Megastructures
There’s nothing like striking Wikipedia gold. Megastructures: Topopolis: A topopolis is a tube-like space habitat, rotating to produce gravity on the inner surface, which is extended into a loop around local star. Topopoli can be looped several times around the local star, in a geometric figure known as a torus knot. View picture of a [...]
Greenpeace: The City Gas Guzzler [Update]
What does your car say about you? Greenpeace UKs latest campaign targets SUVs, or 4×4s. Most of these cars light trucks pump out three times the pollution, spending three times the fuel of a regular car, making them unfit for most purposes, especially city driving. I’m immensely proud to have played a small part in [...]
New Firefox 2 Theme Mockups
1. Search Bar: new icon required for the “search” action, design required to visually associate an “action button” with a textbox, design for showing search suggestions, design for making it clear that user can select the search engine. 2. Icon Polish: use shapes and metaphors from the existing *Stripe themes, but unify (and soften?) the [...]
A Server-Friendly Stats App?
I’ve tried quite a few statistics solutions. BBclone, Shortstat and Refer to name the best. They’re all “client-side”, meaning for every page visited, a small script must be called to update the logs. Compared to server-side logging, these solutions are usually more readily accessible and typically easier and faster to decode. Unfortunately for me it [...]
The Web-Browser Interface Redesigned
Earlier this month, Opera released their new browser. While testing Opera 9, I noticed the main browsing interface was radically different from that of Firefox. Namely, the browsing tabs were above the address-bar and primary navigation buttons (Back, Forward, Stop). This got me thinking; If one could completely redesign the current browsing interface, ground-up, what [...]
