Forecasting Future Wars http://www.digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2004/0104/0104_forecasting_heyman. jsp via ambiguous http://www.digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2004/0104/0104_forecasting_plume. jsp -- coloured signal graph Using a cortex hack to have a high-level interrupt for fighter jet pilots http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/000784.html ("The warning had to rise above the cacophony and flashing lights of an already crowded informational area. After trying a wide variety of approaches, they found the one that would work. Engineers recorded a message from a test pilotŐs daughter, with the sound coming as a whisper from behind the left ear: 'Daddy, put the gear down or you will crash.' And then there another term to refer to extelligence: "This is like an exosomatic evolution, where the biology of humanness is actually creating other structures to support human-like activities. The computers are a step in evolution in the sense that biology is putting information together outside of itself that ultimately becomes part of the system in which biology is connected to. It's a cybernetic loop. So this is the first phase in, probably, what will be a long series evolutional steps to... make the world a better place." (that quote by Dave Warner.)) Toysight- a set of toys and games for the Apple iSight http://toysight.com/ Danah Boyd's Revenge of the User (Friendster talk) crib notes http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/02/11/ my_etech_talk_revenge_of_the_user.html#004027 Molly Wright Steenson's Social Beasts social networking weblog http://www.girlwonder.com/socialbeasts/ Animals on the Underground, animals hidden on the London tube http://www.kevan.org/blog/040209.html#040212 Colorwhore- A directory of nice colours http://www.colorwhore.com/ The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work http://www.artima.com/intv/simplest.html (this was the motivation behind SQL. It's a really good starting point -- do it, see how it works and what the second-order effects are, then go another step. By Ward Cunningham.) CoolText- free logo maker online http://www.cooltext.com/ TranceNoizer http://www.tracenoizer.org/ ("TraceNoizer Generates Clones from your Databody in order to Disinform Those, Who are Spying on You! TraceNoizer is a webbased search, analysis and homepage publication system.") Bgrot http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/projects/bgrot/ ("A program to prevent background boredom. bgrot is a suite of scripts I wrote on a whim. It takes a set of pictures, and rotates your background through them in random order. That's about it...") Mac OS X Cocoa Input Manager with BBEdit http://www.gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2004/2/5.html#1019 (cool! "What that you are seeing is BBEdit in the foreground, editing the text in a NSTextView from within NetNewsWire. And whenever I do a save on the file in BBEdit, the text view gets updated. Then I just hit "Post" and up it goes to the weblog.") Could Glancing be used with the Opera browser? http://my.opera.com/orinoco/journal/43 Found Typography http://www.itchyrobot.com/foundtype/ via memepool SegusoLand Interface Guides Users By Narrowing Options http://nooface.com/articles/04/02/10/0146252.shtml ("Ned Baldessin writes 'Maurizio Colucci has created an interesting desktop environment, built upon 5 parameters: actions (called verbs), files, applications, physical devices, and history (or time). The user combines these parameters to narrow down to a task, a file, a device, etc. The site has many screenshots and examples. The concept is somewhat abstract, and probably could be extended to other parameters/columns, like People, Locations, Projects, etc. This, as usual, brings us to the problem of creating relevant metadata.' SegusoLand uses an artificial intelligence technique 'reciprocal list narrowing' that shows users only the relevant options while they are composing an action. It claims to be the first interface that combines task-oriented (i.e. verb-oriented), file-oriented, device-oriented, and program-oriented paradigms in a single model.") http://segusoland.sourceforge.net/ -- Segusoland http://segusoland.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html -- screenshots and examples