Romanian visual artist Alex Dragulescu wants you to have your spam and live in it too. His new work Spam Architecture investigates the question of how V14GR@ and 0XyC0nt1n can help inspire flowing curves and gentle slopes. Apparently the answer is “not very well”.

The visualization alorithm uses real 100% unsolicited emails as its input. […]

We figured out where Zach was! Turns out, he’s not living in Azeroth, though I’m sure he’s spending a healthy amount of time there. He’s been working at the JPL late late into the night:
(11:57:56 PM) Zach: WTB competent MechE, pst
(12:00:37 AM) Brian: lol
(12:00:42 AM) Brian: having problems with the team?
(12:01:31 AM) Zach: I’m […]

Yep. Sitting and waiting for our production server to greedily suck down a bunch of secret-tech XML at 3Mb/s. So there’s nothing to do but wait. And of course that means sharing with you the random assortment of tabs I have open. Because that’s what alwaysBETA is about - random, sometimes interesting, sometimes technical, […]

I’m a sucker for usable products. But then, most of us should be - putting up with terribly designed and implemented software is a “necessary evil” that none of us should really have to face. But before launching straight into the juicy bits, a little background. Back when I used to maintain that other […]

It’s our golden issue of Beta Bites! (Issue 21 on the 21st)

Brendan - Halo Graphic Novel - For the third week in a row, something cool about comics: Bungie and Marvel have teamed up to release four stories of Halo in graphic novel form.

Brian - Waiter Rant - A glimpse into the life of […]