Basic lessons in Facebook ettiquette
Found via Facebook. Thanks D. Butler!
Ian Monroe
Chicago entrepreneur wants to change the way you watch TV
Joe Born wants to change the way you use your television. Born, chief executive officer, of Neuros Technology International, is an entrepreneur in the classic sense. He got his start in the 1990s with a patent on a device for repairing damaged CDs. Then in 2001, he started Chicago-based Neuros Technologies, which started out making portable digital … Read more
What? No updates in seven days?
Don’t worry, I have a whole pile of stuff in the works, and I think you’ll like it.
Check out my new horror movie blog
I’m doing a blog for a Medill class on interactive publishing, and I’ve chosen horror movies as my topic. If you know me at all, you’ll know that horror movies are one of my great passions, and I’m happy to have a chance to turn some of that into output. Visit Windy City Horror, leave … Read more
Want to know the best thing about union jobs?
It’s the training videos. Thanks to D. Plotkin for the link.
Digital designers do battle at Cut&Paste
[flashvideo file=”flash_video/Cut_Paste.flv” /] How do you find out who are the sharpest, most creative designers in the world? With a good, old-fashioned, graphic design battle, of course. The 2009 Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament pitted the best graphic designers against one another in a competition like no other. Armed with state-of-the art computers, designers … Read more
Genetically engineered virus creates a better battery
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully demonstrated a technique for fabricating a better battery using a genetically engineered virus. They announced their technique for the battery earlier this month, maintaining that it allows them to use a much wider variety of materials for potentially higher-capacity, rechargeable batteries. The interdisciplinary team of MIT scientists … Read more
Sunlight fingerbones
At a certain time of day, specifically, a little bit before 9 AM, if you exit onto the street at the Monroe stop on the Red Line in the Loop, you’ll see that the light reflected off the shiny glass building on the west side of the street illuminating the buildings on the east side … Read more
Fancy-style book learnin’
Famous philosopher David Chalmers has announced the public availability of Philpapers.org, a huge online repository of philosophical journals and resources from all over the web. New issues of more than 200 journals, on a huge variety of subjects. Browse around through their categories and see what I mean! Found via PhilosophyNow, via monochrom.
