MAYA

———-Top Five———-
1. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade (or having fun with jpeg compression)… For those ubervideogeeks in the house, here is a bit more delta frame fun…

2. Tinkering School sounds like a good idea. Of course, if you can, a better one would be to just have all this stuff in your basement and garage and have your kids (and neighbor’s kids) do this everyday instead of just for summer camp (if I remember correctly our version of tinkering school taught us the value of butterfly closures over stitches, how to use superglue to close wounds, the importance of understanding how not to use hacksaws, and only caused us to have one bout with the hospital when I was a kid… note to self, ziplines are bad for random 7 year old friends to ride through the treetops, especially if they don’t have a good grip on the handles…).

3. The Boston Globe is really making a name for themselves with their series of pictures…. this week its all about work.

4. Rule number one, if you add one you have to take away two.

5. I saw this not that long ago in New York. Worth seeing in person if you get the chance. Otherwise feast your eyes here… Second lives of other things… look closely at all of these slides. Wonderful stuff.

————-The Rest—————-

Change some of us can believe in.

We’ll just keep trying and trying until we get this damn thing right… (or everything old is new again…. or “The Radiated Library”)

Frontline documents the financial meltdown (with interactive timeline)…

I spent years using Bill Buxton’s inventions in my daily life (before he was at microsoft) and appreciated his creativity immensely. He talks about how to keep innovating here…

Classic (and some not so classic) robots from the land of Sci-Fi…

Nice approach to digital plus tangible merchandising… may be the future of music…

Getting to know all about you, (even if we don’t really like you.)