Morning Linkage (Aug 4)

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/

Clearly some of those met­al heads have been cruis­ing the ‘net and seen
this love­ly tiki head carved out of a water­mel­on centerpiece.
http://www.watermelon.org/recipe_detail.asp?recipeDisp=183

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The Future…

…of edu­ca­tion. Nathan Shedroff pro­vides the curic­u­la for three of
hos design cours­es, along with the pre­sen­ta­tion mate­ri­als and links to
many of the arti­cles to be dis­cussed. Anyone one study and because
it’s all CC licensed any­one can nuse his mate­ri­als as a start­ing point
for thi­er own teaching.
http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/

…of fab­ri­ca­tion. Printing stain­less steel. If you can draw it in a
CAD sys­tem you can make a replace­ment part for any­thing. (Or a stupid
look­ing fig­urine with its hand up its nose.)
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/04/the-future-of-fabrication-is-here-shapeways-announces-stainless-steel-printing/

…of den­tistry. Successful regrowth of a tooth in situ. Dentures may
end up as an item in one of those ‘can you believe they put those
things in their mouth’ exhibits in 2050.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/08/bioengineered-mouse-tooth/

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Technology

New chips com­ing for net­books,. More name con­fu­sion com­ing to the
mar­ket space. Smartbooks? — and some peo­ple need to get a grip with
the URL makers -
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/08/arm-based-netbooks-set-to-arrive-on-us-shores-by-year-end.arshttp://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/08/arm-based-netbooks-set-to-arrive-on-us-shores-by-year-end.ars

Remote read­ing of RFID chips in cards is a favorite bug­bear of the
tin­foil hat crowd. Oh and the feds at DefCon. I find the last
para­graph to be espe­cial­ly inter­est­ing. I won­der how many of the
lit­tle blighters I’m unknow­ing­ly carrying.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/fed-rfid/

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Architecture

A remod­el of a lake­side house. I like it but the feel is very 50s
SoCal for some­thing so new and in TX.
http://sweetbakerygoods.com/architecture/architecture-the-peninsula-residence/

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Art

Two illus­tra­tors both doing work on graph­ic nov­els. They have a
sim­i­lar feel but very dif­fer­ent sub­ject matter.

Star St.Germain has a flickr stream of her work. Her work is personal
and young. Her per­son­al blog has a great deign and lay­out. Very
con­sist with and com­pli­men­ta­ry of her work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisstar/
http://thisisstar.com/

Steiner from Mars (aka Emma Rios) draws much dark­er more masculine
mate­r­i­al. (If Warren Ellis had­n’t men­tioned her name I would­n’t have
thought she was a she.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steinerfrommars/

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Games

Slate want you to choose the American Apocalypse. The choic­es are
inter­est­ing and occa­sion­al­ly just plain weird. American ends in a hail
of Rods from God? (bot­tom row) It’s a poll dis­guised as a game.
http://sdn.slate.com/features/endofamerica/default.htm

More lit­er­ary games. Where was that books set?
(6 out of 10 which is sad con­sid­er­ing I’ve read all of the books.)
http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=705&p=1

Stills and the trail­er from the upcom­ing Fabuous Mr.Fox. Another
adap­ta­tion of a chil­dren’s books clear­ly aimed at attract­ing as many
grown-ups as sprogs. Count me in,
http://www.cpluv.com/www/feeditem/7941

tak­ing a break for the gath­er. see you all next monday.