Link love 2009-05-14

WANT: Victorinox Travel Alarm 1884 Limited Edition (above)

If you can’t buy it legally, of course you’ll download it: Staggered film releases no longer work in a global economy and are to blame for the rise of pirate websites.

How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules, by Malcolm Gladwell.

7 tips for a good portfolio.

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.

Wolfram|Alpha intends to be a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.

Mega-Regions and High-Speed Rail, by Richard Florida.

Pacemaker is a revolutionizing music player and mixer with all the features you need to deejay anywhere, anytime.

Rare Book Room as an impressive collection of hi-res images of full ancient books,

Currently Reading: 'The Starfish and the Spider' & 'Dreaming in Code'

I’ve switched gears to reading non-fiction and resumed The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, which I intend to review shortly. Also, Scott Rosenberg was kind enough to send out copies for review of Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software, and I landed one. I’m eager to dive into and write about it soon as well.