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book forthcoming...
The Dictionary of Obscure SorrowsA compendium of the urges, vibes, aches and demons inhabiting the interior psychological landscape. Its mission is to harpoon, bag and tag wild sorrows, then release them back into the subconscious.
free (for limited time)
ClippingMagic (Alpha) – "remove the background from your photos to create masks, cutouts, or clipping paths"'a sense of infinity'
Collage.js – "Framework for creating live, dynamic, and interactive collages."a refreshing idea
Let me refresh that for you.Please use your best judgement and do not do anything creepy, malicious or illegal while using this website...
business-driven initiative
Internet of Things ConsortiumOne of the goals of the consortium is to see billions of connected devices that benefit from communication with other devices and services.
'strange and creepy'
On the Leakiness of Surveillance Culture, the Corporate Gaze, and What That Has To Do With the New Aesthetic [Eduardo Morais' stream]'a true browser innovation'
Stainless: A multi-process browser for OS XNote: Still in development, but pre-release version is available.
'focus inward'
Rest is not idleness: Reflection is critical for development and well-being [headlessness]'instantly and securely'
Remobo - Instant Private Network ™ ApplicationNote: This is not an endorsement.
'release of unsolicited things'
The color of creativityThe process of creativity isn't glamorous. It's simply about hard work, the management of emotions, and delayed showmanship. And it's necessarily lonely. To want to be creative–truly creative–is to want to entertain, which is often depressingly opposite of being entertained.
various shots from above
Prison MapWhat does the geography of incarceration in the United States look like?
Oh, never mind!
Politwoops - Deleted tweets from politiciansSure, we all tweet things we don't mean to share, but now politicians have no way to hide them. Discover tweets that your politicians shared and then promptly deleted.
'We take it for granted.'
The impossibility of imagining information discovery in the pastThere's a whole class of information that's both trivially easy for Web-literate people to access today and virtually impossible to access with tools from even 10 or 15 years ago...
a 'blind courier'
NoPlaintextDon't let sensitive information go around the world and sit in someone's account forever. We give you a one-time-usable link to send instead. Once it's seen it's gone for good! The message is encrypted on your computer and we can never see it.
Note: This is not an endorsement. If you choose to trust the unidentified author(s) of this tool with your sensitive information, you do so at your own risk!
need to rethink 'usability'
Mobile Site vs. Full Site (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)vs.
Nielsen is wrong on mobile | Opinion | .net magazine (heavy advertising)
'owner-free' chat channels
tlk.ioThis is a simple web chat. There is no signup, just enter a channel name below and start tlk.ing.
[Hypnophant < simurai]
'randomly generated diets'
Swole.me - The automatic diet planner(see Disclaimer)
Note: This is not an endorsement.
the missing option...
A Modest Proposal: Google, Take My MoneyI just wish you'd take alternative forms of payment besides my eyeballs and my personal information.
Related:
disconnect.me: Paying with our data
'community of storytellers'
Cowbird - A witness to life (About)Our short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events and universal themes. Our long-term goal is to build a public library of human experience, so the knowledge and wisdom we accumulate as individuals may live on as part of the commons, available for this and future generations to look to for guidance.
#OWS aggregator
OccupationalistOccupationalist is an impartial and real-time view of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Covering history as it unfolds. No filters. No delays.
'off the grid-for-little-kids'
The Kid Should See This.There's just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them...
'everything is changing'
WTF Mobile WebWe need better reasons. Real examples. Proof that what we are all doing is not working anymore. That's what this website is about. Examples convince. Seeing trends makes us smarter. The problem isn't insurmountable if it's known. So let's get to know the problem.
'forced labor' survey
Slavery FootprintHow many slaves work for you? There are 27 million slaves in the world today. Many of them contribute to the supply chains that end up in the products we use every day. Find out how many slaves work for you, and take action.
'interplay'
The evolution of the webThe color bands in this visualization represent the interaction between web technologies and browsers, which brings to life the many powerful web apps that we use daily.
sounds of everyday things
SoundAffectsWhat would we learn if we changed the way we looked at our cities? What if, instead of just looking at them, we could listen to them?
offline file-sharing network
Dead Drops[The Letter]Un-cloud your files in cement! 'Dead Drops' is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.
'rethinking the desktop'
10/GUIThe mouse and the windowed desktop are perhaps the two greatest innovations in the history of human-computer interaction. But like all innovations, they are best seen as part of a continuum rather than a terminus.
color in the sky
N SKY C – "The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes." [Trivium]buzzwords in the news
Newswordy: Word of the dayBeware of links to external news sites with heavy and/or intrusive advertising.
running the numbers
Remembrance of Links PastMeasuring link rot with a computer program is tricky because URLs have a number of different decay products...
What if?
Project KleinrockProject Kleinrock is an attempt to create an autonomous and decentralized "second layer" of the Internet, which can operate without the use of Internet Service Providers. This network can be set up using nothing more than common household wifi routers. It works by creating a web of routers, connected to each other by switching them into repeater mode...
