May 2009
4 posts
tweenbots | kacie kinzer →
Little cardboard robots helped along to their destination by people. Description from the site:
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach...
A Model of The Creative Process →
A visual map (downloadable PDF) of the creative process. Would probably make a nice poster.
Birmingham police beating video: Five officers... →
This is shameful, but it is encouraging to see the police administration handle it properly. Even Langford came down on the right side on this one.
My feeling is that Birmingham may have a lot of problems, but the scars from the civil rights era have prevented the blatant abuses we are seeing in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and other US cities. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I just...
IMAPSize →
A nice Windows utility for automating local backups of IMAP mailboxes. I use it to keep local copies of my GMail mailboxes just in case the service goes down. I could just use a full-featured mail client, of course, but I like the GMail web interface too much to switch.