Archive for May, 2008

User testing a prototype (posted by Gavin Mallory)

May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
 
What is a prototype?
A prototype is a rough mock-up of your current approach to your project (be it for a website, an interactive, or something else).
It doesn’t have to be full of content. In fact, we often test with a mixture of guide content and lorem ipsum placeholder text, and it’s

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Meconopsis punicea

May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Another thank you to Krystyna Szulecka for contributing another one of her photographs to BPotD (posted in this thread via the BPotD submissions forum). See more of Krystyna’s images by searching for “Krystyna” on the FLPA web site.

Today’s image was photographed in the Branklyn Garden of Perth, Scotland, well-known for its

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Ice Cream Headache

May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Have you ever gotten that feeling of eating ice creamtoo fast and then feeling like your head was going toexplode? Would you like to have that feeling almostevery day? Then move to Antarctica, where ice creamheadaches are the norm. It seems like the wind is always blowing in

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ARTBase Collection Image of the Day: Unknown Artist - Man’s Court Robe

May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Unknown ArtistMan’s Court Robe1976.012.001 Period  late 19th century Era  Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Object Name  robe Object Type  Man’s; Court Material  silk; satin Width  188.5 Length  111.2 Culture  Chinese Credit  Given in memory of Miss Muriel J. Wallace by her nephews David & Anthony Wallace DescriptionIn terms of style, this coat is rather similar to the semi-formal court coat represented on p 44 of John Vollmer’s 5 Colours of the Universe.

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Restoration of Australia’s oldest working telescope

May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Since 1874 our 29cm refractor telescope with optics by Hugo Schroder from Hamburg and with locally built tube and mounting designed by Sydney Observatory’s famous astronomer Henry Chamberlain Russell has been in use every day and night. As can be imagined it has over the years suffered a few scrapes and

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The age of anxiety: A history of America’s turbulent affair with tranquilizers

May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
On Friday 13 June, Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill, will give a talk at Medical Museion about her new book ’The age of anxiety: A history of America’s turbulent affair with tranquilizers’ (forthcoming on Basic Books). Among her earlier books are Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives

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Publications from the ‘Biomedicine on Display’ project, 2005-2008

May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
At last, we have put together a list of books, articles and unpublished PhD-theses with relation to the ‘Biomedicine on Display’-project published between 2005 and 2008. Unfortunately, very few of these publications are yet available online. If you want a copy of any of these, contact the author.
Only publications with relation to the BoD-project

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Drawing out time’s layers

May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Here’s an amazing video by Italian street artist Blu: Muto, “An ambiguous animation painted on public walls”, painstakingly produced in Baden (02007) and Buenos Aires (02008), and full of astonishing transformations and lovely interplays between 2D drawn space and 3D, physical elements…

Animation plays with how we experience time by constructing an

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