Wikis - Clicks and Balances

I was just doing some research on setting up a wiki and found this great article from Geek Girl's Plain English Computing.

I really like this site for it's down to earth info and snappy (plain with perks) writing style.

Link:
Fancy a Wiki

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

the home page of www.uiandme.com






an approximation of how the home page of www.uiandme.com looks to a user with the most common form of red/green color blindness, deuteranope

simulation provided by: vischeck

Usability 'rated over price'

Online retailers can win customers by maximising usability rather than lowering prices, according to a new study.

Read article at Usability News: http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4633.asp

Women in Art

Technology Enabling Nonprofits

Audio Interview

Edward Granger-Happ, CIO, Save the Children, and Chairman, NetHope, discusses how information technology, and the advent of Web 2.0, is changing the way relief organizations organize and deliver aid.

Link to RadioTuck: http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/digital/RadioTuck20/MediaPages/
NetHope.html

Top Ten for the Future

The Top Ten Technologies that will transform your life according to Live Science.


http://www.livescience.com/technology/top10-transform-tech.html

Design and the Elastic Mind

“Design and the Elastic Mind,” an exhilarating new show opening on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, makes the case that through the mechanism of design, scientific advances of the last decade have at least opened the way to unexpected visual pleasures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/design/22elas.html

Facing the Future

Grand Challenges for Engineering

an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century . . .

the National Academy of Engineering has posted the results here: http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/

Finding Art

I found this Oceanic art via art history resources on the web, a site created by
Dr. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe - hundreds of links to art from all over the world.


Link to art history resources on the web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Inspired

Do you have a great idea or invention to share? Have you been thinking about the next big thing in skateboards? A car that doesn't use gas? A hands-free hairbrush?

Whether it's a re-invention or an idea all your own- send it in to show it off in our Inventors Gallery! But please be careful and learn what it takes to be a Smart Inventor first.

Invention Site for Kids
http://www.inventnow.org/

Opposites Attract

"All great discoveries," the elder Marratta had once said, "are the products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents'."

from Winter's Tale, p. 252, by Mark Helprin

Setting the stage for 2008

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

- Einstein

Let's cast a vote for technology . . .

Until such time as the mostly empty arguments that surround electronic voting and the controversy and finger pointing around the party affiliations of providers, U.S. voters will have to suffer with third-world voting technology. All the while third-world countries are leveraging e-voting technology to ensure freer, fairer and more honest elections.

Link: http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2811

Article by Chris Shipley

Look Who's Talking

TED Talks
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, they sponsor "ideas worth spreading". View the today's most "fascinating doers and thinkers" giving the "talk of their lives". There are over 150 free videos available for sharing under Creative Commons license.

photo: Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, speaking on compassion

Link: http://www.ted.com/index.php/

Innovation Gets No Respect

With innovation at the top of corporate agendas these days, you'd expect to find managers treating it like a science. Yet as The Economist points out in this special report, innovation remains a frustratingly fuzzy notion. Few executives have any idea how to define it; fewer still have any idea of how to measure it.
http://blogs.smh.com.au

Just in time for Halloween

A remote control spider covered in fur with red eyes that light up and a spider-like
skitter.

I can't wait, especially after doing several "not remote enough" spider web face plants in the last couple of weeks. . .

Source: gear diary, http://www.geardiary.com/2007/10/15/big-news-on-the-robot-front/

And you thought pop-ups were bad?

Just going near the upper right corner of this web page causes it to rip apart, realistic tearing sounds and all. It is particularly nasty and cheesy effect - right out of a Bruce Campbell movie.

http://www.informationweek.com

Water Wall

Imagine a building made of water. It features liquid curtains for walls - curtains that not only can be programmed to display images or messages but can also sense an approaching object and automatically part to let it through.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/waterbuilding-0711.html

Art - past and future

John Helgeson, The Florentine

"I have been working with digital art for a decade and still find it to be the most fascinating medium that I know.... The artists I admire most are De Kooning, Franz Kline, Goya, Edvard Munch and Richard Diebenkorn."
http://moca.virtual.museum/helgeson/helgeson01.htm

all-in-one cooker, energy generator and fridge

An all-in-one cooker, energy generator and fridge could soon be improving quality of life in developing countries, thanks to an international project launched this week.

The £2m Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity (SCORE) project aims to work with rural communities in Africa and Asia, where access to power is limited, to develop a versatile domestic appliance powered by biomass that will significantly improve health and welfare.

The team hopes that the device will also promote economic growth and reduce poverty by enabling communities to take ownership of its development and establish businesses from its manufacture, repair and application.
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