Blobjects are blob-shaped objects, because of NURBS and meshes and splines and injection molding and CAD-CAM. They’re highly curvilinear consumer items designed on workstations, and then they’re generally blasted into being in a burst of injection-molded goo. Blobjects are the period objects of our time. They are the physical products that the digital revolution brought…
Michael Keaton (“Batman”) will join Lindsay Lohan (“Mean Girls”) in Disney’s “Herbie: Fully Loaded” according to Variety, but the film’s writers might be its brightest spot. Herbie is a car with a mind of his own, but don’t let that fool you–this is no “Knight Rider.” —HERBIE: FULLY LOADED Casting News (TD) My six-and-a-half-year-old son is…
In an effort to educate the nation’s neediest children on nutrition, a new project uses the familiar medium of video games to broadcast its message. The Fantastic Food Challenge, a package of four computer games, is designed to teach people who get nutrition aid such as federal food stamps how to make better use of…
In computer and math science, holders of high school diplomas and associate’s degrees make up approximately 40 percent of employees. In engineering, 20 percent of workers have less than a bachelor’s degree. The proportions are much smaller (10 percent or less) for occupations in the life, physical and social sciences. —Ed Frauenheim —Many engineers lack…
Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the “I” in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net. Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was. —Tony Long —It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now (Wired) Thank…