'turntable + mixer experiment'
The Wheels Of Steel: Turntables in your browser (a web-based DJ prototype)handy mobile interface
Imaginary PhoneImaginary Phone allows users to control their mobile devices without taking it out of their pocket. Instead, users mimic the interaction on the palm of their hand. The interaction is tracked by a wearable depth camera which sends input events to the actual physical device...
social journalism
storyfulStoryful uses the power of social networks to create an authentic, cooperative and socially useful journalism.
'diverse streams of urbanism'
Free Association Design (F.A.D.) – "explores space, place and systems through a range of writings, experiences and design research methods"'camouflage from face detection'
CV Dazzle[Futurismic]CV Dazzle™ is camouflage from computer vision (CV). It is a form of expressive interference that combines makeup and hair styling (or other modifications) with face-detection thwarting designs...
a 'minimum safe distance'
My Internet FaceSo is it worth it, should I give the ill-begotten miscreant teenager that is Facebook another try?
something we're exploring...
Inform – "a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language"a little thought provocation
Minimalism is not a viable intellectual strategySomething to think about - can minimalism be a good long-term strategy?Minimalism cannot be a long-term strategy, but it makes an excellent short-term tactic.
Related:
Minimalism Is A Viable Long Term Intellectual Strategy
'There is only passion.'
There is no talentIt's so easy to give up; it might almost seem like the whole world is against you. Well, forget about the rest of the world. There is no such thing as talent, and in the end you will end up as skilled as your "talented" heros.
Simply by following your passion.
'a world with fewer options'
In the Grip of the Internet MonopolistsDo away with Google? Break up Facebook? We can't imagine life without them—and that's the problem
interesting concept in the works
ThimblWelcome to thimbl, the free, open source, distributed micro-blogging platform. If you're tired of being locked in to one micro-blogging platform, or a single social network. Or you're weary of corporations hi-jacking your updates in the pursuit of money, then thimbl is for you.
Thimbl is currently not ready for the world! We're still putting the finishing touches on what we hope will be a useful and successful application.
'share your ideas' (bookmarklet)
MarkUpDraw on any webpage with MarkUp to quickly share your thoughts.
'super-easy to use'
KEYS.css – "a simple stylesheet for rendering beautiful keyboard-style elements"'something different'
Ode - a simple personal publishing platform for the web – "Simple means you know how it works."Note: This is not an endorsement.
be 'Proactively Nice'
Operation NICE[minor details]Don't you love it when people go out of their way to be nice? Like when someone waits to hold the door for you. Or when a stranger waves you into a line a traffic. Or even when a coworker shoots you a friendly smile along with a "have a nice day." If everyone was a little bit nicer to the folks they encountered each day, perhaps the world would be a more pleasant place. Operation NICE was initiated to remind you that a little NICE goes a long way.
rediscovered this morning...
Some Photographs of That DayBackground information at Wikipedia:
Jamie Livingston (October 25, 1956 - October 25, 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer. Between March 31, 1979 and October 25, 1997, the day of his death, he took a single picture nearly every day with a Polaroid camera.
'a step closer'
Toward the Semantic WebIf the current Web is like a giant text file - which you can search for instances of particular words – the Semantic Web would be like a database, where every item of information is categorized, and new queries can combine categories in any imaginable way. You could, for instance, search the Web for a restaurant within a mile of a railway station in a town with a theater that offers vegetarian lasagna and at least one lamb dish. And if you wanted the restaurant's menu, you could pull up just the menu – not page after page of review sites that happened to use the word "menu."
another hyperlocal effort
Raise the HammerRaise the Hammer is a group of Hamilton, Ontario citizens who believe in our city's potential and are willing to get involved in making the city a more vibrant, livable, and attractive place to live and work.
'subverts the profit model'
One Hour Photo – "Photographic works will be projected for one hour each, after which they will never be seen again, by anyone, in any form."'relaxation and liberalization'
Canon to begin acquisition of the ".canon" Top-Level Domain name [Surfstation]bravo for saying it
Advertising is devastating to my well-being[dotcoma]I run my own website(s) at a loss specifically because I'd rather pay out of my own pocket than force people to look at ads. Admittedly my sites are so small that it's not much money. But there you have it. If I had to generate revenue to keep my sites going, I would find a way other than advertising to do it. Or I'd shut them down.
learning aid prototype
Noteput – "An interactive music table with tangible notes, that helps students to learn the notation of music."on 'Google and its partners'
- Google Click Fraud Inflates Conversion Rates and Tricks Advertisers into Overpaying (January 12, 2010)
- Google Still Charging Advertisers for Conversion-Inflation Traffic from WhenU Spyware (January 5, 2010 - Updated, January 7, 2010)
- How Google and Its Partners Inflate Measured Conversion Rates and Inflate Advertisers' Costs (May 13, 2009)
which comes first
Excessive internet use is linked to depressionOur research indicates that excessive internet use is associated with depression, but what we don't know is which comes first - are depressed people drawn to the internet or does the internet cause depression?
'impersonal and irrelevant'
Zach Klein: "I liked the Internet better when it was nebulous, and now I'm depressed that it shaping up to be a social pyramid."
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