Author Archives: lara

Mostly art edi­tion. Photography and Photos of stuff: a new favorite pho­tog­ra­ph­er. Trixie Bedlam http://www.flickr.com/photos/trixiepix/ A sin­gle pho­to­graph and a short quote about the no pho­tos bs. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/19/rosie-hardy-photogra.html Hope for all pho­tog­ra­phers plan­ning to attend the Olympic Games in Vancouver (not me) http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/17/vancouver-cops-affir.html It’s ‘only’ a mod­el. day’am — on all counts. http://www.bikeexif.com/deubelhorner-bmw-sidecar Two impor­tant Ars Technica arti­cles on … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jun 19)”

With so many of my friends (and ene­mies?) mov­ing I thought I’d pass along this help­ful link to low space required book shelves. Good look­ing too. http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/stackable_nesting_bookcase_where_were_you_for_my_last_three_moves_13781.asp Somebody owes me a kit­ten. http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/06/16/funny-pictures-fix-what-you-did/ Book lust.The Ancient book of Sex and Science.  Retro illus­tra­tion style, every one’s favorite top­ic. Check out the scans here. (mod­er­ate­ly NSFW — art/illustrations no … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jun 18)”

For those of you fol­low­ing the Iran protests: pre­serv­ing the infra­struc­ture. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/twitter-reschedules.html basic wartime jour­nal­ism pro­to­cols explained for twit­ter users and blog read­ers. (Original site has been slash-dotted, excerpt at boing-boing) http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/cyberwar-guide-for‑i.html call for hack­ing Iranian gov­’t sites (eth­i­cal­ly ques­tion­able to flat out wrong IMO) Tons of good links in the wired arti­cle. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/activists-launch-hack-attacks-on-tehran-regime/ Today’s Design Links: … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jun 16)”

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 … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jun 15)”

And we were all snick­er­ing at the park­ing cops on seg­ways… http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/05/any-cop-is-robocop-with-an-electric-police-trike/ A gallery of the cov­ers of the jour­nal Advanced Materials. Click to embiggen. Read the issue sum­maries to dis­cov­er that you know absolute­ly noth­ing. http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/en/journals/alphabeticIndex/2089/?jURL=http://www.wiley-vch.de:80/vch/journals/2089/cover/index2009.html Sometimes the answer to nasty mate­ri­als is not to dis­pose of them but to reuse them. I say it’s more than … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (May 13)”