I had some time recently to mess about in Processing. For your consideration: sketch_2008_04_28_diagonal_lines2. Stare at it for a while and everything starts to make sense.

Update: I posted a few shorts to Vimeo: diagonal_lines2 / diagonal_lines3.

• 7 Free Ways To Get Your Glitch On - I use SupaTrigga and Scrubby when I need to mess-things-up
• Test Drive Bitnotic chill - Public Beta of Mac Ambient Music Software
• Daniel Dociu - amazing concept art
• You are the river - An interview with Ken Wilber
• ceramic paper plates

I finished The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) last week but am taking a break before starting the final book. It’s interesting, and reading that it’s a retelling of Milton’s Paradise Lost makes me want to dive into that epic poem (some day). For now, I’m reading some early pulp detective stories in Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (Library of America), which I found at a neighborhood used book store, Every Other Book. Hardboiled.

• The brand called Obama - Win or lose, Barack Obama’s rise changes business as usual for everyone. Here’s why.
• Five important security apps for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
• All Streets - All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments, by Ben Fry.
• Jared Diamond on vengeance - yet another reason why I love the New Yorker
• The five step brand lifecycle - By Seth Godin
• Visualizing Radiohead - more great work in Processing by Flight404
• ixi audio - Free Experimental Electronic Music Software
• Ricky Gervais: New Hero of Comedy, Part 1
  
• Do You Have a Sustainable Mindset? - seven mindset qualities that are critical for leadership in sustainable business
• Interview: Chris Carter - The creator of The X-Files talks about why now is the right time for a sequel.
• The Reality of Depending on True Fans - Robert Rich’s letter to Kevin Kelly
• Advice from Coudal on how to transition from client work to products
• Rollei 35mm Camera - Still A Mini Mechanical Marvel

I think it’s great that ‘green’ issues have gone mainstream and are growing in popularity. It seems like every day there’s some new article or ad about green’s growing momentum.

Despite some of the obvious green-washing, environmentally-friendly practices can make great business sense and social policy, drive innovation on many fronts and help solve some of the mounting problems we’re facing. At the least, it’s something to believe in amongst the political, social and economic unease that circles us.

One of the larger purposes of recycling, in addition to decreasing the amount of waste that goes into landfills (or worse), is to change peoples’ perception of trash. When a person goes to throw something away, they have a choice where to put it. It seems to me the point of adopting green practices is for them to become second nature—not thinking about it, in a good way. Cheers, Earth Day.