samizdat drafting co.

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Infocom-related mishaps

dept. of side projects

Corduroy is a Python library for using CouchDB with Tornado.

book cover doodle

i have no idea why i made this…

scale error

coordinate transforms will always be a trial and error affair i'm afraid

the rules of the game

13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project. all told i ended up cataloging a dozen books from the early-to-mid 80s, looking for patterns in their construction and in the paths made by different readers through them.

these short, simple books had a surprisingly complicated structure with their interlocking pages & choices. as a kid the idea of writing one and keeping all those pages straight boggled my mind. what was lost on me at the time was that even a list of hundreds of page numbers can be comprehensible if it’s redrawn as a diagram. these days i feel like i approach everything that way.

so here is my look back at an obsession from my past, using graphical obsessions of the present to guide the way.

samizdat.cc/cyoa

Bookmarks

kind of not a fan of this, but i need to cite it

easy world and camera setup for 2d drawing

a much more accessible source for building records than the ny dept. of building

the whole serial from the sunday magazine

beautiful

P == NP?

more grist for the visualization

those gorgeous noir-y charcoal renderings from d.n.y.

π!

Check out the crayola test sheets.

massive list of freely available datasets on the net

pivotal books available as pdfs including the original macintosh HIG and the smalltalk-80 book

rad

pypy may be the new lisp visualization project

better than cmd-ctrl-shift-4?

“The way SICP looks at things, a procedure is a dead thing, a list of instructions for the computer to execute. A process is the magic that happens when a procedure is run. A procedure "evolves" a process...”

the original turing test

funny how dated his non-politicized view of 9/11 is, but his thoughts on what design can accomplish ring true

great artists steal (from charles minard)

treemaps in actionscript

orson welles talking about the trial. such an incredible movie...

an urban photographer after my own heart

extra points for inventing an awesome word in titling one's paper

beautiful, type geeky, and honestly kind of moving

dionisio gonzalez's beautiful dioramas

unmasking the creator of the awe inspiring doukutsu monogatari

some damn nice vernacular typography

discovering hidden messages/images in the notes of 8bit audio

vernacular pediatric i.d.

the tempest project is particularly neat

collection of computational audio packages

again prompting the need for a better word than audiolizing...

asciirave2

dada music construction kit

oh you loony economists

lots and lots and *lots* of regional data

click `browse the magazines' then prepare to be dazzled

amazing what you can do with one color and a circle

things i will no longer have to reimplement for every project

great old series of german books. reminds me of tschichold...

the guy who draws the menacing stick figure children

the best thing to happen to games `journalism' since that word started being misapplied

it's finally usable. hooray for us all.

"wow this changes everything!!" - a satisfied brooklyner

buy dvd number 10 today. you need it.

repeating patterns from floating point error (try the 1 color option, much better)

damned useful

telling stories through maps, mechanical drones

generating the actual tones from the ui. beautiful.

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