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Good selling is about insight. In order to know what your customer is willing to buy, you have to know your customer. You have to know what they need,

“Storytelling has a power that goes well beyond the sum of its parts.” – Stephen Dubner Stephen J. Dubner (@Freakonomics) returns to the show. He is an award-winning author, journ…

We can’t predict the future. However, I still read futurologists like Calum Chace, Alvin Toffler, Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Joël de Rosnay and so forth. A good futurologist won’t even attempt to predict the future for real, but he will offer a new way to think about the present. Indeed, I think that to really … Continue reading Framed in the past

This thing you're making… This day you're spending at work… This interaction you're having… Is it merely the next one in a long string of next ones, good enough to …

Working closely with Director James Gunn and Production Designer Charles Wood, we created graphics and VFX for this laugh out loud story about a ragtag crew of misfit criminals who become unlikely heroes. We were tasked to create on screen graphics and vfx for all environments – spaceships, planets, prison, street markets, gambling dens, etc, and... Read More...

Fantasy User Interfaces, Fictional User Interfaces, Fake User Interfaces, Futuristic User Interfaces, Film User Interfaces, Future User Interfaces.

Films made us fall in love with them, and some are now becoming a reality – check out these movie UIs.

Consider a scenario wherein you have just started copying a very large file from your pen drive to your Linux system through the command line. Given t...

If the theme in Austin was that OpenStack is ‘production ready’, then the theme in Barcelona was all about containers. Every session with even a hint of container technology was well-attended. There is definitely a lot of activity in the OpenStack...

Today I Found Out has a video explaining why we have 7 days in a week. Two of the earliest known civilizations to use a seven day week were the Babylonians and the Jews. The Babylonians marked time…

New GUIDE: MAC Address Finder #AdafruitLearningSystem Quickly find the MAC address on devices where doing so isn’t so easy. Sometimes finding the MAC address of a wireless device is easy and …

Reminder: Calling all IoT enthusiasts! Our friends over at Instructables have just announced an IoT Builders Contest! There are 55 days left to enter. Here’s the scoop: Get ready to hack your…

Thanks to Mike for sharing this project with us! See more here. How do you notify a developer when a build fails in Jenkins without bombarding them with messages in Slack or email? Turn on a beacon…

Let me start by saying that this is going to be an empathic exploration. I didn't vote for Trump and didn't think many people would. But now, days later,

I was recently fumbling my way through a programming problem. I couldn’t figure out the root issue, so I cobbled together a shaky solution and posted my ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on Basecamp. Then Sam Stephenson s…

Thomas Blanchard and Oilhack create islands and oceans of bright colors in this crisp macro video. You can try it out for yourself – all you need is some

538 predicts Hillary has a 65% chance of winning the election to Trump’s 35%. New York Times says it’s more like 84% Hillary and 16% Trump. Both sites agree both candidates will get som…

(2017). Stripping Citizenship: Does Membership Have Its (Moral) Privileges? Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 419-434.

The leather accessories company celebrates with an unusual material choice

Enterprise IT is too expensive. We need simpler products with fewer features that are easier to buy and easier to operate.

I got into an interesting discussion with Johannes Luther on the need for VRFs and he wrote: If VRF = L3 virtualization technologies, then I saw that link. However, VRFs are again just a tiny piece of the whole story. Of course he’s right, but it turns out that VRFs are the fundamental building block of most L3 virtualization technologies using a shared infrastructure.

Canadian writer and journalist Malcolm Gladwell talks about sexism, elitism and email scandals in the U.S. election with The National's Wendy Mesley.