21 Jan 2013
New Year Link Dump
- Groupthink: The brainstorming myth
- All brainstorming gets you is a collection of vague, untested ideas, yet many managers then consider the innovative thinking stage to be complete.
- Making an Angry Birds Clone in JavaScript
- This is a great advert for Greg’s boxbox library.
- Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory
- As wonderful as this is, I spent the whole time thinking “Gah, it’s so cluttered!”.
- HEEEEEEEEEY!...; ResponsiveURL.co.uk
- A couple of sites doing daft things with URLs.
- How Do They Make Money?
- Not only interesting for those involved in startups, but also a reminder that if you don’t pay for a service they’re probably going to have to do something that annoys you to make a living.
- Oculus Rift; Leap Motion
- Hopefully these two imminent products will work together so you can stick out your hands and see them in the VR world.
- What The Tech World Looks Like To A Teen
- Even anecdotal evidence like this is interesting, but don’t be fooled into thinking teenagers are reliable indicators of future technologies.
- wireframe.cc
- Create and share simple wireframing diagrams.
- Boil the Frog
- Attempts to create a playlist that gradually shifts in style from one artist to another.
- Telephone Numbers for use in TV and Radio drama programmes
- I hadn’t realised that such large blocks (1000 numbers for each area) were allocated.
- Password security in Deus Ex
- Portraying a bleak future for computer security.
- Extinction Tourism: Work at a Newspaper While You Still Can
- Established photographer Jonas Bendiksen joined a small newspaper for a new challenge.
- Hidden mothers in Victorian portraits
- A follow-up post deals with the issue of whether anyone in the photos might’ve been dead.
- When Facebook Resurrected the Dead
- This brought back memories from around 1990. At university we were shown a demo of an error correction system that used a dictionary to fill in missing letters, and I wondered whether a much more advanced system might in future learn so much from a person’s communications that it would inadvertently complete a whole message if the user got disconnected (the lecturer ridiculed the idea).
- Why did infinite scroll fail at Etsy?
- Various interesting theories on the behavioural effects.
- Scriptless Attacks - Stealing the Pie without touching the Sill
- A further warning that it’s not just JavaScript that’s the danger.
- Responsive Design for Apps - Part 1
- The key thing is that devices capabilities overlap in all sorts of ways that make a nonsense of clear mobile/tablet/desktop pigeonholes.
- Favorite Book Cover Designs of 2012
- Some great designs, but Peter Mendelsund might see the NW cover differently if he realised it mimics a London street sign.
- The Basement
- An amazing intersection of old and new media.
- Guess my word!
- A bit of a work-out for your vocabulary.
- Bounce
- Grabs a screenshot of a web page then lets you annotate it.
- Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Discovered
- OK spider, I’m impressed.
- The two million tweet map
- You can drill down and spot people tweeting in your area. Twitter really needs to snap this up and integrate it.
- The ZX Spectrum versus modern legislation
- The hugely popular 8-bit home computer that kickstarted many a programming career (including mine) would be illegal today.
- Doing gravity right
- Making algorithms for jumping etc. more accurate and far less vulnerable to frame rate wobbles.
- GREG RUTTER’S DEFINITIVE LIST OF THE THINGS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED ON THE INTERNET IN 2012 UNLESS YOU’RE A LOSER OR OLD OR SOMETHING
- Not bad, but heavily weighted towards videos.
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