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 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 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.

Link love for May 18

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

We’d love to buy the My water bottle in light blue, but the shipping costs as much as the bottle!

The Big Bang Was an Explosion OF Space, Not IN Space.

New Reverse Vending Machine Pays You to Recycle,

Interview with David Toop, one of our favorite music writers.

The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books.

Why Funnel Marketing Doesn’t Work.

Uncommon Act of Design: The Secret of Getting Kids to Eat Veggies? Move the Salad Bar.

Guerrilla gardeners use candy machines to sell seed bombs.

The Progress of the Platform.

Link love for February 16th

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

Check out this lovely laptop cover in orange felt wool (above).

Yoink is an iPhone app for dumpster divers and freecyclers.

Sumedicina is a piece of experimental short fiction told entirely in charts and infographics.

Draw! The neuroscience behind Hollywood shoot-outs.

The iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing.