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A diary kept by Jordan Mechner while he was working on the original Prince of Persia. Fascinating stuff.
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Tinker.it’s Nick Weldin has wrote a book on Arduino. Having had the pleasure of being in a workshop lead by Nick I can say he’s a great teacher so I’m sure this book is worth your while. It looks real nice, too.
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Chris Heathcote’s opened his shop. He says: “I’m interested in how new technology changes people’s lives: mobiles, GPS, RFID, physical computing, and recently urban screens and interactive environments; and how this changes the way people interact with each other.” Check him out.
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An interesting interview that discusses Robinson’s latest book (about Galileo) ends with the following quote, which reminds me of William Gibson’s recent stance on science fiction: “If the world is a science fiction novel then what do you read? What can the literature do for you?”
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M’colleague Ianus Keller invited an old student of his (who happened to be the lead designer on Windows 7) for a Q&A session with design for interaction students at Delft University of Technology. This report (in Dutch) is a nice account of the kinds of questions students ask, and the way Stephan Hoefnagels thinks about user experience.
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A lot of tilt shift photography goodness. Via Mathijs.