These guys successfully designed and made a balloon that went to 93,000ft, snapped some pictures and then returned to Earth safely, broadcasting it’s position for easy retrieval. Truely awesome stuff!
An interesting article about caching to help build a scalable website.
Here’s a really nice article comparing different elements, styles and layouts in different user interfaces. There are lots of key points highlighted which will help when considering how to approach laying out a new UI.
Here’s five futuristic interfaces that were on display at this years SIGGRAPH show.
Carrying on with the photography thing this morning, here’s 23 more photos to inspire to do wonderful things!
Here’s 40 photos which are truely inspiring. A lot like there was a fair amount of Photoshop involved, but then who doesn’t use Photoshop these days?
Here’s a cool interface some guys made in 2003 for drawing in 3d.
There’s an entire culture of travellers who sleep in airports around the world, then share their experiences online, rating different airports as to their quality for an overnight stay. There’s the great
“Even if you have the cash to spring on a hotel room in Singapore, I would recommend a night in the airport.”
and the shocking
“I was propositioned not once but twice by the same man asking me for casual sex, which was understandably a little frightening for a lone 20 year old woman wandering the airport at night”
about Paris CDG.
