Link love for March 9

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Jeffrey Melton

Cryoacoustic Orb is a sound installation involving multiple illuminated acrylic orbs filled with slowly melting ice (above, video).

Everything is a Remix Part 2 (video).

DataMarket launches with international time series data.

25 Years of Digital Vandalism by William Gibson.

Unsolving the City: An Interview with China Miéville.

European robins may maintain quantum entanglement in their eyes a full 20 microseconds longer than the best laboratory systems and Particles can be quantum entangled through time as well as space.

Sustainism Is the New Black.

Dingsaller is a workspace for creating algorithmic compositions on the iPad.

Americans Have No Idea How Much Welfare They’re Getting

Binaural Beats = Synchronize Brainwaves & Alter Consciousness.

Phil Durrant on Reaktor and the Laptop as Improvisational Instrument.

Are Writers Powerless to Make a Living in the Digital Age?

Useful Resources and Tips for Managing Your Virtual Staff.

Link love for December 28

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Cinema City: a series of fictions about the future of cinema. (above)

The parable of the the PDA: predicting the smartphone’s future.

Honeybees are found to interact with quantum fields.

World’s first quantum device takes ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ title.

Macworld’s 2010 App Gems Awards.

Ars Staff picks their favorite iOS apps of 2010.

Word Lens: an augmented reality language translator for iPhone.

Stuxnet apparently as effective as a military strike.

The art of childraising.

Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s man behind Mario.

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 9

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Land Carpet design (above)

FujiFilm FinePix X100 looks very future-retro

Home-Schooling for the Techno-Literate by Kevin Kelly

Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on the Changing Digital Landscape.

Spanish Designer Demonstrates Spray-On Clothing (video)

Everything is a Remix, Part 1 (video)

Metropolis restored and reconstructed (video)

Plays Asteroids on Any Web Page

Apple’s segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom

Link Love for May 19

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

After missing footage was found in Argentina, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” has been restored and its narrative better understood (above).

Oxo Good Grips Designers Take on Tablet Magazines.

How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

Apple to xplatform developers: We’re no longer suicidal.

Create Your Own Virtual Instruments With Maize Sampler v2.0.

New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer: eat organic, drink filtered water, avoid plastic containers.

Dear nerd, start a nerd sash with nerd merit badges (nerd).

SKTCH is an interesting generative drawing iPhone app.