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 Management’.
Algorithmic [...]

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 me. And you don’t [...]

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, talks about the [...]

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 of spectacle architecture [...]

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 Musician Who Recognizes The Concept [...]

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 work on something.
Good [...]

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 that allows ideas and concepts to [...]

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 a Bright Green City – What [...]