Author Archives: lara

For play. Using a “rub­ber band” inter­face to explore words and their con­nec­tions: http://www.visuwords.com/ http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ Reporting on Reading Rights and the National Federations of the Blind’s protest of Amazon’s cav­ing to the Author’s Guild over the text-to-speech fea­ture of the kin­dle. Show some love. Write a let­ter. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/06/reading-rights-coali.html Best round up of the report­ing on the Google books … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Apr 7)”

In case you don’t have a suf­fi­cient­ly rad busi­ness card. Make up a few of these. A must for MEs. http://www.instructables.com/id/Cardapult-the-Business-Card-Catapult/ Too bad these are art prints. I would love to take them down to the local. I’d final­ly be cool­er than the 20 some­things out to show their girls a hot Saturday night. http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/nice-shot-olly-mosss-shoot-the.html A musi­cal inter­lude. A … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Apr 6)”

Heavy on the visu­als today. Touching pho­tos of Mexicans in America who sup­port fam­i­lies at home doing mun­dane jobs dressed as super­heros. http://dulcepinzon.com/superheroes.htm I will make time to see this mod­el and all the rest dur­ing my spring road trip: http://www.matchstickmarvels.com/Comingin2009.htm I am fas­ci­nat­ed by pho­tographs of decay­ing infra­struc­ture. From Abandoned Britain, Helling Asylum: I chose one of the … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Apr 2)”

Every morn­ing I send JimH a quick sum­ma­ry of my morn­ing cruze around the net. He sug­gest­ed that you all might like to see the results as well. From Core77 a snarky short descrip­tion of how the US Mint makes coins (cool pho­tos) there’s a link to the longer COINage mag­a­zine ver­sion at the bot­tom. The other … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Apr 1)”