January 2010
110 posts
Watchjingc:
How to properly heat a pan (via Metafilter)
You would think this video would be boring with a title like that, but it’s quite fascinating. The idea is basically this: the pan is the perfect temperature when you drop a teaspoon of water in and the water skates around the pan in a perfect sphere. The accompanying article goes into great depths about the physics behind this phenomenon as...
December 2009
89 posts
Slashdot: Girl Gamers More Hardcore Than Guys →
“Scientific American reports on a study published this month in the Journal of Communication, which found that women who engage in a role-playing game online actually commit more time on average than the male players do. The authors surveyed 7,000 players logged in to EverQuest II (PDF), and found that the average age of the gamers surveyed was 31, and that playing time tended to increase...
Google Earth 5.0 Beta Released, Looks Incredible →
The demo video pretty much says it all. The historic imagery lets you go back in time to see how the location you’re viewing has changed over the years. For the cubicle-based deep sea explorers, the new ocean features integrate maps of the ocean’s floor along with videos from National Geographic with Google Earth. Finally, if you’ve ever wanted to record a custom tour, a new...
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“The best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after...”
– Charlie Hoehn (via Lifehacker) (via jingc)
Walt Disney’s Creative Organization Chart →
The Disney org chart, on the other hand, is based on process, from the story idea through direction to the final release of the film. All of the staff positions are in the service of supporting this work flow. Perhaps the question now is what should the org chart of the future look like, given the global workforce, telecommuting personnel, virtual employees, outsourced jobs and contract...
Close tab behaviour in Google Chrome →
A nice touch, although I still don’t think I’ll ever use Chrome regularly.
Closing tabs from the left
Or does it? This advantage is surely to be reversed when closing tabs from the left of the window? Quite right. Here is how the mouse pointer is required to move in Safari when closing a number of tabs at one time from the left:
Nice work, Safari. Let’s watch Chrome screw this...
The Half-Frame Fiasco →
I always wondered why they say the 5D is so much better at landscape photography than crop frame cameras like the 40D. Now things make a bit more sense.
Nikon’s DX has a 1.52x crop factor. That means the DX sensor’s area is only 1/(1.52 x 1.52), or 1/2.3, or less than half the size of a full-frame sensor!
DX is less than a half-frame sensor! I’ve been scammed! All these years...
“Is cheapness everything there is? I mean, who wants to buy the cheapest car?”
– Joel Salatin on Food, Inc.
Theme tweaks
– Photos are now full-width – Paragraphs are spaced correctly – Photo links are underlined – Disqus comments added – Search box spacing fixed for Firefox – Quote and Link letter spacing adjusted
Happy. OCD? Yes.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: A not-so-brief... →
FSJ has some real gems.
Now, the thing about that album was, on the day it hit the U.S. the whole world changed. Like, before that day, the world was one way, music was one way, culture was one way — and then after that day the world was never the same ever again, and as soon as you heard that album you knew that, and even if you were only nine years old, which I was, you just knew. You knew....
Niniane's Blog: self poking →
Tonight Lily, Charles, and I cooked. Afterwards Charles was washing dishes in the kitchen, while Lily and I were in the living room. Charles: “These forks are sharp!” [small delay] Lily: “Did you poke yourself?” Me: [puzzled for a few seconds] “Oh, I thought you meant on Facebook. I was going to say, I didn’t know that was possible.”
WatchAnother great UI improvement idea from Keith Lang.
UI and Us — Rethinking the Inspector
Trying out a new theme
Feedback is appreciated.
James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film... →
A very long read but well worth it.
From the article:
In 1977, a 22-year-old truck driver named James Cameron went to see Star Wars with a pal. His friend enjoyed the movie; Cameron walked out of the theater ready to punch something. He was a college dropout and spent his days delivering school lunches in Southern California’s Orange County. But in his free time, he painted tiny models and...
“There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something.”
– Thomas Edison | Quotes on Design
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein | Quotes on Design
AT&T: Chokehold is “irresponsible and pointless” →
I think the reason people are so angry goes beyond AT&T and the iPhone. I think the anger stems from the fact that we’re living in the United States, which used to be considered a First World country, and yet we’re dealing with a wireless system that feels like something you’d find in Port-au-Prince during hurricane season. In fact the developing world is racing past us, building out new...
Quasar may be fueling star creation in nearby... →
The researchers’ earlier observations had shown that the quasar was shooting out a radio-wavelength jet of high-energy particles and gas. They noted that this jet is directed at the companion galaxy, indicating that it might be supplying matter that eventually becomes incorporated into new stars in the companion galaxy. The quasar and the companion galaxy are also moving toward each other,...
Face Research » Demos » Make An Average →
Click on the images to select or unselect images you want to average together and click on the “View Average” button to see the average of the images with yellow borders.
Quite interesting.
