Daily Jive

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

A nice video on what it takes to move one of the Musee D'Orsee's large paintings
(w/ some French narration)

Tech: Coming soon, the Lego of gadgets from BugLabs (via /.)

Say you want to make some sort of gizmo for your car that records location and acceleration and displays stats on a screen. You could try to write a program for an existing GPS gadget, or you could snap together the necessary Bug Labs modules, write your own code in the Bug Labs system for your device, and go from there.

Bug Labs' system is meant for prototyping, and all the pieces of it are open-source. This means that once you've got your gadget working, you can use the Bug Labs hardware schematics as the basis for your own mass-produced version of the gadget in question. (You can also use the actual Bug circuit boards in your products, since they screw together nicely even when liberated from their plastic snap cases. However, this would be an expensive way to produce hardware.) The development environment is Eclipse. I'm not familiar with it, but it's open-source and looks to be philosophically similar to the Bug hardware--that is, highly modular.

All input/output to the modules is done via Internet protocols, and each hardware component has its own URL. This will make building mesh or networked devices that aren't physically connected to each other relatively easy, and it also means that all Bug-based gizmos are, by default, Web appliances.

A very cool video of lightning striking the John Hancock tower in Chicago

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

A really cool flickr set of paper miniature gadgets. Thanks, designobserver

The Jive is tied up in all of the excitement surrounding the primaries. Here's how Obama is branding himself in graphic design. You'll be seeing much more of these.

I think there may be something to bibliotherapy (via metafilter)

Artists against the war slideshow

10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads (Cracked, via Coudal)

Monday, January 07, 2008

5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Punk Rock Bonanza!
Operation Phoenix's Punk Zine Achive is a massive archive of digitized 80's punk rock zines: Maximumrocknroll, Flipside, and others in full PDF, republished with permission from the original publishers. Dig in, rockers.
(Operation Phoenix Records)