Distractions
AIMS Distractions are a glimpse into the rabbit hole that prevents us from being productive.
Come to the darkside (and make it an RSS Feed).
September 10, 2012
September 9, 2012
- Smartest Thread on Social E-commerce
- How America Gives
- Spelunky
- UAL Interactive Media MA Degree Show
September 8, 2012
- All about Human.io
- Website frontiers new form of learning… about modern slavery
- Unlimited online backup using Zovo
September 6, 2012
September 5, 2012
August 30, 2012
August 29, 2012
August 28, 2012
- Rage Quit
- An impossibly hard game… Ready to give up?
- Donkey Kong shelving (concept only) – Someone make this!
- Graduate Degree in Interactive Media Studies at Miami University
- Computational social science: Making the links
- Non-coding HTML5 game-making platform
- The above article creates games like this one!
- Now you can knit your computer character a sweater
- Keen Talks (part of TED talks)
March 30,2011
- Dear Friends by starclubyeah
- Awesome Augmented Reality App Could Save Librarian Hours
- The “Morning-After” iPhone App
- Groupon Accused o “Bait and Switch” Advertising on Google
- Soap Bubble Printer
- Russia’s Finest Purveyors of Miniature Lap Giraffes
- Everyday for iPhone
- My Favorite Color
- Mindcraft: The Story of Mojang
- Cheating the NY Times Paywall
- How Women Use Social Media
- The Story Behind URL Hunter
- iPad as IWB Updates now Available in HD
- Stop the Insanity: How to Crush Communication Overload
March 23, 2011
- Diego Stocco- Music from a tree
- Junkyard Jumbotron
- Revealed: US Spy Operation that Manipulates Social Media
- A Flowchart to Determine if You’re having a Rational Discussion
- Greatest Guitar Solo Ever
- Kids Can Now Build Their Own Xbox Games with Kodu Game Lab
- Let Kids Rule the School
- WeatherSpark: Interactive Weather Charts
- Design then Code
- Teenagers Don’t want to “Like” Yours Company on Facebook
- Floor of Kilauea Volcano Crater Collapses Before Your Eyes
- Japan Earthquake: Before and After
March 16, 2011
- The United States of Shame
- People Do Not Want to Create Content For Your Brand
- Premiere: Thurston Moore Covers Guided By Voices
- Inforgraphic Video: Who Is the World’s Most Typical Person?
- The Age of Relevance
- AdFreak: Wieden + Kennedy Rules the TED ad Contest
- Is the Personalization of the Web Making Us Dumber?
- Customer Service on Twitter
- Virtual Letterpress for your iPad
- User Interface Design Libraries for Keynote, Powerpoint and OpenOffice
March 9, 2011
- Unleash a More Beautiful Web
- Make: Magazine
- How I Launched a Profitable Product in 3 Hours
- It’s Time To Play “Sheen, Beck, or Qaddafi?”
- Trash | Track
- Register with TED
- Google Demo Slam
- Immaterials: Light Painting Wifi
February 28, 2011
- Teaching Game Design: Games are Publications
- A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion since 1945
- Useful Tools and Kits for Android Users
- Turtlecalls
- Skype in Classroom
- Ideas for Good
- Major in the Universe
- Shuffler: Channel Surf the Music Web
- Apps for Development
- Interactive: State of Working America
- IRL Troll Posters
- Alexi Murdoch- The Light (LIVE)
- Green Goose
- Distractions Improve Creativity
- Waterfall [Video]
- Zero Lives: Overlook Restaurant Children’s Menu
- The Art of Video Games
- Barcode to Bibliography App: Making College Easy
- Hacking your Watch
February 21, 2011
- The Science of Social Media
- Hundreds of Tourist’s Photos Weaved into One
- Milhaus Shirt
- The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture
- Siamese Dream Cover Girl Now In Band
- How to View Private Facebook Profiles
- 4squareand7yearsago
- Flash Seminars
- Audree Lapierre: Sleep is Awesome
- Ikea Stonehenge
- Back to the Future
- Dear Girls Above Me
February 16, 2011
- Open Letter to Stephen Fry
- A Sequence of Lines Traced by 500 People
- Play Spent
- Strange Valentine’s: People “In Love” With Possessions
- Weezer’s Version of State Farm
- The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator
- World of Goo
- The Future of Art
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Innovation
- Smartphones Outsell PCs
- First Panoramic View of the Sun
- Planning for Participation: Planning in High Heels
- When Should I Visit?
