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  • Links van 6 april 2011 tot 7 april 2011

    Access Main Computer FileA VISUAL STUDY OF COMPUTER GUI IN CINEMA. 2011 ASME Awards | MetaFilter2011 National Magazine Awards Finalists Announced (Instapaperable list) Science fiction movie produced in 48 hours

  • Links van 5 april 2011 tot 6 april 2011

    The SetupYou may have heard the name Christopher Butler in the news lately but certainly not for reasons that the 49-year-old Concord resident would want you to know about. I’ve been following Butler’s mysterious story since last August, when he invited me to write a Diablo feature about his business. It unexpectedly turned out to…

  • Links van 4 april 2011 tot 5 april 2011

    LCD monitor teardown! A Revived CNN Takes On Fox News and Bill SammonThere is a big audience of Americans who are not interested in the propagandistic news styling of Fox News. The efforts of Jon Stewart and websites like Media Matters are having an impact. America knows they can’t trust Fox News to deliver the…

  • Links voor 3 april 2011

    Facebook Comments Epitomizes Everything I Hate About FacebookIt’s a piece of crap, but it’s just barely good enough and easy enough that it’s not worth wrestling with alternatives. Facebook Comments is basically Facebook writ small: while it’s maddeningly mediocre lowest-common-denominator crap, it’s not quite bad enough not to use. NYT vs HuffPo, cont. | Felix…

  • Links voor 31 maart 2011

    Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on WikipediaVisualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti On Why The “Facebook” Media World View WinsViral Lift is the new metric. Ha.

  • Links voor 31 maart 2011

    Design PrinciplesGathered by JEremy Keith from across the web.

  • Links voor 28 maart 2011

    SmoothGroove | HOMEIntroducing the stylist's secret for a smooth profile.Women can rejoice – our very last wardrobe malfunction has now been addressed!At last there's a product that sensibly alleviates the most embarrassing taboo there is for us girls – the crudely named problem of 'camel toe'.

  • Links voor 27 maart 2011

    March 2011 Update – Strategic PlanningEn nu hopen dat ze er écht iets aan doen: "Here’s what we think the Editor Trends Study tells us: Between 2005 and 2007, newbies started having real trouble successfully joining the Wikimedia community. Before 2005 in the English Wikipedia, nearly 40% of new editors would still be active a…

  • Links van 26 maart 2011 tot 27 maart 2011

    Jared Spool – Anatomy of a Design Decision on VimeoThe best designs come from not one, but hundreds of well-made decisions. The worst designs arise out of hundreds of poorly-made decisions. All that stands between you and a great design is the quality of your decisions. Where do they come from?For the last five years,…

  • Links van 25 maart 2011 tot 26 maart 2011

    A History of the World in 100 Seconds on VimeoMany wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered. The Tree of…

  • Links van 24 maart 2011 tot 25 maart 2011

    World Science Festival Video : Spotlight: Do Not Touch the FrogStrip away the trimmings of a traditional science presentation, add cocktails, and you have WSF Spotlight. Here, ecologist and National Geographic photographer Mark Moffett recounts his unexpectedly hilarious expedition to a remote valley in Colombia to document an elusive and highly poisonous “superfrog.” ChessBase.com –…

  • Links voor 23 maart 2011

    How we <i>really</i> watch a movie – scannersWhenever research confirms something we feel we already knew intuitively, or from our own experience, there are always people who'll scoff and say, "Well, I could have told you that!" And maybe they could have, but that's not the point. Science is a discipline involving systematic observation and…

  • Links van 22 maart 2011 tot 23 maart 2011

    YouTube – Musicians@Google Presents: Google Goes GagaAn exclusive Google interview with Lady Gaga! GDC VaultClassic game postmortems. Out of this World, Maniac Mansion, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Prince of Persia, Populous, Pitfall!, Pac-Man, Marble Madness, Elite, Doom, and Bejeweled Dresden Codak » Archive » HobThis is the first page of a story. Bear with me,…

  • Links van 20 maart 2011 tot 21 maart 2011

    Alliant : Gamerfish – Play Free Online Flash GamesBattle the imposing alien force by managing your army and destroying their base as you travel from colony to colony. Build barracks, defensive turrets, and deploy troops to take on the enemy. Gamasutra: Greg McClanahan’s Blog – Achievement Design 101In June of 2007, I was tasked with…

  • Links van 18 maart 2011 tot 19 maart 2011

    Scocca : Would a No-Fly Zone Over America Save the Democracy Movement in Bahrain?The helpful thing, if you're overwhelmed by so much news going on at once, is that Bahrain is roughly the same story as Libya—only instead of pro-democracy protesters being murdered by a terrorist-sponsoring monster of a dictator who has been on America's…