• ‘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)

• Youngest ever woman wins Man Booker Prize at age of 35
  Kiran Desai was named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, published by Hamish Hamilton.
  (tags: fiction Booker prize awards creative writing)
• Film noir is coming out of the shadows
  A cinematic genre that emerged in 1940s America is enjoying a resurgence — but what exactly is film noir? Will Lawrence lists the key ingredients
  (tags: movies film noir cinema genre hard-boiled detective action mystery suspense)
• Google Sightseeing
  Google Sightseeing takes you on top-down tour of the world
  (tags: earth global map mapping online photography photos GoogleMaps Google maps space social tech technology)
• Generating Power From Kites
  (tags: energy green power technology wind kites natural)
• MIT looks to give ‘group think’ a good name
  Researchers at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence hope to answer: “How can people and computers be connected so that — collectively — they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?”
  (tags: MIT collective computers culture group innovation intelligence technology thinking thought collaboration)
• Adam Greenfield’s talk at Ci’Num
  Author of ‘Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing’
  (tags: activism internet Everyware ubiquitous computing ubicomp business design computers)
• Designing Breakthrough Products: Going Where No User Has Gone Before
  While user-centered design (UCD) techniques can sometimes be valuable on new-product projects, more often, they don’t seem to work particularly well when designing breakthrough products.
  (tags: business design innovation product usability user UX UCD)
• How to Create Professional HDR Images
  (tags: photography photos tutorial photoshop hdr photo CS)

• Can Rosa Parks Sell Pickup Trucks?
  Chevy’s exploitative new ad.
  (tags: advertising criticism politics culture media)
• “Making Comics”
  Scott McCloud’s brilliant treatise on the inner workings of cartoonists will delight amateur artists and curious fans alike.
  (tags: comics illustration art culture graphic novels storytelling fiction)
• Giant camel fossil found in Syria
  Archaeologists have discovered the 100,000-year-old fossilised remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in Syria.
  (tags: archaeology fossil Syria history biology camel bones)
• Ten things I hate about you
  Ten things that are wrong with Telcos
  (tags: telecos telecommunications companies phone media digital innovation voice service API abundance)
• Indie bookstores fight chains, Internet
  (tags: books online booksellers indie independent business competition marketing)
• Official Google Mac Blog
  (tags: apple Google internet mac macintosh macosx osx search software tools blog)
• The Art of Concert Posters
  The decline of the design star is because the general public does not focus on the designer per se, but is more focused on the product.
  (tags: art design concert posters education inspiration visual media arts print)
• ‘The Architecture of Happiness’ by Alain de Botton
  Beyond a home’s basic purpose (to provide shelter), we all look — consciously or not — for homes that reflect and bolster our personal ideals.
  (tags: architecture happiness books review art culture)
• Living Things
  Leopard geckos provide the clearest example of how the early environment can sculpt the brain and affect sexual desire.
  (tags: leopard gecko biology brain development sex desire wiring)
• PBS programs now available on Apple’s iTunes Store
  PBS today announced the launch of PBS content on the iTunes Store, making it possible for users to now purchase and download documentary specials and episodes from popular PBS primetime and children’s programming.
  (tags: PBS Apple iTunes TV video online download)
• Want a Master of Design with That?
  Not only is design being used more throughout the various functions within companies, but mid-career managers are finding it valuable to learn advanced design methods to help them become leaders of innovation.
  (tags: design ID innovation education InstituteofDesign IIT)
• Is God Green?
  Bill Moyers discusses the spread of environmental concern among evangelicals.
  (tags: environment environmental green religion billmoyers PBS)
• Art Protesting Pollution Smuggled In Among Masterpieces
  Environmentalists have made a fine art of campaigning over Hong Kong’s worsening pollution—by secretly hanging a protest painting in a major exhibition of modern European masters.
  (tags: art activism protest pollution green culture environmentalism guerilla)
• Slang of the 1920s
  (tags: culture language words vernacular slang reference retro vintage USA)
• Cooper-Hewitt, People’s Design Award
  Browse, Vote and Nominate a Design
  (tags: design people awards event Cooper-Hewitt designers innovation)
• Interview with John Meada
  Author of ‘The Laws of Simplicity’
  (tags: interview maeda simplicity design media arts MIT)
• Interview with Burak Arikan
  Designer of tools for “exploring electronic compositions through social means” in his projects Pinkie and Open I/O.
  (tags: electronics environment interaction network software computing media arts MIT)
• Seth Godin: Cheaper
  Cheaper is the last refuge of the person who’s not a very good marketer. Cheaper is easy and cheaper is fast and cheaper is linear and cheaper is easy to do properly, at least at first.
  (tags: business entrepreneurship marketing sethgodin pricing)
• The Mood-Posture Connection
  (tags: moods health posture body positioning mental emotional physical)
• Fly Away Home
  The Monarch Butterfly Migration Mystery
  (tags: nature biology butterfly Monarch migration)
• Doing Things the R/GA Way
  As traditional ad firms struggle to keep up with new-media lifestyles, Nick Law, of the Gotham-based agency, is embracing the chaos.
  (tags: advertising media design online storytelling business creative creativity agencies)
• SuperNaturale
  Dedicated to do-it-yourself (DIY) culture in all its glorious forms.
  (tags: diy crafts design art craft fashion activism apparel green contemporary creative culture indie simplicity shopping natural media marketing creativity ecology)
• ‘Dilbert’s’ 9-point financial plan worthy of economics Nobel
  Scott Adams’ secret nine-point formula for managing your finances
  (tags: finances economics money management investing investments)
• ‘Smart’ table could boost brainstorming
  The Blue Eye table consists of a glass surface with a camera overhead and a projector and a mirror underneath. A user places an object on the glass surface and presses a button to copy it to the screen beneath.
  (tags: brainstorming interface table technology design innovation tech)
• The Future of Social Networks: Communication
  (tags: business communication community culture design innovation interaction internet media social socialsoftware startup socialnetworking web)

I have uploaded a mix of recent and unreleased music (43 minutes, 62.23 MB MP3) for your enjoyment.

Track order:

1. Scribnus, Fumbling
2. Code Book
3. FCPH
4. “Alright, let’s…”
5. Uke and Jack*
6. The Nibbler
7. Untitled (2006-07-17)*
8. Micro Micro
9. Highballer*
10. Dark Magus*
11. Untitled (2006-06-26)*
12. Baby Steps*
13. Untitled (2006-07-04)*
14. While We Sleep*

*=unreleased

• Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
  Publishers are starting to report an uptick in sales from Google Inc.’s online program that lets readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its controversial plan to digitally scan everything in print.
  (tags: books business economics innovation Library marketing online publishing search Google copyright web text)
• What Is This Creepy Site Advertising?
  Ask MetaFilter users invetigate the purification dot org
  (tags: advertising games game internet marketing source time viral web website community ARG mystery metafilter code flash)
• Characteristics of new media in the Internet age
  This article explores new artistic media and forms of expression emerging in the twenty-first century, and the effects of digital networking on them.
  (tags: newmedia digital internet technology tech media arts computers culture)