• The Darjeeling Limited - Trailer B (Quicktime)
  An emotional comedy about three brothers re-forging family bonds. The eldest, played by Wilson, hopes to reconnect with his two younger siblings by taking them on a train trip across the vibrant and sensual landscape of India.
  (tags: trailer movies film WesAnderson humor movie trailers)
• User Experience Strategy
  The T-Shaped Consulting Framework by Peter Morville
  (tags: strategy usability experience analysis internet information architecture visualization UX IA findability)
• Nieman Reports: Misperceptions of the ‘War’ in Iraq
  An NBC News correspondent—with longtime experience in Iraq—describes many other visions of the war now being fought. By Richard Engel
  (tags: richard-engel war Iraq middle-east USA foreign policy conflict culture religion history military)
• Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (YouTube)
  Animation of several pieces of 20th Century art morphing into each other.
  (tags: art youtube morphing animation creativity history painting)
• From Wales, a box to make biofuel from car fumes
  (tags: environment green technology emissions design engineering pollution greenhouse globalwarming carbon)

Manichaeism
n.

1. The syncretic, dualistic religious philosophy taught by the Persian prophet Manes, combining elements of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Gnostic thought and opposed by the imperial Roman government, Neo-Platonist philosophers, and orthodox Christians.
2. A dualistic philosophy dividing the world between good and evil principles or regarding matter as intrinsically evil and mind as intrinsically good.

• The secret life of cars (PDF)
  by BMW
  (tags: design research usability marketing business transportation cars)
• Technophilia: Where to find public records online
  by Lifehacker
  (tags: records public reference free search research directory)
• How to Sell an Endless War
  by David Keen
  (tags: war propoganda culture misinformation bush USA)
• The French Connections
  “…there’s little competition in U.S. broadband — if you’re lucky, you have a choice between the services offered by the local cable monopoly and the local phone monopoly. “
  (tags: economics paul-krugman competition broadband USA business regulation)

• Edge 217: THE TECHNIUM AND THE 7TH KINGDOM OF LIFE
  A Talk with Kevin Kelly
  (tags: technology biology cool-tools kevin-kelly interview design life culture theory)
• Abandoned
  Future is waiting for us. With hollow skeletons or downsized ugly creatures with bulgy eyes - it’s not important. Important thing is that there will be a footprint left. Footprint of civilization. Cement, metal and dust not claimed by anyone. They are ete
  (tags: photography architecture abandoned Russia photos photo art building decay culture images industrial planning urban)

Listening to The Spinanes‘ Manos reminds me of the promise and melancholy of being 23 in the mid-1990s. In a good way. Also, Sub Pop was (and is) about more than just the grunge. Recommended track: ‘Epiphany’ (iTunes).