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Link love for October 8

Jeffrey Melton — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:33:18 +0000

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.

Workshop it

Jeffrey Melton — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:03:18 +0000

I’ve been thinking a lot about the creative work I come across, whether in person or online. I’m a big fan of the critique and can lend a critical eye/ear/voice most of the time. I think it’s important to judge a work on its own terms, in a variety of relevant contexts in order to offer constructive tips on how to make something better or more effective. With that, I’ve formulated the following breakdown:

50% of all work is sub-par or unremarkable, i.e. upholding the status quo.
45% of the remainder tends to exist for shallow issues only, i.e. as decoration, current fashion or surface styling only.
5% is great and to be appreciated and recommended.

YMMV.

Link love for 2009-04-03

Jeffrey Melton — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:52:21 +0000

Steel Factory Reinvents Itself, Now Grows Lettuce (video). Something about green, going green, they’ve really gone green, someone—everything’s gone green… no.

Mark Bittman On Why Food Matters.

Ableton Live 8 and Studio 8 are finally out, so defrost your plastic! Or, you can download the demo (sans save and export, of course) to get your fix like the rest of us po’ folk.

Facebook, YouTube at Work Make Better Employees, says a recent study.

The next green fuel source: algae.