I saw this over on Dinosaurs and Robots, a company is making trash bags in the shape of teddy bears. An idea that’s time has come! Imagine this on your street corner on trash day. Image it and try not to scream.
A team of British college students and grade school kids made history with the first sub orbital teddy bear EVA. OK, technically it wasn’t a space walk, but still teddy bears in space!
This is ground control to Major Teddy. You’ve really made the grade. And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear (Shirts? Seriously, why shirts?). Now its time to leave the capsule if you dare.
I’ve never really understood the fascination that exists for paper craft. You spend hours gluing or taping something together that is basically a facsimile of, most of the time, an object you could by off the shelf for not a lot of money. And in the end what you get is made of paper. Fragile, shoddy paper. But occasionally I see something, as the marketing and sales folks I know would say, that resonates. Like for example the way too cute paper craft HAL9000.
You can download the file to make you own cute psychotic AI here.
This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
They compiled some video, they wrote a song, they put it on YouTube.
I’m sure this has been around for a while, but I just discovered Wikiquote. And today they had a link on their main page to some of Douglas Adam’s more interesting quotes. Here one that stuck out, from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency:
“What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?”
This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table.
Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve learned something about it yourself.
I think this applies to user interface design as well. By the time you take pretty much any process and break down into actions and steps for an end user, you’ve learned a lot about a lot.
This is beyond description.
Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars 2008
I saw this over on BoingBoing Gadgets, a comparison of the Windows Me versus Mobile Me logos:
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” - Steve Jobs after Picaso
Because the world wasn’t ready… until now. Not just glass toilets, but art. Art, I say! Nothing says constipation like Buddha staring at you while you’re on the pot. The bass one is particularly scary.
How many of the Internet People do you recognize? You’d really have be a on the net a lot to know them all. Watch the funny music video (work safe):
From Cory Doctorow’s photos of the San Diego Comic Con.
And of course from the back:
