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Picasso the GUI Designer

Picasso the GUI Designer 04/19/2004 07:01 AM

Robert McLaws is working on Vi sual Blogger 2004, a blog editor client for Windows.

Nice, but am I the only one who think Office 2003 GUI looks crappy?  Why are smart developers mimicking madness?  Eye-candies that distracts more than enhances user experience are not eye-candies but eye-sores.  And what's with all those bright colors?  Most people don't live and work in Gap stores and the real world is definitely not Technicolor.  Are Windows GUI designers Lego fanatics?

Think of colors as emotions.  Splattering emotions carelessly is annoying to users just as talking seriously to a guy wearing a clown suit is.  Take it easy, tone it down, and think twice before you start ejaculating colors like Picasso on LSD.

If Picasso ever painted a library, it
might look like this.

If Picasso ever painted a library, it
might look like this. 05/20/2004 10:17 AM
Virtual tour of the new Seattle Central Library. Built from a critically acclaimed design by Rem Koolhaas, this library opens Sunday. The design makes me want to paint my staircase bright yellow, or maybe move to Seattle.

Picasso to Propel Sotheby's

Picasso to Propel Sotheby's 05/10/2004 04:19 PM
The record-setting sale of Picasso's "Boy With A Pipe" could coax other rarities out into the market.

Larry Clark: Punk Picasso

Larry Clark: Punk Picasso 03/31/2005 09:34 AM
The Cheerful Transgressive Ever since 1971, when Larry Clark published Tulsa, an austere series chronicling his meth-shooting pals in sixties Oklahoma, Clark has made it his mission to document teenagers at their most deviant, their most vulnerable, their most sexually unhinged (possibly NSFW). And now “Larry Clark” the first American retrospective of Clark’s work, currently on display at the International Center of Photography, demonstrates the richness with which he’s mined this single subject (NSFW). More inside.

Picasso Guernica coverup at UN, one year
later

Picasso Guernica coverup at UN, one year
later 04/21/2004 03:36 PM
BoingBoing reader Jamie McCarthy writes

"Hi Xeni, re this story you blogged last year -- Take a look at this:

On Feb. 5, 2003, Negroponte sat next to Colin Powell for his historic speech to the U.N. urging multilateral war. That evening, at 10:51:58 PM EST, that photo of Negroponte was snapped, in front of the Guernica reproduction but far enough to its left that the curtain apparently did not stretch (or maybe the curtain had been removed that late in the evening). Now, a year later, that photo ended up on the homepage of the Coalition Provisional Authority. You can verify the timestamp in Photoshop by opening the JPEG, going to File Info, clicking Advanced, and looking at the XMP Core Properties. Small world...

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Picasso poised for auction record

Picasso poised for auction record 05/05/2004 11:27 AM
A 1905 painting by Picasso is expected to sell for up to $100m (�56m) at auction on Wednesday.

A $104.1 Million Picasso Sets a Record
at Auction

A $104.1 Million Picasso Sets a Record
at Auction 05/06/2004 10:09 AM
A rare Rose Period Picasso, "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)," sold for $104.1 million on Wednesday, eclipsing the world record set in 1990.

Pablo Picasso Quotes - The Quotations
Page

Pablo Picasso Quotes - The Quotations
Page 07/16/2004 11:53 AM
Pablo Picasso

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Secret lover to sell Picasso sketches
(Reuters)

Secret lover to sell Picasso sketches
(Reuters) 06/24/2005 09:57 PM
Reuters - A lover of Pablo Picasso is selling 20 sketches he gave her more than 50 years ago, showing the tender side of an artist often accused of treating women badly.

Picasso Files Reveal He Sought French
Citizenship (Reuters)

Picasso Files Reveal He Sought French
Citizenship (Reuters) 04/20/2004 09:57 AM
Reuters - Spanish artist Pablo Picasso applied for French citizenship just before German troops invaded France in 1940, but was turned down because police saw him as a Communist sympathizer, a new exhibition shows.

Picasso Work From Rose Period Sets
All-Time Record for a Painting Sold at
Auction

Picasso Work From Rose Period Sets
All-Time Record for a Painting Sold at
Auction 05/05/2004 11:56 PM
A rare Rose Period Picasso, "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)," sold for $104.1 million on Wednesday, eclipsing the world record set in 1990.

PICASSO,
SVP

PICASSO,
SVP 01/07/2004 01:35 PM

Last April Robin Good wrote an article on his blog called 'Side by Side', about the need for what I've called Simple Virtual Presence technology. One of the services of my new business Meeting of Minds will be the Personal Collaboration Technologies Suite:A set of intuitive desktop tools that allow front-line workers to see and hear each other and to work together without having to be in the same room. SVP is a critical component of this suite. The key is that they must be simple -- connecting must be as easy as making a phone call. And once connected, you need to be able to work with the other person as effectively as if you were in the same room. The same Simple Virtual Presence technology should enable you to dial into conferences you cannot attend in person. Here's a rough spec for what Simple Virtual Presence technology should offer: One click dialing: A single click to the other person's or conference's address should provide full default multi-media connectivity, with no further 'configuration' needed. 'Who you see is who you get'. Connectivity should have three simultaneous 'viewpoints': sound and image of the other person him/herself, sound and image of what the other person is looking at/listening to, and a third 'backchannel' for sidebar communications. The default configuration might look like the image above. For SVP at a conference, the picture at left would be the person physically at the meeting you are 'channeling', the picture at right would be the speaker or his/her presentation material, and the 'backchannel' would be the sidebar discussions with other physical and virtual attendees of the conference. A pointer to show what you are specifically talking about. The analogue between physical and virtual presence is simple and intuitive: Two visual and two audio channels replace your physical eyes and ears, and the pointer replaces your finger. The backchannel gives you multitasking capability that puts you in exactly the same position with SVP that you would have with physical presence, all with a single click. All of the technology to do this exists now. It's just a matter of combining and simplifying it. And not much accommodation is needed at the other end either: A camera & mic on each laptop that can be swiveled to show either the user or what he/she is looking at, and a 'whiteboard' that shows the document the person at the other end is working on, or the document the presenter at the conference is talking about. What's critical is resisting the temptation to add a lot of bells and whistles. A virtual meeting should be, must be, no more complicated than a physical one, if it's to be embraced by the business mainstream. Robin calls this simple functionality 'Side by Side'. I think it's even a bit richer than that: I'd call it Side-by-Side & Face-to-Face. If that sounds a little larger than life, perhaps it is. So my suggested brand name for SVP technology? Why, Picasso, of course.

More To WAP Than Meets The Eye

More To WAP Than Meets The Eye 02/05/2005 09:51 PM
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Clearly, More Than Meets The Eye

Clearly, More Than Meets The Eye 04/13/2004 12:53 PM
JOEL JOHNSON -- These painted utility boxes were labelled 'transformers,' but could probably be some other kind of public box. Does anyone know where these are from? The top-left one is unadorned, while the rest have had the hell dorned out of them. [Thanks, Fipi and Walter!] Look - Large...

More Than Meets the Eye

More Than Meets the Eye 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
Evidence that comic book writer Simon Furman predicted the 9/11 attacks in 1991 is irrefutable. Or at least really complicated. "Add 3650 days onto 14th September 1991, and you will end up at 11th September 2001."

"Clearly, More Than Meets The Eye"

"Clearly, More Than Meets The Eye" 04/14/2004 03:45 AM

Ivan Meets GI Joe

Ivan Meets GI Joe 07/02/2004 01:16 PM
Retro toys: I remember using the garden hose to frantically try and dissolve that pink shit. We eventually cleaned the knife, but I remember big blobs of it still on the ground with ants stuck in it. We ended up keep Stretch's head as a trophy.

People reminisce about their old toys. Mostly about topics like how they tortured GI Joe, made mrs. beasley look like a victim of domestic violence, and knew that Steve Scout was living an alternative lifestyle. Not every memory's a gem, but some are a real laugh.

More to the new iPod than meets the eye?

