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 creative design software usability webdesign webdev simple simplicity)
• Game Master
  Will Wright changed the concept of video games with the Sims. Can he do it again with Spore?
  (tags: games will-wright spore gaming artificial life virtual complexity generative art)
• Arrested Development’s Mitchell Hurwitz is Developing a New Show
  Mitchell Hurwitz and Arrested Development writer will team for US remake of British hit.
  (tags: television TV comedy)
• New Glowing Mushrooms Found in Brazil
  Like a black light poster come to life, a group of bioluminescent fungi collected from Ribeira Valley Tourist State Park near São Paulo, Brazil, emanates a soft green glow when the lights go out.
  (tags: brazil mushrooms photo glowing fungus fungi bioluminescence)
• The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
  Decentralized networks are dismantling old industries and creating new ones, write the authors
  (tags: business opensource network complexity decentralization distribution biomimicry starfish spider web)
• When Words and Images Collide
  (tags: design visual words images text content culture theory)

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