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 comedy 30Rock NBC entertainment)
• Patron Saint of habits: William James
  This 19th century father of American psychology went so far as to say “We are mere bundles of habits.”
  (tags: improvement habits happiness personal development neurobiology cognitive science psychology)
• IDEO’s Urban Pre-Planning
  Can its “Smart Space” practice shake up the lumbering world of infrastructure, zoning, and public process?
  (tags: architecture cities community history music space urban urbanism IDEO Design planning placemaking)
• Embrace the chaos
  Peter Merholz on designers and systems with emergent behavior.
  (tags: design designer systems emergent behavior chaos complexity tools rules research evolution simplicty)
• Dynamist.com
  Website of Virginia Postrel, author of ‘The Future and its Enemies’ and ‘The Substance of Style’
  (tags: design economics politics style future dynamist stasist culture theory criticism)
• Bottom Line Design Awards
  (tags: awards business creativity design frogdesign bottomline innovation)
• The Novel, 2.0: Searching for the 21st-century novel.
  Slate invited novelists Walter Kirn and Gary Shteyngart to discuss the question “What is the role of fiction in the age of the Internet?”
  (tags: books fiction internet literature reading technology writing storytelling transmedia authorship)
• Earth’s Tilt Spawns Rise and Fall of Species
  (tags: earth biology species biodiversity extinction)
• ‘Selling Design’
  Brief interview with Jeffrey Zeldman
  (tags: design web webdesign selling business)
• Blip Festival 2006 NYC NOV 30 – DEC 3
  A four-day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit videogame consoles and home computers used as creative tools.
  (tags: 8bit audio event games geek music retro tech visual VJ festival nyc musicmaking)

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