March 2008
13 posts
What is a (mobile) Widget →
Old (July ‘06) but concise summary of Widgets - the ‘web 2.0’ applets for the mobile world. They are small applets that do simple things well. They are fairly easy to develop and can be (apparently) combined together. WidSets is the one I’ve been playing with.
nodal →
Nodal is a generative software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is then traversed by any number of players who play the...
WatchDan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy?
Great talk into research on happiness, synthesised happiness, and realingment of attitude to increase happiness. The latter aspect can also be seen in research in cognitive dissonance observed in children and monkeys where a sort of decision ‘hysteresis’ mechanism kicks in to reinforce your decision when forced to decide...
Butterflies remember caterpillar experiences →
“People always thought that during metamorphosis the caterpillar turns to soup and all the ingredients are rearranged into the butterfly or moth,” says Weiss. “That clearly isn’t what happens. Parts of the brain are retained that allow memories to persist through this very dramatic transition.”
