shiny things in messy little piles

Month: April 2009 (Page 2 of 4)

Morning Linkage (Apr 21) The Shearing Day Edition

Kind of icky because it’s about bugs (ants) but the pho­tos are fab.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24826

Can any­one tell me what I am being warned against? “Cause that’s the
scari­est squir­rel I have ever seen.
http://sleepmachine.tumblr.com/post/98430660/tsuyatsuya

Two from the tech news.

Ora­cle to buy SUN. The MySQL forums will be utter­ly use­less for at
least a week. Let the wail­ing begin.
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/oracle-acquires-sun-ars-explores-the-impact-on-open-source.ars

More tech for devel­op­ing coun­tries. Portable cell phone based ultra-sound.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/20/winmo-smartphones-now-work-as-medical-tricorders-with-usb-based-imagers/

Oblig LEGO post. Visu­al pun ahead.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/20/lego-photo-box-lego.html

I love the idea of guest cura­tors and now a musi­cian (Bri­an Eno) is
being giv­en the chance to curate a music fes­ti­val. Very high cool
factor.
http://www.bonnaroo.com/news/2009/04/20/david-byrne-first-artist-to-curate-stage.aspx

Morning Linkage (Apr 20)

Spend some time look­ing at what Win­fried Bau­mann can do with a simple
alu­minum con­tain­er. Hous­ing, offices, can­teens. Click on “WORKS” in
the top bar.
http://winfried-baumann.de/

No words just a wicked con­cept bike picture.
http://insomnio.org/post/97944795/tron‑2–0

The mania for recre­at­ing the pho­to­graph­ic expe­ri­ence of cheap old
cam­eras con­tin­ues. The Russ­ian LOMO
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/20/the-disturbing-beauty-of-oversaturated-pictures/

A cou­ple of infrastructure/communications posts.

First a guide to what’s hang­ing out on the util­i­ty pole.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/17/a‑field-guide-to-pol.html

And ille­gal but inge­nious use of satel­lites for bounc­ing ham radio
sig­nals in Brazil.
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom?currentPage=all

The Inter­net Archive is ask­ing the judge for per­mis­sion to intervene
in the Google/Authors Guild settlement.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/internet-archive-wants-book-copyright-indemnity-like-google.ars

And final­ly for every lit­tle girl you know, Niel Gaiman’s pray for his
god-daughter. Blue­ber­ry Girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH4lyJWa_84

That’s all for now, more tomorrow,

Morning Linkage (Apr 17)

Because a Titan Mis­sile silo east­ern Wash­ing­ton is the ultimate
loca­tion for a hack­er camp. (click around for photos):
http://www.toorcamp.org/content/introduction

More inter­est­ing ques­tions about how the oceans work. In this case how
long does it take an ocean to rise. (not sure of the cred­i­bil­i­ty of
the web­site but the jour­nal cit­ed is legit):
http://www.openthefuture.com/2009/04/the_sea_level_rise_mystery.html

Sil­ly tech for today — tweets, morse code, and ambi­ent lighting:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/16/tweetlite-flashes-tw.html

Illus­tra­tions and ani­ma­tion pro­duced from paper constructions:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnykelly/

Our new space tele­scope is com­ing on-line:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/first-light-kep.html

Nice sum­ma­ry of the pro­pos­al for lim­it­ed “high-speed” rail in the USA:
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/04/obama-lays-out.html

Peo­ple agree­ing to hav­ing their cars tracked and hacked because they
are poor and untrustworthy:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/17/sales-booming-in-rem.html

Ship­ping con­tain­ers are the lat­est archi­tec­tur­al cliche:
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/this_just_inbox_new_puma_vs_new_nike_vs_new_adidas_13183.asp

A gig­gle in hon­or of the end of Passover:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/16/haminal-plush-tinned.html

Try to fig­ure out how this was done before you click through to Instructables.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/04/how-to_vertically_stacked_flow.html

more next week

Morning Linkage (Apr 16)

fair warn­ing — look for me to bom­bard you with links to this in August.
http://www.core77.com/blog/news/maker_faire_africa_is_happening_august_1315_in_accra_ghana_13199.asp

walk through of the design process for “fix­ing” one of the least
suc­cess­ful tools in the world — the con­fer­ence phone.
http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2009/04/product-concept-touchscreen-conference-phone/

today’s must have cloth­ing item.
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/missilecommand

over­ly flash site but OMG the design (pana­son­ic)
http://www.panasonic.eu/designmuseum/

sweet­est zom­bie car­toon evah! I send you via Neil Gaiman’s site
because he’s very cool and has inter­est­ing things to say about the
cartoon.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/04/it-was-dark-and-silly-night.html

also dude keeps bees.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/04/to-bat-hive-bee-wonder-and-other.html

Wired:Autotopia — Your Dai­ly Source for Fugly
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/04/a‑truck-enginee.html

Laugh­ably Scary? The keep­ers have no idea what the inmates do.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious

more tomor­row

Morning Linkage (Apr 14)

Port­fo­lio of Kyle Houchens. Take time to page through the illos. The
diecast car designs are loverly.
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?individual_id=845&set_id=55

St John was a whack job. Today’s religious/Lego moment.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/revelation/god_tortures_kills_billions/rv06_01.html

Break it. Illus­trate it.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/anatomical-drawing‑o.html

My dad (the physi­cist) had one of these when they were first available.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/13/hp-35-scientific-cal.html

I had nev­er con­sid­ered the down­side of auto­mo­tive tech for rescuers
doing extrac­tion. Noe I have.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/04/one-of-the-grea.html

Just because it’s so cool. Might make one of these a desk­top for a
while. Link to the full fli­cr set at the bottom.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/soviet-nuclear-contr.html

more tomor­row,

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