June 2012
0 posts
AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries →
The AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 2011 draws from an extensive pool of designers and others allied with the profession nationwide, and includes responses from more than 7,000 design professionals. This year’s survey featured a revised list of positions and descriptions for which data were collected.
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Cost of Living Wizard | Salary.com →
Considering a new city? Salary.com’s cost-of-living calculator will compare living-cost indexes and salary differentials to help you make an informed comparison. Learn how your disposable income will be affected by a relocation between any combination of 300-plus U.S. cities. The Cost-of-Living Wizard also reports the salary adjustment needed to maintain your standard of living, and what...
May 2012
16 posts
codeanticode/chatbots-library · GitHub →
Chatbots is a library for the Processing programming language and environment that provides classes implementing a variety of chatter-bot algorithms: the classic Eliza, AIML-based ones like Rebecca and Alice, etc.
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
“The future is ours to imagine. It’s up to us to put forth visions of how things...”
– The Farmer & Farmer Review . Modern Medicine . A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.”
– G. K. Chesterton (via zachklein)
March 2012
2 posts
“What is more difficult is when you are intrigued by an opportunity. That, I...”
– Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh - London Life - Life & Style - Evening Standard
“It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the...”
– Joe Cummings.com: Quotable Quotes
February 2012
4 posts
“People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of...”
– Nick Kwiatek — Web & interaction designer developer
Nice interactive ASCII fluid simulation on the site. Also like how “hacer mode” is green on black while “designer mode” is red on white. Seems quite fitting.
“I think there’s a paradox about my relationship with technology. In a way, I...”
– Meet Vincent Morisset, the Interactive Filmmaker Behind Arcade Fire’s Latest Video | Underwire | Wired.com
January 2012
10 posts
WatchNOM NOM NOM. MAGIC!
zachhale:
Green Screen Cookies (via Nim)
“New technologies make the world move forward. If it is shared broadly enough, it...”
– Procrastineering - Project blog for Johnny Chung Lee
“this year’s parameter is include . (Yes – that’s code!) This means that for...”
– Want to participate in a 12-week paid animation apprenticeship at the NFB? | NFB.ca blog
DAMN. I wish I was Canadian.
December 2011
26 posts
A decade of blogging!
Today marks the 10th anniversary of my public life on the internet. I think that warrants some reflective rambling. (Don’t worry, we’ll soon return to our normally scheduled programming.)
On Dec. 26th, 2001 at 5:28 pm I posted my first entry on Diaryland.
I won’t link to that old blog since its far too embarrassing though if you really wanted to find it, it wouldn’t...
WatchA solar powered 3D printer that uses a sun “laser” to turn sand into glass objects.
This is quite possibly the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I seriously love everything about this project. The concept and implications of such a device are amazing. The mechanical contraption is beautifully designed while the “office” is delightfully low tech. The film is shot and...
WatchI’m sensing a comeback.
kirstenlepore:
Hilaaarious
“Our experience suggests a different approach, one we call Building New...”
– On Feminism and Microcontrollers :: Copyrighteous
“The imagination can create the future only if its products are brought over into...”
– The Sceptical Futuryst
Inker Linker →
Since most of the things I make only exist as blinking pixels, I’ve never had to find a printer… but I imagine one day I will and this seems like a useful resource.