How many of these are we guilty of?
[via tnw]
Prototypes is a Mac application that helps you test your interfaces early in the design process, helping designers find problems with their user experiences before major coding for their websites and iPhone apps takes place.
It’s a common problem: you’ve got a Photoshop mockup that looks great, but thanks to the static nature of such apps, you can’t take that interface for a test-drive. Once coding begins and problems are found, it’s back to the drawing board — with significant time wasted for all involved.
Prototypes allows you to turn those designs into prototypes that you can interact with through the mouse on your Mac or by tapping on your iPhone. You simply draw and link hotspots and set animations, share your interface with other stakeholders, and get testing.
The app costs US$39.99 and was developed by iOS developer Duncan Wilcox and user interface expert and Skitch creator Keith Lang.
Cloaking is all up in the news lately. Now they’ve developed an invisibility cloak that can make objects disappear in the microwave light part of the spectrum. And back in june there were developments in acoustic cloaking based on the same principles as light cloaking which shields things like ships from sonar or containing a sound in a space. crazy times we’re living in…
The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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| — | The Iliad |
![Scientific American - January 1971 - Pages 52-53
With all the hoopla going on about the mickey mouse “unknown pleasures” rip-off dominating the blogosphere recently, I decided to do a little research on the origins of the famous joy division album art. (because somewhere i had heard that it was graph of an ian curtis orgasm which turns out to be completely unfounded) Thanks to google, it didn’t take me long to find out where it originated from… a clever fellow named adam capriola quotes the wiki and writes more about it here.
“The front cover image comes from an edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, and was originally drawn with black lines on a white background.[13] It presents successive pulses from the first pulsardiscovered, PSR B1919+21—often referred to in the context of this album by its older name, CP 1919.[13] The image was suggested by drummer Stephen Morris[13] and the cover design is credited to Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan.”](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydxd3teQY1qzj7lco1_500.jpg)
Scientific American - January 1971 - Pages 52-53
With all the hoopla going on about the mickey mouse “unknown pleasures” rip-off dominating the blogosphere recently, I decided to do a little research on the origins of the famous joy division album art. (because somewhere i had heard that it was graph of an ian curtis orgasm which turns out to be completely unfounded) Thanks to google, it didn’t take me long to find out where it originated from… a clever fellow named adam capriola quotes the wiki and writes more about it here.
“The front cover image comes from an edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, and was originally drawn with black lines on a white background.[13] It presents successive pulses from the first pulsardiscovered, PSR B1919+21—often referred to in the context of this album by its older name, CP 1919.[13] The image was suggested by drummer Stephen Morris[13] and the cover design is credited to Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan.”
PSA of the Day: “Walking the streets texting isn’t much safer than walking them with a blindfold on”: Filmmaker Casey Neistat for the New York Times on the
do’sand don’ts of texting while walking.
