Link love for March 30

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Jeffrey Melton

The Pattern & Shape project brief was to design a t-shirt using a geometric shape and incorporating pattern (above).

Plants affect ecology from the bottom up.

Raiding Eternity by Joel Johnson.

Michael Lewis writes about a handful of Wall Street outsiders who realized the subprime mortgage business was a house of cards and found a way to bet against it: Part 1, Part 2.

A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.

Add MoviePeg to your iPhone, adjust the angle and like magic you’ll be in relaxed viewing heaven.

Phone numbers, shortcuts, tips, contact info, reviews, and customer service details for thousands of companies worldwide.

Unlocking the secrets of Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot.

For the first time, researchers harvest raw electric current directly from algae.

Planet Money on NPR tracks its very own toxic asset.

Get Lamp: The Text Adventure documentary looks interesting.

CB2′s new outdoor collection.

Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100.

MIDIPad turns your iPad into a multi-touch MIDI controller.

Dynamist Rules

Posted on May 27, 2007 by Jeffrey Melton

From The Future and its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel:

Allow individuals (including groups of individuals) to act on their own knowledge.

Apply to simple, generic units and allow them to combine in many different ways.

Permit credible, understandable, enduring, and enforceable commitments.

Protect criticism, competition, and feedback.

Establish a framework within which people can create nested, competing frameworks of more specific rules.