links for 2008-06-27

julien vidal - nice work
blueprintcss - a CSS framework which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition. They are the children of the Petabyte Age.
SoundCloud - a site for sending and receiving music, with a social networking aspect.

Links — June 27, 2008 at 7:23 am

links for 2008-06-20

Mystery on Fifth Avenue - The architectural designer Eric Clough embedded clues into a Fifth Avenue apartment, leading the family who lived there on a scavenger hunt through the rooms of their home
Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab
Unthinkable Futures - A small game Brian Eno and Kevin Kelly played to loosen up their expectations of what might happen in the near future
The Mighty Boosh - mighty hilarious British stage act/radio show/TV series
2008 Design Trends
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design - by 37 signals
Analogous Spaces (PDF) - every science or knowledge, every thought, every memory, every action creates its own space, and these spaces are organized according to a similar structure or architecture
Silent World by Michael Kenna - great photos
“life is beautiful” with mr. brainwash - get your punk art on
Interaction Design - by Jonas Lowgren
RepairPal - enter the make, model and year of your car, your zip code and the type of service your car requires, and it will whip up repair estimates, descriptions about the service and a list of shops in your area.

Links — June 20, 2008 at 6:41 am

Scenius, or Communal Genius - by Kevin Kelly
Rainwater Hog at Dwell on Design - these are great for capturing rainwater, but DWR is just too damn expensive to be affordable for most people
The worldwide web of belief and ritual: Wade Davis on TED.com - I enjoyed his books, One River and The Serpent and the Rainbow
New Rules for the New Biology - by Kevin Kelly
Green Branding: Why Originality Matters - Good-for-the-world businesses need to express sustainability as the vibrant, exciting, game-changing proposition it is if we are going to engage a critical mass of people and take sustainability firmly into the mainstream.
The price cut that isn’t: “Cheaper” iPhone, pricier data plan- the new iPhone 3G and App Store look sweet, but in surrendering power over its customers back to AT&T, Apple has taken a step back. For me, part of the promise of the iPhone was being able to buy it online and activate at home, thus disrupting the status quo for mobile carriers in the US.
Generative iPod? Deep Modular, Generative Music System Bound for iPhone, Phones, Windows, Mac
Primary Statistics - great info-graphics, once again

Links — June 12, 2008 at 2:10 am

Buttrick Wong Architects - great work
7 Modern Wonders of Green Technology - From Floating Cities to Skyscraper Farms
Two Steps Forward - The Greening of Design, from A to D
How to Innovate Right Now
Future Audio Workshop Intros Circle Synthesizer - I’ve been waiting to check this software synth out.
That design is money! - Holger Struppek shares some design insights that went into Wells Fargo’s touchscreen ATM interface—a product freed from a major hardware-imposed restriction of the past

Links — June 9, 2008 at 7:54 am

Links — May 30, 2008 at 6:31 am