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Eat Up! Don't Play With Your... Fire and Water?

battlebison — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:58:55 -0800

Playing with Fire and Water is a blog by a freelance chef who creates some of the most interesting and delicious looking food creations. The best part? The accompanying science behind it and recipes. Amateur chefs and food nerds, eat your heart out. The site's introductory blurb: Cooking, elementally, is controlling heat and moisture. The great cooks are masters of fire and water. Me, I'm still playing...welcome to my playground. And play she does: Frosting a cake inside out, explaining the chemical connection between bananas and black currants, a caramel corn donut.

It Was a Monster Math!

Christ, what an asshole — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:07:03 -0800

We all wish we had a teacher like this

The Big Chart

blasdelf — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:44:01 -0800

We need a way to have, buy, and sit on fewer and better things. — from the CICINA, a 20 minute video presentation on their effort to compare all things in a massive bracketed set of 2¹⁴ binary judgements. Which is better: Apples or Oranges?

Plainview is a free full-screen web browser for your mac.

krautland — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:51:28 -0800

Plainview is a free full-screen web browser for your mac. Until now, you had two options for showing Internet work: capture it all to Quicktime and throw it into Powerpoint or Keynote (looks nice but no interactivity as everything has to be canned) or show it in your browser (interactive but with ugly chrome distracting people from your beautiful sites). So here's a third option. Fire up your full-screen browser and let your audience focus on the work. Oh yeah, the same guys also made a neat little flash game called Tankageddon and of course the subservient chicken.

Chit Chat.

Extopalopaketle — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:37:56 -0800

Pecha Kucha - get to the point. 20 slides in 20 seconds. Talk about what you want. Your city probably has a night for it.

LEGO is full of WIN

nthdegx — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:17:51 -0800

LEGO is full of WIN - Roo Reynolds' Interesting 2008 talk.

Volvelles

aeschenkarnos — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:15:38 -0800

What are those circular disc things that you rotate to look up information? Volvelles. The definitive book on the subject is Jessica Helfland's Reinventing the Wheel. The first volvelle was created by Benedictine monk Matthew Paris in 1250, to save rotating an entire book around. Most volvelles, historically, were designed for astronomical purposes. Recently we had an FPP about Ramon Lull, who seems to have been one of the earliest users of volvelles for purposes other than astronomy. Nowadays volvelles (or wheel charts) are rarely seen, but they were very popular between the 30's and 60's, the heyday of slide rules, before the invention of electronic calculators. The addition of multiple circles makes the volvelle capable of greater complexity, and they are ideal for codes and ciphers (Thomas Jefferson's cipher wheel, which is isomorphic to a 26-layer volvelle). Here is a description of the volvelle that came with the game Bard's Tale III in 1987 including a zip file with scans of it. For comparison, here is the complex table it equates to. More recently, the game HeroClix makes use of volvelles, as the combat dial base of the character miniatures. So, how to make your own volvelles? Here's an example of one (PDF). Here's a program for making simple two-layer volvelles, which I have tested and works, although it's probably better just to print out the example volvelle, work out how it works, and stick it to a paper plate. Or make this one. (More paper plate volvelles.)

Our Feature Presentation

dr_dank — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:05:32 -0800

If you had HBO in the 80's, you saw this every night at 8pm. HBO put together a brief behind-the-scenes featurette showing everything from the construction of the models to the composition of the music.

Rethinking Software Look&Feel

Gyan — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:14:35 -0800

Magic Ink - Information Software and the Graphical Interface

a subculture from across the pond

armage — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:37:30 -0800

British television presentation, past and present. For the lover of Channel 5, DOGs, presenters, and mocking in all of us.

Er... naked lunch.

xmattxfx — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:12:01 -0800

Body sushi by Gary Arabia. (SFW)

The power of presentation.

Vidiot — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:48:39 -0800

Decoding Visual Language Elements in News Content is an MFA thesis examining how layout, cropping, image selection et al. influence the way the content is perceived. The interactive demo is especially interesting; you can take some TV and magazine layouts and switch out pictures and other elements. It's fascinating to see how different cropping and tints affect your impressions of the content. Media literacy -- especially right now -- is a good thing. (Link via Stan Chin.)