Corey Csuhta

The Evolution of Apple Ads

2011-08-15T23:20:27Z

Worth a bookmark if only for the sheer volume of information dug up for this article.

Turtle Shell Racers

2011-08-15T06:04:29Z

Next up in proper uses of 3D printing, remote-controlled turtle shell racers. I think you already know what kind of turtle shell they printed.

A Wheatley Puppet

2011-08-15T05:43:54Z

YouTube user trpchakai made a stunning Wheatley puppet. It even includes a voice box with quotes.

Francois One

2011-08-13T02:21:22Z

Google Web Fonts gets a very pretty one.

The Kickin’ Chicken Menus

2011-08-08T23:57:51Z

I love this design.

Game of Thrones, the RPG

2011-08-05T04:50:12Z

CollegeHumor at its finest.

iCloud Error Pages

2011-08-02T16:19:07Z

The iCloud beta error pages are adorable:

Diablo 3 Allows Trade For Real-world Cash

2011-08-01T14:57:47Z

News is spreading that players in Diablo 3 will be able to sell and buy items with each other for real world currency. As a form of microtransactions, Blizzard will collect a sales fee on each item.

Our Security Auditor is an Idiot

2011-07-29T20:25:48Z

Just because someone works in the security auditing business doesn’t mean that they know anything about security.

Kathryn Kunzweiler

2011-07-29T00:30:03Z

The remains of Kathryn Kunzweiler were discovered in her Florida home more than a year after she died, unnoticed by negligent bank agents and property inspectors.

Where I Go At Night

2011-07-22T03:02:03Z

Where I Go at Night is a local 2-player game where both players control the same character: one as a man during the day, and the other as the man at night when he becomes a werewolf. The players compete against each other to save or massacre the townsfolk, respectively.

Better Digital Books

2011-07-12T04:55:39Z

Bound books are more than just the text. Books are works of art. Bringhurst will tell you all about that. If I print out my Great American Novel on inkjet paper, it looks terrible compared to a professionally typeset and bound book. Books are exercises in user experience. The smell of the pages, the margins, the binding, the crispness of the ink: it’s more than the sum of its parts.

The Kindle, Nook, and iBooks Store are plain-text nightmares. If Emily Brontë were alive today, “Thanks,” she’d say, “Thanks for copy-pasting my world-famous novel into an epub. Now it looks like garbage when people read it.”

Look at us. We’re holding tablet computers. We have the hardware buttons and the multitouch and the motion sensors, all the jazz. Get that plain-text horseshit out of here.

How about textbooks you can actually interact with? I want to see more of figure 1, rotate it, maybe take an interactive quiz on it after a few pages. I want a lecture I can remember because I was hit from all sides by text, video, images, and sounds. How about a childrens’ book they can experience, not just read?

These companies? They get it. Plain text is out, building an experience is in. The future of reading is not cramming 10,000 text documents under an eInk display.

The Times of New York candle

2011-06-25T15:18:17Z

Tobias Wong has crafted a candle that smells like a fresh newspaper.

Judge Judy Infographic at Paralegal

2011-05-05T23:44:50Z

‘You are to respond, “Yes ma’am!”’

Obama Or Osama: The Mediagasm

2011-05-05T21:37:07Z

Huffington Post has a 3 minute montage of reporters screwing up US President Obama’s name with Osama bin Laden’s:

But the good news, as far as the media is concerned, is that they’ll probably never ever have to spend as breakneck a period of time on a story that involved both Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden. So never again will there be a night when so many on-air talking heads confuse the president’s name with the terrorist’s.