Morning Linkage (May 6)

Posted bylara

Silly chil­dren’s book. The draw­ings are delight­ful. The text
abom­inable — in a cute sex­ist way. Don’t both­er read­ing the comments.
http://michiedo.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-glad-im-boy-im-glad-im-girl.html

News:

Librarians are wor­ry­ing about the Google Books set­tle­ment. No access
to put of print books vs. access con­trolled by giant corp. Rock and
hard place.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/libraries-weigh-in-with-worries-on-googles-book-settlement.ars

There was a lot of wor­ry about eBay encour­ag­ing the stolen antiquities
mar­ket at the begin­ning. This paper finds that, in fact, eBay has
dras­ti­cal­ly cut down on the sales of stolen mate­ri­als. Unintended
con­se­quences that win rather than fail. Nice.
http://www.archaeology.org/0905/etc/insider.html

Kind of loud and whiny but a cogent indict­ment of the per­son­al finance
guru scam.
http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/05/03/end-personal-finance

Design:

The port­fo­lio of Akihisa Nakatani. Lots of sports gear includ­ing a few
bits of moto gear. Love his sketch­ing style.
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_work.asp?individual_id=65196

I hate mod­ern low ener­gy light­ing. So do a lot of oth­er peo­ple. But
the solu­tions are too damned expensive.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/05/100-led-lamp-uses-quantum-dots-to-imitate-more-natural-light/

The CryENGINE2 ren­der­ing engine is get­ting a lot of good press right
now. Click through to the mes­sage board for tons of mind boggling
images *if* your con­nec­tion is real™ fast. Mine ain’t.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/05/the-crysis-engine-does-a-pretty-good-job-of-rendering-blade-runner/

Lovely video com­posed of time lapse pho­tos as a freighter moves
through Houston at night. Be sure to watch both halves.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oneeighteen/3500258467/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oneeighteen/3500258467/

There’s a map of the route here.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=106108931087575796421.0004692e839d29806d032

And anoth­er very sil­ly green  item to end the list.
http://archmage.livejournal.com/2062431.html

more tomor­row,