tumble. phil adams.

"Biggles is a Python module for creating publication-quality 2D scientific plots. It supports..."

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:42:02 -0400

“Biggles is a Python module for creating publication-quality 2D scientific plots. It supports multiple output formats (postscript, x11, png, svg, gif), understands simple TeX, and sports a high-level, elegant interface. It’s intended for technical users with sophisticated plotting needs.”

- nolta/biggles

biggles (python plotting)

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:40:25 -0400

biggles (python plotting):

best (intuitive, terse, customizable, efficient) python graph-drawing library i’ve come across in a while

Realtime recordings of persons using their mouse are layered...

Sun, 13 May 2012 19:53:08 -0400

Realtime recordings of persons using their mouse are layered ontop of each other, divorced from their original context and then projected back into the gallery as an endless looping animation.

(via Thomson & Craighead)

Gallery visitors are encouraged to use stethoscopes and listen...

Sun, 13 May 2012 19:51:57 -0400

Gallery visitors are encouraged to use stethoscopes and listen to a wall behind which banks of speakers endlessly playback audible fragments plucked from the ether (mobile phone calls, broadcast radio transmissions, taxi radio etc.)

(via Thomson & Craighead)

Make the Web Faster (Google Developers)

Sun, 13 May 2012 14:16:40 -0400

Make the Web Faster (Google Developers)

zephoria / danah boyd: Open Access Journals

Sat, 12 May 2012 11:48:46 -0400

zephoria / danah boyd: Open Access Journals:

I’m looking for different open-access journals that address social sciences and/or new media. So far, folks have sent me the following:

Fibreculture

First Monday

International Journal of Internet Science

IJOC - International Journal of Communication

JCMC - Journal of…

"Before I start writing a single line of code, I write the README and fill it with usage examples. I..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:50:57 -0400

“

Before I start writing a single line of code, I write the README and fill it with usage examples. I pretend that the module I want to build is already written and available, and I write some code with it.

This has an incredible effect: instead of engineering something that will only get the job done, you start to interact with the problem itself and build an interface that reacts to it.

You discover it. You respond to it.

”

- How I Develop Things and Why