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):

1. Delivering Parenth (3:25, 6.28 MB MP3)
2. Eternus Unveiled (0:40, 1.43 MB MP3)
3. Forgotten Fields (1:22, 2.49 MB MP3)
4. Sizenuss Chimes In (1:06, 2.09 MB MP3)
5. Somber Fungi (2:32, 4.76 MB MP3)
6. Spellbindery (1:31, 2.89 MB MP3)
7. The Epic Doctrine (0:54, 1.86 MB MP3)
8. Things Stolen and Returned (5:00, 8.52 MB MP3)
9. Thus Smote Magbra… (2:08, 4.41 MB MP3)

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  (tags: activism bush CIA cover-up politics torture USA planespotting aviation citizen distributed)
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  (tags: business energy environment sustainability green power solar sun Google)
• How to (and how not to) sell technology
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  (tags: technology marketing innovation positioning branding communication product development)
• It’s a Shipping Container. No, It’s a Data Center in a Box.
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  (tags: hardware datacenter sun computing shipping container business network startup google)
• Wind Shaped Pavilion Concept
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  (tags: architecture art building design dynamic environment energy generator green home house living nature power sustainability smart wind concept placemaking)
• Virtual economies attract real-world tax attention
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  (tags: virtual economy game online community government taxation)
• Keeping it ‘Green’ With Panels and More
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  (tags: green building house sustainability design innovation lean LEED)

• Destination: Argentina (Salon Literary Guide to the World)
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  (tags: literature borges argentina travel guide literary patagonia world)
• Marine life stirs ocean enough to affect climate, says FSU study
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  (tags: micro phytoplankton ocean biology biodiversity life energy biomimicry)
• Things I Learned the Hard Way
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  (tags: blog socialnetworking women)
• Why Green Tea Helps to Lose Weight
  (tags: green tea health diet nutrition)
• Top 100 free ebooks on Project Gutenberg
  (tags: books ebooks free literature gutenberg library history resource reading publishing fiction download book)
• Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
  600+ pages of innovative ideas for creating a bright green future, divided into seven main chapters: stuff, shelter, cities, communities, business, politics, planet
  (tags: book books change culture design ecology environment future green guide sustainability shopping world stuff shelter cities communities business politics planet)
• Creating Passionate Users: Reducing fear is the killer app
  (tags: customer design experience ideas inspiration learning marketing psychology usability storytelling fear)
• The Degree Confluence Project
  The Project’s goal is to obtain photographs of every spot on earth where a degree of longitude and a degree of latitude cross.
  (tags: art collaboration community degree earth gallery games geocaching global mapping photography geography socialsoftware technology travel urban World)
• Trees: The Anti-Desert
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  (tags: desert earth farmland reclamation green biodiversity biology Africa)
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  (tags: advertising art design graphicdesign guerilla japan marketing posters subway)
• The Thin PMS185 Line
  Andy Rutledge’s critique of the traditional graphic design community and its various instruments.
  (tags: art design graphic graphicdesign webdesign critique community criticism)
• design*sponge shop
  (tags: cool craft design furniture gifts home modern shopping style indie)
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  (tags: customer design experience IDEO innovation user Business)
• Happiness and the Art of Innovation by Diego Rodriguez
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  (tags: creativity design happiness innovation management work motivation service)

• Timeline
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  (tags: AJAX applications code collaboration development diagram timeline visualization javascript web webdev software)

• Unquiet Americans
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  (tags: books culture reviews greil-marcus theory criticism American history utopia community)
• Client Side of Design
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  (tags: branding design marketing UCD business)
• When Words and Images Collide
  Mark Walston asks, “Why, for centuries on end in Western civilization, has the word lorded over the image in the hierarchy of communication?”
  (tags: AIGA design words images theory criticism text communication)
• Mori: Your notes, organized.
  Mori is a digital notebook that makes it easy to record and organize your thoughts.
  (tags: apple applications macosx creativity ideas informationarchitecture mac macintosh notebook osx productivity research shareware software text tools utilities writing)
• The Organic Myth
  Pastoral ideals are getting trampled as organic food goes mass market
  (tags: organic marketing food ecology natural)
• In the battle to be green, the human factor can work wonders
  Cities represent a fortuitous nature-culture alignment; what’s best for cities is also best for nature (which is good for citizens, and so on).
  (tags: green cities business urban planning economy ecology natural)
• ‘This American Life’ Offers Free Podcast
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  (tags: news radio npr ThisAmericanLife podcast)