Link love for November 29

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Interactive Swarm Space (above).

A Waste of Money and Time; Bruce Schneier on airport security measures.

Building an Iconic Sound: Squarepusher.

There Will Be Blood: the G.O.P. is just not interested in helping a Democrat govern.

Stratigraphies of Infestation.

Forgive us our synths – how 80s pop found favour again.

Introduction to Wayfinding and Signage design.

“Bullying” Has Little Resonance with Teenagers.

Tetris may work as a post-traumatic stress disorder “vaccine”

Link love for November 13

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Journey into Carl Jung’s The Red Book: Liber Primus (above).

SAVED is a new initiative from Green Thing where unwanted and unloved T-shirts are Saved from waste by adding a design and story that makes them wanted and loved again.

Jonas Bendiksen’s ”Satellites” contains some amazing photos from spacecraft crash zones.

Apple’s Tablet Computer History.

MeeBlip is a hackable digital synth, available in various states of assembly.

Clay Shirky on the Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics.

Danah Boyd on teens’ unorthodox use of Facebook.

Artist melts 1,527 guns to make shovels for tree planting!

Link love for November 12

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Process Compendium 2004-2010 is a collection of work and record of process by Casey Reas, co-founder of Processing (above).

Ben Fry, the other co-founder of Processing, on “Computational Information Design” (video)

Emily Pilloton’s TED Talk, Teaching design for change (video)

“Silent Evolution” builds a beautiful coral reef from statues.

Terms you need to understand for a record contract.

What happened to downtime? The extinction of deep thinking & sacred space

Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person’s DNA.

Link love for October 29

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Shoot from edge to edge with the Lomo Sprocket Rocked Panorama camera (above).

That Spunky Sound 0.12 particle synthesizer.

Greek your text Like a Boss with the Gangsta Lorem Ipsum generator.

There’s a new Processing Plug-in for Eclipse.

A new experiment shows that memory of inconsequential events is improved significantly when they happen around the same time as a novel, exciting, or surprising one. BOO!

A letter you can send to requests for spec work if you want to decline politely and explain the reasons for your decision.

K. Stockhausen’s Advice To Clever Children.

The OXO Candela Zoom makes us want to sleep with a night light again.

Nicole Lazzaro’s “The Future of UX is Play: The 4 Keys to Fun, Emotion and User Engagement” (video).

Link love for October 10

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Analog audio tape cassette nostalgia collection (above)

Why I Left My Publisher in Order to Publish a Book, by Douglas Rushkoff and Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known by Mark Hurst

Ten principles for good design by Dieter Rams

Journalism in the Age of Data (video)

Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser

Top 5 Smartphone Apps for Buying Local

Getting Made The Scorsese Way

How Ink Is Made (video)