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links for 2008-07-23

google — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:26:56 +0000

links for 2008-07-20

google — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:37:50 +0000

Winners of 2008 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)
Beatmaker - The first music creation studio for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known - from the author of Bit Literacy
Rickshaw Commuter Messenger Bags - from former Timbuk2 designers
Time Travel Posters - interesting work
Visualizing On The Road as a literary organism
The early days: How 37signals built buzz out of the gate

links for 2008-07-15

google — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:29:59 +0000

The Printable CEO™ Series - a series of printable forms that help manage the day-to-day chore of achieving your goals
Walking the Line When You Work from Home
30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth
Beautiful Monsters - the first in a series of articles intended to serve as an ongoing conversation about how interaction designers can move the industry toward an Ecosystem Centered Design
making research actionable: an introduction to design criteria
It’s Cosmic man…it’s on my Mac…whoah - CosmicPainter from garageCube
Polish Stamps of 1963 - I’ve always loved two color printing
Zeus Jones - Less Talk, More Action - nice identity work
Get out of your own way - Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves.

2008 Summer mix podcast

jmelton — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:38:14 +0000

I am pleased to announce my 2008 Summer mix podcast (1hr05min, 74.9Mb MP3) of original music for your consideration. It’s equal parts reflective, chilled-out, lazy. A suitable soundtrack for your morning cuppa, yard and crafting projects, reading on the couch, afternoon coding sessions and breezy evenings on the front porch.

Track order:

Lost Things (Cascade dub)
La Palma (1984 CIA Factbook mix)
BASIC language
Departure Lounge, Pan-Am
3mb (2008 Tabla revisit)
Circular Object (Sunset Island dub)
Dexu (2008 defenestration)
Aguadulce

links for 2008-06-27

google — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:23:31 +0000

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.

Flight of the Mighty Conchords Go Boosh

jmelton — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:39:54 +0000

I’ve been catching up on comedy: Flight of the Conchords (amusing mumblecore with novelty songs, best appreciated in small doses) and the mindbending The Mighty Boosh (hilarious, surreal, bizarre, brilliant). It’s interesting they both exist as radio, stage and TV series.

Moove suh’in’

jmelton — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:20:29 +0000

This sly, provocative video for Jerk It led me to the buzzworthy group Thunderheist. Can’t stop listening. Work it.

links for 2008-06-20

google — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:41:27 +0000

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.

New podcast category and feed

jmelton — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:02:06 +0000

I updated the seasonal mixes of my original music to a new podcasts category. You can subscribe to the podcast feed with your favorite reader or add it directly to iTunes. I also archived the folders of demos and outtakes for easier downloading. View a listing of my current work. Enjoy,

UPDATE: here’s the iTunes podcast directory listing.

links for 2008-06-11

google — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:10:08 +0000

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