Posted in read this on Jul 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Today after a presentation that went really well, I decided to treat myself to a Starbucks beverage. I’ve got a couple giftcards, so it’s ok. I’m not spending my own money on such a luxury.
I was tinkering around on their site looking for nutritional information and I came across a new drink […]
Posted in read this on Jun 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can […]
Posted in read this on May 28th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m not sure if you’ve heard of this, but I saw this on the news the other day, and a co-worker just sent me this link. Although it’s fictional, I still think it’s a pretty neat project.
As part of his graduation project, Erik Nordenankar, a student at Beckmans College of Design used a GPS device […]
Posted in read this on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
After a year of working as the Project Coordinator in the Interactive Department, I’ve finally made the move into another discipline: Information Architecture. It really was more of a demotion- I’ve gone from being everyone’s boss, to having two Senior IA’s above me. I’m in week three of my new roll, and I’m really enjoying […]
Posted in read this on May 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Warning: nerdgasm alert!
This home theater version of the world’s favorite astro-mech droid boasts a DLP projector to 1,024 x 768 pixels and 1,500:1 contrast ratio but is still short from the basic HDTV 720p resolution. The DLP unit can project a 80″ image from 16.5 feet away, even rotating it’s viewing angle 65 degrees to […]
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