links for 2008-12-02

A phys­i­cal com­put­ing project from 2005. “Cre­ate a com­po­si­tion by lay­ing out the box­es. Make some dif­fer­ent shapes and press play on a box to see how your com­po­si­tion sounds. Now pick up one of the box­es and move it to change your piece of music as its play­ing!” I imag­ine this would be so much eas­i­er to build nowa­days with stuff like Arduino.

An inter­est­ing indie game made in Flash that com­bines physics based mechan­ics with music loops, result­ing in a pleas­ant aes­thet­ic expe­ri­ence. Via Tom.

My friends at Netlife Research have out­done them­selves with this crazy plan: an UX con­fer­ence in the Arc­tic, where design­ers get to tack­le a big problem.

Ton’s start­ed a blog to keep track of his for­ay into the world of net­worked objects.

Old, but nev­er got around to book­mark­ing this. A slight­ly sil­ly ser­vice that allows you to keep track of stuff and dis­play the data in a dash­board-like fashion.

The dev­il is in the details. An extreme­ly well-craft­ed online sto­ry by Jonathan Harris.

A library that makes it easy to get Adobe Kuler palettes into Pro­cess­ing. Might come in handy some time.

“Worldmap­per is a col­lec­tion of world maps, where ter­ri­to­ries are re-sized on each map accord­ing to the sub­ject of inter­est.” Ugly, but interesting.