Monthly Archives: October 2009

Link love for October 28th

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The amazing artwork (above) of David Spriggs.

Cercle et suite d’éclats, a large scale outdoor art installation.

“Natural Instincts” art print series by Tes One.

Create Democracy, an interactive exhibition.

Brian Eno three-fer: Eno, Peter Schmidt, and Cybernetics, Harmonia & Eno ‘76 Remix Album, A conversation with Brian Eno.

Roger Penrose says physics is wrong, from string theory to quantum mechanics.

IdeaPaint turns virtually anything you can paint into a dry-erase surface.

Canadian credit union gives people ten-dollar bills to give away.

The polaroid is coming back.

Huge dust storm feeds fish and eats carbon dioxide.

Link love for October 8th

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Judith Seng’s beautiful wood stools (above) combine the synthetic and the organic.

Antibiotic resistance is more than just a medical scourge; it’s also a window into a war microbes have been waging against each other for hundreds of millions of years.

UPS offers CO2 offsets to its customers, $0.05 to $0.20 per package.

Buy slect Nau gear on approval.

A new book explores the stories behind the sound effects of Star Wars.

Plogule’s new Chipsounds software synth.

In a 2007 study on global risks, a group identified a collection of highly interconnected risk factors, and explored various scenarios in which these factors often influenced each other and in some cases amplified the effects of others.

Erik Natzke’s series “Color of Nature” features amazing, paint-like images created with Flash.

7up Live is a Java application that combines 8 different monome applications into one interface.

We place a high value on sophistication, because we’ve been trained to seek it out as a cue for what lies ahead.

Vember Audio releases Surge virtual synth.

Working hard is overrated.

Tiction is a flexible, nodal music sequencer.