Month: May 2011

  • Failure, fail-safe, fail safely, is a part of playing games. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • Tinkering

    Tinkering essayist: Mark Grief on Walt Disney At an early point in his career, probably no later than 1930, Walt Disney lost the ability to draw what he wanted his cartoon characters to look like or his animations to do. So he began to act his cartoons out. In story meetings with his growing staff…

  • The New Ecology of Things: slabs, sofducts, and bespoke objects

    The New Ecology of Things: slabs, sofducts, and bespoke objects Several major trends are emerging that affect interaction design. With the advent of post-PC devices like the iPad, cheap sensors and microcontrollers like the Arduino, and services like Kindle Wispersync, we’re in the middle of a shift towards ubiquitous computing, tangible interaction, and cloud services.…

  • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace thedocumentarian: by Adam Curtis,

  • The move to do away with grade levels throughout the Adams County School District began three years ago. Standards-based learning, as it’s called, is founded on the belief that every child learns in different ways and at different speeds. With the school district on an academic watch list, educators here were eager to reverse the…

  • rumblthe: Some nice pictures from the production of a vinyl toy. Follow the link for more process pics

  • Font Sizing with rem

    Font Sizing with rem petervidani: cameronmoll: Jonathan Snook: CSS3 introduces a few new units, including the rem unit, which stands for “root em”. If this hasn’t put you to sleep yet, then let’s look at how rem works. The em unit is relative to the font-size of the parent, which causes the compounding issue. The…

  • sum1: JC Penney – Forward Command Post$44.99 Read more here and here.

  • Some organizations are already caught in that flood. Consider Facebook. Already host to more digital photos than any other company, Facebook is building new storage and processing infrastructure as fast as it can. Yet it is pushing the database technology it is using to the limit, splitting its famed social graph across 4,000 databases that…