Link love for August 3

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Jeffrey Melton

The Perfect Backup Strategy for Your Mac.

Stats of the Union tells health stories in America.

Sound Cells – Universal iOS App Creates Generative Music.

Aphonium – App Creates Generative Audio and Visuals.

SunVox – Multiplatform Modular Music Creation Studio.

Surprise Surveillance Theater: An Experimental Drama with Unwitting Stars.

Japanese artist Eiji Watanabe cuts butterflies out of printed field guides and sets them free, covering the walls and ceilings of installation spaces.

15 Shopping Rules of Thumb.

Every individual needs emotional and intellectual support from her creative tribe to sustain a positive, thriving and aspiring practice.

Hidden is an app that lets you spy on the person who may have stolen you laptop.

Urban Quiver camera bag from Blackstone Bags.

Link love for November 13

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Journey into Carl Jung’s The Red Book: Liber Primus (above).

SAVED is a new initiative from Green Thing where unwanted and unloved T-shirts are Saved from waste by adding a design and story that makes them wanted and loved again.

Jonas Bendiksen’s ”Satellites” contains some amazing photos from spacecraft crash zones.

Apple’s Tablet Computer History.

MeeBlip is a hackable digital synth, available in various states of assembly.

Clay Shirky on the Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics.

Danah Boyd on teens’ unorthodox use of Facebook.

Artist melts 1,527 guns to make shovels for tree planting!

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 August 10, part 1

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Gunkanjima: Ruins of a Forbidden Island (above).

Meet the Creators of Sunspring, a Portable, Solar, Water-Purification System.

New York City to Recycle Clothing, Shoes, Textiles Starting This Fall!

New Ideals for Design Research.

Through the Gyre (infographic).

Polaroid OneStep Land Camera.

While most approaches embrace triple bottom line thinking, Mohawk Paper’s The Living Principles challenge that paradigm and add a fourth element—culture—to address the unique role of designers.

Plankton go deep, ride currents to fetch nutrients.

Former BP Exec Cynthia Warner Left Big Oil for Big Algae.

Innovative Mayor Sam Adams Builds a Cleaner Portland.