The Tetris Wiki. Including the SRS, guidelines for tetromino behaviour. ¶
An NYT article on improvements to the food that's supplied to astronauts, including a variety of dishes created by Emeril Lagasse. ¶
Office 2007 and Fitts' Law. Improving usability in everyone's favourite office suite. ¶
What is the Poincare Conjecture? The conjecture gives mathematicians a short and easy way to identify a deformed blob as a sphere in disguise. (via jb) ¶
To fill notebooks, and then a few bellies. What responsibility do journalists have to help those in need? ¶
Sprinkle Brigade, turning that piece of crap into a rose. ¶
The flickrRSS plugin for WordPress has been updated — download.
The primary reason for the update is to reflect the new Flickr feed addresses. Most personal feeds are unaffected by the change, but it broke the group pool feeds (they used a different URL structure). Flickr has also beefed up the number of pictures in the feed, so the plugin can now display up to 20 recent images.
Tetris fridge magnets. Need I say more? ¶
The culpable designer investigates social responsibility in design. ¶
SparkStats is a sparklines plugin for WordPress. ¶
Internet soul portraits offer a glimpse of the web without typography. Kind of like the Untitled Project for the web. ¶
Don't believe the hype. A variety of writers rip into the mainstays of popular music. ¶
The 2001: A Space Odyssey Program from the first screenings in the UK. Take a look at the contact sheets to see it in the original form. ¶
Not Coming to a Theatre Near You. Slick looking site featuring reviews of movies you likely haven't seen. ¶
Map Cover: large | flickr
Map Front: small | large | flickr
Picked this map up a few months ago at a used bookstore, but kept forgetting to actually scan the thing. It’s pretty funky, with a weird perspective that you don’t usually see these days. The map has no date, but sometime around 1950 would be a decent estimate.
There’s a transit map on the back, but it needs some more work before it gets posted. We’ll save that project for a rainy day, I’ve already put far too much effort into stitching this one together.
Update: Recent comments also indicate that the map is likely from around the time of the 1939 World’s Fair. I’ve also added a copy of the transportation map on the back. Had scanned it in but forgot to stitch the images together.
A comprehensive interview with Steve Wozniak. In high-school, he designed his chips on paper and later he created the first Apple machine while he was working a day-job at HP. ¶
Video of a cat in a bottle. Just in case you thought Bonsai Kittens weren't real. ¶
Removing camera shake from a single image, new research from MIT and UofT, presented at Siggraph. ¶
Helvetica the film. Yes, it's real and it's coming next summer. ¶
Check out Joen's August Installment: Von Neumann for some pretty nerd-candy. The name should be familiar to any computer science student. ¶
A list of fictional expletives. The easy way around censorship. ¶
A project created by four Dalhousie Architecture students. I noticed it in a recent Maclean’s issue, mostly for the novelty value. That said, there’s probably a larger overarching message concerning our use of green space, etc. Unfortunately, the original article at the Halifax Daily News doesn’t seem to exist anymore.
Paul introduces us to his summer project as intern at Yahoo! It's called Yodel Anecdotal and amounts to their corporate uberblog. Paul even set them up with my wonderful flickrRSS plugin, maybe Yahoo! will finally start indexing my site. ¶
A hybrid canoe-kayak with a transparent body. It'd be a fun way to get a peek at the life below. ¶
