Archive for October 2006

links for 2006-10-31

In Links on 31 October 2006

Technology Review: Motorola’s Dumb Phone
A new mobile phone that’s rather simple bucks the trend toward more complicated, power-hungry devices.
(tags: mobile phone motorola technology design simplicity simple gadgets tech hardware)

Getting Real, the book by 37signals
Read it free online, buy the book in PDF or buy it in paperback.
(tags: books 37signals Development Web business technology marketing applications [...]

links for 2006-10-25

In Links on 25 October 2006

Strategy and Tactics
What’s the difference between strategy and tactics and how can your business benefit from them?
(tags: business strategy strategic tactics tactical management leadership)

The Economics of Abundance
(tags: design business abundance economics long-tail complexity networks)

Enter The Corporate Conning Tower
(tags: design innovation business future forecasting marketing)

Art-O-Meter
Art-O-Meter is a device that measures the quality of an art piece [...]

links for 2006-10-24

In Links on 24 October 2006

Web design is 95% typography
(tags: design marketing web typography blog branding fonts resources graphics internet)

Go on an eight-week carbon diet
(tags: treehugger green carbon-dioxide emissions nature conservation personal reduction lean)

The Best B-Schools Of 2006
(tags: business mba education management school graduate)

Elegant Embellishments
Elegant Embellishments is developing a decorative, three-dimensional architectural tile that can be installed quickly to reduce [...]

links for 2006-10-23

In Links on 23 October 2006

Google to unveil election mashup
Google is expected to unveil on Sunday night a mashup that combines its popular Google Earth mapping program with information about the U.S. congressional races coming up in two weeks.
(tags: google mashup election feeds dynamic mapping)

links for 2006-10-21

In Links on 21 October 2006

He sings the cinema electric
The director of “Memento” discusses the mind-bending trickery in his latest film, “The Prestige,” what he thinks of being called the new Hitchcock, and how movies restore mystery to our lives.
(tags: cinema film mystery culture christopher-nolan the-prestige)

Rethinking the brain
How the songs of canaries upset a fundamental principle of science.
(tags: brain neuroscience [...]

New Release: Short Fictions

In General on 19 October 2006 tagged 8-bit, ambient, electronic, idm, mp3, Music, nofi, short, soundtrack, techno

I have uploaded a batch of short songs I recorded over the past few months. They were meant as interstitial music, but they’ve taken on a life of their own. I intended them to be exercises in brevity—hence: Nofi—Short Fictions (34.8 MB archive):

Delivering Parenth (3:25, 6.28 MB MP3)
Eternus Unveiled (0:40, 1.43 MB MP3)
Forgotten Fields (1:22, [...]

links for 2006-10-17

In Links on 17 October 2006

Planespotting
Nerds with binoculars bust the CIA’s torture taxis
(tags: activism bush CIA cover-up politics torture USA planespotting aviation citizen distributed)

Google to convert HQ to solar power
Google Inc. is converting its renowned headquarters to run partly on solar power, hoping to set an example for corporate America.
(tags: business energy environment sustainability green power solar sun Google)

How to [...]

links for 2006-10-16

In Links on 16 October 2006

Destination: Argentina (Salon Literary Guide to the World)
From Borges to Bruce Chatwin, the rich and moody literature of South America’s most European nation reflects its homeland’s squandered potential.
(tags: literature borges argentina travel guide literary patagonia world)

Marine life stirs ocean enough to affect climate, says FSU study
The microscopic plants that form the vast foundation of the [...]

links for 2006-10-14

In Links on 14 October 2006

Timeline
Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events.
(tags: AJAX applications code collaboration development diagram timeline visualization javascript web webdev software)

links for 2006-10-13

In Links on 13 October 2006

Unquiet Americans
Greil Marcus, author of ‘Lipstick Traces’ and ‘Mystery Train’, searches for the prophetic voices of America and finds them in Abraham Lincoln, David Lynch and Riot Grrrl bands of the ’90s.
(tags: books culture reviews greil-marcus theory criticism American history utopia community)

Client Side of Design
In a candid conversation with Fast Company, Paula Scher, partner, Pentagram, [...]

links for 2006-10-12

In Links on 12 October 2006

‘Spectacle’ by David Rockwell with Bruce Mau
With Spectacle, designers David Rockwell and Bruce Mau present a dynamic visual essay that celebrates the phenomenon and history of communal, awe-inspiring public performance worldwide.
(tags: books rockwell mau spectacle public performance space place placemaking)

‘30 Rock’ Live Blogging by Tina Fey
One of my favorite new TV shows
(tags: blog TV television [...]