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Strong Optical Illusion – Green

Your Eyes Cheat Your Brain To check, use any graphics tool you like, that green and blue are actually the same color.

Internet Identity

One of the first Internet related cartoons I saw back in the day was in the New Yorker. One dog sitting at a keyboard explains to another dog: “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog. Apropos of that comic is the logo for the Internet Identity Workshop. The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on [...]

Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein

Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein: ” The key to how any protein works is its three-dimensional shape, determined by all the ways its atoms interact. Trying to push two atoms closer when they want to repel is like holding magnets together when they’re oriented the wrong way. You can force them, but nature [...]

Swine Flu Tracker

FluTracker: ” Tracking the progress of H1N1 swine flu This map and the data behind it were compiled by Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza Labs and Google. The map was compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions.

Crowdsourcing – a new entrant in the design ecosystem

Wired takes a look crowdsourcing: The demand for low-end design has ballooned in recent years alongside the profusion of start-ups and small businesses. Conveniently enough, so has the supply of what we might call “low-end designers” (amateurs, recent grads and the like). According to Forbes there are 80,000 freelance designers in the United States alone. [...]

Color Palette Helper

Two sites that exist to help in the selection of a site palette include Colour Lovers & Adobe’s Kuler.

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