More to the new iPod than meets the eye? 07/29/2004 06:48 AM
A report in Time magazine, which named Apple's fourth generation iPod "Gadget of the Week," says that there is more to the latest models of the digital music player than meets the eye...

Li'l Jon meets DVD Jon

Li'l Jon meets DVD Jon 08/23/2004 10:31 AM
Xeni Jardin: Step aside, Dave Chappelle:

dvd jon: Is that a Battle Royale DVD?
lil jon: YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
dvd jon: That's the Chinese flick with Go-go from Kill Bill?
lil jon: YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
dj: You can't watch that here.
lj: What?!
dj: You can't watch it.
lj: What?!?
dj: It's "region 3"?
lj: What?!
dj: It won't work in your player.
lj: What?
dj: Give it to me. I'll fix it.
lj: OKAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!

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Design is more than meets the eye

Design is more than meets the eye 04/14/2004 11:56 AM
A rudimentary computing task should not require arcane knowledge of secret handshakes. Good design is about more than surface appearance.

PHP meets ASP.NET WebControls

PHP meets ASP.NET WebControls 07/06/2004 03:06 AM

Tagging meets RSS

Tagging meets RSS 03/17/2005 04:23 AM
Feedtagger - Tagging meets RSS. Rah!...

When Wi-Fi meets cellular

When Wi-Fi meets cellular 03/14/2005 06:27 PM
Wouldn't it be nice if you had a dual-mode phone that let you talk via voice over Wi-Fi when you're in the office, warehouse or hospital, and then seamlessly switched over to cellular when you were outside the coverage area of your wireless LAN. That's the promise of new converged or hybrid services that will become available sooner than you think.

Zip Meets Java

Zip Meets Java 11/17/2003 01:54 PM
The ZIP file format has become extremely popular for the distribution and storage of files... The java.util.zip package allows for the programmatic reading and writing of the ZIP and GZIP formats. As you�ll see in this article, the API for reading and writing ZIP files is pretty straightforward to use... In this article, I�ll take you through a Java program that creates of a ZIP file and also walk you through another Java program that unzips the file we created.

Bluetooth meets 802.11

Bluetooth meets 802.11 09/05/2004 12:55 PM
p2pnet.net Sep 5 2004 4:43PM GMT

Technology meets the mob

Technology meets the mob 11/18/2003 11:37 AM
BBC Nov 18 2003 10:20AM ET

Rugby: Woodward meets RFU

Rugby: Woodward meets RFU 09/01/2004 02:21 AM
Sir Clive Woodward will discuss his future as England coach with RFU chief executive Francis Baron on Wednesday.

Pop Culture Meets Technology

Pop Culture Meets Technology 03/14/2005 05:23 PM
“The tip of a white-crested wave is building,” writes Natasha Allen for the College Heights Hearld, “It is propelled by the currents born when pop culture meets technology meets one of the world’s most consumed forms of art. The iPod. iPods offer the opportunity to live life in surround sound cinema style - to put to music even the most mundane daily activities, to walk to the words of the music that moves you. And this nation is devouring it.” [Mar 11, 2005]

Wikinews meets the bl0ggers

Wikinews meets the bl0ggers 02/05/2005 09:29 PM

We just had an IRC chat organized by Wikinews to talk about how bloggers and Wikinews could work together. If you don't know about Wikinews, it is an effort by the people behind Wikipedia to use many of the same principles behind Wikipedia to run a news site. They've had an early success with their scoop of the unrest in Belize.

Anyway, it was a very productive discussion. You can see the logs online. There is a page about Wikinews and Blog collaboration, but it's still pretty skimpy. A few ideas that came out:

Exchange IM addresses between active members in both communities to coordinate stories. (See page of IM addresses for Wikipedians.)

Create an RSS/Atom feed of new stories and hopefully for different tags from Wikinews.

MetaWeblog or Atom API to allow bloggers to post to some section of Wikinews using blogging tools.

Wikinews should accept trackbacks. They need someone to help write a trackback plugin for MediaWiki. Let them know if you can help.

