Links for 2008-12-22 to 2009-02-03
03 Feb 2009- Infosthetics Competition: Build a Paper-Based Visualization - information aesthetics - Inspired by my Paper Graphs, Infosthetics is hosting a competition to create a paper based visualisation. “Criteria: beauty and originality versus readability and usability”. I'm a judge.
- PMD - The Pac-Man Dungeons - Pac-Man as a text adventure.
- News Blog - Times Online - WBLG: Greatest ever letter of complaint - “imagine it’s Christmas morning and you’re sat their with your final present to open. It’s a big one, and you know what it is. It’s that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about. Only you open the present and it’s not in there. It’s your hamster Richard. It’s your hamster in the box and it’s not breathing.” Very funny letter of complaint sent to Richard Branson.
- vidar.gimp.org » graphtecprint - Linux support for the Graphtec CC2200-20.
- Graphtec Craft ROBO - Mulberry design + print - An A4 plotter.
- Adactio: Journal—PaperCamp - Jeremy Keith's live blogging of PaperCamp.
- Open Manufacturing - (How to Build 30 (SERB) Kits) - Interesting instructable on how they setup a tabletop factory for mass producing an arduino-based robot.
- Technobots Shop - A source of toys.
- Motorway map of England, Scotland and Wales - Motorway map in the style of the London Underground map.