Display of market impact in algorithmic trading engine invention
Surprise! Hit Song is Secretly a Commercial | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration
American Murder Mystery Very interesting and somewhat disheartening look at the latest developments in the huge story of poverty and crime in America. One huge issue with the article, the tag line talks about the rise of crime in "many American cities", but the causes it pinpoints are much more about the distribution of crime, not the actual rise.
Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
brand tags really nice and simple project from Noah Brier
Black Stars - Ghanas Hiplife Generation - Hip Hop / Reggae / Afro-beat
Sleevelessness â a blog about graphic design, the web and digital music
murketing » âBuying Inâ, can't wait to buy it myself, Walker is a great writer covering some of the trickiest, hard to capture social terrain of this era.
Cloverbucks - Dinerâs Journal - Dining & Wine - New York Times Blog
"So, in essence, cafes that have been using Clovers and the CloverNet have been helping to document and codify a body of knowledge about how the machine, which really is a new bit of technology, functions and performs.
They helped the company compile data about sales, about how the machines are holding up in the field and which specific times, doses and temperatures showcased individual coffees best. Now that information is something that Starbucks a direct competitor to every small cafe in the country has ownership of, and soon it will no longer be available to original Clover users. "
Whoa, that turns the Starbucks Clover acquisition more than a few shades more diabolical... Ultimately I hope it'll work out well for all parties, Starbucks still (or no longer in some cases) can't make good espresso so the indie market has a huge market space. Meanwhile if Starbucks starts making some decent lighter roasts for their new Clovers then coffee quality rises across the country.
The big question remaining is whether someone steps up and creates a Clover competitor for the indie market. Without it there is a nasty gap in the market. It's doubtful Starbucks will be able to brew the uberpremium stuff that places like Intelligencia & Grumpy are producing, and the indies that can do it won't be able to get the machines to do the style.
Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » What Is Manufacturing in the Era of Design-Art-Technology?
Hillary's Nasty Pastorate yikes, it's a bit weak on details but if true, fuck Hillary, she truly is a monster...
Dolores Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Where does âBlueâ end and âRedâ begin?
Eater: EaterWire Coffee Edition: Starbucks Acquires All Clover Coffee Systems Probably doesn't mean much to most people reading this, but in the coffee world this is WOW! First thought is this sucks, although it does mean coffee should improve at Starbucks. Just can't believe they'll be doing the Clovers justice though, and if no one else can get them that's just shitty..
Itâs Bondholders vs. Shareholders in a Race to Buy Bear Stearns Stock - New York Times
I have a feeling the term "celebrity whore" just got a little bit more literal.
Taiwans Solution to Traffic Accidents - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog Interesting data on those countdown traffic lights, apparently ones that count down on green increase accident rates, while those that countdown on red decrease accident rates.
village voice > news > David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' by David Mamet
FOXNews.com - Can Hillary Clinton Come Back? Karl Rove Handicaps Her Chances on Super Tuesday II -, Karl Rove of all people agrees with my theory that a long primary might actually be good for the Democrats.
The Relevance of Ralph - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
The Goodspeed Update » Blog Archive » The Urbanistsâ Panacea: Parking Reform
village voice > news > Iron Chef Boyardee by Robert Sietsema
Is It Better to Buy or Rent? - New York Times Very useful calculator here, although it's pretty important to note that the settings are biased heavily towards buyers, at least in the context of the NY market (and it is the NYTimes). The investment return is set at just 5% which is essentially a bond only investment, and there are $0 condo/co-op fees! Set realistically and buying a home looks retarded without even factoring in the cost of personal illiquidity one takes on by owning. Retarded that is unless one thinks housing prices will just go up faster than inflation forever...
Europe savors '08 race drama - I wonder if any foreign news outlet can describe the US primary & delegate system without using words to the effect of "archaic and baroque"...
Silobreaker, one of the more promising of the many new news collations/filtering/visualization sites. Kind of curious how many of these seem to be popping up, how many programmers/entrepreneurs are there out there convinced they can make a algorithmic system better than the NYTimes?
Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companiesâ Logos
Designing Whatâs Right for Consumers - New York Times
"But you don't have to have an M.B.A. to understand that refusing to compromise on design, for any reason, can lead to fantastic commercial success. Look at Apple, Google, Sonos, R.I.M. (makers of the BlackBerry), or (in its glory days) Palm."
It's a mildly interesting article, but I think that bit about Palm's glory days is pretty telling, just designing a good product once or twice is no indicator of long term success. RIM for instance is in danger of going out of style like a palmpilot, Apple almost died without Steve Jobs around and Google's design track record is hit or miss. It's one thing for a critic to say companies need to incorporate good design and another thing entirely for them to actually figure out how to implement good design and then repeat it.
What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Five - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
The Greener Grass: Concept - Current State Slick system for monitoring and controlling a homes power usage via an iPhone. So 21st century! (update: actually it's just a concept not a product, which I guess makes it even more 21st century...)
Department of Citizen Alice: Hugo Chávez's Coca: It's the Real Thing
NussbaumOnDesign Is Search A Lie? Can You Really Believe Google? - BusinessWeek on PR agencies gaming Google.
Pruning Shears - Pruning Shears - The New Authoritarians heh, I guess that's a more charitable way of separating the Coulter/Rush style conservativism as obedience from the other less odious but still not so great styles of conservativism...
Craving the High That Risky Trading Can Bring - New York Times
CNN Hits The Wall for the Election, I actually thought they were faking the multitouch, but it turns out CNN's infowall is a genuine Jeff Han creation.
Like A Super Hero - Newsweek on Microsoft's zooming interface
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy's three-legged race, on Yahoo/Microsoft
RIP Sheldon Brown. A true bicycle/internet maverick. Fixed gear cycling would never be where it is today without him and the resources he created. Sad day on the internet.
Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting, Watts' 6 Degrees work was pretty misleading, intentionally so too, but still I'm glad he's doing this work, even if his interpretations always feel a little biased...
vnunet.com analysis: The malware 'shadow economy' - vnunet.com
Department of Citizen Alice: Venezuela, Allies to Start New Bank
Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights - New York, NY : citynoise.org- with an insane comments section that probably trumps my old reggaeton one...
Vice Magazine - PLEASE SNORT ME - PART 1 - An Oral History of Brooklynâs Most Notorious Bar
Riding While White on the NYC Subway | RaceWire. Missing a couple stops, but man it drives the point in well...
Speak Up âș The Hardest Working Presidential Candidate Logo
Doors of Perception weblog: Traveling without moving in Uncanny Valley
Calculated Risk: Wachovia: Homeowners just Walking Away Yow, the crazy thing about this housing crash is that you could see it coming from a couple miles (or years) away. But one thing I never anticipated was that all the no money down and interest only loans would mean that buyers had no commitment to the houses and would happily walk away when the payments turned into a drag. This actually might be a good thing though as historically housing declines are marked not by prices going down but by them becoming illiquid as people are unwilling to sell their homes at a loss. If they are willing to cut and run at least liquidity might return quicker...
from the comments on that link:
"In retrospect, getting a home loan in the last couple of years has been like going to a casino: play any game you like, no matter how risky; the house doesn't care, because the house always wins.
"So who bought, the last couple of years? A lot were gamblers and speculators, the kind of people who know how to cut their losses when things go bad. And let "the house" keep the house."
Closely Watched Trains - New York Times, On the L Train arrival signs, which are often but not always accurate. So if you have a sign that conveys information you can't trust, is it still useful?
Five Simple Steps to Becoming a Billionaire: The Greenspan Method
Networks Of Design - Design History Society Conference â08, hosted by University College Falmouth
BLDGBLOG: Lyons-Dubai, whoa....
Analysis: Why the "Hillary hacked NH?" story is important (Updated)
NussbaumOnDesign New Distribution System for India's Nano Car From Tata. - BusinessWeek
Doors of Perception weblog: Drops in the bucket - On the problem of a non smooth transition from fossil to alternative energy.
50 people who could save the planet | Environment | The Guardian
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007, Interconnected) Matt Webb with a year worth of thoughts..
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey, only scanned it, but there seems to be too much hate and not enough real exploration of the implications of image sampling and reproduction. Loads of good research on where Shep gets some of his images though. Consider it a good reference point for a more interesting discussion...
Give one, get one, give a "$100 laptop" (for $400) and get one for yourself free...
Michael Pollan - Argiculture - Disease Resistant Staph - Concentrated Animal Feed Operations - Sustainability - New York Times Interesting article, and also interesting is how the NYT has changed the html page titles on their site, the link above is what they now are using and it's clearly designed to improve how the article ranks in Google...
