Month: February 2013

  • kateoplis: “Now that the promise of 3-D printing has landed on the national agenda, researchers want to increase the stakes — with so-called 4-D printing. No, the printers won’t generate hypercubes [above]. Rather, the scientists claim that their “fourth dimension” refers to time — as in the space-time continuum described by the mathematician Hermann Minkowski early in the 20th century. The…

  • barthel: Nordstrom’s gives you the option now of having an emailed receipt rather than a paper one, and links it to your credit card number so you only have to give them the address once. The first time we used my wife’s credit card to do this we were shopping together and just gave them…

  • it8bit: Typeface Tuesday 04b 30 – Created by Yuji Oshimoto Download Font

  • diagram of cost vs yield of different contemporary higher ed models. via: fred-wilson: Barry Nolan put this together based on an AVC post today. it does a great job of capturing the points i was making in that post. thinking about this right now.

  • I think that top one is Red Rocks Amphitheater decoarchitecture: That top illustration and the last one seems to be highly Expressionist. tremblingcolors: Hugh Ferriss 11

  • iPhone apps taking shape at the University of Texas

    Journalism students at U. Texas via: robquig: Azamat Kalmurzayev drawing up plans for Team JMastr. As each team of students showed off the functionality and designs of their creations, the other students and the instructors looked on in awe. One team has an App Store-quality design. Another has a working prototype. More than one team…

  • 404PageFound started in May 2009 with the goal of uncovering dated websites (generally from 1994-2001) that are still active and have avoided major updates. Many people think that sites created in the years following the dot-com bubble burst (2001-2003) are old. This may be true, but the differences between a site from 2001 and 1996…

  • theomeganerd: Industry in ‘turmoil’ says Bleszinski “This business has not been in a state of transition like it is right now since the video game crash of the ’80s. I really think we’re in a massive state of turmoil,” Bleszinski said. The developer, who left Epic Games in October, also claimed that Nintendo may exit…

  • Shadertoy BETA

    Shadertoy BETA Geek drool…..nothing but community made and shared GLSL shaders!  @IQuilezles has committed to one new shader a week for the whole year.

  • nevver: The rise and fall of music delivery formats