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I am a New York-based user experience designer. Here you'll find my musings on everything digital (and some things that aren't).
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Aliens May Look More Like Us Than We Thought
Dawn in the Oort Cloud
Beautiful imaginings of a view of dawn from the Oort Cloud, which is:
…an immense spherical cloud surrounding the planetary system and extending approximately 3 light years, about 30 trillion kilometers from the Sun.
(definition via Solar Views).
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon…
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon...
MIT to lead development of new telescopes on moon. Apparently the dark side of the moon is the only accessible place where one can avoid all the radio intererence coming from Earth.
Why do beluga whales enjoy the clarinet note G?
Why do beluga whales enjoy the clarinet note G?
And, more interestingly, why can’t I read this headline without thinking of the brown note, immortalized in the South Park episode World Wide Recorder Concert?
The Physics of Super Mario Galaxy
The Physics of Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy was absolutely one of the best games I’ve ever played… Nintendo is great at innovating standard game mechanics. This description of the physics in Super Mario Galaxy is a good explanation of what is so unique — and amazing — about the game.
Via Digg.
The joys of ‘porting
I can’t wait to play Portal for myself. Looks like mind-bending fun.
Via collision detection.