kirabug’s idea files

• An interesting view of why this author won’t be seeing The Last Airbender that makes me think maybe I won’t either.
• The facts in the case of Andrew Wakefield, which tells the story of how some folks came to believe that autism is caused by vaccinations.
• Since I saw it while I was in England, I found the Tate Modern made of sugar cubes to be kind of cool, actually.
• This picture cracks me up. (Pic is SFW but the rest of the site – including the ads – might not be. You’re warned.)
• Three Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics worth reading:
  • one
  • two
  • three
• Adam Savage on problem solving
• This is some wild and crazy art by Boris Artzybasheff, which I thought was really cool

OK, that’s good for now.

• Weeding paths and rocky areas?Try boiling water.
• I’d like to eat at the Conflict Kitchen. For a long time I’ve had a theory that no people who make decent food can be all bad, and I’ve yet to find a culture where I couldn’t find anything I could eat. These folks are pretty much saying the same thing. Too bad it’s in Pittsburgh – that’s a 5-hour drive.
• In the 70s, when a method for separating male and female sperm was developed, making the ability to choose the sex of your child possible, there was a fear that doing so would only make America more patriarchal. Now there are good reasons to believe that patriarchy is being destroyed altogether, and a matriarchy is on the horizon.
• Art made of Rubik’s Cubes
• Design for readability first. I tried to do this here, but I might take another swing at it now that I’ve got a better idea of what “readability” means with each passing day.
• When tabbing through forms on your Mac, would you like Safari to highlight drop-down menus as part of the tab flow, the way Windows does? Here’s the solution.
• Have a Mac and Keynote? Do you wireframe for a living? You could use Keynote for your wireframing. (I wonder if this would work on my iPad version of Keynote!)

And now: Kittens riding a Roomba.

• Kentucky Fried Chicken infiltrates the UN. Good to see our security is in excellent shape.
• 80 photo manipulations to ignite your creativity
• Why you can’t stop playing Bejeweled, an interesting article in the ways that games like Bejeweled keep you engaged.
• Microsoft ditches Family Guy special…. for being Family Guy. So, um, M$ wasn’t paying attention before?
• Off the face of the earth, the story of a group of Holocaust survivors in the Ukraine who hid in caves for three years to escape the Nazis. This one is a good read.
• An interview with Mark Holmes, Pixar Graphics guru.
• When you think tech support, you should think…. Florence Hendersen?!?
• Just in time for NaNoWriMo, Every ruler who ever lived, back to 1700
• What direction should your ceiling fan be running for winter? (In the “signs I am getting old” category…)
• If air travel worked like health care, then I REALLY wouldn’t fly.
• Lose/lose is a true no-win situation in gaming. Makes you think about the consequences of being the aggressor.
• Five second test helps you test other peoples’ web designs… and each test takes maybe 30 seconds because you’re only allowed to see the web design for 5 seconds. Great to help out developers, also handy to test your own pages.

Little Wheel

OK, that’s enough for tonight.

Awesome!.

Got a new sketch app for my iPhone, giving it a whirl. Needs zoom and a way to add captions, but pretty cool otherwise. Might allow me to get ideas out faster. (click to enbiggen.)

Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.

Via Jared Spool.

Thing the Lesser: The Hero Factory.

Thanks to the folks at AppleGeeks for pointing that one out.

Thing the Greater: Digger is now free. If you ignored my previous suggestion that you read it, now you have a chance to rectify that error.

Thanks to the folks at Snarkoleptics for that revelation.