Wow, this is quite beautiful, but looks real dangerous. Didn’t even know it was called speedflying (insanity is the colloquial Canadian term.).
Sadly though, despite saying that, thinking in the back of my head how much fun that would be on a snowboard. ;-)
Mind-blowingly great post from Firefox’s lead designer (now a dead link) Aza Raskin on the power of prototyping as communication, why you need to start with design and how to communicate ideas visually since it’s all about influencing people. Like, wow… And very topical for my team at the moment (which does not have a designer or front-end engineer). And it definitely re-affirms Agile as a process.
To Design is to inspire participation.
Yeah, so I love games. Particularly real world ones like Werewolf , and I have to admit, I had not heard of Humans vs Zombies (HvZ) until the other night. Looks like so much fun. Defend yourself against zombie hordes with nerf guns and socks.
Here are the rules for playing at an Uni . I’m sure these could be adapted for more rapid style games amongst smaller groups.
And check out the theatrical trailer for one Uni’s upcoming game:
Very likeable animation by the Smart Bubble Society for my old peeps at Greenpeace , it’s well done, though don’t find it that compelling (also, someone really needs a better way to present the hard numbers on off oil and coal generation - right now, all people hear is it’ll be expensive. No one likes that.). Though see interesting solar development here .
What do you think?
Fantastically well done animation of Lincoln’s most famous and moving address.
via Neatorama .
Amazing article in the Atlantic Monthly on Lonnie Johnson the self-made, independent inventor who not only invented the Super-Soaker water gun but just may have such a revolutionary approach to a solar powered heat engine that he may just have made solar power produce energy so efficiently it is competitive with coal.
It’s not just his JTEC that is amazing. Read the biographical info mixed in on an astoundingly interesting guy and a rare breed these days amongst inventors.
Those who know me from the year I lived aboard the Neilali will know that the whole point of having a boat was never about the sailing; it was about the freedom. I absolutely love these guys who fixed up a crap boat and sailed around the Bahamas like maniacs just enjoying life. So great.
You can grab the entire documentary from their site or watch the embed via Vimeo.
Have to admit it’s got me thinking of a boat again.
Rapture is a gorgeous time-lapse video trailer by astronomy photographer of the year Tom Lowe. The trailer looks absolutely breathtaking combining Southwestern scenery and the stars. Um, definitely watch this in HD and put it on full screen. Wow.
via Geeks are Sexy .
Great list of paradoxes on the use of cloud computing from the always insightful O’Reilly Radar. We use cloud services heavily at GetUp, mostly because we have no real infrastructure and try to avoid long-term investment to stay lean, but these are excellent thought exercises to go through if you’re the CIO/CTO of your org.
I love the Information is Beautiful guy. Fabulous infographic on breakups from facebook data. I wonder if they could do a similar “quit/fired/changed my job” infographic. Would be equally interesting.
