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ARC 2012: The future is on its way →

This looks great! smart stories and essays. But why do they have to use DRM?

Feb 22nd

Microsoft's Biggest Miss →

minimalmac: One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the first leg of our trip, we spent some time discussing Microsoft’s many missed opportunities. The failure to take the iPhone…

Feb 18th

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Feb 17th

Everything Is a Remix →

Everything is a remix is a fascinating series of videos exploring the roots of creativity and copyright law. It is definitely worth watching at least the first part.

Feb 17th

Anatomy of an unsafe abortion by Dr. Jen Gunter →

A powerful piece of writing, a powerfully emotional situation

Feb 13th

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Feb 1st

Why are software development task estimations... →

A great illustration of a major problem in my (and so many others) work today

Jan 31st

Extending the Touchscreen - ITP Thesis Teaser on... →

Some great ideas on touchscreen UI design experiments

Jan 30th

Jan 25th

The Lives They Lived →

A beautiful story of life, love and a last ride on a Harley.

Jan 24th

Jan 20th

Trailer for Moonrise Kingdom →

New Wes Anderson movie… looks cooky

Jan 13th

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Jan 4th

Sound is after all... all about touch →

Oh the possibilities! I am imagining some very cute things this could become

Jan 4th

Using cereal to explain the world of software and... →

Dec 16th

http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en →

At first glance the design of the google zeitgeist site is excellent. I really like it, the infographics, animation, UX… the whole thing looks good

Dec 15th

Dec 13th

On the impracticality of a cheeseburger. →

It is sometimes easy to forget just how complex our world is

Dec 6th

English riots were 'a sort of revenge' against the... →

Interesting notes from interviews with rioters from UK.

Dec 5th

The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Restrospective →

All things D on the way Zuckerberg and facebook express their apologies, while not actually ever admitting to doing anything wrong.

Nov 30th

Are “data hogs” the problem? →

Interesting look at who uses all the bandwidth, and also another reminder that the obvious answer is often wrong, or incomplete

Nov 30th

Nov 25th

Peter Jackson Buys Bats Theatre Wellington →

I am so happy that BATS has a nice safe new landlord. The buffs were great and all but I still remember hearing them… was it a tuba… in the middle of performances on Wednesday nights

Nov 24th

Nov 23rd

How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and... →

part of the ongoing joke that is copyright law reform in the world today.

Nov 14th

Demon’s Souls and the Meaning and Import of... →

A nice essay looking at the life and death mechanics in gaming yesterday and today. I have been thinking a lot about incentivising behaviour at the moment and this made me have some thoughts!

Nov 10th

Vappic 4D CAPTCHA - Solve more! →

One of the worst examples of solving the wrong problem I have seen in a long time. We should be trying to get rid of captcha, not making them harder to use.

Nov 8th