BumpTop

BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world. A concept of DGP Lab.

Watch an inspiring video of this innovative concept on You Tube! (Keeping it real...)

Wiki(pedia) onder redactie

Wikipedia gaat delen van de content afschermen. Niet iedereen kan meer veranderingen doorvoeren. Reden voor deze aanpassing is het feit dat er (bij sommige onderwerpen) flinke ruzies ontstonden over de inhoud.

(bron: dutch cowboys)

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Saint Bill Gates exit

If William Henry Gates the Third's philanthropic work leads to him being canonized one day as the first secular saint of our times, I won't stand in the way of the celebrations. Geeks get things very out of proportion, and the value of saving even one life should be more apparent to everyone than the cost of a poorly written Windows USB stack. When Microsoft is criticized, while the practices of arms dealers, pharmaceutical companies and extraction cartels around the world are ignored, its reminds us that some nerds place a very low value on human life itself.

But if Gates is to be canonized as the man who invented the PC, and without whom our lives would be poorer - as he is this evening - then we should all be troubled, as it suggests we're suffering from a terrible case of ignorance and amnesia. More troublingly, it raises the fair question - which we hope you can help answer - of what kind of qualifications one needs to have to earn the title 'Henry Ford Of Our Times'.

read about Bill on:
microsoft.com
the register
c net
mercury news
wikipedia
bill and melinda gates foundation

Top Designer Says World Cup Design "Just Embarrassing"

Erik Spiekermann, one of Germany's most respected designers, has been openly critical of the design concept for the 2006 World Cup, from the mascot to the logo. He told DW-WORLD.DE why it hasn't been successful.

the interesting interview ends with this advice:

(dw-world): What would you say to the designers behind the World Cup project?

(spiekermann): Don't give up your day job.

read the complete interview on DW-World.de

Syndicat sponsorde "the web and beyond"

Gisteren vond in Amsterdam het symposium "the web and beyond" plaats. Het symposium handelde over de nieuwe ontwikkelingen op het web; en de impact op de mens - machine interactie in de meest brede zin van het woord.
Sprekers als Jarrod Spool, Jesse James Garret en Steven Pemberton prikkelden of irriteerden de aanwezigen met hun visies en meningen.

Een geslaagde bijeenkomst.

The web and beyond is een initiatief van CHI (voorheen sigchi) http://www.chi-nederland.nl/index.html

Syndicat was één van de hoofdsponsors van het symposium.

meer beeldmateriaal van het symposium is the vinden op FLICKR

Negerzoen? Nikkepikken!

Chocochoque, een klein Belgisch chocoladebedrijf uit Tongeren, heeft in antwoord op de naamsverandering van Buys' negerzoenen een nieuw product op de markt gebracht; Nikkepikken.