Posts by matt

• Argentina’s soccer team’s crazy good.
  (tags: design article soccer blog culture cool)

I agree with the Gadgetopia folks, this giant marionette is way too creepy.

• Free Web-based diagram application.
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  (tags: tools ajax 2.0)

• The size of our world.
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  (tags: photos nature article science graphics cool)
• The world’s most courteous cities.
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  (tags: article list best culture)

From across the Web:

“An unmitigated disaster.”

“Boo, Slate. Boo.”

“It’s hideous. Yuck.”

“I think it’s awful.”

“We hate it, but, then again, we initially hated the last makeover too…”

“Oy.”

Yeah, pretty much sums it up for me. (By the way, I didn’t cherry-pick; those are the top mentions on Technorati right now.) Generally, I don’t mind redesigns; I think I’m usually pretty good about detaching from my nostalgia for familiar layouts. But the new Slate aches my kidneys. It is so bad.

Chris Bateman at Only a Game continues to express cool ideas about games. And they remind me I have a post buried somewhere in my head about Inform 7.

• TAN’s imagines dating exit surveys.
  (tags: funny)
• Airplane boarding techniques Flash graphic.
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  (tags: animation travel flash graphics)

• Make gorgeous planets in Photoshop.
  (tags: cool design graphics howto lifehacks)

Chris Anderson links to an interesting experiment:

The scientific journal Nature is conducting a fascinating experiment in “open peer review”, which it describes this way:

In Nature’s peer review trial, lasting for three months, authors can choose to have their submissions posted on a preprint server for open comments, in parallel with the conventional peer review process. Anyone in the field may then post comments, provided they are prepared to identify themselves. Once the usual confidential peer review process is complete, the public ‘open peer review’ process will be closed. Nature will report on the results after the trial period is over.

It’s not happening here, but it’s happening now. (Unmediated.)