omg, the hasciicam is awesome. hmm, finally found a use for those web cams…

also, now on /. is a link to despair’s press release on suing everyone for using the 🙁 emoticon. the funniest part, of course is that they really do have it registered as a trademark. 🙂

thought this would be fun. along the lines of dumb motherfucker, i tried some other stuff.

• greedy bastard
• freedom for all
• better than windows
• best preacher
• more evil than satan himself – good for a little redux

i’ve recently been using the unordered list much more. i think it’s becoming one of my more favored tags.

i have to agree, this post would be genius if it were a troll, but sadly (scarily?) it doesn’t seem so. this guy has continued posting, so i guess he’s not a troll, just another sign of the state of american decline. (as if gw wasn’t enough)

complete transformers generation one toy set on ebay. 10k minimum bids, currently no bids. the pictures show all that he’s selling – that’s a crapload of em.

on /., looks like “robotech master” knows his stuff. points to a pretty massive transformers faq as well. plus there’s a reissuing of figures going on, although apparently megatron isn’t being reissued in the us because of restrictive gun laws.

more links: transformers extreme, planet anime

one of the reasons i was up most of the night last night. gradient meshes are fun.

sun has some pretty cool stuff going at their xml section of their site. among them is xml for palm stuff, xpointer tutorials, svg info, and a java svg generator (neatocompleato).

heheh

archives are gonna be down for a little while…

interesting new scientist article on micro-fans for computer chips. i don’t think they’re gonna be replacing regular chip cooling anytime soon, but it’s still an interesting concept.

more relevant is the jon katz /. article on bush and the net and ensuing discussion.

in my fa402 design class we’re doing a little cell phone design project. the prof, greg thomas is a nice guy, but i’m a bit disappointed i’m not gaining tons of insight in class as far as going hard-core on information/interaction design. still, it does give me an excuse to do some reading.

for purposes of the project, i’m designing a next generation phone based on a traditional form factor and with a low-resolution screen. my “killer app” for the device is that it’s bluetooth enabled.

• The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface – it’s from 1991, but that’s good. directly applicable to low res, key driven input
• assessing the usability of a ui standard – old nielsen / thovtrup paper
• univ south alabama ite 474: human computer interface notes – this took a whole semester? yikes.
• uc berkeley cs160 touchphone task analysis and interface sketches – this is more impressive
• uc berkeley cs160 touchphone homepage – nice… should definitely look at everything else
• web techniques 2001/02 – lo and behold, some usability articles
• sfgate: consumers pay price for internet phone convenience – some wap issues
• useit: mobile phones: europe’s next minitel? – jakob tackles phones, and makes a rather good argument against mobile phones – if the wireless web is the future (hopefully wap will die a painful death by then)
• useit: wap field study findings – tests corroborate that wap does indeed suck
• norman nielsen wap usability report – has some good links at the bottom of the page
• uidesign.net whitepaper, solving the context problem for wireless design – designing personas for use cases: “lifestyle snapshots”. uidesign.net is a nice site, never been here before
• lotus unified messaging – “An advanced message management solution for all media types, providing access to any message, anytime, anywhere, from any device.” is a good idea
• escribe wireless and mobile technology articles – links of some good articles.
• /. how much didigtal tool convergence is possible? – very interesting comments. but since it’s archived, it’s difficult to sort the good from the bad.

other hci resources: asktog, useit, designing usable hci, epss infosite hci links, hci design guidelines, apple macintosh hci guidelines (os8 html, os8 pdf, original pdf), ieee chi tutorial, usable web

i’m using my blog to organize my thoughts a lot more now that my computer is indisposed. i think i definitely will have to try to finish my cm/km app soon to help categorize some of this spew. art center graphic design faculty, art center digital media faculty