Wasting our gifts – maybe we aren’t able to find our full purpose here on an imperfect earth; and perhaps we aren’t supposed to use all our gifts.

HOW TO STUDY – start by printing this!

The Uncanny Valley, or why POLAR EXPRESS is so creepy

More Proce55ing/Flash links:

Neave Lab › Space – with the amazing Parallax stars, great model for linkstuff 3d navigation download

Disseminate: emotional design – comparing three attributes of design: Reflexive (brand, reputation), Behavioral (how it works), and Visceral (sensory appeal). All are valid; all need designers. Interaction design includes all three.

Touchstone Archives: Miraculous Daily Planet – GK Chesterton on journalism (and, by courtesy, new media strategy); ” We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not announce on flaring posters that a man has not fallen off a scaffolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting”

Design and Redesign: New York Times 2002 Weather Graphic – nice graphic comparing time, historical data, current data and precipitation; definitely a Tufte apprentice…

Desktop Manager – for OS X; makes virtual desktops work like fast user switching; great transitions and cool work/home possibilities

Processing Language – for interaction visual effects; elasticity example, particle example, lots more amazing ones; great for linkstuff; commercial uses of this would be unexpected and amazing!