Let’s see if I can remember to spellcheck before sending this morning, shall we? Photography We think of wild fires as being a phenomena of the forested west of the USA and Canada. Mediterranean countries face their own fire season. The Big Picture has images. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/fires_around_the_mediterranean.html More from Europe. An all comers heavy metal festival in Germany. (folk metal?) http://designyoutrust.com/2009/08/04/wacken-open-air-2009/ …
Yearly Archives: 2009
Morning Linkage (Aug 3)
The world of bits and politics is getting all het up again. First there’s this little matter of AT&T, Apple, GoogleVoice, and the FCC. The fences around the playgrounds are coming down and the property owners are not happy. http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/08/01/att-responds-to-fcc-letter-re-google-voice-mobile-iphone-app/ Rep. Ed Markey (D‑MA) is trying for net neutrality legislation again. A much more pro-neutrality administration might make a difference. PDF …
Morning Linkage (Jul 31)
Everyone is entitled to an opinion: Gorgeous picture of a crap bike. http://www.bikeexif.com/confederate-p120-fighter Crap picture of a gorgeous bike. http://www.bikeexif.com/krugger-overmile ————– On August 26th the Mini Cooper will be 50 years old. Forbes put up a nice little slide show. http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/29/bmw-mini-cooper-lifestyle-vehicles-mini-car-50_slide_2.html ———– Repurposed furniture (components). Does someone have a better word than repurposed? It’s so made up. Cold frames from the As-Is …
Morning Linkage (Jul 30)
Two from Scheier on the recently discussed topic of cloud computing and storage. I find the comments on his blog to be of higher quality than most. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/risks_of_cloud.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/cloud_computing.html Summary of Kaminsky’s talk on the SSL cert spoofing. Clearer than most. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/ As if you couldn’t tell it’s DefCon time. I’ve been fascinated by the hackable badges of …
Morning Linkage (Jul 29)
Starting with some architecture. 10 classrooms designed specifically to meet the challenges of 10 sites and communities. The promise of location appropriate architecture fulfilled. (Mostly — no one’s perfect) http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/updates/2009–07–22-finalists-announced-for-the-open-architecture-challenge A materials database site that is wicked fun to explore. You’ll want to start projects just to use some of this stuff. http://transmaterial.net/ Some paintings that I …