Facebook Admits Ad Service Tracks Logged-Off Users - Yahoo! News
The New York Times > Key Magazine > Slide Show > Making the Cover
"Why do today's 'sustainable cities' look like 1980s golf resorts?"�
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Google, Apple and the future of personal computing
Strange Bedfellows: Why an Apple/Google collaboration has been so difficult to make happen.
David Graeber: The Shock of Victory. Graeber might be the most provocative of all today's academics, and this might just be his provocative piece, in which he argues that anarchistic direct action is actually widely successful and just doesn't know how to handle success. All this despite most anarchists being completely frustrated with their failures... Most interesting political read I've encountered in quite a while...
NSA's Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World
Through the Looking Glass - The Post-9/11 Era Has Caught Up With William Gibson's Vision
Richardsona // Adam Richardson's Blog - Blog - So You Think Chinese Pet Food is Bad?
Flooding cripples New York's aging infrastructure. So is "aging infrastructure" the new meme du jour? And is it the new political cover for maintaining a deeply (and increasingly) flawed infrastructure rather than creating a better way to live?
Walking to the shops âdamages planet more than going by carâ - Times Online
Streetsblog » Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl Hired to Consult on PlaNYC
Design View / Andy Rutledge - quiet structure - filed for future comment. Quick version, I agree that de-emphasizing structural elements is often a good thing (and as much as he's going out of vogue, Tufte has been emphasizing this for years.) But why does de-emphasizing the structure so often get paired with de-emphasizing the culture? In Rutledge's example the CNN site is way to quiet, it's a cold flavorless stripped down piece of alienation. A lot like an airport really. USA Today would never me my choice for a favorite site, but it least it has some character and energy.
The iPhone User Experience: A First Touch, Tog on the iPhone
Immersion Corporation - Mobility Overview - make a tactile feedback system that works for touch screens, interesting. Course force feedback mice have had pretty limited success despite how nice they can be. Guess the big success in this feed are game controllers, which have well integrated force feedback now.
wayneandwax.com » The Webnography of Reggaeton Faultlines Fascinating post from Wayne Marshall where he digs through one of the more fascinating posts over on this blog. No pomo.
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace - danah boyd is definitely onto something big here, although as she freely acknowledges it is a draft and aspects need evolution (especially the absurd good/bad binary which she pushes way too far). Still the class/cultural differences between MySpace and Facebook are blatantly obvious from the first log in, but perhaps maddeningly difficult to pin down.
Redeye VC: Myspace - the next Prodigy? It's funny to read the tech types on this stuff cause they just don't get culture. Sure the Facebook app platform is light years ahead of what MySpace is doing, but it doesn't exactly help you promote your band or your photo studio or your art does it? I'm actually more optimistic about MySpace's long term relevance now than I've ever been. That doesn't mean what Facebook is doing isn't cool and potentially important, it's just a big fork in the paths these companies are taking.
blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in "This is an amazing achievement -- one of the most significant milestones in the technology industry in this decade.", and well plenty of bloggers get all hyperbolic like that, but when the blogger is Marc Andreessen, former lead developer of Netscape and co creator of Mosaic... Then again he also is the founder of Ning so make what you want of those statements.
The New York Times Magazine - Money Issue, as good and as sobering as an issue can get.
NYT - Kids and Money | New York Times Shorts -- The First Ones - yow, 15 minutes well worth watching.
emo beer = busted career, great visualized music reviews.
Streetsblog » Eyes on the Street: A Historic Sidewalk Widening in Williamsburg
london 2012 (tecznotes), got to agree with Mike, took a couple days but I rather like the London 2012 logo now, and the video is as good as that design by committee stuff could ever hope to be. Not quite Mexico 68, but similarly psychedelic and still damn good as these logos go.
Feature Presentation, James Surowiecki on feature creep in The New Yorker
Old School Messenger on Letterman in the 80's, under a truck!
How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community By Cory Doctorow,
Leaving a big mess on campus - Los Angeles Times "After final exams and graduation every spring, America's college campuses become astonishing junkyards of abandoned stuff providing, some say, a snapshot of a generation of students raised in a throwaway culture."
And as a bonus they highlight my alma mater...
Index of MaisonMartinMargiela, pretty much a rip off (or homage to?) of the OG Helmut Lang site, but that was one of the all time best sites in my book so....
For what it's worth a few years ago I got half way through building a portfolio site entirely in apache, no html, no flash, just modded directories and images, should finish that thing....
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Long player, Carr on David Weinberger's, Everything Is Miscellaneous. Like Carr I started reading this, and yeah Weinberger started losing me at the exact same point. I did make it half way through though and the book is pretty much ok. I don't actually disagree much with it's premise, what's in there is generally semi right, but what's missing tells a whole other story. Weinberger's got some serious rose colored glasses, and funnily enough the stories he tells make his little tech elite culture into heroes... More hopefully when I finish the thing.
Reaping Results: Data-Mining Goes Mainstream - New York Times
Estonia accuses Russia of ' waging cyber war'-News-World-Europe-TimesOnline
Koolhaas, Foster clash over âsimilarâ designs - Building Design
What Else Is New?: How uses, not innovations, drive human technology. The New Yorker review of "The Shock of the Old", about a quarter way into this book myself and not quite sure how I feel, it seems rather obvious, but sometimes the obvious really needs to be said...
The Açaí Evangelist, my cousin Noah Landes writing about acai and the food politics of rainforest fruit. He definitely got me addicted to the stuff, I've been eating it every day for the past couple weeks, no lie. It's sort of like blueberries merged with chocolate, damn good stuff...
MASH SF World Premiere long time coming! when is NYC?
Dept. of Popular Culture: Banksy Was Here: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Click opera - Secondhand best: the point of not designing at all
Radio 1 pulls 'promotional' track for brand of hair gel | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » You Can Own an Integer Too â Get Yours Here
apophenia: maps tech companies + dpblog: utopia maps: more vs. myspace
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding." - John Updike (via AG)
Little Snitch app for monitoring network traffic on a Mac
cityofsound: Postopolis + BLDGBLOG: Postopolis!, yikes this should be fun!
China To Top U.S. in Greenhouse Gases This Year (TreeHugger) It's going to be really interesting to see what this does to the US environmental movement psychologically. All of a sudden instead of biggest core of the problem is going to be a "them" instead of an "us", what happens next, who knows...
âThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbableâ - New York Times - First chapter of Nassim Taleb's new book. I'm in the middle of it now, recommendation at the moment, read this chapter, but buy his first book not this one. He's got one seriously important idea, but his writing leaves something to be desired, and it's not getting better...
17gugg-graphic.jpg (JPEG Image, 1245x694 pixels), the crack epidemic finally reaches the art world...
Click opera - Live dangerously, live long! "Reversible Destiny Lofts"
Profiting from the Virginia Shooting, the news outlets are buying massacre ad words, and Google of course is selling them.... Course it's possible the ad buys are algorithm driven, wouldn't be surprised if the Times has a system of automatically IDing keywords which triggers keyword buying on Google. And if they don't have it already, well it's coming soon, isn't it?
Update: BlackBerry service hit by widespread outage in U.S., hmmm wonder how robust they really are with all north american traffic going through 2 hubs...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Googleopoly Beating on Google is sort of a kicking a dead horse thing to do nowadays, except that the horse was never alive anyway it's a statanic robot and it happens to be charging straight at you at some absurd speed.Google plus Doubleclick?, you better run for your lives my friends, except there is no where to run so maybe try turning off your internet and then stay off for life...
GigaOM » DodgeBall founder quits Google Go Dennis! Happy to see you free at last.
S/FJ: PEOPLE GET HEATED, truth is there is no debate, Lil Wayne has been absolutely running hip hop for the past year, and there are no signs he's slowing down. Wonder if any of this run is ever going to make it to an official record though...
Lord of the Ringtones: How Akon became a star. - By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine Good article on the first true 21st century pop star. The African car thief currently singing with a Senegalese accent over a healthy chunk of the top 40. If he didn't exist William Gibson probably would have had to invent him. Of course this being the 21st, it's pretty easy to be the biggest pop star in the world and have practically no one know who you are.
PopMatters Books Feature | Long Zoom: Interview with Steven Johnson
Mexican Drug Cartels Leave a Bloody Trail on YouTube - washingtonpost.com
Core77 - 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design a little blasé but he sums up the sustainable design trend in a neat 1000 words. Why does it have to be so boring though?
BLDGBLOG: The Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Walter Murch
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Predictability, Margins of Error, Quality of Life
indexed: Exodus, anyone? Indexed is one of my favorite blogs of late, and this particular piece is freaking brilliant....
eBay: KING TUBBY'S HOMETOWN BASS SPEAKER BOX (RARE FIND) , auction is over, but whoa.. surprised it didn't go higher though.
