Morning Linkage (Apr 27)

Some vague­ly relat­ed pho­tos from Milan Design Week. Many cool seat­ing sur­faces. Some that I would hes­i­tate to call chairs. http://www.core77.com/blog/milan09/milan_design_week_09_tuttobene_13287.asp Design as a pro­fes­sion is cur­rent­ly hav­ing a cri­sis of rel­e­van­cy. Trying to fig­ure out how it can val­ue to soci­ety rather than mere­ly add val­ue to the bot­tom line. As is the case in … 

Morning Linkage (Apr 24)

In the I won­der who was after what depart­ment. The judge in the Pirate Bay tri­al is a mem­ber of a copy­rights advo­ca­cy group. And this is just com­ing out? Either the PB lawyers are incom­pe­tent (mis­tri­al, incom­pe­tent defense) or clever (mis­tri­al, judge not impar­tial) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/judges-conflict-of-interest-surfaces-after-pirate-bay-trial.ars Fabulously beau­ti­ful Japanese depic­tions of nature. http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/04/nature-of-utamaro.html Half a million … 

Morning Linkage (Apr 23)

Black and White is old skool and that’s good. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruipalha/ I prob­a­bly qual­i­fy for “life expe­ri­ence cred­it” for this course but you all might want to con­sid­er it. Internet Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview, by Robert Lanham http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/20lanham.html Earth Day link — an unob­tru­sive rain water cap­ture sys­tem http://www.aquascapeinc.com/why_rainxchange Wow — that’s like, so, Elvis … 

Morning Linkage (Apr 22)

To fuel the OO vs. every­one else debates. Manga about Ubuntu. (Get ’em ear­ly while they are still impres­sion­able…) http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/ubunchu-the-ubuntu-manga-is-now-in-english/ The last dinosaur will soon be extinct. (Thank God, the thing is creepy) http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/21/pleo-extinct.html I love the ways peo­ple are find­ing to put the arti­facts of excess to use. http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/04/recycled_catalog_dollhouse.html Lovingly recre­at­ed decals for old machinery. … 

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 …