Archive for March 2008

Review: Dreaming in Code

In General, Reviews on 31 March 2008 tagged books, code, coding, computing, design, history, innovation, programming, project-management, software

I recently finished Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg. It covers the development of Chandler, an open source, cross-platform personal information manager (PIM). A project of the Open Source Applications Foundation and led by Mitch Kapor, Chandler was meant to revolutionize desktop [...]

links for 2008-03-28

In Links on 28 March 2008

Footnote.com – The place for original documents online. Green Stats: 89,000 – That’s how many terawatts of solar energy passes through the atmosphere and reaches the Earth’s surface at any moment. Who’s Minding The Store? – Overwhelmed by the complexities of today’s marketplace, retailers are essentially letting vendors run much of their business, aka ‘Category [...]

links for 2008-03-26

In Links on 26 March 2008

New York Times on Green Collar Jobs Strange but True: Sharks as Weather Forecasters Bush’s War – an excellent documentary about an infuriating topic The Politics of Optimism – Optimism is a political act. 1993 Steve Jobs interview about working with Paul Rand – “I will solve your problem for you. And you will pay [...]

links for 2008-03-22

In Links on 25 March 2008

You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss jonas_loh_jochen_balsam.jpg – drawing instruments What It Costs For A Residential Wind Turbine – More and more people these days are harnessing the wind’s energy and using it to generate electricity for their homes. Author: The Grand Fantasies That Ruined National Security – Fred Kaplan, author of Daydream Believers, [...]

links for 2008-03-20

In Links on 21 March 2008

World’s best-known protest symbol turns 50 – peace, out. My Ten Point Plan to Reinvent The Newspaper Business – Culturally, you can’t look and define your business as the delivery mechanism. The First, The Free, and the Good Design and Crime – diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development [...]

In General on 20 March 2008

One of my pet peeves is when people misspell my name. Even though the alternate spelling is far, far less common, people invariably use the wrong one in emails.

Visual interlude

In General on 20 March 2008 tagged artwork, collage, digital, layers, photoshop, Visual

My digital collage set on Flickr 

links for 2008-03-19

In Links on 19 March 2008

Arthur Clarke’s 2001 Diary Charles Cumming’s The 21 Steps – fiction written and designed for Google Maps Alvin Lustig, Modern American Design Pioneer Blue Note: Over a 1000 covers Playing to Type – by Virginia Postrel How local TV embraced fake news – excerpt from True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society Another [...]

links for 2008-03-18

In Links on 18 March 2008

What Gordon Ramsay can teach software developers Woman’s World – The new novel, by author Graham Rawle, is composed entirely of phrases clipped from women’s magazines of the ’60s Ars Book Reviews: The Best of Technology Writing 2007 Question your work – These are questions we ask each other before, during, and sometimes after we [...]

links for 2008-03-14 through 2008-03-17

In Links on 17 March 2008

Mixotic – a netlabel for free DJ sets Pricked: Extreme Embroidery Buddhism By The Numbers Nerdfotainment – all of the content shares a common characteristic: it’s terribly complex and nerds enjoy making it more so. Physics report-card for science fiction movies Weekend Inspiration: Martin Böttger’s Ever-Changing Geometries Designers Without Borders – A socially-conscious online network [...]

links for 2008-03-13

In Links on 14 March 2008

Stealing from Bookstores – The underground economy of shoplifted books Andrei Tarkovsky: Film and Painting Hulu Household: Why I Got Rid of Cable [Voices] Bershon -  That certain look you always gave the camera when you were a teenager Stand by Yourself A Boy Named Sue, and a Theory of Names My Other Car is [...]