Raphâs Website » GDC 07: Game Studies Download "Female players get Sims pregnant 60% of the time, males only 11%. If parents are divroced[sic], so you marry your Sims? Players who have married parents keep their sims married 73%, divoerced[sic] families only 53%. There is a weak correlation between personality and ingame behavior. Strong correlation between player race and character choice, its the exception. And females are a lot more likely to have babies in the Sims. Players are a little likely to want to enact their personlaities[sic], but very likely to want to enact their race and their gender."
DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » The Power of Ten (Simpson's style), a totally insane animated gif..
Swizz Beatz Kills Rap, and Tom Breihan is just killing it blogwise lately... Make sure you peep the song, or at least the beat. Between this, M.I.A.'s Bird Flu and Timbaland's Petey Pablo beats there is some true rhythmic frenzy hitting dancefloors in the 007...
Hungry for the Truth: An Interview With Michael Pollan by Anne E. McBride
Time Out New York / Trained killer, a payphone driven installation by my friend Ryan Holsopple.
WorldChanging: Notes from the Road: Design Indaba and Doors of Perception
frogblog / Chinese product round-up: Planes, bikes, and automobiles, and buses...
Prepaid Phone Cards - Consumed - Rob Walker - New York Times
Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » Collapsing Bulkheads: The Covers of Crash
John Battelle's Searchblog: Packaged Goods Media vs. Conversational Media, Part One (Updated)
Lost in Babylon: An Iraq War translator's inside take on America's failure to communicate
Open Architecture Network | Improving living standards through collaborative design
Mobile phone banking takes off - PSD Blog - World Bank Group
'Safest ever' passport is not fit for purpose | News | This is London
Music's New Gatekeeper - WSJ.com "From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers. Our reporters on the horse-trading that can turn unknowns into stars."
GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The 51 Best* Magazines Ever compiled by Graydon Carter! Oddly American centric (with about one and a half exceptions, ie so few that they should have just made it an American list), but pretty on point. I'd work in the Economist, Vice, one of the big 90's fashion rags (Visionaire, Purple and Big spring to mind), and a skate mag (Big Brother, Thrasher or Transworld in their prime.) Damn that piece just brought out the nerd in me hardcore...
Advertising Age - Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million
Social Explorer, a nice interactive data map of the US.
adaptive path » blog » blog archive » Design Schools: Please Start Teaching Design Again
cityofsound: 'Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait', by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, great piece by Dan Hill.
On a side note I first read it on my phone, and made a mental note to link to it here, which I promptly forgot. As more and more devices get networked, what happens to reading and posting patterns? In this case the technology actually disabled my ability to maintain a practice. It wasn't until it popped up again in my reading network that I remembered to add it to this column...
Flame First, Think Later: New Clues to E-Mail Misbehavior - New York Times
oresegïŒăȘăŹă»ă°ïŒ-ä»äșăăȘăăćç»ăèŠłăăăăă”ăŒăăčinnovative Japanese YouTube interface
A Condo Tower Grows in Brooklyn - washingtonpost.com, the national press catches a long brewing local story...
peterme.com :: Michael Pollan and John Mackey be sure to check their letters back and forth, quite interesting.
richardsona // Adam Richardson's Blog - Blog - Org Chart 2.0: Built for Systems Thinking, It's a touch heavy on the "new new" hyperbole, but a very valid question none the less.
Pruned: Super-Versailles, on the massive wall sized control room screens
Interviewing the man behind The Wire. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine
Howard Schultz concerned about Starbucks expansion, really interesting internal memo from the Starbucks CEO where he comes rather honestly face to face with the Starbucksification of his brand. It's easy to forget that at one point Starbucks actually made decent (and from what I understand at an earlier point even great) coffee. The question I keep wondering though is just what did Starbucks do with those thousands of La Marzoccas?
collision detection: Does the month of your birth affect your risk of mental illness?
Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing
AQ | Graphic Design | Articles: Wayfinding in Tokyo: Local Context and Direction Map Design
More Nitsche at: BibliOdyssey: Erik Nitsche Graphic Design & BustBright » Erik Nitsche
Flickr: Erik Nitsche collection, a small set of images from my favorite modernist era (but too good to be called modernist) designer. I actually had a collection of nearly all his General Dynamics annual reports, which I long since left with a friend who hopefully still has them. Anyone know a good scanning service in NY, they are well worth documenting...
79 - East Germany Lives On - As A Tiny Carribean Island « strange maps
Sugar rush | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited "'Sugar is as dangerous as tobacco [and] should be classified as a hard drug, for it is harmful and addictive,' according to a recent article in the British Medical Journal."
The Old Guard Flexes Its Muscles (While It Still Can) - New York Times, on the Networks response to YouTube.
rodcorp: Monocle first impressions, pretty on point, Wallpaper meets the The Economist was actually the exact same hollywood pitch synopsis I was using. The first issue is uneven, but if the weaker points get ironed out, not accentuated as things move on this will be a great mag. The risk however is in the ads, which lean towards that high income wallpaper side of things, and the weaker articles have that bad writing for rich people sort of thing going on. Any slide toward that direction and the result is just another nauseous luxury lifestyle mag. The fact that they are opening news bureaus is a good sign they'll move in the right direction, so the odds are looking nice.
Chávez Threatens to Jail Price Control Violators - New York Times, hard to tell exactly what is happening down their from this distance, but the Times at least is painting a picture of a ghostly echo of the mistakes of 20th century communism and if the left is going to go anywhere they desperately need to learn from and not repeat those mistakes...
Hip-Hop Outlaw (Industry Version) - Samantha M. Shapiro - New York Times, Sam's an old friend, great writer and covering the DJ Drama drama for the NYTimes magazine.
The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org) Jonathan Lethem in defense of plagiarism and against copyright.
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap - Gizmodo
Do we *REALLY* want to aggregate all our social networks? | :Ben Metcalfe Blog
Hello, Christian Science Monitor readers! Flood of knockoff merchandise triggers a wider crackdown across US | csmonitor.com is well worth reading, and not because it somehow features a quote from your's truly...
The Real Problem For YouTube » Publishing 2.0 with some response from both me and the excellent Mike Migurski in the comments.
MOG looks like one of the more interesting of the social music sites, although some Pandora style radio functionality could really add to it..
RSOE HAVARIA Emergency and Disaster Information Service, crazy map of all the current "disasters" on the globe.
Daring Fireball: Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music', I'm starting to think that Job's offer to do away with DRM in the iTunes store is indeed a bluff, but people often bluff with pretty decent hands. I'm pretty sure Apple prefers their "FairPlay" tech lock over selling unprotected MP3 files, but they look great saying they are against DRM knowing that the big guns in the music industry will never call that bluff. And if they actually do, well Apple can handle it, they'd just rather not...
Apple - Thoughts on Music, Steve Jobs is credited with writing that, and he comes out strongly against DRM, very interesting.
Nas: the "Where Are They Now" remixes, with an insane and massive collection of old school MCs
At Davos, The Politicians Got Web 2.0 More Than The Business People. Not too surprising actually, democratic politics is a highly networked and in places highly distributed process. Big corporations on the other hand tend to have centralized hierarchies not all too different than say a 16th century monarchies...
The Long Tail: The beginner's guide to critiquing the Long Tail, in which Chris Anderson addresses some common critiques of his theory and in some ways confirms mine...
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
"1. Eat food. Though in our current state of confusion, this is much easier said than done. So try this: Dont eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldnt recognize as food. (Sorry, but at this point Moms are as confused as the rest of us, which is why we have to go back a couple of generations, to a time before the advent of modern food products.) There are a great many foodlike items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldnt recognize as food (Go-Gurt? Breakfast-cereal bars? Nondairy creamer?); stay away from these."
Raining E-Blows on Egos - New York Times, It doesn't exactly include any real evidence, but this little Times Style piece is claiming there is now targeted spam going out. Even if it doesn't quite exist yet, it's bound to come down the pipe soon enough, but what I want to know is what are the actual mechanics of it all?
The shipping news | Waste and pollution | Guardian Unlimited Environment
richardsona // Adam Richardson's Blog - Blog - Colbert on Cingular
John Battelle's Searchblog: The Bummer Of Davos... where every session is off the record, the people in power need to stay in power after don't they...
YouTube - Kool G Rap ft. Nas - Fastlife, rare Nas from his prime, damn...
Color Rendering Index (CRI) and the problem with fluorescents
Davos Moment--Battelle Complains About Lack of Advertising for Blogs.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Montgomery-Finkelstein debate
Google Operating System: Google Shows Really Big Checkout Buttons, interesting to see how Google starts to act more and more like a traditional advertiser as the easy money side of things slows down.. Wonder what would have happened if they hadn't gone on a hiring rampage, if they had kept costs low they might have been able to keep their pure text ethos rolling for a long time, or maybe not... Guess that's the Craig's List model.
