Bytes, The Neuroverse & Everything

Jackie's musings on computing, cognition, creativity, and other riveting topics.
Apr 17
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Neri Oxman  She doesn’t believe biomimicry is a passing fad: “The biological world,” she says, “is displacing the machine as a general model of design.” (via Seedmagazine.com | Revolutionary Minds | Design & Architecture | Neri Oxman)

Neri Oxman 

She doesn’t believe biomimicry is a passing fad: “The biological world,” she says, “is displacing the machine as a general model of design.” (via Seedmagazine.com | Revolutionary Minds | Design & Architecture | Neri Oxman)

Apr 10
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» Spyn - Weaving Stories into Handcrafted Artifacts
One of the projects from CHI 2008 that is closest to my heart.
Apr 03
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» Study, Design, Build, Evaluate, and now, Understand
Microsoft Research projects what computing will look like in 2020.
Apr 01
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» Google Docs to have offline capabilities
How they coordinate offline edits between different users should be interesting. Considering my dependence on Google Docs, let’s hope it’s not catastrophic.
Mar 27
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» Tactile Keys for the iPhone

It’s all about variable texture.

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» Is Al Gore the Answer?
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Mar 22
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» The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, twice the size of the US
Mar 19
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» PoIP - digital devotions
Record a prayer with Prayer over IP (PoIP) and it will be broadcast at the holy site of your choice. Though I’m not religious, I find the implications and questions this evokes supremely interesting.
Mar 13
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» [Prodution line]: APA Citation Style Cribsheet
A life saver.
Mar 11
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» Coffeenatic: A social network for beanheads
Do I need to join another social network? No.
Will my caffeine-infused love affair allow me not to? No!
I love you, coffee.