darrellp | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 12 2008 | fimo, art, sculpture
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darrellp | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 16 2007 | art, prints, zoology
darrellp | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2007 | art, ted, design
Never saw this before. I'm kinda surprised. Pretty cool, although I think the guy is a little in love with himself when he claims that after a zillion years, he has come up with a better wheel. "Wheel" see. Yuk yuk - get it - "wheel" see? Man, I'm hilarious.
Quoted: TED Talks Dutch artist Theo Jansen demonstrates his amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures, built from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His "Strandbeests" (Beach Creatures) are built to move and even survive on their own.
darrellp | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 07 2007 | art, image, library
darrellp | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 30 2007 | art, online, new
darrellp | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 14 2007 | games, game, art, math, logic
darrellp | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 24 2007 | books, art, press, microsoft, windows
This is a great book of anecdotes and miscellaneous info about the development of Windows. Both interesting and useful/practical. Lots of insight on the decisions behind the design and why those "crazy" features everybody loves to criticize actually make some sense.
My favorite anecdote is that back in the 90s the Microsoft network produced packets at a much higher rate than the standard network stress testing app at the time. The app was called "hell" so his tiny section on this is called "The Microsoft corporate network: 1.7 times worse than hell".
Quoted: The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows
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