Many Eyes, IBM's shared data visualization site, Wattenberg & Viegas apparently involved, but it's still not working great for me.
One of the remarkable things about YouTube and era of cheap videocameras is that people are growing up with a remarkable degree of understanding about the art film/video editing. I'm not quite sure that this is what the old school media theorists had in mind when they pushed "media literacy" but evenNike is hyping video editing to the world. Plus I contributed a microsecond or two of Flash animation to that site, so...
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Fake, Real, Fake, Real. Repeat until fade
Did Apple Borrow the iPhone Design from Someone Else? : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech, a little overstated, but it serves as a decent survey of previous touchscreen phones.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The link of least resistance
With Field-Goal Accuracy on the Rise, Are Kickers Too Good? - New York Times Personally I'm not even sure why the game needs field goals at all.. or any kicks for that matter. Why not just let the QB throw the ball for a "kick off"?
So whose idea was it to put R Kelly on the remix of a track called "Make it Rain"?
-Bruce Sterling
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Village Phone, Photo Presentation
Howard Schultz on Charlie Rose- January 17th, 2006
I'm sure you could say the same thing about McDonald's or Subway or a few other of the biggest chains, but Starbucks owns nearly all their stores, they don't franchise, creates some rather interesting scenarios in the future I think...
The Village Voice: Status Ain't Hood: DJ Drama and Don Cannon Arrested on Some Bullshit
Hong Kong and Shanghai Duel for Financial Capital - New York Times
IdeaPort : innovation / new technology / fringe scanning » Innovation and tantric sex
YouTube - James Brown's Greatest Performance? - Please Please Please
The Pinocchio Theory » Blog Archive » DeLanda, A New Philosophy of Society, a book I can also recommend. Need to read it again before really commenting though, beyond the fact that I wish DeLanda would address Latour given the nearly parallel but not yet crossing paths they are pursuing.
Open the Future: Beauty and the Beast (on the closed source iPhone)
treocentral.com >> Stories >> Commentary >> Commentary: A discussion on the iPhone
Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
frog designâą / frogblog / iPhone a Potential Boon for Web Developers
Light Beneath the Streets: The Future Fulton Street Transit Center - New York Times
National Guardsmen overrun at the Border "A U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona's border with Mexico.
"According to the Border Patrol, an unknown number of gunmen attacked the site in the state's West Desert Region around 11 p.m. The site is manned by National Guardsmen. Those guardsmen were forced to retreat."
Doors of Perception weblog: Global place - or is it a hat? John Thackara keynote on sustainable futures.
trendwatching.com: January 2007 trend briefing | TOP 5 CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2007
The Edge Annual Question: 2007
WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? WHY?
gladwell dot com - blowing up, Gladwell on Nassim Taleb
xkcd » Blog Archive » The Map of the Internet and the actual image
Kermit on Visual Thinking, anyone have the video of this, YouTube fails for once...
Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: When will Brazil's Gangs Make the Jump?
Social Networking Awards - The Top Social Networks of 2006 - Mashable!
New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970) - a photoset on Flickr
Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: The Economics of Attention
Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google - Industry sectors - Times Online
Edward Tufte - Presenting Data and Information - jason carr's mousepad: Graduate Student resources
The Shrinking Long Tail - Top 10 Web Domains Increasing in Reach
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Sharecropping the long tail:
"What's being concentrated, in other words, is not content but the economic value of content. MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the concentration of the economic rewards into the hands of the few...
"It strikes me that this dynamic, which I don't think we've ever seen before, at least not on this scale, is the most interesting, and unsettling, economic phenomenon the Internet has produced."
vlogbot, Steven Jackson's videoblog bot/viewer.
Fimoculous.com - misc - Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading
peterme.com :: Unfinished thoughts on user research, Peter's trying to pull together a bit of critique on designers retreating into being researchers... Insightful, but perhaps one egg short of an omelette.
gladwell.com: Bad Stereotyping, it's actually well worth checking out the series of posts leading up to this on Gladwell's blog, where you basically see an expert on making clear written arguments stumble through a couple rounds of debate and emerge on a very crisp and strong argument.
Joel on Simplicity: "I think it is a misattribution to say, for example, that the iPod is successful because it lacks features. If you start to believe that, you'll believe, among other things, that you should take out features to increase your products success. With six years of experience running my own software company I can tell you that nothing we have ever done at Fog Creek has increased our revenue more than releasing a new version with more features. Nothing. The flow to our bottom line from new versions with new features is absolutely undeniable. It's like gravity. When we tried Google ads, when we implemented various affiliate schemes, or when an article about FogBugz appears in the press, we could barely see the effect on the bottom line. When a new version comes out with new features, we see a sudden, undeniable, substantial, and permanent increase in revenue."
The Boomerang Drone, of all the things in the annual NYTMag ideas issue, this is the only one worthy of a "holy shit"....
Swivel - Home "Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data."
On the Puma Slancio, and the eternal return of the modular shoe « Speedbird
peterme.com: The Ghost Map and the inevitability of cities, a very valid critique of the deeply pro-urbanism approach of Johnson, whose views I happen to share. Both as Merholz points out, all three of us happen to live in some of the primest urban pastures, and stay their by choice, many of the billions now in urban spaces are not nearly as lucky...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
murketing » The No Mas Q&A [Pt. 2]: Art, writing, business, and the âBaghdad Oilers.â
frogblog / The problem with design It's just a quote and it's a quote worth re-quoting in entirety:
The fundamental problem is that designers are obliged to use current information to predict a future state that will not come about unless their predictions are correct. The final outcome of designing has to be assumed before the means of achieving it can be explored: the designers have to work backwards in time from an assumed effect upon the world to the beginning of a chain of events that will bring the effect about. If, as is likely, the act of tracing out the intermediate steps exposes unforeseen difficulties or suggests better objectives, the patttern of the original problem may change so drastically that the designers are thrown back to square one The instability of the problem is what makes designing so much more difficult and more fascinating than it may appear to someone who has not tried it.
-From Design Methods, by John Chris Jones, page 10 (in the second edition)
BLDGBLOG: War/Photography: An Interview with Simon Norfolk, another BLDGBLOG gem.
The Long Tail: Pixar Quiz On the incredibly increasing demand for 3D rendering power. Drives home the whole "uncanny valley" thing pretty well, except Anderson never makes that connection to the fact that more "realistically" a 3D model is rendered the less human and more undead it looks...
Dean Baker: The Simple Economics of Trade
"The worst part of the story is that the winners are too dumb or too dishonest to acknowledge that they won because they had the government on their side, so they go around gloating about having what it takes to succeed in the global economy."
Daring Fireball: Palm CEO Ed Colligan's Head Seems to be Stuck Somewhere
if:book: brewster kahle on the google book search "nightmare"
murketing » Bothe(red)? Its like if you took Bob Dylans The Times They Are A-Changing, used it to pitch Rolex watches and tried to convince people that if they bought enough luxury goods they could make a revolution.
U B U W E B :: Film & Video, a large collection of classic video art available online, very nice.
The Psychological Consequences of Money -- Vohs et al. 314 (5802): 1154 -- Science
Lunch over IP: EFC07 - Bjorn Lomborg on prioritizing the world's problems"why are we so willing to help people in 100 years and unwilling to help poor people today?"
The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
[BREAKING NEWS]: Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers Couple days late on this story, but man is it disgusting...
Raphâs Website » CopyBot Raph Koster on the copy crisis in Second Life.
"They will be copied. They will be ripped off. They will find their market prices falling. They will agitate for DRM. They will form lobbies with the analogue to a government, and argue that they are in fact the primary cultural contributors in the system. They will, in the end, come to embody everything about the broader, commercial Web that they fled to Second Life in order to escape.
"They will, in effect, be hoist by their own petard."
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Data Transmission Mechanisms
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Knockoffs roil Second Life
WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa aka the Yes Men strike again.
Serving Up Energy Efficiency, Market-Style, On server farm energy use and innovation.
Guiding Principles for Sustainable Transportation (via A Sustainable Train of Thought)
A Struggle Over Dominance and Definition - New York Times on Google
DIY Kyoto | Wattson a way to visualize and view your home energy usage.
NPR : Ride a Bike, Ruin the Environment, a rather swiftian argument against bikes, but without all the humor. Breaks down as such: you ride a bike and therefore live longer and since you live longer you end up messing up the world more, yeah that really is the argument...
The New Yorker: HOLY ROLLERS: The city's bicycle zealots by BEN MCGRATH An ok article on bicycles in NY, would have been nice if the author actually got on a bike and road around though, no evidence he did...
yasns- social network timeline wiki
Ballardian: The World of JG Ballard, because strangely enough my new home has a rather Ballardian lilt.
