Morning Linkage (Jul 6)

(Slightly bizarre) images.

A car­ni­val in TX.
http://flak-photo.my-expressions.com/archives/6333_1646490288/332630

A sculp­ture(?) whose mean­ing depends on it’s shadow.
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7511

Abandoned real estate is an old sto­ry but this slide show from the NYT
has excel­lent photos.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/05/magazine/20090705-gilded-slideshow_2.html
Local scenes.

Cool things hap­pen in Manchester England. I wish I could go and try my
luck at con­vinc­ing the Mad Man.
http://www.mif.co.uk/projects/the-difference-enginea-steampunk-adventure/

Support Seattle small businesses.
http://artcraftanddesign.blogspot.com/2009/07/city-stimulus-is-back.html

Two ran­dom links.

A new time waster  — one sen­tence sto­ries Hundreds of them
http://onesentence.org/stories/popular/all/

This rock­ing horse cell­phone stand is just… well I don’t know what it is.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/07/06/rocking-horse-cellph.html

But seri­ous­ly.

New research sug­gests that anx­i­ety trig­gers the release of a scent
that caus­es oth­er humans who smell it to empathize with you.” Which
might explain the (hope­ful­ly tem­po­rary) appeal of dra­ma queens and
liars, and the more jus­ti­fied eager­ness to help out the noobs. More
details here.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/06/smell-of-fear.html

Tim O’Reilly dis­cuss­es the Kindle and the haz­ards of pro­pri­etary. He
descrip­tion of the his­to­ry of pub­lish­ing plat­forms is food for
thought.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/22/kindle-oreilly-ebooks-technology-breakthroughs_oreilly.html

more tomor­row.