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Five Centuries of Board Games
20 Nov 2008
BibliOdyssey’s board-game roundup had me at “Filosofia cortesana de Alonso de Barros.” More can be found via a search for “game-board” on the British Museum’s Prints Database.
Net Art Update
27 Oct 2008
Last weekend in Providence I ended up checking out bits and pieces of Interrupt 2008, a festival co-hosted by Brown and RISD on “language-driven digital art,” and seeing a lot of old familiar faces. I actually find it comforting that the genre hasn’t changed much in the last ten years, and the low-tech aesthetic ..
Notebook Reviews
02 Sep 2008
For all the dorks like myself who obsess about notebooks, this post is for you.
Full disclosure: I tend to be partial to notebooks of the pocket-sized, reporter-style, durable, flexible, wirebound and blank variety, but I use and sample all kinds. To my mind there are two types of notebooks: portable and desktop. Portable ..
Back to Paper: Mind Maps and Sketch Notes
16 Jul 2008
Before breaking out the wireframe sketches and paper prototypes, some back-to-paper web types get the juices flowing with mind maps and sketch notes. Then they blog about it.
“UI porn”: notes by Mike Rohde
Mike Rohde is kind of the king of these. 37Signals recently posted his sketch notes from the Seed 3 conference and ..
Booksmooch
17 Jun 2008
I mean BookMooch—have you tried it? It’s enough to send a book hoarder past the point of no return. You go and list the books you have that you no longer want and if they’re good ones, you’ll receive email alerts within minutes from people who have those same books on their wishlists and ..
NNDB Mapper: Beyond Lists of Links
21 May 2008
NNDB Mapper from the NNDB (Notable Names Database) is a sophisticated visualization tool for the people, and you can use it to uncover little-known connections between Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker contributors who have been parodied as Muppets and philosophers featured on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band who have had asteroids ..
