History and origins of science fiction
Artist Ward Shelley maps the history of science fiction in painstaking detail. See the way big version here. Accurate?
[Boing Boing via @brianboyer]What I’m Reading
Shareworthy articles and content syndicated from other sites. These aren’t things I’ve written or necessarily endorse, for the record.
Adobe Makes Big Push Into Social Analytics
Tool will monitor conversations on 45 networks, allowing for analysis with on-site business results.
Librarians and Readers Against DRM
HarperCollins recently announced it would limit library e-book checkouts to 26, after which said e-books "bought" and paid for by libraries would self-destruct. Some librarians I know were none too thrilled about this, and asked me to create a graphic to show it:
What ebout non-librarians who are against DRM? By popular demand, I modified the graphic for everyone:
These were produced for The Readers Bill of Rights for Digital Books, which encourages everyone to copy the images and spread the word.
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Design Festival: Creating Comfortable Usability Tests
A usability test is simply observing a person using your web site or application in a guided and intentional way with the goal of learning how to improve.
The contents of the test itself are important, but your test will suffer mightily if the participants don’t feel comfortable and at ease. Whether you are in a conference room or at a coffee shop with a laptop, there are some things you should consider before jumping into a usability test:
Be Prepared!
Your participants will be able to tell if you’re not prepared and it will set the tone for the rest of the test.
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RED EPIC shoots birds at 96fps, no dog needed to retrieve them (video)
Forgive us if we take a moment every now and again to relish in some resolution overload courtesy of a RED EPIC, but we just can’t help ourselves. The video below (and picture above) come courtesy of Tom Lowe, who filmed a sequence of birds frolicking in the water at Salton Sea, California, captured at 5K resolution and at 96fps. This gives everything a rather majestic air to it — though the soundtrack certainly doesn’t hurt. Click “play” and enjoy, and then wish that your connection were fast enough to handle an uncompressed 5K video stream.
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