Month: July 2011

  • adrian06saldana: Diseño Adrian Saldaña “rAven” Centéotl “Dios del Maíz”

  • nriq: Custom Calendario Azteca by The Beast Brothers @ SDCC 2011

  • And so Apple’s decree in Lion is as it was on the original Macintosh in 1984, and as it is on iOS today: the machine must serve the human, not the other way around. (via Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review)

  • As it turns out, the U.S. got a goal in a much more elegant and satisfying way. But I mention this here as we look ahead to the semi-final game against France because I see it as one of the truest signs of how terrific and skilled this team is. They used all the tools…

  • ‘Emotion Engine’? I Don’t Think So. Why can’t these game wizards be satisfied with their ingenuity, their $7 billion (and rising) in sales, their capture of a huge chunk of youth around the world? Why must they claim that what they are doing is “art”? And should anyone care whether this emerging medium is art…

  • Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status—Steve Jobs—recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company’s tremendous success with their various i-gadgets. It is a convenient truth: You…

  • Bollen: Do you ever feel weird about fame? It does allow you to meet amazing people on this planet and do unimaginable things. Stipe: I love it. With the difficult parts of fame, that alone makes it so worthwhile, because of the doors it’s opened for me. I’ve worked really, really, really hard at what…

  • Stipe: The idea was to present a 21st-century version of an album. What does an album mean in the year 2011, especially to generations of people for whom the word album is an archaic term. An album for me as a teenager in the ‘70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of…

  • Programming iPhone Sensors

    Programming iPhone Sensors paperbits: O’Reilly Media is publishing a book on programming and communicating with sensor networks with iOS devices, called iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino. The examples and apps in the book rely on the Redpark Serial Cable, which provides a dock-connector–to-RS-232-serial link for iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch. This cable makes communicating…

  • laughingsquid: ArtBloc, A Mobile Art Venue Made of Two Shipping Containers but you have to be able to move the shipping containers around, and so you need to have two tractors, or be in a state/municipality that allows double length trailers. Oh, and you’ll need a crane that can lift the second container. Visually, though,…