January 2010
14 posts
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Fictional interface: Star Trek Generations;...
Behind-the-scenes:
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Fictional interface: Mag+ →
Hi-res captures.
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Fictional interface: iPhone home screen →
Effectively a lifestream on your phone.
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Fictional interfaces: redesigned Bloomberg... →
Of primary interest is IDEO’s
vision.
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Fictional interfaces: CSI: Miami →
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Fictional interfaces: Minority Report →
The obvious one.
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Fictional interfaces: Iron Man
Videos
Interview
Interview with Kent Seki of
Pixel Liberation Front, which
created various interfaces for the film.
Another thing that Jon Favreau was very keen on was this notion
of the HUD being in a dialogue. Sometimes,
Tony Stark is asking for information. He’s calling for it to come to him.
Other times, it’s Jarvis saying, “What about this? Have you...
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Fictional interfaces: Quantum of Solace →
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Fictional interfaces: R.U.S.E. trailer →
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Fictional interfaces: Dead Space →
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Current Git Branch in Bash Prompt →
Good trick; saves typing git status or git branch so often. Note:
it’s not very clear from the article, but the code for the prompt goes in
~/.bashrc.
I wasn’t interested in colors, and I’m fairly happy with Terminal’s standard
prompt (\h:\w \u\$), so I ended up with something pretty close to the
default:
parse_git_branch() {
git name-rev HEAD 2> /dev/null | sed 's#HEAD\...
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Polaroid SX-70 promotional video →
Produced by Charles and
Ray Eames for
Polaroid in 01972.
You can look at technology as a living tree, a trunk bearing branches, the branches leafing out. Or you can see it as a net, knots tying up threads from many sides. But the human reality is more intricate than either one.
We have been looking at one invention which began pretty purely out of the conception of a need — the hope...
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AJAX in WordPress
Note: ‘AJAX’ simply meaning ‘getting data
via JavaScript’, not Jesse James Garrett’s
more holistic approach.
For a project I’ve been working on I needed a way to easily grab data from
the backend without reloading the page. I didn’t want to fight with any of
the big AJAX plugins, as the
ones I looked into seemed to have their own complicated approaches involving
magic markup or pre-formatted...
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Simplified WordPress post loop
The built-in WordPress theme has a lot of redundancy in the various
entry-viewing templates (index.php, archives.php, category.php,
search.php). Because I dislike repetition and don’t want to worry about
whether I’ve kept the markup in sync across multiple files, I ended up with
the following approach.
Each of the noted files is reset to the following code:
<?php get_header() ?>
<div...