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Monthly Archives: March 2007
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
An image of all the objects in our solar system larger than 200 miles in diameter. This is a nice addition to my other links about sense of scale and projects that try to make sense of Really Big Ideas. [via waxy]
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
A video of photos of circular things. Tires, letters, signs, holes, dials, etc. Great soundtrack to boot. [via krazydad]
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
A pretty cool collection of experimental thumb pianos. I always wanted to make an mbira (aka thumb piano aka kalimba) since I found out they existed. Just one of those projects I forgot about that I need to re-add to my list. I saw Bob Becker play one in concert at PASIC one year, I […]
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Justin wears the camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even in the bathroom. Even on a date.
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
An interview with Jonathan Lethem. He talks about copyright and some of the ideas in his Harper’s article a couple months ago.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
A0 magazine is a photojournal printed on 5 sheets of gigantic A0 paper, with stitching down the spine. I love it. [via typeforyou]
≡The Starfish & the Spider (review: 3/5)
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The Starfish & the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations is another book along the lines of Wikinomics. This book has the typical anecdotes punctuated with bullet points that you’ll see in other business books. It’s breezy and well-paced. It covers the principles of decentralization (e.g. “when attached, a decentralized organization tends to become […]
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
A brief interview with Alex Ross. He’s got a new book on the way this fall, which I predict that I will enjoy immensely.
What I want to do is to provide an intelligent introduction to this fabulous, labyrinthine world: not just the music itself, from Schoenberg and Stravinsky onward, but the entire cultural and social […]
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Some friends of mine started a cheese blog. Which is great for at least two reasons:
Lately, I’ve become more and more fond of food blogs.
The thought of starting a cheese blog would never occur to me.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Here’s the bike-dancing scene from the Kevin Bacon movie Quicksilver. Really, why did we ever leave the 80s?
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
“Dunbar’s number, which is 150, represents the maximum number of individuals with whom a set of people can maintain a social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who each person is and how each person relates socially to every other person.” [via intriguing social network discussion on kottke.org]
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Cathrine Kullberg makes these sweet lamps from thin birch wood, and carves them with natural scenery.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
“havent slept in 105 hrs. my eyes are burnng horribly an seem to be bloodshot. as far as reaction time goes, its almost nonexistant. i had friend throw something at me, and didnt even bother flinching.”
≡Interaction of Color (review: 4.5/5)
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
The Yale University Press recently reprinted an expanded version of Josef Albers‘ classic book Interaction of Color. Unlike many books about color, this one eschews most discussion of optics and wavelengths and the physics of light. It’s not about theory and systems.
Instead, this one is meant to be a very hands-on book—experiment and observation. Each […]
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Monday, March 26, 2007
I’m Too Sad to Tell You, a collection of self-portraits of people in tears. [via port2port]
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Photos from the Eighth Annual Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, China. The photographer was also there in 2003 and 2005. [via veer]
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Etched in Stone is an animated short film, a murder-mystery revolving around typefaces, specifically Trajan. Watch the trailer first.
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Monday, March 26, 2007
The Bibliochase is both a chair and a bookshelf. I love it. The armrests look a bit small, but I love it.
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Monday, March 26, 2007
David Friedman did these sketches of people enjoying libraries. It was back in the 1960s and 70s, so there’s not a computer in sight. Kind of weird, in a way.
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Monday, March 26, 2007
The Codex Seraphinianus is an encyclopedia of a fantasy world written in a fictional language. There’s a full set of scans from the book on Flickr.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
I just picked up The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything today. Pretty dern good so far.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
The makers of Splenda have bought off hundreds of negative domain names, like splendakills.com. Is it just their paranoia or should I be concerned? [via torrez]
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Due out next month is The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, written by Robert Murphy. I think Murphy is pretty sharp. I liked his market-anarchist speculation/philosophizing in Chaos Theory. And he also wrote a study guide for Murray Rothbard’s 1400-page economics treatise Man, Economy, and State. I’m looking forward to this latest one—it could pair […]
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Check out the a full reproduction of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, one of the most famous early printed books. It was probably written by Francesco Colonna in the mid-15th century and beautifully printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499. There’s also a copy of the 1592 English translation (Poliphilo’s Strife of Love in a Dream), which attempts […]
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Hot dogs, filled with cheese, wrapped in bacon, deep fried.[via not martha]
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Here’s a collection of newspaper masthead clip art from the time of China’s Cultural Revolution.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has a book coming out this fall, a history of 20th-century music.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Artists, illustrators, designers, and creative folk share the stuff on their desks. I like this voyeuristic peering into other people’s minds sort of thing. Reminds me of the Flickr tags whatsinmybag/whatsinyourbag.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Some interesting thoughts on the future of libertarianism from Virginia Postrel:
While the last century’s greatest threats to liberty, prosperity, and peace came from totalitarian nation-states, today’s come from transnational organizations—ranging from imperialistic regulators (the European Union) to violent religious crusaders—and from “failed states” where warring gangs have superseded governments. Focusing on the nation-state as the […]
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
I’m pretty much fascinated with the Whitney Music Box, which explores some of the ideas in John Whitney’s 1959 book Digital Harmony. I like the microtonal variation, and the sine wave harmonics are cool because harmonics are inherently cool. Jim Bumgardner wrote more about this project and some of the mathematics of the patterns in […]
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
“The Cinema Redux project explores the idea of distilling a whole film down to one single image. Using eight of my favourite films from eight of my most admired directors including Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola and John Boorman, each film is processed through a Java program written with the processing environment. This small piece […]
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The political cartoons of Dr. Seuss, who created around 400 editorial cartoons during the first part of World War II. See also the book Dr. Seuss Goes to War, which shows about half the collection.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
The Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. [via awln]
≡The Surrogates (review: 4/5)
Monday, March 19, 2007
There are a couple little perks that made me like this book right off the bat. The Surrogates is set in Atlanta. It was written by a local named Robert Venditti, and it’s published in nearby Marietta over at Top Shelf Productions. Cool. AND it’s a really cool story. I haven’t seen a lot of […]
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