February 7, 2011
- Could Watching Viral Videos Enhance Creative Thinking?
- Pitchfork: New Feelies: “Should Be Gone”
- Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data
- Innovate like a Kindergartner
- Clapping Music: Remix
- The Journal of Universal Rejection
- The Pentalobe Screw, And Apple’s War Against Self- Repair
- Community Review: “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons”
- Gladwell Still Missing the Point About Social Media and Activism
- Free Music Can Pay As Well As Paid Music
- Demonstrations of Silencing, a Visual Illusion
- Morning Still Life, by Venus Vegas
January 10, 2011
- Software Discounts You Can Get With an .edu Address
- Foursquare Checkins Unlocks Apartment Door
- The Decline Effect and The Scientific Method
- DIY Biotech Hacker Space Opens in NYC
- Vintage Tokyo Subway Manner Posters
- Google Demo Slam: Epic Docs Animation
- Facebook Profile Picture Hack Tutorial
- Most Popular Top 10s of 2010
- Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents
- Teach Parents Tech
- Aaron Koblin Art
- 10+ Amazing Short Films
- Who Tweets?
December 8, 2010
- The Four Secrets of Playtime that Foster Creative Kids
- Vi Hart: Mathematical Doodling
- Aziz Ansari- Harris
- US Public Asked to Play Judge and Jury for Science Funding
- Mobile OS Usage Splits the World
- Find Movie Quotes
- Dr. Seuss Does Star Wars
- The Future of Social Networking
- Free Star Trek Episodes Online
- Multi-Touch Watch Kits
- Tubeify: A ‘Historic’ Mashup of Last.Fm, Billboard and YouTube
- Influx Insight: Why Agencies Need Labs
- Holiday Gift Guide 2010: 3D Fabrication
- David vs. GoliatchVille: A Call to Arms for Indie Social Game Designers
- Logitech Revue with Google TV- Kevin Bacon
- Wikileaks Cablegate Reactions Roundup
- Nick Cave Cover Songs
- The lost “Dr. Who” Cold Open
December 1, 2010
- If Ikea Made Instructions for Everything
- The Future of Advertising Isn’t Advertising
- Revolutionizing How We Teach Web Design
- Incidental Media
- Harnessing Social Media
- Magazines On iPad and Why It Doesn’t Work
- How Video Games Improve Every Part of Our Life
- Social Media As Predictive Analytics
- John Cage’s 4’33″ Performance
- National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010
- Meet Marcel- The Shell with Shoes
- Underwater RC USS Enterprise
- An Application for Nonprofit Works
- Definition of Digital
- Telling Stories with Data
- Map of Countries by Population
- Sufjan Stevens on Jimmy Falon
- 50 Posts about Cyborgs
- MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping Humans in Videos
- Beautiful Tilt- Shift Video from Coachella
- The Media Scholarship Project
- 5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization
- Cookie Monster’s Audition for SNL
- Girl Talk- All Day Samples
- The Perfect Catch
November 17, 2010
November 3, 2010
- What Happens When Your Delete Your Recycle Bin?
