Links for 09-08-2007
Britain’s space race, robot rock and roll (and code of ethics), advertising and consumer behaviour, …
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1 – Britain’s mission: to boldly go into the 21st century space race
“Despite, or perhaps because of, the strength of Britain’s satellite industry, debate continues over whether the UK should stick to what it knows best or dust off long-abandoned ambitions for manned flights.”
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2 – Top 10 Free Wallpaper, Fonts and Icon Sources
“… our favorite sources of quality, good-looking free desktop wallpaper images, fonts and icons for your downloading pleasure.”
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3 – Metal Heads: Jay Vance’s Robotic, Rockin’ Bandmates
“Vance has since upgraded his band, powering his mechanical menagerie with a motherboard cobbled together from three computers and using pneumatic actuators to make sticks smack skins and creepy robot fingers form killer chords.”
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4 – Electric Fields Kill Tumors
“An Israeli company is conducting human tests for a device that uses weak electric fields to kill cancer cells but has no effect on normal cells.”
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5 – The Eyes Have It: What Do We See When We Look At Ads?
“… it may be our goals — the tasks we have in mind — that drive what we pay attention to, even during a few seconds of ad exposure.”
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6 – The Grass Isn’t Always Greener
“Our findings suggest that consumers who are focused on the future are so preoccupied with finding ways to improve their situation that they become overly sensitive to information that points to such opportunities…”
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7 – Flashlight Induces Vomiting
“Developed for Homeland Security, this brand new flashlight uses a series of oscillating LEDs to induce nausea and eventual vomiting [...] part of a push for nonlethal weaponry.” OK …
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“The study also shows that as the socioeconomic status, measured here by unemployment rates, of the community changes, so do the demographics and mortality rates of the trauma population.” Statistics are weird.
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9 – The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web
Tutorials round-up.
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10 – South Korea draws up code of ethics for robots
“Key considerations are ensuring that humans maintain control over robots, preventing their illegal use, protecting data acquired by robots and ensuring they can be clearly identified and traced.”
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11 – Time for games to grow up
“Some would argue that videogames still haven’t produced their Citizen Kane… but neither have they fashioned their equivalent of the airline safety video.” Intriguing.
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12 – 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design
“So which typefaces are “bulletproof”? What fonts can be used effectively in almost every Corporate Design? And what are the options for unique, but still incredibly beautiful typefaces?” These ones, apparently.
