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My Favourite Photoshop Tutorial Sites : PSDTUTS
Collis, over at PSDTUTS, lays down his collection of fine Photoshop tutorials.
Tags: Photoshop
BMW Builds a Shape-Shifting Car Out of Cloth : Wired
Will We Recognize the Future? : NPR
Technology is ever-changing — and changing ever faster. But what happens when the rate of technological change becomes so fast that the fundamental nature of what it means to be human changes, too?
Inventor, technologist and futurist Ray Kurzweil talks with host Ira Flatow about the idea of the “singularity” — what happens when technology advances so much that it’s impossible to predict what happens next. Will artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and biotechnology be able to completely reshape what it means to be human?
Tags: NPR, Ray Kurzweil
Model Predicts Mob Behavior : LiveScience
Scientists who want to see how a crowd behaves in an emergency can’t exactly shout “Fire!” on a city street and watch everyone panic and run. But a newly developed computer model can.
The 3-D model starts with patterns of human behavior and movement and uses them to simulate the behavior of a crowd in mob situations and pedestrian habits under certain building configurations, resulting in a virtual crowd video.
“Crowds are vital to the lifeblood of our cities,” said the model’s creator, Paul Torrens of Arizona State University. But, he adds, it is impractical “to establish live experiments with hundreds or thousands of people along busy streetscapes.”
Tags: Cognitive Science, Psychology, Social Experiment
25 Excellent Ajax Techniques and Examples : SixRevisions
Ajax allows for rich-internet applications that mimic the responsiveness and complex user interfaces typically associated with desktop applications. Moving applications to the web browser opens many possibilities, including the ability to save user data, connecting with other users for collaboration and sharing, and making deployment and using the application easier since web browsers are standard-issue with most computers regardless of operating system.
If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of Ajax techniques and practices, check out these 25 hand-picked Ajax articles and tutorials that outline various methods and concepts involved in the development of Ajax-based applications. Though most are geared for budding and intermediate developers, veterans might find a trick or two they haven’t encountered before.
Tags: Ajax, Web Development
NNDB Mapper: Tracking the entire world.
The NNDB Mapper allows you to explore NNDB visually by graphing the connections between people.
Tags: nndb, Social Experiment