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Lightning! Blimps! Submarines! And, um, Machine Tags!

Amid flying tomatoes, lightning strikes and Tardis sightings, much code was hacked at London Hack Day.
Don't Mess with Texas
conference

Big in Texas

I’m Austin-bound in 2008, thanks to a surprise windfall: free registration at the SXSW conference.
Rube Goldberg
conference

Ghost in the Machine Tag

With Hack Day fast approaching and my gadget-building reveries fading, I’m toying with the idea of making a web gizmo to generate machine tags.
New Yorker - What's New?
customerservice

Understanding the Piano

User communities own and define technologies as much or more than the inventors. A piano from 1817 is the perfect example.
Acropolis - Parthenon umbrellas
ew.com

Ancient Architecture: The Gods Are in the Details

An Acropolis visit is an object lesson in the value of quiet design decisions amid colossal projects.
Musée Rodin at night
art

Night at the Museum

Nuit des Musées shakes up stodgy preconceptions about museums and reveals them as lively, relevant places.
Helmet
conference

Heck, Let's Hawk a Hack at Hack Day

I’ll be at Hack Day in London next month. Want to team up to build something outrageous?
Coliseum
inspiration

Tanned, Rested and Ready

Developer returns from vacation, discovers sky has not fallen.
marathon_flag.jpg
business

Long Road Ahead: Motivation, Ambition and Daunting Projects

The Paris Marathon prompts your correspondent to ponder what makes creative people tick in adversity.
TV boxer
art

YouTube Battle

In a promising concept that needs some refinement, YouTube DJs go head-to-head in a fight to create the best mix.
Computer guy
bigmedium

Your Word Processor Is Distracting You

I kicked Microsoft Word to the curb seven years ago, and my plain-text world has been more productive ever since.
Trophy

Flattery and Kind Words

I was flattered last week by several pointers from various “design inspiration” sites which featured this site as a destination.
Magic Candle
creativity

Magic Boxes, Canned Chaos and Creative Totems

A creative totem distracts you from the mundane and everyday just long enough for your mojo to kick in and save the day.
Coin slot
money

Currency Usability: Show Me the Money

Currency may well be the most important travel interface. In that match-up, Europe wins the coin toss against the US, whose coins border on the unintelligible.
Mechanic
productivity

Optimal Time for Optimization

“Avoid premature optimization” is one of the axioms of software development. It’s basically fancy talk for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
seine - houseboat

Water Rising

The Seine overflows its banks, a sure sign of spring.
Vu - Marlene Dietrich
art

Vu Magazine: Photos, Robots and Cutting-Edge Design

I expected nostalgic photos, but instead got insight into how technology works to spark design innovation.

Firebug 1.0: It’s Hot, Baby, Hot!

The final 1.0 release of the Firebug extension for Firefox is a web developer’s dream.
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