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Link love for January 5th

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The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones (above).

Robert Henke, aka Monolake shares his custom Max for Live devices.

How to dispose of old electronics in a responsible way.

Top 7 Best Green iPhone Apps.

Ira Glass on Storytelling (YouTube): part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.

Design and Meaning: an interview with Nathan Shedroff.

Self-Destructing Bacteria Could Be the Key to Better Biofuels.

Incredible ‘Garbage City’ Rises Outside of Cairo.

How to protect your ideas in the digital age: Don’t. Build a reputation as someone who creates great ideas, sometimes on demand. Or as someone who can manipulate or build on your ideas better than a copycat can.

The practice of hanging out is consistently demonized by educationally-minded folks as a waste of time. Yet, it is in that space where youth learn to navigate social situations, make sense of impression management, and develop the social skills necessary to be productive adults.

Link love for August 26th

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Kind of Bloop (above): An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.

How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?.

Art of the arcade.

How to develop groove in your playing.

12 Greenest colleges and universities in the U.S.

Osmos has a sublime electronic soundtrack by Loscil, Gas/High Skies, Julien Neto, Biosphere, and more.

By refusing to comment on the work you show the work some respect; you allow the work to just be.

Link love for July 15th

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The State: The Complete Series (above) is finally available on DVD (affiliate link).

Consumers get paid to reduce their emissions.

The fifth edition of The Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt is now available.

Michael Bay as Generative Art: Explosion Action Painting with oF.

An essay against Situationism.

Open Atrium is a customizable, open-source team portal.

Music Made from a Tree.

Why We Need a Globally-Recognized Unit of “Green”

Managers Embrace Design Thinking, Designers Reject It.

Starting a Design Studio In a Downturn: Part 1: Taking Leaps, Part 2: The First 15 Weeks, Part 3: When There’s No There There

The Old Solutions Have Become the New Problems: The new rules ask, “Who are you? What do you need? How can I help?”

Link love for June 29th, part 2

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Get yer grub on with these Aluminum Snack Boxes (above) from SIGG.

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson.

No Lifeguard On Duty is the name of this beautiful photographic series of abandoned swimming pools by J Bennett Fitts.

The Feast Conference gathers the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking change.

The Forces of User Experience, an expansion on Garrett’s The Elements of User Experience.

“The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful.” Paul Hawken’s 2009 Commencement Address at the University of Portland.

Open Emu is like having a giant visual performance synth made from the tasty innards of classic games.

When companies try to come up with new ideas, they too often look only where they always look.

What Makes Us Happy?


Link love for June 29th, part 1

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Hayo Miyazaki’s Ponyo (above), a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Little Mermaid.’ (video)

Futurespeak: Shane Hope’s keywords defined.

Gary Hamel on managing Generation Y.

The evidence is growing that privately owned, consumer-driven, small-scale, geographically distributed renewables could deliver a 100% green-energy future faster and cheaper than big power projects alone.

The Sears Tower is going green.

How does our language shape the way we think? by Lera Boroditsky

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s video report from their alien adventure film, Paul

The Dirty Dozen: Top 12 Foods to Buy Organic

2009 Penguin Design Awards