About 8% of the male population has some sort of color vision deficiency. The
color blind are unable to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites. The patterns and examples on
We Are Color Blind help developers create websites the color deficient can use with minimal problems. Take a
color vision test to see where you stand.
50 facts about color blindness.
posted by netbros
on Sep 28, 2009 -
93 comments
Peter Morville is widely recognized as a father of the information architecture field, and he serves as an advocate for the critical roles that search and findability play in defining web user experience. His recent project titled
Search Patterns, is a sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns; for example
spime search, the ability to query objects in motion and find things in the real world. Morville is also on the editorial board of the new
Journal of Information Architecture.
posted by netbros
on Jul 31, 2009 -
4 comments
The Toymaker offers over 40
free paper toys and pretties you can print out (
PDFs) and make yourself, as well as "
Stories to be Told by Firelight" - online versions of author/illustrator Marilyn Scott Waters' children's stories and
lots of
other fun
goodies. For people who have kids, people who know kids, people who
are kids, and people who love papercraft, illustration, toys, and tales.
[more...]
posted by taz
on Jul 24, 2006 -
18 comments
Statistical analysis killed the radio star. Eigenradio analyzes the frequency content of 20+ stations at once, and mashes it, via math I don't understand, into music that is sometimes eerily beautiful, sometimes cryptically funky, and well, sometimes sounds like an
Autechre CD stuck in a blender. Who says media amalgamation is a bad thing?
posted by arto
on Aug 13, 2003 -
33 comments
.i la lojban mo Lojban is in many ways like any other language. There's an
English-Lojban dictionary. There's a Lojban
grammar. You can even get your news at
Nuzban, a Lojban-only news site.
Lojban, however, is a
completely constructed language.
Why Lojban? Well, Lojban came from
Loglan, an invented language from the 1950's (Loglan was created as an experiment to study the
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: succinctly, the idea that language and culture are hopelessly intertwined) Today, there are
hundreds of invented languages and a thriving language construction
community. Alongside well-known constructs such as Tolkien's
elven languages and
Klingon, there's also
d'ni - the language of Myst, a
language of flowers,
opus-2 - a language that shuns word order and
Teonat - a language of the imaginary inhabitants of Teon.
With the help of online language construction kits, you too can
create your
own language.
posted by vacapinta
on Sep 12, 2002 -
34 comments
You may have heard of Conway's
Game of Life, where pixels "live" or "die" based on a few simple rules about how many neighbors they have. But did you know that in the 30 years since the game was created, Life enthusiasts have (created? discovered?) an extensive
catalog of (
objects? creatures?) which interact to form some
amazing,
nifty,
grinning, sometimes
beautiful,
rube-
goldberg, occasionally even a little
scary patterns often starting from the
simplest of
building blocks? (Including a
Turing machine!) Or that a
lone pixel can exert
remarkable control over its environment? Now you can see in a few seconds in a
java applet, on your
desktop, or even on a PalmOS
handheld the outcome of simple patterns that, when first discovered, no computer could handle. A mind blowing example of the power of
emergent properties.
posted by straight
on May 29, 2002 -
22 comments
