Morning Linkage (Jun 15)

Interesting Things Links:

More women who like being on the road, recre­at­ing an his­toric road
trip. It’s a bit slick but an inter­est­ing attempt.
http://aliceramsey.org/

New research on the math­e­mat­ics behind the “social web” and tagging:
(esp for info geeks)
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/06/tagging.ars

A train­able advice engine.
http://www.hunch.com/tour/
Write up on what, why, and who here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/15/hunch-machine-learni.html

Play with it an let me know what you think.

Art and Design Links:

Lego art:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/06/11/lego-voyage-dans-la.html

A lit­tle creepy, very dreamy:
http://sleepmachine.tumblr.com/post/123617216/venusflytrap-technohell

Tech  and Gadget Links:

New faster SD cards for high resolution/high speed shoot­ing. (Probably
good for the new video cam­eras.) Not here in the US yet. I’ll put them
on the watch­list and let you all know when I see them.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/15/panasonic-announces-class-10-sdhc-cards/

The killer phone app Loyalty card hold­er. I have a key chain weighed
down with the damn things. Too bad it does­n’t real­ly work. (See
comments)
http://consumerist.com/5278161/

WTF Links:

There’s an expla­na­tion in the com­ments — just ignore it.
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011366.html#011366

NB for the next cou­ple of months there will be morn­ing link­age Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Wednesday a, if it hap­pens at all, will
be afternoons.

It’s nice to be back wast­ing y’al­l’s time.