magpie's shiny things

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 photos.)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/the-ancient-book-of.html
Then see more on the ama­zon page using Look Inside.
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Book-Science-Scott-Morse/dp/0977471543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245348899&sr=8–1

Former indus­tri­al site trans­formed into a park. Cool, but most­ly I’m
link­ing this for the pho­tographs. (there are links to NYC’s highline
project as well. If you’re inter­est­ed in urban land­scapes and reuse it
s a fas­ci­nat­ing project.)
http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/reclaimed-industrial-facilities-duisburg-nord/

You going to have to be a real man­ly man to sur­vive being on of the
first NYPD offi­cers assigned to one of these. (Whirr. Whirr. Whirr.)
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/nypd_green_13796.asp

A load­ing dock and 25 rent­ed box trucks. I love this as a way for
artists and design­ers who are shut out of the big boy shows to get an
audience.
http://www.core77.com/blog/events/neocon_2009_guerrilla_truck_show_at_fulton_market__13786.asp

Using RR right-of-way to build new elec­tric trans­mis­sion cor­ri­dors. A
trans­porta­tion and ener­gy pro­pos­al that makes way too much sense.
Someone get the gov­’t to put a stop to this right now!
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/rail-wind/

How phan­tom traf­fic jams are cre­at­ed — with video from MIT.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/phantom-jams/

Phew — just bare­ly fin­ished this post in time. It’s still technically
morning :-)

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:

Lovely retro adver­tis­ing for Coca-Cola
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/06/15/coca-cola-cupping-ma.html

Another drink relat­ed design. Perfect for when the work­bench gets too
crowd­ed for your beer.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/kim_hyunbeens_drinklip_for_desks_with_little_real_estate_13775.asp

First link from the “real” world. La-z-boy goes green. (Dang that’s ugly)
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/green_furniture_award_goes_tothe_lazboy_13766.asp

Second link from the “real” world. Did GM kill the wrong mark?
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/general-motors‑4/

Adventure, Curiosity, Time Wasting, and maybe Educational:

Just launched by Dylan Thuras and Joshua Foer. Atlas Obscura is a
won­der cab­i­net on the inter­net. User gen­er­at­ed con­tent that is worth
seeing.(Occasional serv­er slow-downs. Warning colos­sal time sink.)
http://atlasobscura.com/

Dylan Thuras pre­vi­ous project, Curious Expeditions is equal­ly fascinating
http://curiousexpeditions.org/

Four for Tech-Geek crowd:

Carl Linnaeus invent­ed the index card. It’s impor­tant, really.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090616080137.htm

Obama is work­ing to fix Read ID but not the way it should be fixed.
(By trash­ing the idea altogether)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/obama-administration-aims-to-fix-broken-real-id-act.ars

Experts call for Google to force use of https rather than http at all
times for it’s cloud apps. Oops, I nev­er remem­ber to force https when
I’m on-line at Starbucks.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/google_ssl/

Tablet net­book? I leave it to the net­book fans to dis­sect and debate.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/16/asus-t91-tablet-netbook-to-hit-us-retailers-soon/

Video Links:

Tom Brokaw from Comdex 1994. Weird — they don’t get much wrong.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67945/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-tom-brokaws-early-reports-about-the-internet

I love post-it notes. I love stop-motion ani­ma­tion. Swoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentalfloss.com%2Fblogs%2Farchives%2F26442&feature=player_embedded

Making of video as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJYvaCCB3c&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentalfloss.com%2Fblogs%2Farchives%2F26442&feature=player_embedded

I haven’t had time to watch all of this yet. But ‑OMG- all that
Bollywood good­ness in one place!
http://www.motherjones.com/riff/2009/06/video-bollywood-beginners

More on Thursday,

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.

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 sort of sustainable.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/sortof_sustainable_flooring_vinyl_yes_vinyl_composition_tile_13468.asp

A good sum­ma­ry of the chaos in Guatemala caused by the death of lawyer
Rodrigo Rosenberg. Social medi­a’s role in this cri­sis is big. (I hate
the term social media.)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/12/guatemala-slain-lawy.html

If you’re post­ing video to one of the video shar­ing sites you might
want to have a look at Markus Weiland’s review of their
ownership/copyright/privacy poli­cies. (Do they own your video?) Anyone
know of a sim­i­lar overview of the terms of use for the pho­to sharing
sites?
http://advancingusability.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/owned-legal-terms-of-video-hosting-services-compared/

For WordPress users a col­lec­tion of hacks tak­ing advan­tage of custom
fields. I par­tic­u­lar­ly like the first one — post expi­ra­tion dates. (I
have not had time nor incli­na­tion to look care­ful­ly at all the code.
Use at your own risk.)
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/13/10-custom-fields-hacks-for-wordpress/

Distributed trans­la­tion efforts for TED talks. There’s also supposed
to be a new trick in the tran­scripts. Select a bit of text and go
direct­ly to that por­tion of the video. Haven’t found it yet. Will
advise.
http://blog.ted.com/2009/05/ted_open_trans.php

Neil Giaman reminds us that we do not own the right to an author’s
future out­put just because we bought the first book in a series. Some
days he just makes me nod my head and smile.
http://blog.ted.com/2009/05/ted_open_trans.php

Unintended coin­ci­dence. Tomorrow I leave to cross the coun­try. May
14th also marks the 205th anniver­sary of the begin­ning of Lewis and
Clark’s cross coun­try trek.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14940

Zen image of the day.
http://sleepmachine.tumblr.com/post/106996448/plasticdreams-tumbleg-kiri2-muibrog

This is like­ly to be the last Morning Linkage until I return from the road.
Occasional trip reports to WL or fol­low along dai­ly with words and pic­tures on:
http://shoes.blackdogandmagpie.net

A sil­ly to start. 69 Love Song Illustrated. Just what it says. All by
dif­fer­ent artists. They haven’t got the full 69 yet and a the quality
varies but this one is hap­py sil­ly. (Mildly NSFW due to hazy nakedness
and furries)
http://howfuckingromantic.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/lets-pretend-were-bunny-rabbits/

Douglas Bowman’s depar­ture from his post as head design­er for Google
has freed him to say a lot about how Google works. In this NYT article
he again dis­cuss­es the data vs. design divide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/business/10ping.html?_r=1

How the smart guys at UCSB hijacked a bot­net. This is the best I’ve
been able to find on it. Details of how the bot­net worked are light.
(I real­ly don’t care about the user data they found. There’s nothing
new.) I’ll keep look­ing for some­thing more in depth.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/252353/hijacked-botnet-exposes-startling-online-habits.html

Charmingly British head-to-head test between a net­book (Asus) and an
iPhone. Which is eas­i­er to type on? In a Rally car? At full goose bozo
speeds?
http://news.cnet.com/8301–17938_105-10230160–1.html

Cory Doctorow’s review of Daniel Pinkwater’s new chil­dren’s book.
Pinkwater like Gaiman writes chil­dren’s books that make grown-ups
hap­py too.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/11/pinkwaters-neddiad‑a.html

Pretty. Shiny. Nostalgic (for some of you) and pos­si­bly the coolest
bike name *ever*.
http://www.bikeexif.com/hodaka-combat-wombat

I still hate monday.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/05/11/funny-pictures-the-monday/

more tomor­row,