CRAYON PHYSICS DELUXE

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a sequel to the popular freeware game Crayon Physics. Or you can think of it as the game I would have created if I would have had more than 7 days to do it. Way more than 7 days. More like 7 months or 17 months.

Anyway Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

The game features:

* Greatly improved physics (you can draw what ever you want)
* Huge number of new levels
* Easy to use level editor

Also you can test the original prototype which is freely available. But please understand that the prototype isn’t a demo version of this game and doesn’t reflect the quality of Crayon Physics Deluxe.

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IDEAKILLERS - NEW SHOES TODAY

Download the new shoes today idea killer poster
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INTELLIGENT DESIGN - A DESIGNERS TAKE

A typographical film on the term ‘Intelligent Design‘ and its relation with design. Created by Christian Bramsiepe from the Köln International School of Design for All-Media Foundation.

INSTITUTING INNOVATION

Is innovation implemented as a mind-set, a process, or a deliverable?

While innovation is often talked about as a "process," it's usually the deliverables of innovation that get the spotlight—for better or worse—while the discussion on process and mind-set get back burnered. But an investigation into these structural considerations is key to the drive to innovation, and this article provides lessons that top executives—people who have spent years instituting innovation into their organizations—have to share.

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VISUAL AND CREATIVE THINKING

HOWARD REINGOLD - WAY NEW COLLABORATION

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.

AN INTRODUCTION INTO INFORMATION DESIGN

Visualizing Information: An Introduction to Information Design is a booklet John Emerson wrote and designed to introduce advocacy organizations to basic principles and techniques of information design. It’s full of examples of interesting design from groups around the world in a variety of media and forms. It has tips, excercises, and even recommended Free Software packages to help polish up your graphics.

John Emerson, worked with the Tacitcal Tech collective who provided editorial feedback and helped track down reproduction rights for the images. They’re also coordinating printing and distribution to NGOs. The project was funded by the OSI Information Program. The booklet is Creative Commons licensed.

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WORDNET - PRINCETON

WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

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BUBBLE.US - MINDMAP

What is it?

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
Why use bubbl.us?

Because you can:

* Create colorful mind maps online
* Share and work with friends
* Embed your mind map in your blog or website
* Email and print your mind map
* Save your mind map as an image

TRENDWATCHING.COM - NEWSLETTERS

Trendwatching.com and its 8,000+ trend spotters scan the globe for emerging consumer trends.
We report on our findings in free, monthly Trend Briefings, covering trends like INFOLUST, TWINSUMERS, and CUSTOMER-MADE. The current edition highlights the EXPECTATION ECONOMY.

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SECRETS OF SUCCES - RICHARD ST. JOHN

Why do people succeed? An unmissable 3-min. talk from the TED Conference on the real secrets of success

IMPROVING INTERFACE DESIGN

IDEATION USING INTERACTIVE SURFACE

IntuiLab, involved in several projects about surface interactions, explores collaborative ideation techniques using an interactive surface.
This application has been designed using IntuiLab's UI development platform IntuiKit.

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MAPPING A TALKSHOW - CATALOGTREE

Mapping a talkshow with Aaron Koblin, Wilfried Houjebek and Catalogtree
on 03-09-2007 as part of the Info Aesthetics Symposium organized by LUST, The Hague, NL. In collaboration with Lutz Issler (Processing).

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10 LESSONS OF INNOVATION - IDRIS MOOTEE