October 2009
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September 2009
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"Creativity in Problem Solving"
Currently reading psychology and encountered this definition of creativity, in the field of problem solving:
The capacity to produce something unique, and useful (Approaches to Psychology, W. Glassman).
The thing about problem solving is that sometimes, when a new approach to a problem is needed, we usually rely on this thing called creativity. Creativity itself is mostly associated with the Art...
August 2009
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July 2009
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Type foundries and Webfonts
Right now there is talk about how people are now going to distribute fonts online. Since designing a typeface is really challenging,typographers really want to protect their fonts from piracy.
With CSS3 coming along, developers are now given the chance to use their own fonts simply by referring to them in a CSS file. While nice, it exposes the font to piracy. Typography sells font to customer,...
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Best, movie, ever…
Edit: Its actually a parody on a real movie… called 2012… the shots are taken from the trailer then the person added awesome music on top of it. I bet the real movie sucks.
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The suspense is killing me!
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Judge a Book... →
…by its cover. A blog dedicated to the front cover. I love it when design and science/politics/maths combine. It interprets the intangible into a tangible format.
June 2009
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“This is a mix between art & science… The latest short by Terri Timely titled Synesthesia.”
“A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.”
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Extended Essay in run-time! →
You can see my changes that I make to the Extended Essay at run-time! (well, I need to upload it, but I’ll do it often).
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Update on EE!
Posted the 1.0 alpha version of the Extended essay for y’all to read. Hope to work on the 1.1 alpha version, and be finished by 28th of June.
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Longest street in North America
Well, according to the worlds brain (internet) the longest street in North America is Yonge Street.
Yonge Street (pronounced “young”) is a major arterial street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and its northern suburbs. It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world at 1896 km, and is a national historic site.
These guys are crazy…
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DIY Visualizations Online
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/15/google-ibm
The above link is a list of visualization sites which give the user the ability to import data and visualize it to what they want. Not something as awesome and engaging like this but bar charts and map-data layouts.
It seems like now there are several services out there that help with visualizing data online. And so far it seems to...
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"Tweenbots project finds people really do care...
http://tweenbots.com/
A social experiment in New York, where a small robot is guided using only human interaction to get from one place to another by changing the direction of the bot. The link above contains a few pictures of the bot. Found a nice video over here.
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6 Easy Steps to Make Your Graph (Really) Ugly →
It’s so simple!