Kittens and Ponies and MySpace.com!

Randomly found things of wonder and delight from Brendan Dawes

“It is so helpful to keep a record of doodles and scratchings and experiments - if only for the usefulness of having a record of what doesn’t work.”

Craft and the Creative Process: an Online Exhibition, Archives of American Art

Adactio: Journal—The password anti-pattern →

Great, important article by Jeremy Keith
Eye blog » Eye, the international review of graphic design
Magnetic Movie on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

SparkFun Electronics →

littleBits intro on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Electronic Lego!
Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
Can’t wait for this to come out from the director of Helvetica.

Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit

Can’t wait for this to come out from the director of Helvetica.

Apple TV - a little annoying "flaw"

The Complete Guide to iTunes Movie Rentals, Part 1 (Updated) | iLounge Article

So on Saturday I finally got around to seeing Batman Begins - thought I better see it before The Dark Knight. I rented it via my Apple TV in HD and it all worked seamlessly - until my viewing caught up with the buffer and then everything stopped - and then I was caught in stop-go hell.

The only thing left to do was let the rest of the movie download and then watch it another time - within the 48 hour period. Here’s where my beef is. The rest of my weekend is busy and I don’t really have the opportunity to sit down and watch the rest of the movie at home. What I would love to do is watch the rest of the film on my iPod Touch on the hour long journey to work.

But I can’t do that. HD movies can only be watched via Apple TV, and movies rented on Apple TV can only be watched on Apple TV. Surely in this multidevice world we’re now living in I should be able to watch my rented film however I want whenever I want? Yeah I know about DRM and all that - but c’mon surely there has to be a way.

Apple TV is great, but Apple really needs to look at closing this loop so people can have maximum flexibility in how they watch their media.

Silverback — guerrilla usability testing
Open (finds, minds, conversations)…: Twitter’s sketchpad origins
monome
Mouse Gesture Recognition [ by Didier Brun aka Foxy ] < ByteArray.org
via web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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