Back at the start of the 14th Century, Giotto’s proof of his masterpiece was his free-hand circle. It was a concise way for him to demonstrate his enormous technical skill. Watching him draw the circle, it probably looked easy, but undoubtedly it took years, if not decades, of practice to get that kind of lazy, deft skill.

- via Interaction Design.

Class 3 Outbreak is a sandbox zombie outbreak simulator done via Google Maps where you can control the spread of the zombie infection and the speed of those infected.

Filed under: wish-I’d-thought-of-that.

I’ve just released the first public beta of Showtime, a fun little iPhone app that lets you know when new episodes of your favourite TV shows air. It’s powered by the excellent jQTouch.

The application itself is fairly simple. You add your favourite shows to your ‘watchlist’ and when new episodes become available they’re shown with a star beside their name:

Tapping any episode in your watchlist will give you extra details on the latest episode. Once you’ve seen it, just hit ‘I’ve seen this episode’ and the star indicator will disappear.

If you do try it out, please feel free to leave me feature requests and bug reports here. Thanks!

The creators of the worlds ‘deepest bin’ believe in the fun theory.