Alberti would have had an aneurysm if he had seen this Augmented Perspective.
Just look at that slimy software. It’s as though this Softimage researcher, Eric Mootz, is reverse-engineering the work of biologists who are looking at how slime molds resemble computer networks.
Or, how my twelve-year-old got featured in Wired, BoingBoing, and News.com, by purchasing a product and then doing the opposite of what it says on the instructions. It’s a lesson on how to make work that goes viral.
Fred Brooks: design starts with scarcity.
Looking to reduce your water and grocery bills simultaneously? Follow these three steps to thinking outside the box–er, pool. Via Bruce Sterling and William Emory.
Good news for any students needing access to books etc. from Amazon (via Matt Leavitt and Owen Smith).
At least if your surgeon is using this new augmented reality viewer.
Doctors in Boston are now handing out farmers market vouchers to obese kids. There’s a similar program in Maine for pregnant mothers, and an initiative in New Zealand that requires supermarket employees to have prior experience on a farm. Maybe teachers should start assigning visits to the farmers market too…
This project brings mobile computing to a whole new level. I can haz in Orono?
Is David Pogue setting the bar too high for easy-to-use programming tools, or too low for nonprogrammers?
Another item for your checklist of what to do after graduation: change your name.
Vivek Wadhwa at TechCrunch does the numbers to prove that Google and Microsoft don’t create jobs, but your startup company will.
The controversial practice of “reconciliation ecology” tries not to restore old habitats, but to create new ones–by bringing nature back into human spaces. Its proponents think innovative software may help people get along with their new neighbors. Capstone, anyone?
From the XKCD school of Web design. [Link]
Why stop at grades? Why not bet on whether you’ll make the rugby team, or whether you’ll get married in five years? Or maybe you could play hedge fund manager and bet that you’ll flunk out–at least you’d have some change to make it through the summer.
This “Dung Beetle” sounds farfetched until you realize that farming cooperatives are starting to compete for Hannaford’s food scraps.
Thoreau’s simple economic calculus shows we sometimes get less out of technology than we put in.
Anil Dash of dashes.com offers up this provocative companion to NMDNet’s subheading,
Animator or game design wannabe? This equation is for you.
Today at 10am I went to shoot a Haiku at a local CVS with a nice young girl name Strawberry (yes that is really her name).
New Media at the University of Maine
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