Stefan Goodchild

Find URLs RegEx

Had a need to find various types of links in plain text using javascript and @theozaurus came up with the RegExp goodness after we found the normal online resources lacking a bit. It’s not 100% foolproof but it’ll cover 95% of usual formats we could think of.

(((https?|ftp):\/\/[^\.]|www\.)[^\s]*[^\s\.,])

In Defense Of Eye Candy by Stephen P. Anderson

Researchers in Japan setup two ATMs, ?identical in function, the number of buttons, and how they worked.? The only difference was that one machine?s buttons and screens were arranged more attractively than the other. In both Japan and Israel (where this study was repeated) researchers observed that subjects encountered fewer difficulties with the more attractive machine. The attractive machine actually worked better.

So now we?re left with this question: why did the more attractive but otherwise identical ATM perform better?

A List Apart

Limited Run Pierre Schaeffer T-Shirt by Stefan Goodchild

New t-shirt design for Analog Industries following the Delia Derbyshire T-shirt in our Eclectronica series. This time the subject is Pierre Schaeffer. Widely regarded as the creator of Music Concrète you can read all about him on his Wikipedia entry.

It’s available to buy online from Analog Industries

SpecializeIn Holding Page

Quick design for a Specialize In holding page for the new product from Jiva Technology. Beta will be launching later this year.

Happy To Help Poster

Poster design for Jiva’s new project ‘Happy To Help’.

Jiva Technology

The new Jiva Technology website template for Wordpress with custom Twitter feed and Project carousel.

Tone Matrix by Andre Michelle

tonematrix

My obsession with the Monome and the Tenori-On continues unabated but I can get my virtual fix now thanks to Andre Michelle and his Tone Matrix

Audio Reactive Snakes by Flight 404

New set of experiments from Flight 404 are surfacing on Vimeo. As always they are stunning. Reminds me that I really need to look into GLSL shaders in Processing