Get yer grub on with these Aluminum Snack Boxes (above) from SIGG.
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson.
The Forces of User Experience, an expansion on Garrett’s The Elements of User Experience.
When companies try to come up with new ideas, they too often look only where they always look.
WANT: Victorinox Travel Alarm 1884 Limited Edition (above)
How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules, by Malcolm Gladwell.
Glitch Sequencer: Cellular automaton based MIDI sequencer.
Font Squirrel offers handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
LOST labels for your DHARMA Initiative needs.
Mega-Regions and High-Speed Rail, by Richard Florida.
Rare Book Room as an impressive collection of hi-res images of full ancient books,
Goodbye Google: Where the engineers are guided by metrics, and the designers play second fiddle (or leave), by Douglas Bowman.
Experimental Geography Reading List, by Rhizome contributing editor Marisa Olson.
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism, by Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.
Trees: More than just carbon sinks – How Tree Aid, a UK-based charity, helps poor rural communities fight poverty, become self-reliant and help the environment.
Spook Country is William Gibson‘s first new novel in four years. It comes out next week, so I pre-ordered my copy yesterday. It is set in the present day like his last novel, Pattern Recognition which I recommend. A few years ago I re-read his seminal cyberpunk thriller Neuromancer and hope to do the same for his other novels. Thing is, I may have to interrupt my current reading of the complete Harry Potter series (I’m halfway through book 3 right now), since I always find Gibson’s novels un-put-down-able.
RIP Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman.