The site is in japanese but that shouldn’t harm your experience a bit. Click through the 10 questions and have your robot generated, then watch it move around and fight with other robots. The algorithm that moves them and animate the legs is intriguing, and the interface looks clean and polished, typical japanese design.
http://www.verbatim.jp/senshuken/
Created by IMG SRC/Non-Grid, Kaibutsu, and Masayuki Kido
What a pleasant surprise, the whole book online:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17005215/Manifold-Time-by-Stephen-Baxter-full-book
Currently reading Phase Space, and Flood is waiting in line on my shelf. Enjoying hard sci-fi.
4 beautiful shorts for annecy 2009 openings each day. Gobelins did it again, enjoy
Guillaume Marceau has made an interesting attempt at visualizing 33 programming languages in terms of code terseness and speed.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game is a collection of 429 programs, consisting of 13 benchmark reimplemented across 33 programming languages. It is a fantastic resource if you are trying to compare programming languages quantitatively.
http://gmarceau.qc.ca/blog/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependability-of.html
Came across this little tool that generates custom loading icons. You basically select the background and foreground colors and choose a template for the shape, and it generates an animated .gif.
Useful when you just need one quick. http://www.ajaxload.info/
Came across this 2 sites by Carlos Ulloa showcasing real time 3D in flash:
http://www.helloenjoy.com/ greets the viewer with an interesting transition from plain 2D words into a few 3D reflective text blocks floating in a white environment. After panning around them for awhile, the viewer soon notices that the cursor changes when hovering on each letter, and discovers in delight that those are not just floating 3D objects looking pretty, they actually demonstrate an interactive physics engine. Try them out yourself.
http://www.carlosulloa.com/ looks normal, until you decide to give the controls a try. Go ahead and be surprised.
Song Hye Kyo by Max Edwin Wahyudi
Quoting Sanid who gathered this collection of typographic portraits at abduzeedo:
Typography is not just about choosing a nice typeface, actually it’s much more than that, it’s how we arrange the types in the layout choosing the right size, weight and type of font to transmit the message in the easiest and more understandable way. Now, imagine some designers take that to a next step, mixing typography with portraits.
Thanks to Kian An for the link.
Imagine fluffy bunnies in SBO with rifles and pistols, and speaking japanese. yeah only the japs can do that