamentally inconsistent with the nature of networks, which seek to replicate any information presented to them."
February 18 2010
New research finds that the historical background of Google’s PageRank algorithm is richer than previously suspected.
February 16 2010
Rethink the expectation that people will use a service for that which it is intended.
February 10 2010
I have decided that John Key has wholly entered into hyper-reality, becoming little more than a holographic-psychic protective shell created by the minds of stress affective New Zealand taxpayers.
February 9 2010
Charles Limb and Allen R. Braun have been observing the brains of jazz musicians when they improvise.
January 27 2010
It’s hard to explain the collision of forces and events that has occurred over the past several months.
January 20 2010
Treating the entire visual interface of a program as data input to another program that modifies the original behavior.
January 15 2010
Surprisingly, the global shipping network has never been mapped, despite estimates that 90% of the world's trade travels across the oceans.
January 6 2010
The Twitter API Wiki has one of the most practical explanations I’ve seen of some of the issues involving Unicode normalization.
July 5 2010
Graffiti artist Blu has released his biggest and most ambitious film to date.
June 25 2010
A novel solution to the lack of space for food cultivation in modern cities.
June 10 2010
Wherewithin, Wikipedia is a seemingly infinite source of hilarity from an unsurpassed synthesis of inanity and insanity.
May 26 2010
The huge amount of public anticipation and scrutiny of their activities is not going to be particularly helpful.
May 14 2010
How to leverage the power of personal websites to share private information with your direct personal contacts.
May 10 2010
Holism and the case for utopian imagination in architecture.
May 5 2010
How the iconic summary of the anti-corporate movement became a handbook for corporate marketing.
April 28 2010
Using design to provoke public debate about the future of cities.
April 14 2010
The future for architects is not the future of architecture.
March 22 2010
The story of Obama’s “Inside Man” and the context of the financial crisis, through decades of Washington policy.
March 12 2010
Algorithms are thoughts, chainsaws are tools, and the triumph of the cyborg composer.
March 1 2010
The only “right” approach is tweaking a design based on a feedback loop of observation.
February 22 2010
How David Bowie and the Grateful Dead predicted the arc of internet influence.
February 17 2010
The conflation of advertising and augmented reality.
February 15 2010
P-Money explains how creative things happen in NZ.
February 10 2010
On the frequency of Facebook redesigns, and user reactions.
February 8 2010
How video games trained a generation of athletes.
January 27 2010
Apple has no civic responsibility or moral obligations, but the citizens of the United States do.
January 17 2010
It’s not often I would link to GQ, and can’t say I’m overly fond of this style of writing, but the story of Marvin Harrison is amazing.
January 9 2010
Not only the end of a decade, but the 20th anniversary of a monumental political event. Eye Magazine 74 is a focus on the graphic output from Berlin.