For play. Using a “rubber band” interface to explore words and their connections: http://www.visuwords.com/ http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ Reporting on Reading Rights and the National Federations of the Blind’s protest of Amazon’s caving to the Author’s Guild over the text-to-speech feature of the kindle. Show some love. Write a letter. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/06/reading-rights-coali.html Best round up of the reporting on the Google books …
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Morning Linkage (Apr 6)
In case you don’t have a sufficiently rad business card. Make up a few of these. A must for MEs. http://www.instructables.com/id/Cardapult-the-Business-Card-Catapult/ Too bad these are art prints. I would love to take them down to the local. I’d finally be cooler than the 20 somethings out to show their girls a hot Saturday night. http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/nice-shot-olly-mosss-shoot-the.html A musical interlude. A …
Morning Linkage (Apr 2)
Heavy on the visuals today. Touching photos of Mexicans in America who support families at home doing mundane jobs dressed as superheros. http://dulcepinzon.com/superheroes.htm I will make time to see this model and all the rest during my spring road trip: http://www.matchstickmarvels.com/Comingin2009.htm I am fascinated by photographs of decaying infrastructure. From Abandoned Britain, Helling Asylum: I chose one of the …
Morning Linkage (Apr 1)
Every morning I send JimH a quick summary of my morning cruze around the net. He suggested that you all might like to see the results as well. From Core77 a snarky short description of how the US Mint makes coins (cool photos) there’s a link to the longer COINage magazine version at the bottom. The other …