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Bugzilla meets the press

Bugzilla meets the press 02/01/2005 09:42 PM
This morning's Romenesko brought this link to a Sacramento Bee column about how some newspapers have begun to use databases to track errors and corrections. Reasonable enough, but maybe not far enough, and it got me thinking.

Software development teams have used bug tracking software for ages now -- why not journalists? But keeping it in-house, as the papers the Bee cites seem to do, limits the value of the approach.

I'm spending a lot of time these days around open-source software developers, and they take the logic of this approach one step further: Major open source projects maintain public bug databases. Anyone can come along and post a bug report. It's like opening a trouble ticket: developers will have a look, see if your complaint is new or duplicates an existing problem; over time the database provide a permanent record of the resolution (or non-resolution) of the issue.

The model doesn't map perfectly onto journalism, but it's not too far off: Let people file "bug reports" if they believe your publication has published something in need of correcting. The publication can respond however it seems appropriate: If the complaint is frivolous, you point that out; if it's a minor error of spelling or detail, you fix it; if it's a major error, you deal with it however you traditionally deal with major errors -- but you've left a trail that shows what happened. However you respond, you've opened a channel of communication, so that people who feel you've goofed don't just go off to their corners (or their blogs!) feeling that you're unresponsive and irresponsible.

I know this idea will horrify a lot of editors and reporters, but I think an adventurous newsroom could benefit from the transparency and the accountability. Maybe someone's already doing this out there -- if so, it would be great to see what we can learn.

Web conferencing meets the desktop

Web conferencing meets the desktop 04/30/2004 05:38 PM
Web conferencing has tapped a vein in the enterprise, and vendors are rushing in to quench the need for easy-to-use, real-time collaboration tools that meld with desktop tools and applications.

SF meets Blair over sanctions

SF meets Blair over sanctions 04/23/2004 05:31 AM
Talks between Tony Blair and Sinn Fein will focus on the fallout from a report into paramilitary violence.

H.P. Lovecraft meets Bil Keane

H.P. Lovecraft meets Bil Keane 03/28/2005 06:28 PM
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Where Art Studio Meets Science Lab

Where Art Studio Meets Science Lab 05/08/2004 12:48 AM
"Reprotech: Building Better Babies?" at the Academy of Sciences is a visual forum on some of the most controversial topics in biology today.

Bluetooth's Giveaway: More Than Meets
The Eye, Or Less?

Bluetooth's Giveaway: More Than Meets
The Eye, Or Less? 03/30/2005 11:51 PM
ChinaTechNews.com Mar 31 2005 3:45AM GMT

IBM meets forecast with $1.6B earnings

IBM meets forecast with $1.6B earnings 04/16/2004 02:26 AM
Boston Globe Apr 16 2004 6:37AM GMT

IBM Meets Forecast With $1.6B
Earnings (AP)

IBM Meets Forecast With $1.6B
Earnings (AP) 04/15/2004 11:41 PM
AP - Rebounding technology spending by big companies boosted first-quarter profits 16 percent at IBM Corp., though much of Big Blue's revenue gains came from weakness in the dollar.

iTunes meets Sony's PSP

iTunes meets Sony's PSP 03/31/2005 03:15 PM
A small California software maker has developed a program designed to bring at least part of Apple Computer's iTunes experience to the new Sony PlayStation Portable.

The software, the latest in Information Appliance Associates' series of PocketMac tools to link handheld devices with PCs and Apple computers, allows consumers to sync music from iTunes playlists directly onto the PSP's memory cards. The software also syncs the devices with Apple's iPhoto and address book and contacts databases.

The capability is unlikely to threaten Apple's own iPod. The PSP is heavier, offers only rudimentary music-browsing capabilities, and Sony's Memory Stick storage doesn't rival the bigger iPods for capacity. But it could give dedicated gamers an extra jukebox and photo wallet in their pocket.

News source: C|Net News.com

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Microsoft meets most EC demands

Microsoft meets most EC demands 04/05/2005 06:42 AM
Getting closer to agreement
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