Waving to myself Source: Seth's Blog When I’m on the bike path riding my truly weird recumbent bicycle, sometimes I pass someone else similarly outfitted. And I wave. Same thing happens when a pregnant mom meets another at the airport,…

My office for the day, a photo by matteoc on Flickr.

CmdrTaco Leaves Slashdot Source: TechCrunch If you have been, in any way, involved in the Internet in the past decade or so you’ll know the name CmdrTaco. His real name is Rob Malda and he started Slashdot, a news aggregation…

Get Innocuous, a photo by matteoc on Flickr. White Mauer

Augmented Reality: Science Fiction Writer Becomes Augmented Reality Developer Source: Beyond The Beyond Science Fiction Writer Becomes Augmented Reality Developer Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA,  August 18, 2011 Art Center “Visionary in Residence” Bruce Sterling has created his…

BVG font, a photo by matteoc on Flickr. All signs of the U-bahn and bus system are written with a beautiful, rationalist, clear, readable typeface.

The Evolving Face of the Hackathon Source: ProgrammableWeb Hackathons have been a staple in Silicon Valley tech culture for quite some time, but recently we have seen seeing hackathons evolve outside of the valley — from Los Angeles to Prague.…

I have the aspiration and the hope to profoundly understand the important words that Rob Brezsny is delivering to me an my fellow Aquarians this August. I have collected the last three horoscopes from oldest to newest as they depict…

R&D in public Source: Seth's Blog We shouldn’t be so quick to excoriate those companies that launch interactive tools that fail. In fact, we should be critical of those that don’t.

Source: The Independent – Paul Vallely: Shades of 1980s riots, but there have been big changes since then (…)Today’s riots have been characterised by opportunist looting on a scale which befits our era of wanton materialist consumerism. Looters have been…