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Theme Song to Morphing Faces of Beauty

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast December, I was in a bit of a creative mood and decided to put together a video titled Morphing Faces of Beauty. Summary from YouTube: Using a computer generated photo of the ideal beautiful woman as a baseline(credited to faceresearch.org), I fed this photo into a face transformer (from perceptionlab.com). This transformer can convert…
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Web Trend Map

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently came across a great map and article on the Underlying Blog. Information Architects has created a comprehensive web trend map that diagrams the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.

Success Recipes

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdrian Savage of Slow Leadership recently published an article on lifehack.org. Like most articles on lifehack.org, this one has its share of good advice. In particular: Take whatever time you need to discover what matters to you most Success isn’t simply a matter of money, power, or prestige. You could gain all of those and…
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Burst – Visual Music Search Interface

Reading Time: < 1 minuteInformation Aesthetics recently posted about a new music visualization interface from Burst Labs. And, here’s a quick summary from NotCot: “The Discover interface of Burst Labs is mesmerizingly brilliant ~ and there’s a melody for every mood you could possibly feel or imagine, and truly one of the most refreshing flashy user experiences i’ve encountered…
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You Should Know That You Don’t Know Enough To Know That You Don’t Know, You Know?

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m sometimes amazed at the sites that make the del.icio.us popular list. I enjoyed the following entry on Wikipedia: the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon whereby people who have little knowledge systematically think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge. The phenomenon was rigorously demonstrated in a series…
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The Future of the Web: Web 3.0 and Beyond!

Reading Time: 2 minutesTim Berners-Lee, father (Sire, actually) of web, was interviewed recently and provided his commentary on the vision for the future of the semantic web. Tim discusses some of the latest “terminology” that is somewhat related/intertwined with the semantic web: web2.0, web3.0, and even web4.0. He also touches on the origins of the web, what the…
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