Thoughts across disciplines by Engin Erdoğan
I made a simple flash toy to create seals out of my new year’s resolutions. In case you are into seals too, you can play with it here.
I wanted my resolutions list to look a bit more glorified, since it will be the to-do for one year. Otherwise, it might feel like Tufte’s example of Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint.
Anyhow. Wishes, seals, happy 2009.
I captured the video below at Twitter Election 2008 website at 11:45pm on Monday, November 3, fifteen minutes before the 2008 American Presidential Election day. It is a one-minute long segment of real-time updates from election-oriented minds from all over the world.
I followed the election news on Twitter’s Election 2008 website. It is filled with pointers to quick news, facts, speculations, little emotional explosions, debates, lies, hates, etc etc, from people to people, in real time. I feel like this is where people have been so honestly upfront with all their beliefs, like it or not. It is difficult to get that anywhere else, so I recorded it to have a reference to it later on.
Besides I use it sporadically, Twitter has never been this useful for me - one pretty much witnesses history in real time on this website. I guess this is what happens in Twitter everyday anyway, however, this one has a greater historical implication.
Good times Twitter.
This clipping is from MIT Technology Review’s August issue. It tells us about some scientific research on (ultimately) restoring vision for the blind.
The title is written 3 times in different ways: First one is catchy for everyday folk, second is intro to behind the scenes for more curious/hobbyist, third is the research article’s title itself. Great example for how science could be communicated to different audiences.