- 100K for College Student to Drop Out and Launch Start-ups
- Study for your MBA via a Facebook Application
October 27, 2010
- Global Game Jam 2011
- YouTube “Bloopers”
- Defining Virtual Property Rights in an Augmented World
- Humanities Recommendation Video
- Firefox Plug-in Allows you to Capture Facebook Login
- Visualization of Iraq War
- YouTube Play- A Biennial of Creative Video
- First All-Digital Science Textbook will be Free
October 13, 2010
- Learn Something Everyday
- A Radical Pessimist’s Guide to the Next Ten Years
- Vampire Weekend “I’m Going Down” Cover
- Cincinnati Art Snob- ArtWord: John Humphries
October 6, 2010
- seaquence music ecosystem
- A History of Rap: Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake
- Responsibility of Teachers with Respect to Technology
- UFO on Tape- Revolutionary Concepts
- Unlogo Eliminates Corporate Logos and Product Placement in Videos
- Lamest Edit Wars
- The Future of Shopping
- Blade Runner: Hades Landscape
- The Best Parts of Songs
- Stephen Colbert-Inspired Site: “Truthy”
- The Origins of Good Ideas
September 29, 2010
- A Look at the Original Models of Tech Prototypes
- Bookmark that Kills Time
- Robot Teaches Itself Fire Accuracy
- Canon 7D vs. Barbie Video Girl
- Journalism in the Digital Age
- Your New Media Studies Syllabus
- Norwegian Recycling- Miracles
- Where Good Ideas Come From
- Google Instant’s Blacklisted Terms
- Saying NO to Marketing Buzz Words
- Advergaming Laboratory at Miami University
- The Decade of Games
- Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter
- Google’s New Products
September 22, 2010
- How Books Could Evolve
- CAPTCHAs as Advertising
- An Interface to Trick People into doing Bad Things
- Mapping Stereotypes
- Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom
- Groupon’s Unsubscribe Page
- YouTube CEO Offers “YouTube Instant” Creator a Job via Twitter
- Phil Davison Stark County Video
- The Original Human PAC-MAN Performance
- Visualization Insights: #1 The Visualization Designer
- On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography
- Parents Question the Worth of College
- Nissan Leaf Ad
- Live Bees Plead for Help on Billboard
- A Hackerspace for Biotech
- Social Network for Science Researchers
September 13,2010
- UNIQLO Marketing Campaign- Lucky Counter
- Google Scribe
- University of Colorado’s New Journalism Program
- Apple TV vs. Google TV
- Social Networking’s impact on Health Behaviors
September 6, 2010
- Bollywood Awesomeness
- Tree of Life Interactive
- How Links Travel Through the “Twitterverse”
- Life Hacks- Making Life a Little Easier
- Google Code University
August 30, 2010
- TED Talks as Higher Education
- “The Academic Crowd” as an Alternative to Traditional Peer
- 10 Best Infographics for Internet Marketing Pros
- Everything You Need To Know About The Internet
- The Wilderness Downtown- An Interactive Film
August 23, 2010
- Game Landscape & The Future
- Top One Million Sites, Visualized by Their Favicon
- USB Typewriter for iPad
- Visual Trip Planner
- Real Time World Statistics
August 16, 2010
- Classics in Legos
- Problems with Facebook
- Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
- Digital Media- Specialists vs. Generalists
- The Internet of Things
August 9, 2010
- How the 21st Century Brain Affects Creativity
- The Secret Powers of Time
- Tetris Tetris Everywhere!
- Visualizing the BP Oil Spill
- Hacking the Academy
August 2, 2010
- Real-Time Internet Memes
- The Luckiest People on Earth
- Bringing on the Learning Revolution
- Translating Business Jargon and Lingo- A Must Read for Students
- Bart Simpson’s Chalk Board of Art
July 26, 2010
- Facebook Privacy Scanner
- Information on Millennials
- Google Chrome Speed Tests
- Conan O’Brien at Google: The World has Completely Changed
- Ferris Bueller’s Day off via Twitter and Foursquare
July 19, 2010
- The Best TV Commercial Ever‘
- The Most “Awsomest” Thing Ever
- Homage to Old School Video Games
- Fold-Ins, Past and Present
- Axis of Awesome’s Four Chords in Every Pop Song
July 12, 2010
- Peg and Glenn’s SXSW Presentation on the Future of Higher Education
- Blogger, Ryan Jacoby’s Thoughts on New Design/Business Curriculum
- World Population Histogram and Other Radical Cartography
- How To Create Your Own Slowed Down (a la Justin Bieber) Ambient Track.
- Jeff Bezo’s Graduation Speech at Princeton. “It’s Harder to Be Kind Than Clever.”
July 5, 2010