Vogue Cover Archive, and yeah I know this is my first post election day link... The election may have been a satisfying relief, but it was also pretty damn boring as a read...
Orbicule | Undercover | How it works, it's like LoJack for your Macintosh. It's also sort of a scary piece of self surveillance.
The Twentieth Annual SLSA Conference "EVOLUTION: BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, AND COSMIC"
Wired 14.11: Tiny Slice, Big Market, Shirky on the "meganiche"
FT.com / Arts & Weekend - The high priestess of internet friendship, FT on danah boyd and social networking sites in general.
fiftyRX3: perusing the crossroads of style and sustainability
Combatting Global Warming: What's Wrong With Pay by the Mile Insurance?
monome, part of me is "that's a cool new interface" and part of me is like, "that's an overgrown drum machine, can't we do better than adding new buttons to 30 year old interfaces?"
The TR 808 Is Coming, D-Nice on the flashback tip.
Own Your Own Words - Books - Review - New York Times By STEVEN JOHNSON
Stephen Colbert: "Oh really? Mmhum. Do they give a Nobel prize for throwing your own feces?"
Peter Agre: "........That's the Economics prize, I think."
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Larry Ellison and the business of social production
trendwatching.com trend events - Trends and events, seminars, conferences, workshops
Harpers Ferry Center: NPS Maps In the Public Domain!
Unit Structures: The Colonialist Perspective in Social Software
graphpaper.com - Class and Web Design, Part 1: The Class Struggle 1 of 6, well worth the full read.
Maps of War is basically an animated map showing who controlled the middle east throughout time. I actually created a very similar project as a Flash prototype for ABCNews.com way back in 1999, centered around the Balkans. Of course I like mine better ;) but it's still good stuff..
Future Boy: Videogames get real - Sep. 28, 2006, more Payphone Warriors press...
3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies - home
User/Submitter for Digg Users and Submitters, a market for Digg votes.
Life With Alacrity: Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
Netflix offers $1 million for a better recommendation algorithm
John Battelle's Searchblog: The Information Factories In which John Battelle, calls out George Gilder on his uncritical techno-utopianism! Battelle was the founder of the Industry Standard, the uncritical dot com magazine that burned through hundreds of millions of dollars throwing parties for bad business plans with long since forgotten brand names...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Beyond question, on the fact that searching for "Martin Luther King" returns a white supremacist site at the top of the rankings.
Fuct Interview (with Erik Brunetti) « :: addic[tee]d :: Fresh Tee Guideâą
fuct.com, some weird stuff from the pioneering "street" clothing brand... just a little bit bitter maybe? Almost a textbook case of a pioneer not getting proper respect, but it'd be nice to see them handle it a bit better...
Tough Love: Business wants to love design, but it's often an awkward romance.
MaxSpeak, You Listen!: POST KEYNESIANS, ECONOPHYSICISTS, AND FINANCIAL FRAGILITY
Idiotic examples of corporate cost-cutting. By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
Argentine Land Fight Divides Environmentalists and Social Rights Advocates - washingtonpost.com
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Literacy, Communication, Design Presentation
Living online: I'll have to ask my friends - Sherry Turkle on social networking in the New Scientist
Suburbia with a twist, the Cathedraltown development in Canada.
Reason magazine -- June 2001, City Views -- Jane Jacobs Interviewed by Bill Steigerwald "Urban studies legend Jane Jacobs on gentrification, the New Urbanism, and her legacy." Includes what may be her ownly public commentary on Celebration, Florida.
Guardian Unlimited Business | | Rolling out the green carpet Another interview with Ray Anderson of Interface Carpet. Is this the only green business story there is too tell? It's a good story but I've heard this one WAY too many times now, and the lack of a follow up is frustrating. The car share business might be one, but so far they seem to lack a good story/ pr person / charismatic spokesperson / whatever is needed to get interesting press...
Toward a New Compendium of Knowledge Larry Sanger on his new project, a fork of the very Wikipedia he played a major role in creating.
Network Analysis of Venture Capital Relationships in Silicon Valley
A Magazine for Earnest Young Things - New York Times, it looks like they left "rich" out of the headline...
ZEBO - The World's Largest Repository of What People Own
"Hi, what do you own?"
Microsoft's Google-killer arrives with a 'whuh?' | The Register
Lunch over IP: Reversing roles, FC Barcelona pays its "sponsor"
Espressoâs New Wave Hits Town - New York Times The Times wakes up to real thing, hope that doesn't mean longer lines for me...
Lunch over IP: Global Federalism: what if the big cities start acting on global problems? Interesting idea, especially since cities governments seem to have a tendency to be more open and liberal than federal ones. Ultimately it's a proposal to let the urban nodes network around the artificial borders of nation states.
The Sartorialist at the Ready-to-Wear Fashion Shows on men.style.com
Nobel Intent: Want to be hit by a car while riding a bicycle? Wear a helmet!
KLF :THE MANUAL (HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE - THE EASY WAY), a classic that apparently is the main inspiration behind Stamen Design...
Dave Chiu is taking much better notes at Emergence than I am. Really should have gone to Tamara Giltsoff's talk on day two, but you can't go to a multitracked conference without making at least one mistake...
A Sustainable Train of Thought » Emergence 2006 Day 3
Emergence 2006 Day 2
Why pragmatic politics are doomed to fail in the Middle East By Slavoj Zizek
I think, therefore IA, blogging from Emergence 06: Service Design
Waxy.org: Daily Log: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds
Click opera - Ample for man? Momus on pedistrian crosswalk times ("clearance intervals".)
Inspiration From IF! : Interview with Rob Walker, Writer (Preview)
PSFK: MySpace is Over psfk on the obvious but for the most part unspoken. That said I think the decay of this thing will be rather slow and interesting. Like usenet, bbses, web bulletin boards and Friendster, online social forms like MySpace have a tendency to live long past their peak points, and continue to be highly relevant to the core of continued users...
Treehugger: live|work: "I have a dream..." It makes a great point but the last bit is so painful I can't even read it, sorry Tamara. It doesn't matter how important somethinks their issue is, splicing it into Dr. King's words is just sacrilegious in my book.
Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts special reports | What Charles (Saatchi) did next
Inhabitat » Blog Archive » GREEN BUILDING 101: DESIGN INNOVATION
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Is this Bush's secret bunker?
apparently I'm moving to LA to live in a LOT-EK container home, nice! I'll take a 3x3 in a forest acid green please.
Subtopia "a field guide to mulitary urbanism".
» Banksy/Paris video, have to say that while this feels like a proper evolution for Banksy, it also feels like it might be giving Paris better PR for a flop albumn than she deserves. What are the chances this is a stunt paid for by the record label?
# Dexter Sinister # Just-In-Time Workshop & Occasional Bookstore
YouTube: JET HITTING A CONCRETE WALL AT 500MPH, atch the video and ignore all the 9/11 crap in the comments...
Back to Iraq 3.0: Taking a break Chris Allbritton on the stress of being a reporter in the middle east.
What nobody wants to hear, but everyone needs to know A statement from Eric R. Pianka an ecologist who is perhaps the most blatent proponent of the idea that the world would be much better off with much less people on it.
Bill de hÓra: Eight Fallacies of Distributed Information Systems
start [SHiFT - Social and Human Ideas for Technology], a conference is Lisbon, too far in space and too near in time for me...
The Econophysics Blog: Tyranny of the Power Law (and Why We Should Become Eclectic)
The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
The New Yorker: THE SCENT OF THE NILE by CHANDLER BURR: Jean-Claude Ellena creates a new perfume.
Jaiku "the social phone book", basically an IM like way to broadcast your phone availability to a social network.
osMoz : Serge Lutens Interview, a perfumer and more.
THE RISK POOL: Whats behind Irelands economic miracleand G.M.s financial crisis? Gladwell on "dependency ratios" and pension plans and as often is the case it hits it cleanly and hard.
ippr - Institute for Public Policy Research "Climate porn turning off public from action". A well needed article on poor state of how environmental issues, and the way to their solutions are communicated to the world.
Talking Points Memo makes quite a point on the toll that occupation takes upon an armies ability to fight in an actual war.
Business Model Design and Innovation: The Specialized Generalist or T-Shaped People
Display 2.0: A Look Forward to the High-Definition Web and Its Effect on Our Digital Experience :: UXmatters, Interesting although not particularly accurate in it's facts.
Mike Arrington is a major league asshole, not quite sure what he has against Nick Carr, but I think it might have something to do with Nick daring to speak the truth about the delusions to democracy held by the rising tech elite Arrington so bravely champions.
Identity and Identification in a Networked World
A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium
"it directly supports my old argument that Google is basically the next RIAA."
Michael Bierut at UX Week "Innovation is overrated" Yeah! finally someone says it.
