Link love for January 22

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Jeffrey Melton

A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976 (above).

Arc: New Music Controller in Video, Detailed Q+A with monome Creator Brian Crabtree.

Alexandra Lange: What Should Food Look Like?.

TUAW’s Daily App: Strange Rain.

Urban Archaeology: North Brother Island – Riverside Hospital.

The Ambiguity of “Open” and VP8 vs. H.264.

Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel.

Four Loko Recycled Into Eco-Friendly Fuel.

Link love for January 21

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Jeffrey Melton

Worlds as Fragments (above).

A Simpler Page: designing for tablets.

Create your own generative art with Silk.

Twitter’s response to WikiLeaks subpoena should be the industry standard.

Social networks create their own regional dialects.

The mysteries of kisses.

Musical chills related to brain dopamine release.

How to pick the perfect brand name.

This Tract provides a view of Census data on your block.

Ani – ghost city of 1001 churches.

Guerilla history and urban exploration at Undercity.org.

Into The Tunnels: exploring the underside of NYC.

Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die by Patton Oswalt.

Disquiet’s list of 8 Best iOS sound/music apps from 2010.

Link love for December 15

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

DJ Light is an immersive public sound and light installation that gives visitors the power to orchestrate performance of light and sound across a large public space. (above)

Composer Howard Goodall takes us on a journey into music’s underbelly, examining the four basic elements that make it work: Melody, rhythm, harmony and bass (video).

A box truck Is just a room on wheels: scenes from San Francisco’s (secret) Lost Horizon Night Market.

Once a rumor, now fact: CIA used modern art as propaganda weapon.

Wikileaks and the Long Haul by Clay Shirky.

Meet the most dangerous man in cyberspace: The American face of Wikileaks.

Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes (video).

The year newspaper nostalgia projects only emphasized how traditional newspapers are doomed.

11 Cool generative music and art apps for iOS

Satromizer OS for iPad looks like glitchy fun.

Link love for October 8

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

A Reusable Bottle Made From Bamboo and Glass (above).

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization (video)

Is it time to change the way we educate?

Ancient Nubians Drank Antibiotic-Laced Beer

Panspermia theorists say India’s red rain contains life not seen on Earth

Desk-It Adhesive Notepads

Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? Yes, but with some qualifiers, says William Gibson.

GOOD Guide to Education Innovation

Chip Conley Took the Maslow Pyramid, Made It an Employee Pyramid and Saved His Company

The Analogue Monologues is a new series of mini video documentaries by Vince Clarke.

Bacteria Have Eaten Giant Gulf Oil Plume, New Study Says

7 Books To Read for Sustainable Eating

Feed in a news article, blog post, or press release, and Poligraft will present you with an enhanced view of the people, organizations, and relationships described in the piece.

A linguistic mystery has arisen in Scotland, surrounding symbols on stones that predate the formation of the country itself.

Link love for August 10, part 2

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

The origins of abc (above).

Where did the money to rebuild Iraq go? (infographic)

Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary.

Amon Tobin records The Foley Room (video).

Why the next big pop-culture wave after cupcakes might be libraries.

An archive of MTV’s ’120 Minutes’.

Handwriting and flourish art.

Ford films found in Kiwi vault.

Researchers create the world’s first synthetic cell.