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WHEN AARON FRANKLIN TELLS YOU THERE IS NO MORE
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WHEN YOUR FRIENDS FROM OUT OF TOWN WANT TO GO TO DIRTY SIXTH ON FRIDAY NIGHT
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The Highlight Drinking Game
Fun idea by Sean Percival for how to hack the blurb function of Highlight to turn life into a drinking game.
Or rather, more of a drinking game than it already is.
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This is something a friend of mine is working on. Let’s make it happen, folks.
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IMDb - The rating for ‘This is Spinal Tap’ goes up to 11
/via treitmaier
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SOPA and Open Government
Just came across http://sopaopera.org/ tonight and I’m pretty impressed. It’s only too bad it’s taken something like SOPA to come out for developers to start looking at the information APIs available to them.
Ultimately, I’d love to see something like this be available on every piece of legislation. We should be able to see all sorts of information and statistics on how our representatives vote. Off the top of my head, the important information would be:
- which companies/organizations support certain legislation
- how much the above groups pays to it’s supporters
- what percentage of their fundraising that represents
- how often a rep votes for a bill after being given money by them
- Their politifact rating reduced down to a score
Unfortunately, I think you would need to come up with numbers for each of these that could easily be disseminated. Much like when a baseball player steps up to bat and you see their stats, I’d love to see these stats pop up right next to their state and party every time they are in the media.
I wish we could just point people to the information and expect them to research it themselves, but that won’t happen. So it becomes a design problem. How can we take publicly available information about our elected officials and distill it into useful ratios? I think a number from politifact is important. Also one dealing with the amount of lobbying money they take. Preferably one dealing with how often someone supports a bill from whom they’ve received money from - although these get tricky.
There’s a lot of work that would need to be done, but I think by getting more projects like this in place, we could begin to use information to hold politicians more accountable.
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More information here.
Seems like the musical applications for this just scratch the surface. If you were able to use a smaller mic (probably a big if), you’d be able to incorporate this into smartphones, and turn any surface they were on into an interface. Combine that with the tiny projectors that 3M makes…the possibilities are pretty sweet. Especially for insta-raves.
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Y’all gonn make me lose my mind, Zuckerberg.
Oh come on, we all know where the triangle button is on the keyboard, right?
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The Newspaper Solution
But if you believe, as I do, that many of those institutions are so mismatched to the task at hand that most of them face a choice, at best, between radical restructure and outright collapse, well, in that case, you’d probably find the smartest 25 year olds you know, and try to convince them that now would be a pretty good time to start working on Plan B.
I’m wondering if this is going to start becoming a common solution for failing institutions. If so, banks, get at me.
Fast Times, Cool Designs
My thoughts on things
