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The website with so many references: the sound of the web, the web of the blind. Website for the lottery for the blind. See hear!

MIT Media Lab: The $100 Laptop
MIT Media Lab launched its initiative of the Laptop for schools everywhere in the world. Designed by continuum.
Some years ago, PicoPeta launched the simputer aiming at people in the third world. Design supported by corrosive (the call it Not for Profit - Projects for good causes and interesting people)

RESOURCES FOR USER INTERFACE DESIGN – DEVELOPMENT
Helpful collection of UI Guidelines

Ecolanguage
ECOLANGUAGE is for education, environmental planning, policy analysis, and business presentations…it is a visual language with symbols-in-motion. See the animated examples explaining complex relations.

Only Graphic Design is only Graphic Design
Für alle, die ab und zu (oder überhaupt einmal) versuchen, sich in der Landschaft berufsspezifischer Taxonomien zu orientieren ist dieser Artikel über eben jene Profession sicher lesenswert.
Interessant übrigens, daß dieser Begriff 1922 von William Dwiggins geprägt wurde: “a graphic designer is an individual who brought structural order and visual form to printed communications”.

Ambient Displays Research Group

Martin Wattenberg
Martin Wattenberg is a researcher at IBM whose work focuses on visual explorations of culturally significant data. His algorithmic approach is informed by his background in mathematics. Wattenberg is equally known for his scientific and applied work in the field of information visualization, and for his information-based digital artwork. In his work, the mathematical underpinnings of a computer program are not simply tools used to create art; they are the core of the artworks themselves. Technology Review recently named him “one of the world’s 100 top young innovators.”

Symphony OS
Laws of Interface Design for the New Symphnoy OS based on Linux. You can find some screenshots here.

43 Things
People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).