"A brief history of generative models for power law and lognormal distributions" (pdf)
The Long Tail: A billion dollar question With this one quote: "I've long argued that the "natural" shape of most markets is a powerlaw," Chris Anderson sums up his philosophy/long tail argument clearer than ever. And it's that "natural" part that really bothers me...
Missing the Breaking Point, Adam Richardson on "voluntary obsolescence".
There's Gold in Them Thar Smelly Hills, on landful mining which is something I've always wondered about...
Purse Lip Square Jaw: "Technology, Privilege and Innovation: The Legal Perspective"
""I guess not everyone knows how to respond when oppurtunity knocks their house down"
Service Design Resources :: Emergence Conference :: Carnegie Mellon
Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe one thing I'd ad is that it's a whole lot easier to go "carbon neutral" when you are born with a large farm property to provide all the trees...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Ongoing Nicholas Carr reminds the tech world of this thing called history...
Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)/LMN "Concept Book" for the Seattle Public Library
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Slides for Repair @ Pecha Kucha
Back to Iraq 3.0: Dark Days Ahead, yow, Chris Allbritton is in Beirut and man it sounds awful.
Lunch over IP: How About an E-mail On That?, on what various communications techs are best used for.
âŠMy heartâs in Accra » Wikimania: Wikipedia and F/OSS - some challenging comparisons
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: Ten Questions with Seth Godin I'm not a huge fan of the guy and most of the interview is his trademarked brand of horseshit (Google open to criticism?, yeah right,) but the t-shirt observation is pretty interesting:
"Books are the new t-shirts. We used to buy t-shirts as a way of covering our hard abs. Now, though, the purpose of the t-shirt is to be a souvenir, to give us a concrete way to remember something that mattered to usand to give us an easy way to spread that idea to others."
New York City Police Departments proposed parade permit rules
Fabio Sergio on Jasper Morrison's "Crate" and Morrison's response and design ethics
Dean Baker on the housing bubble, and holding very little back, yikes.
BusinessWeek Online: Top 100 Global Brands Interactive Table
William Gibson on Lebanon, Thomas Kuhn and "Fourth Generation Warfare".
adaptive path » blog » blog archive » A Conversation with Steven Johnson, Part 2 as always interesting stuff from Johnson, although I still have some trouble with his definition of interface, which doesn't really leave much room for distinguishing between the surface structure for interacting with computers (this is what I'd call the interface layer) and the deep structure via which the computer handles the data (which I'd call the algorithmic and database layers). I think I see why he wants to roll all these together under the label "interface", for tying them together allows for a particular way of addressing the future of computers and information, but by vesting "interface" with a meaning that goes far beyond just the inputs and outputs of a computer system it robs a whole other more established approach of it's linguistic infrastructure, and in the end just muddies up the very issue he wishes to bring insight to.
Majora Carter on TED Talks, best of the Ted talks yet by far, god damn Carter is so much of a better proponent for environmentalism than Al Gore. Made me shiver, and it's 101ș out here... Sustainable South Bronx is her org, support it if you can.
MicroISV on a Shoestring » Blog Archive » Googleâs Lawyers Admit To gmail Privacy Leak
TED Blog: Jeff Han on TEDTalks, multitouch interfaces, "the interface just disappears"
Wired 14.08: Pinch My Ride on cracking arphid key systems.
WSJ.com - Friendster Patent on Linking Web Friends Could Hurt Rivals
Lebanon, Israel And The Role Design Thinking Can Have In Solving Social Problems., unfortunately it's just a question, but it's a good question..
Back to Iraq 3.0, Chris Albritton is unstoppable, now he's in Lebanon...
The Brand Underground - New York Times A Rob Walker longform, nice. Or medium-form really looks like the book is coming...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Benkler on Calacanis's wallet
Tagging Sucks | Paragon Network (guy from Elevator Up & 7dots)
The Scale-Free, Underground Blogosphere - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Lee Gomes responds to Chris Anderson on the myth of the long tail.
High-ranking officer: Halutz ordered retaliation policy | Jerusalem Post, 10 buildings in Beruit for every missile...
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Yay Hooray | yh collab: redesign famous logos in web 2.0 format!
MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Should Community-Edited News Sites Pay Top Editors? | PBS
Bicycle Tsar Quits, Saying Goal To Increase Safety, Lanes Is Stymied - July 24, 2006 - The New York Sun If this is true, and there is no reason to believe it is not, then Iris Weinshall, Senator Schumer's wife and current NY Department of Transportation commissioner, is one evil person.
"I make $1.45 a week and I love it" Salon on Amazon's Mechanical Turk
collision detection: The half-life of an online posting? 36 hours
A-bike, and ultra lightweight folding bike, even more ugly than most folders, but I'm willing to be believe there is indeed a threshold of weight and compactness that would really open up the bike market in cities. But maybe you need to add style to the mix...
Beat the Press: Housing Appraisals: The Accounting Scandal of the Housing Bubble (if anyone has a digital copy of the linked WSJ article in this piece, please send a copy I'd really like to read it in it's entirety).
SEOmoz Blog | Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg's HomePage Content
The Military Industrial Light and Magic Complex: Avoiding Ender's Folly
Good Investing by Design: The Trend Desk - Yahoo! Finance Interesting Daniel Pink column on a design index, and also on what design actually is. Hopefully I'll have time to comment soon.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Calacanis's wallet and the Web 2.0 dream
Inhabitat » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Paul Kephart of Rana Creek
Situational Relevance and Facebook's Summer Traffic - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman
Situational Relevance and Facebook's Summer Traffic - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman
Hezbollah in South America (and in the New Yorker) via Pretty Goes with Pretty
russell davies: 7 things I learned at wieden and kennedy (portland edition)
bopuc/weblog: Trust, a blog post tracking Yahoo and Google hires, interesting.
culiblog » Wasteware, itâs everything but the squeal in food recycling
reveries magazine » Intelligentsia Coffee, beyond fair trade.
Quirky serifs aside, Georgia fonts win on Web - Style - International Herald Tribune
The Network Effect Multiplier, or, Metcalfe's Flaw - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman
BuildingGreen.com - EBN 15:3 - Bamboo in Construction: Is the Grass Always Greener?
McKinsey sees demand for online advertising outstripping supply.
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: Ten Questions with David Sifry
Spyware developers net huge profits, outrage - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
Damn Interesting » Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
Identity Thief Finds Easy Money Hard to Resist - New York Times
IT Conversations: Audio Podcasts on Information Technology and Business
Capitalist Roaders Car Culture in China
Ronald Reagan getting punched in the face (video/quicktime Object)
'Google is constantly evaluating Web sites for standards and quality, which is entirely subjective,' Kramer said."
"The best way to prove that a niche product is a niche product is to toss it into the mainstream and let it sink." - Nicholas Carr on the new collaborative filtering Netscape portal.
collision detection: Why the "loudness wars" are killing today's music, Clive Thompson once again shows why he is one of the best journalists around today by simply expertly condensing the article linked right below this one.
Imperfect Sound Forever - Article - Stylus Magazine, an awesome article on the problems of over compressed music. Starts slow though, it's worth slogging through the tedious introduction.
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Cultures of Repair, Innovation
Foreign Policy: Minority Report.com Bruno Giussani on blog journalism from the suburban ghettos of France.
cityofsound: Starflyer (and service), Schipol (and soccer), Stansted (and signage)
HOPE Number Six Conference NY, July 21-23.
YouTube - ć°ç46ććčŽăźç©èȘ ăMeteorite Collisionăă
"They see the future as behind them and the past ahead of them"
Farecast - Airfare Predictions, Find Cheap Airline Tickets, in beta, hope they add New York soon...
Lunch over IP: TEDtalks: The other Al Gore speech, and what Tony Robbins really told him
LIFE24 a photo map of the world in the past 24 hours.
FON: WiFi everywhere! Been ignoring this company for a while now, but it looks like they are quite serious about building a worldwide mesh of WiFi access to challenge the mobile telephony companies. Word on the street is that another big time player is going to be entering this battle as well, and that's enough to make me pay attention. (Hint, you can probably figure out the company by skowering the FON site). As for the longer term connectivity issues, at least in the US, watch out for what happens with the large chunks of bandwidth that got allocated for HD broadcasting...
Turning Down the Global Thermostat | Metropolis Magazine | October 2003, An interview with Edward Mazria, the architect who blames global warming on architecture.
Social Networking: Five Sites You Need to Know - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman
The National Entertainment State, 2006, maps the properties of the big 6 media firms in the US. Nice utility, although I really wish it gave some sense of markets share, and showed any relevant indies (assuming they exist, which I think they must in at least some of those industries).
