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The fate of human memory: My latest Wired magazine column
Quick: Can you do long division? Probably, though you'd ...

This FAQ concerns the measurement and control of coloure... plastics, textiles, surface coatings etc. It is intended... rather than theoreticians. Those requiring a more theore... to colour science or information about digital colour im... might prefe

Hall of fame LDAP attribute - DN distinguished name
As the word 'distinguished' suggests, this is THE LDAP a ...
Time spent in getting to know the DN attribute will repa ...

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

The Computing at School Working Group (CAS) aims to prom... Computing at school. CAS was born out of our excitement ... discipline, combined with a serious concern that many st... “turned off” computing by a combination of factors t... to make the

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i don't photolurk often, but man i'm always insanely cur ...
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if you post photos on your flickr here, i'll probably go ...

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars... grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce ... are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.

Turning classic book covers into inspirational t-shirts,... recently added a kids line to its collection of "intelli... fashions. Tykes can don soon-to-be-favorite reads like "... Rye," "Moby Dick," "Pride and Prejudice" or "Brave New W... distressed,

The First Case in History
The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ...
Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ...

Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior des... recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or... design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test res... skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effe... Google can

Creative activities often follow a double-hump model. At... all the obvious ideas. These aren't a waste of time; som...
There's a drop in energy between humps One and Two, as w ...
Bad ideas are not boring, meh proposals. Bad is not the ...
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Rahman and Sample found that, with the use of 3D printer ...

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A continuing issue in industrial design education is whe ...
Instead of setting constraints or limitations to dictate ...

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Whether I listen to my brain, or my heart, I still
don't understand how these damn things work
When I told my Graphic Design professor that I wanted to ...
That was years ago, and orthographics, of course, are no ...

Materials scientists know that things behave differently...
The MIT team, comprised of Parthiban Santhanam, Dodd Jos ...
How the heck is that possible? The long answer looks lik ...
The researchers chose a light-emitting diode with a ...
The gist of

Shinobu Kobayashi is a Japanese woodworker based in Australia, currently studying Scandinavian techniques in Sweden. The three-continent background appears to have done him well; working in concert with a master cabinetmaker from Denmark, Kobayashi manage

squared circle
An experiment with shape.
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This is a personal project that I did to satisfy my curi ...
... Then it gets playful.

CRAWDAD is the Community Resource for Archiving Wireless... a wireless network data resource for the research commun... has the capacity to store wireless trace data from many ... locations, and staff to develop better tools for collect... and analyzi

* Test different versions of a page to see which wor...
* Discover which ad placement gives the best results
* Find out which design encourages visitors to click ...
* Learn which content leads to improved sales

Heatmap View
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Kris Temmerman’s house/office has a store window that ... use of as much as possible. In the past he built project... wanted to make something interactive. Since the area has... youth and many people passing by he thought it would be ... fashion arc

The Journal of Creative Behavior is our quarterly academ... the most current research in creative thinking. For near... has been the benchmark scientific periodical in the fiel... to date cutting-edge ideas about creativity in education... business, a

Life imitates sci-fi as contact lens displays inch close...
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by Devin Coldewey on September 2, 2009
... with machines is too compelling not to pay attention to.

Remember M3-neony and M3-synchy, two humanoid robots fro...
Similar to neony and synchy, the purpose of the new robo ...
Weighing 27kg, M3-Kindy (“Kind” as in “Kindergarte ...
Noby (“Noby” as in “New-born Baby), on the other h ...
Noby is sup

Google is approaching a watershed moment in its internal... time is nearly at hand when they will have to decide onc... Android is, what Chrome OS is, and where they are both g... to say it has not been internally decided and even worke...
The hint is

Self-Referential Aptitude Test
by Jim Propp (propp@math.mit.edu)
A few years ago I wrote a "Self-Referential Aptitude Tes ...
The solution to the puzzle is unique, and in some cases ...
... all of the above

Greed Sort: An Optimal External Sorting Algorithm for Mu...
Mark H. Nodine and Jeffrey Scott Vitter
March 1991
Abstract:
We present an optimal deterministic algorithm for extern ...