by Camille Pagia
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444223104578034480670026450.html
The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
By Leonard Nimoy
http://youtu.be/AGF5ROpjRAU
Designers getting restless at Apple
Skeuomorphism
By Austin Carr at fastcodesign.com
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670760/will-apples-tacky-software-design-philosophy-cause-a-revolt
Ann Arbor District Library offers electronic music instruments
The anternet
Ants remind me of people.
By Bjorn Carey at Stanford Engineering
http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet
Jump the shark
Something (ill advised) that signals the beginning of your eventual decline.
Fonzie prepares to jump the shark.
The Mindset list
From Beloit, referred by Brooke LIbby…
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/
From the 2016 list…
“Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers.”
Or their fathers?
GDP minus debt
A comprehensive set of graphs on wages, government spending, debt.
By FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
Alphabet of connections
Another mindless project…
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuWGRATV-Pp-dGtoVlB2VGhXRWRWaGk0Z1B6N05jVnc
| analog (audio) (API) | a |
| bluetooth | b |
| conduction (conversation) (computers) | c |
| digital | d |
| electro-magnetic (electric) | e |
| fluid (hydraulic) | f |
| gear (mechanical) (game) | g |
| human (animal) | h |
| internet (ethernet) | i |
| jamming (improvisation) | j |
| konvection (convection) | k |
| light | l |
| MIDI (music) (magic) (mysticism) | m |
| eNtropy | n |
| OSC | o |
| plant (picture) (parallel) (particles) | p |
| quantum | q |
| radio (radiation) | r |
| serial | s |
| thought (touch) (talking) | t |
| USB | u |
| video (camera) | v |
| wireless (wifi) (waves) | w |
| eXtraterrestrial | x |
| gravitY | y |
| zero-point | z |