An open letter to Frank Gehry. By Jonathan Lethem I've never been particularly opposed to the Atlantic Yards, but Lethem makes a good case. The accompanying slide show though is a pretty mixed bag in the back up it provides. Still if it's going to be a Gehry project, shouldn't it at least be a good Gehry project?
Daring Fireball: Interoperability and DRM Are Mutually Exclusive
Behind the Glass Curtain | Metropolis Magazine on the Google HQ
The In-Car Camera Never Blinks (but Viewers Flinch) aka the New York Times does Ballard...
Open the Future: Twelve Things Journalists Need To Know to be Good Futurist/Foresight Reporters and B Sterling's reaction.
Lunch over IP: Aula2006: Everyware, personal velocity, and the open-source car
"When we say we want all the worlds video, we really do want all the worlds video."
collision detection: Graduating into a recession? It'll wreck your earnings for life, say economists
photographs of residents in their flats in hong kong's oldest public housing estate:
100 rooms,
each 100 square feet in size.
AfriGadget, not quite sure if this is exciting or repulsive...
Commentary - The Changing Game of Leadership: Management by Design
Purse Lip Square Jaw: Networked things and the old/new objectivism
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation? Micheal Bierut on INside Innovation and designing for free.
ź€©: weblog: Companies Can Safely Ignore Me, wow this guy is bitter, bitter but interesting. My first piece of advice to him would be to make the title of his webpages something other than "ź€©", cause how are people supposed to remember his greatness if they can't even pronounce the name of his site...
DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier Lanier is always worth reading, and as usual his prose/rant is half insightful and half constipated...
An argument that we are entering a second middle ages, originally from Foreign Affairs. Interesting piece that could be better. It's an argument I've tossed around in my head myself, but ultimately concluded is far more interesting only if you factor in not just the similarities but the huge differences as well.
I'm curious as to the motivations behind making the $100 laptop look like a cartoon devil...
BLDGBLOG: Interview with Mike Davis: Part 1. In which Davis reveals he wrote his whole book on worldwide slums on his porch without any visiting of anyplace... Much as a love reading his work I think that pretty much cements his status as a science fiction author, not the non fiction one he fronts as. His vision is powerful and worth reading, just doesn't have a huge amount to do with reality...
Marketing Babylon » Blog Archive » The top 12 sins of Marketing Gurus (and their books)
collision detection: Gorgeous 3D sculpture illustrates the internal symmetry of formal logic
collision detection: France to release a balance-the-national-budget video game
pivotgraph.pdf (application/pdf Object), Martin Wattenberg research on multivariate graphs, as usual great stuff from him.
sai sriskandarajah | the waste land, this is a great piece from ITP, was sort of funny to stumble across it online.
Design Altruism Project » Blog Archive » Bruce Mau and the Apotheosis of Data
Small Groups, Big Ideas on the Gore, "flat" workplace culture.
YouTube - The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: One interface to rule them all, a good article with a title that sounds strangely familiar.
BLDGBLOG: Architectural Criticism is a great read, time permitting I'll have some comments on this soon.
"Is youTube the new Amazon, the new eBay, or the new mySpace?"
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: It Takes a Nation of Lawyers to Hold Us Back
Stephen Colbert's monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner, as close to a must read/view thing around lately, its a good routine but to do it in front of both Bush and the entire DC press corp is incredible.
"Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the president's side, and the vice president's side."
John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, Dies; Economist Held a Mirror to Society - New York Times, may he rest in peace.
YouTube - Sly & The Family Stone - Ohio State When sfj links to YouTube, well you know you best watch...
BROOKLYNism - Brooklyn Style Guide -- New York Magazine, guess it's time to move to Queens...
Air Force One Subject of Internet Hoax "Ecko declined to say how much the stunt cost. 'It's not cheap," he said. "You have to be rich.'"
Theories On Why the Art Market Can't Crash (And Why It Will Anyway) - New York Magazine
Is Mike Davis's [sic] Los Angeles All In His Head? I thought everybody new Davis likes to exaggerate and that the world isn't quite as bleak as he tends to see it. Maybe not. Either way isn't it his job to be the gloomy one? Often it's easier to make an argument by going too far, and that's what Davis is their to do, exaggerate the problems to make them clearer for us.
update: just noticed this article is from 1998, I love the internet for that, it's so driven by the new, but in the end it doesn't actually matter if it's new or old, as long as it's new to you. Then again I probably read that article when it came out...
The story behind the Game 6 RBI baseball reenactment. Honestly I don't get it, I me I absolutely love that video, but I'm a Mets fan and that game is the absolute highlight of my childhood fandom. I guess that 86 magic goes a bit beyond NY...
Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes, worth noting that from my undergrad anthropology memories, 150 is not the ideal size for tribal groups, but in fact the point in which the groups tend to split into two and thus indeed the maximum absent external factors holding or forcing them to grow past that size.
one red paperclip, this one is funny cause it's a web thing that I keep on hearing about offline and just saw an actual link to it today. Guy is trying to trade one red paperclip step by step into a house. Right now he's up to a year's rent in Phoenix AZ, not bad.
icon | 033 | essay: the death of the critic, or perhaps just the death of Rick Poynor, it's probably his weakest thing in a while. Then again I'm pretty much over this whole idea of "critical thinking", I'd most rather be building and creating than criticizing and I think the world is better that way...
visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
YouTube - President Bush pants like a dog and dodges questions
With the crack of the bat, you're in front of the crowd....and other classic Murpyhisms, ok the Mets geek in me has probably gone a bit overboard between this and the last link....
Pie Charts Must Die. Mmmmm. Pie. - ICE - Improving Customer Experience
Dark Miracle, Josh Ellis on the atomic bomb.
AlterNet: Blogs: Scott Ritter: The Art of War for the anti-war movement
A new scourge sweeps through Argentine ghettos: 'paco' | csmonitor.com
Zenarchery.com » The Trinity Trip, Part 1.5: The Ranch School
Base of the Pyramid Protocol, saw Stuart Hart on of the drivers of this thing speak today. He clearly wicked smart and seemed genuine, but every time he talked about the people on the base of the pyramid I couldn't help mentally interjecting the word "exploit" right before the phrase... "Inclusive capitalism" what do you make of that?
nate_harrison_amen.mov (video/quicktime Object) - A documentary, short for a doc, long for a web video, on the seminal Amen Break. Great topic, great break, but was having it narrated by an Apple computer with the voice set to "NPR" the best choice?
Weberâs Polar Night » Tiny devices; virtual mirror selves; a rain of RFID a trifecta of news from that unevenly distributed future of today.
information aesthetics - internet backbone map, this one is super details and labeled.
Whiskey Bar: Trusting the Marketplace
Billmon is back and as nastily on point as ever. But really all he needed was to quote the WSJ: "Treasury Secretary John Snow said the widening gap between high-paid and low-paid Americans reflects a labor market efficiently rewarding more productive people"
CenSEARCHip lets you compare search results between different country versions of engines
A rather bitter but interesting Alan Moore interview, part 1 & part 2
we make money not art: Interview of Oliver Hess - Materials & Applications
Siqueiros Image Bank "An image bank for everyday revolutionary life"
Africa's New Ocean: A Continent Splits Apart - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
This Blog Sits at the: Children of 9/11, Children of technology
Bona tempora volvantur--by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Board Meeting
fryer_levitt_ecls_babies.pdf (application/pdf Object)
"On tests of intelligence, Blacks systematically score worse than Whites, whereas Asians
frequently outperform Whites. Some have argued that genetic differences across races
account for the gap. Using a newly available nationally representative data set that
includes a test of mental function for children aged eight to twelve months, we find only
minor racial differences in test outcomes (0.06 standard deviation units in the raw data)
between Blacks and Whites that disappear with the inclusion of a limited set of controls.
The only statistically significant racial difference is that Asian children score slightly
worse than those of other races. To the extent that there are any genetically-driven racial
differences in intelligence, these gaps must either emerge after the age of one, or operate
along dimensions not captured by this early test of mental cognition."
Attack of the Eurogoogle | Economist.com subscriber only unfortunately, had to go to Lexis/Nexis to actually read it. choice quote:
"Even so, the most striking difference between Quaero and Google is not technological, but ideological. Quaero is a classic example of European state-funded industrial policy, while Google is the very embodiment of American free-market techno-capitalism."
Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community, out of print but online.
Christ, apparently my elementary school has turned into a racial war zone. You don't even have to read between the lines to tell there is some crazy shit going on. And no, there was no gifted and talented program nor racial warfare when I was there...
MaxSpeak, You Listen!: KEYNES'S GENERAL THEORY AT 70
By Barkley Rosser
BLDGBLOG: Thousand Mile Colosseum "it is not the roadways but their surveillance that never ends."
