I've been looking for some weather data sources that don't require web scraping.  Here's what I have.

http://developer.yahoo.com/
http://www.weather.gov/ 
http://www.weatherbug.com/api/default.asp

It's good to note that there are a lot of really great sources of data at Yahoo's developer site.  This includes traffic data, a dcent map api, search functionality and more.  Google maps has a map api as [...]

I walk past this poster by Karl Bickel almost every day.  One day, to my surprise, I noticed that the artist's signature looked a lot like the Bluetooth logo.  A quick side-by-side comparison of the tiny blue logo on my cell-phone and the poster confirmed the match.  I also found this example of Karl's [...]

I am currently reading Bruce Sterling's Shaping Things.  On pg. 23 he talks a bit about how metrics should make the inner workings of technologies more apparent to this user.  He says "There are many ways to make these metrics impinge on my behavior — by making things cost more or less, of course, but [...]

My recent adventures in following the bibliographic paper trail have led me deep into the forest of interaction and design theory.  I am currently trying to make some connections.  The old "is it art or is it design?" question continues to come up.  These categories are quite inadequate and will never fully describe a field [...]

So, I got my first PIC processor(s) today.  I now have a PIC16F84A and two PIC18F232(? … need to double check this).  I was able to install MPLAB, and it successfully communicated with the PicStart Plus.  I also installed Microchip's C18 C comiler.  There are several others to try, but I think I will attempt [...]

I have spent a good deal of time figuring out how to power the Gumstix for portable use.  Initial tests with 3 AA (~4.5 V) batteries proved ineffective.  A standard set of alkaline batteries from Radioshack gave me about 1/2 hour of performance.  After that, the voltage diminished and fluctuated, causing the Gumstix to reset [...]

I would like to create a completely portable battery-powered device that sniffs wireless chat conversation in public places such as a coffee shop and displays theose conversation on a custom garmet.  I desire to continue my exploration of public/private, the everyday, technology/communication etc.  Previous (documented) work to this end can be found here, here and [...]