Archive for August, 2008

The Matrix Vs. Carl Sagan

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Carl Sagan fans will love this brilliant mashup of The Matrix with a speech on the nature of matter from Cosmos. Now I know why I liked Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith so much: it was a Sagan homage. [via jwz]

How to improve Free Software usability

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Matthew Paul Thomas is back with an article about why Free Software has poor usability, with concrete suggestions for how to solve the problems. Thomas is an interaction designer who works for Canonical. You might remember his list of 69 usability problems in Ubuntu 5.04.

Get Your War On: The Animated Series

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The first episode of an animated version of webcomic Get Your War On is out and it looks like it will be great.


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