Monthly Archives: May 2010

Martin Gardner on The Nature of Things

By gavin | Published: May 28, 2010
The Nature of Things / Martin Gardner from Wagner Brenner on Vimeo. Watched this last night. Like many, I first discovered Martin Gardner while attempting to read Scientific American as a kid. This video reminds me why he was so interesting: math, juggling, puzzles, magic tricks and even computers. Check out the segments with John Conway [...]
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Cooktop or iPad?

By gavin | Published: May 19, 2010
So I was checking out some new kitchen gear the other day and noticed how similar the fancy new induction (glass, ceramic, all touch, etc. etc.) cooktops are to the handheld touch devices like the iPad. In particular, the touch devices running audio/dj sorta apps. This is a sample of the Lemur from Jazz Mutant. Not [...]
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Graph mining and music

By gavin | Published: May 14, 2010
“Earworm (thanks to Jonathan Feinberg for the name) makes it possible to extend or shrink a song to any length you might desire, without changing the tempo. It does this by constructing a network graph of the piece, using The Echo Nest’s analysis data. Each node in the graph is a beat in the song, and an edge [...]
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Octane Render Samples & Video

By gavin | Published: May 12, 2010
CDM brings us up to speed on Octane Render, a GPU renderer from Refractive Software. This isn’t a demo of some futuristic research tech at SIGGRAPH, though: it’s a product in beta right now you can use, today. (A beta license, amazingly, costs just EUR99 during the beta.) Friend of the site Marc has kept us [...]
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Phaidon Design Classics iPad Edition

By gavin | Published: May 10, 2010
Special introductory price: $19.99USD. The application offers, at the touch of a finger, access to an encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless design classics by not only renowned designers, such as Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Jasper Morrison, Dieter Rams, Eero Saarinen, and Philippe Starck but also anonymously designed pieces, such as the clothes peg, [...]
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Logorama

By gavin | Published: May 9, 2010
“What better way to kick off our brand new film feature, than with Logorama, the winner of this year’s Oscar for animated short. Created by French animation studio H5, Logorama sees a universe and its inhabitants created entirely from globally recognised brand names and symbols. The film opens to Dean Martin’s ‘Good Morning Life, revealing [...]
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Spring cleaning with a CDN

By gavin | Published: May 8, 2010
So after tweeting I was giving up on Wordpress, I’m still using Wordpress! I spent a few weeks looking at alternatives and playing around with some custom stuff (written in Clojure of course). I found plenty to like with Squarespace, Typepad & Posterous and was ready to slap down the credit card. But! For instance, [...]
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