Cross-posted at Adaptive Path. Today is Ada Lovelace day…a day to celebrate women in technology. Earlier this year, I joined 1000+ people in a pledge sponsored by Suw Charman-Anderson: “I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do [...]
Entries Tagged as 'neat things'
In honor of Ada, I honor Hildegard
March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · creative projects, neat things, tech notes
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A picture of my brain on Intelleto.
December 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · neat things
These are the parts of my brain dominant when writing blog posts. I’ve always embraced the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. I’m either an INTJ or an ENTP. Apparently I’m an ENTP when blogging. Find out the type personality of your blog at http://www.typealyzer.com, then post the pix of your brain activity to flickr (tag it typealyzer.) [...]
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Fave idea of the week : May 23rd, 2008
May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas, neat things
 Walt Disney coined this wonderful word, and Peter introduced me to it. The art of plussing is pushing a solution a little bit more, a little bit further, to get it to really sing…to truly shine. The edge is a fragile thing, and one to play with, get to know and use as an inspiration. [...]
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Fave idea of the week : May 9th, 2008
May 9th, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas, neat things, work
  I was setting up a time to meet with Trisha, and noticed that every day at 5pm, she had a meeting. Adaptive Path is rigorous about promoting work+life balance, and everyone is encouraged to leave the office at a reasonable time and go out and spend time with family, friends, life, what have you. [...]
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Fave idea of the week: Mar 1st, 2008
March 1st, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas, neat things
      At the beginning of March, I started a project to sketch my favorite idea of the week. I do these each Friday. There are so many smart folks at Adaptive Path who have great ideas, it’s often hard to pick just one. It’s funny how just the sketch can bring me right back the moment of the [...]
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1% for art is good.
August 21st, 2007 · No Comments · emeryville, neat things
The city of Emeryville has extended the 1% for art program to residential buildings, which means that now everything built in the city has dedicated funds for public art. The most recent installation to be dedicated is a set of modern birdhouses by artist Walter Craven. There are seven of them, all different, and they [...]
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The Um Tote
March 14th, 2007 · No Comments · neat things
Original image on flickr, uploaded by kateruttr. Amanda has the most amazing bag. It’s one piece of felt with 2 zippers that run alongside the entire edge. When zipped, it makes this offkilter yet lithesomely symmetrical purse. When unzipped, it’s totally flat. It’s called the Um Tote, and you can get it at Branch. There is [...]
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Catoms and You
March 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · neat things
This came in from Indi…who knows the power of making reallyreally small atoms into bigbig ideas… 3D You http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=103598 (02/07) Vol. 20, No. 2, P. 26; Researchers at Intel and Carnegie Mellon University are working to bridge the chasm between science fiction and science fact with the development of “dynamic physical renderings,” or 3D holograms [...]
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some things with paper should be illegal.
February 27th, 2007 · No Comments · neat things, papel
And this is probably one of them: jenstark.com. Seriously, this blew my mind. It’s incredibly beautiful and conceptually rich. Jen went to MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) which is a unique creative community. The work I’ve seen come out of there is personal, compelling and interesting on a bunch of levels. Just lovely.
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Roll your own…anything
February 26th, 2007 · No Comments · neat things, slime mold
I subscribe to 2 Google alerts: “prime numbers” and “slime mold“. Both are hobbies of mine. When this gem came in, I realized that slime mold is more than a hobby…it’s how I learn about the coolest stuff out there. Science Daily reports on the Open-source Replicator: a home-built 3-D printer that could launch a revolution. Want [...]
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