1. New blog discovered:

No Idea But In Things.: No Ideas But In Things is a library of controls, animations, layouts, and displays that might be a source of inspiration for interaction designers. Dan Saffer is the curator.

Title is from this poem: A SORT OF SONG by William Carlos Williams.

It has more impact taken as two lines together:
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!

...and I actually like the line "but in things Invent!" better...but I digress. Go check out the blog, it's cool.

2. Cool Thing:

Space Tether test to launch on March 27. I couldn't decide if I should put this into Big News or Cool thing. But it is a thing so I finally put it in Cool Thing.

For those of you not in the know, the barrier to cheap space travel is our damn gravity well. It takes a huge amount of energy to get something up and out of it. Chemical rockets are the only feasible way we have right now of getitng things up there. Well people are actively working on a space elevator and making progress. In theory this would reduce the cost to put stuff in orbit by a factor of 100.

Well here is another test going up next week. Keep in touch with the latest over here: Space Elevator reference.

3. Big News:

Viacom vs YouTube heh, They got their own verb!.

4. Cool Tool:

After seeing this [linky] and the example of NASA World Wind inside the video I went out and installed it. It's from NASA, it's gotta be cool. Right?

NASA Whirl Wind

So we have Virtual Earth from Microsoft and Google Earth from, well, Google, what does Whril wind offer us extra. Well how about the Moon and Mars and Jupiter, flippin' cool.