For those of you fol­low­ing the Iran protests:

pre­serv­ing the infrastructure.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/twitter-reschedules.html

basic wartime jour­nal­ism pro­to­cols explained for twit­ter users and
blog read­ers. (Orig­i­nal site has been slash-dotted, excerpt at
boing-boing)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/cyberwar-guide-for‑i.html

call for hack­ing Iran­ian gov­’t sites (eth­i­cal­ly ques­tion­able to flat
out wrong IMO) Tons of good links in the wired article.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/activists-launch-hack-attacks-on-tehran-regime/

Today’s Design Links:

Love­ly retro adver­tis­ing for Coca-Cola
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/06/15/coca-cola-cupping-ma.html

Anoth­er drink relat­ed design. Per­fect for when the work­bench gets too
crowd­ed for your beer.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/kim_hyunbeens_drinklip_for_desks_with_little_real_estate_13775.asp

First link from the “real” world. La-z-boy goes green. (Dang that’s ugly)
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/green_furniture_award_goes_tothe_lazboy_13766.asp

Sec­ond link from the “real” world. Did GM kill the wrong mark?
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/general-motors‑4/

Adven­ture, Curios­i­ty, Time Wast­ing, and maybe Educational:

Just launched by Dylan Thuras and Joshua Foer. Atlas Obscu­ra is a
won­der cab­i­net on the inter­net. User gen­er­at­ed con­tent that is worth
seeing.(Occasional serv­er slow-downs. Warn­ing colos­sal time sink.)
http://atlasobscura.com/

Dylan Thuras pre­vi­ous project, Curi­ous Expe­di­tions is equal­ly fascinating
http://curiousexpeditions.org/

Four for Tech-Geek crowd:

Carl Lin­naeus invent­ed the index card. It’s impor­tant, really.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090616080137.htm

Oba­ma is work­ing to fix Read ID but not the way it should be fixed.
(By trash­ing the idea altogether)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/obama-administration-aims-to-fix-broken-real-id-act.ars

Experts call for Google to force use of https rather than http at all
times for it’s cloud apps. Oops, I nev­er remem­ber to force https when
I’m on-line at Starbucks.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/google_ssl/

Tablet net­book? I leave it to the net­book fans to dis­sect and debate.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/16/asus-t91-tablet-netbook-to-hit-us-retailers-soon/

Video Links:

Tom Brokaw from Comdex 1994. Weird — they don’t get much wrong.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67945/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-tom-brokaws-early-reports-about-the-internet

I love post-it notes. I love stop-motion ani­ma­tion. Swoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentalfloss.com%2Fblogs%2Farchives%2F26442&feature=player_embedded

Mak­ing of video as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJYvaCCB3c&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentalfloss.com%2Fblogs%2Farchives%2F26442&feature=player_embedded

I haven’t had time to watch all of this yet. But ‑OMG- all that
Bol­ly­wood good­ness in one place!
http://www.motherjones.com/riff/2009/06/video-bollywood-beginners

More on Thursday,

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