Archive for September 2006

Atari Music

In Links on 27 September 2006

MP3s of vintage records inspired by Atari games. (via Waxy)

"What is it about street art that inspires us?"

In Links on 26 September 2006

We Make Money Not Art has a recap of Wooster Collective’s talk at Conflux:

Location, location, location! It has to be illegal. A work of street art reclaims the public space and the best street art has a context, builds a relationship with its environment, dialogs with the city. […]
Surprise and delight: the works tap into [...]

'Toynbee Tiles' Mystery Resurrected in Philly

In Links on 25 September 2006

Public art meets paranoia? Or, just cultivating mystery:
The cement-bound messages take on various forms, but usually bear some variation of the following text: “Toynbee Idea: In Kubrick’s 2001, Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter.” But no one is certain what the messages mean, or who may have planted them. They seem to be made of linoleum, [...]

50+ Ways a Manager can get Employees to Quit

In Links on 25 September 2006

This list reads like a good start towards Office Space 2.0.

Pirate radio stations challenge feds

In Links on 25 September 2006

Part rock star, part Johnny Appleseed and fully the bane of the Federal Communications Commission, Dunifer has long, gray hair, large, clear glasses and a deep commitment to what he calls “Free Radio.”
“We’re not stealing anything. We’re claiming something that’s rightfully ours,” he says. Read more
Pirate radio has been part of ‘the underground’ for some [...]

Nines Years of Ocean Chlorophyll

In Links on 23 September 2006

When we think about Earth’s sources of oxygen, we usually think of vast forests such as the Amazon, but about half of the oxygen we breathe comes from elsewhere; it’s produced by phytoplankton. Phytoplankton are tiny, single-celled plants that live in the ocean, and they serve as the base of the oceanic food chain. Read [...]

Ambient Signifiers

In Links on 21 September 2006

How I Learned to Stop Getting Lost and Love Tokyo Rail by Ross Howard:
While traveling the Tokyo rail lines, I quickly realized that apart from the obvious use of real-time electronic signage, colored trains, and audio announcements, there were also other techniques being used to assist travelers in knowing where they were, and where they [...]

Who Is Jonathan Ive?

In Links on 21 September 2006

An in-depth look at the man behind Apple’s design magic, including excerpts from an interview and a slide show of his impressive body of work.

Defaker

In General on 21 September 2006

I enjoyed the premiere of NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Now, there’s the viral marketing mocku-blog Defaker, the Studio 60 Gossip Blog, a Defamer-esque parody (via Fimoculous). From doing a WHOIS, I found the domain name is registered by General Electric, the parent company of NBC. Viral, indeed.

Destroying Monsters

In Links on 21 September 2006

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters by University of Chicago Professor Michael C. LaBarbera (via TEDblog).

Malcolm Gladwell on TEDTalks

In Links on 21 September 2006

Here’s an interesting video clip (18:15) of Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer for The New Yorker and best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink, giving a talk at the 2004 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference. He talks about the nature of happiness with an entertaining tale about psychophysicist Dr. Howard Moskowitz, who revolutionized the [...]