great posts like this one about how niko tinbergen reverse engineered the seagull and beautiful site design. i wish his proposed redesign of the american airlines website would come to fruition because dear lord that site is a train wreck.
via eric
Archives for category: I must retire to my nerdery
and there was much rejoicing.
brilliant.
hilarious and delightfully illustrated chart of 3rd act twists arranged by genre and device. the sample above is from ‘fantasy’.
penguin science fiction book covers!
i can’t wait to see it again. might go tomorrow. it was SO GOOD. and funny! and heart-wrenching! amazing. and spock and uhura? so. hot. together.
god i was going to watch the season finale of ‘dollhouse’ but i don’t know if i can handle that much awesomeness in one night.
update: oops, forgot – we also saw nancy walls at the movie. pretty sure it was her.
Science!! Space!! Robots!!
Ellen gave me the heads up about the Jet Propulsion Lab’s annual open house and I was all over it, as you might imagine. It was like a science fair for adults. I had a great time and can’t wait until next year!
Photos are captioned generously. Here is a brief post about the day.
today i went to the JPL open house and got to see the deep space control room, the mars science lab mid-assembly and lots of robots and scale models. pretty great nerd stuff, and the whole thing had a very science fair-y vibe. scientists with tables set up – from photos and diagrams on poster boards to a model of orbiting stars and an actual model of an interferometer outputting data to a big plasma screen. my favorite part was actually the big shop where they manufacture parts for the probes and satellites.
…i also had a really good giant burrito.
knew I should’ve booked those comic-con rooms last fall. knew it. why didn’t I?? *SIGH*