The Raw Story | Retired Supreme Court Justice hits attacks on courts and warns of dictatorship
Bruce Sterling's Etech talk on naming the future (unsuccessfully...) and Anne Galloway's response & discussion.
FORTUNE: Secrets of greatness: How I work - Mar. 7, 2006 (much of interesting interviews on working styles)
Geeking with Greg: In a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power (or another step towards Google data domination).
Wired 14.03: The Chaos of Joshua Davis It's tempting to say Wired is just absurdly late to the game on this one, but instead I'll just hope that they're just ahead on the curve on his return to relevance, cause I'd love to see him make something as good as his old work again.
YouTube - Ask Me, Don't Tell Me (SF street gangs in the early 60's)
peterme.com: Because the Valley doesn't understand, um, people.
limited language » I"m a social construct, get me out of here!
For managers, a Korean paradise - International Herald Tribune, or in other words North Korea has a new exploiter...
Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data - New York Times
From the Silk Road to the Superhighway, All Coin Leads to China - New York Times
InformationWeek | Patents | U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications | February 22, 2006 - lets hope nothing comes out of this...
TitleZ: Book trends for publishers, or anyone interested in comparing book sales, quite interesting for tracking cultural trends and the comparative effectiveness of communicating ideas.
Greatest Twentieth-Century Economists Poll, Post-Autistic Economics Review, issue 36, in which PAER reveals itself as being a bunch of Kenysians, so much for it being new...
this is certainly not the first time I've cited this, but it's a quote well worth revisiting:
"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"
// microRevolt home (knitting software)
Must Be Something in the Water - New York Times on the bottled water backlash
Purse Lip Square Jaw: Thingers rather than thinkers II, following up on what Latour has started.
aperture, a lot like Danny Rozin, but you can see into spaces...
It's Like Lending to a Friend, Except You'll Get Interest - New York Times
Lessig Testimony from Senate hearing on "Network Neutrality" (application/pdf Object)
Life With Alacrity: Collective Choice: Competitive Ranking Systems
native_to_a_web_of_data.pdf (large pdf Object) - Tom Coates on Web 2.0, its a large pdf of a presentation, but it has the best listing of various "web 2.0" sites I've seen.
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Design by Committee (On design the UN HQ)
YouTube - Cutty Ranks getting nasty over the Sleng Teng, 1986
Average Joe - Dunkin' Donuts is Brewing a Coffee Class War with Starbucks
Think Secret - Manhattan Apple store to be first 24/7 location - Don't have time to dig up the link, but combine this article with previous legal fights about who owns that glass cube in front of the new store and I think you get a good picture of just how Apple just might stumble and fall over its iPod dollars fuelled hubris...
3D visualizations of server logs as a city (to bad it's a commercial service...)
the worst part of it though is that Kermit, who used to ride a nice fixed gear, is now on a mountain bike, and from looks of it about to switch to a freakin SUV. Selling out is pretty much taken for granted nowadays, but man that's a long fall...
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth
Core77 - Reinventing the Wheel: Pushing the limits in high performance bike design
Squash » Blog Archive » Scoble knocked off!!! Aggregators rule
Squash » Blog Archive » I've had better conversations with corpses
» Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1 | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com
::: Soul Strut ::: DJ MIXES, old news but damn nice to rediscover...
cityofsound: Map of Europe in which real distances seem shorter thanks to the high-speed train
"Its high time for Google to figure out that it is one or two privacy disasters away from becoming just another Internet company."
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Google Video and Privacy
MS, AOL and Yahoo! caved to Feds' fishing expedition | The Register
The Rise of Craigslist and How It's Killing Your Newspaper -- New York Magazine
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Gory Antigora: Illusions of Capitalism and Computers Jarod Lanier on what he calls "antigoras", an interesting concept niched in an overbloated article..
Search Engines As Leeches, The Difference Between Paid & Free Listings & Keyword Price Rises
Knowledge Brings Fear » Welcome to the world of tomorrow, or at least welcome to the world of paranoid computer nerds.
The Prudent Investor is back from vacation and none to optimistic
The MySpace Report :: Trent Lapinski's Blog :: Everything and Nothing At All
"BlackHats? The search engines are the original Black Hats!"
brett tabke got a blog in a robots.txt page and its damn good too.
Planarity.net a game for data visualization nerds
Alex Wright : Probability, Superstition and Ideology on Chris Anderson, Nicholas Carr and the faith in technology.
unfolded, nice very simple ajax site.
96-DINGPOLITIK Bruno Latour on politics and things, good stuff.
Peer-to-Peer and the Promise of Internet Equality Phil Agre on Veblen and more as ways to look at P2P, not clear if he's actually read Veblen though...
Studies and Observations | Adam Greenfield: Current thinking Adam's soft launching his new site/practice.
John Battelle's Searchblog: Alexa (Make that Amazon) Looks to Change the Game (I agree with John, this could be really important)
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Dmitri Siegel: Bartelbyâą
Doors of Perception weblog: Creativity in business, most important bit in this something that should be self evident, that the whole send the production offshore and leave the creativity and design in the first world model is a load of crap. To assume that manufacturing centered economies won't develop strong creative industries is absurd, why on earth shouldn't they?
G A P M I N D E R, has some really interesting animated graphics on world poverty over the past few decades.
John Battelle's Searchblog: Thinking About Google and The Turning Point
"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, while adding the meaningful."
Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic and Peter Merholz's response.
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Innovation is the New Black
The Jason Calacanis on Root Markets and internet ad strategies. Root Markets is incidentally where my friend Dan Perlin is now working.
The 10 Faces of Innovation, Ideo versus the devil's advocate, aka their attempt to co-opt the "power of positive thinking" and all those consulting dollars associated with it... So far they have been pretty successful at too, will be interesting to watch.
"Its as if the head is eating the tail..."
[ SAILS âą The Mascarillons ], "Self-Assembling Intelligent Lighter-than-air Structures"
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Why do People Carry Mobile Phones?
Cranbrookdesign.com - A life without beauty is only half lived.
Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies - New York Times
MaxSpeak, You Listen!: SAUDIOLOGY: OIL, RADICAL ISLAM, AND THE KINGDOM
Researchers add mice to list of creatures that sing in the presence of mates
Bernard Stiegler: The global mnemotechnical system, there is an odd Bucky Fuller/early media studies feel to Stiegler's writing, but interesting none the less.
The Prudent Investor: History Reserves A Sad Place For The Next Fed Boss
TURING'S CATHEDRAL [10.24.05] by George Dyson, on von Neumann and Google.
"My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built. Everyone was busy carving one stone here and another stone there, with some invisible architect getting everything to fit. The mood was playful, yet there was a palpable reverence in the air. 'We are not scanning all those books to be read by people,' explained one of my hosts after my talk. 'We are scanning them to be read by an AI.'..
"The best description comes from science fiction writer Simon Ings: 'When our machines overtook us, too complex and efficient for us to control, they did it so fast and so smoothly and so usefully, only a fool or a prophet would have dared complain.'"
Is it me or does Dyson want us to roll over and surrender to the Borg?
Peggy Noonan can't take it any more, does that mean the Republican's long knifes are now angled towards Bush. No matter how much I disagreed with their policies there was always a degree of competence in the Reagan and Bush I regimes. People like Noonan and Scowcroft where pretty good at what they did and they've finally flinched at watching Bush II trash the White House. The big question to me is where is Jim Baker? The Bush I problem solver got Dubya through Florida and into the White House, will they call him back now, or is the internal hate to high?
collision detection: Get your game face on, Clive Thompson is still the best at describing the strange unrealness that emerges when computer animated characters get more "realistic".
BBC NEWS | Technology | Gamer buys virtual space station, for $100,000! A bit shocking except that apparently this real estate has potential to generate loads of real money. The $26,500 island was pure luxury in an online space, this deal has more "economic man" about it...
don norman (24 October 2005, Interconnected), Matt Webb has a good response to Don Norman's excellent anti Google UI rant. Good points on both sides, so I'm left in the middle on this one.
"When people use the term Web 2.0, I always feel a little bit stupider for the rest of the day."
Pew Internet & American Life Project Report: Internet adoption
Saranont Limpananont is one of my favorite fellow students at ITP
we make money not art: Takashi Murakami in driver's seat of Pivo
Everyware is Adam Greenfield's first book, look out for it.
visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, so Eric Raymond schooling Linus Torvalds, of serious geek value only...
Chicago Tribune | Did blogging doom prof's shot at tenure? "And you don't need a PhD to know he writes very well, although that's not necessarily a plus in academia."
Who is JT LeRoy? The True Identity of a Great Literary Hustler
Email 2.0, although personally I think Mike's work is way better than all the 2.0 crap. Especially when you factor in Banapana's The Elephant in the Room, although in the end I do actually like AJAX, really I do.
TheWorldIsSpiky.pdf (application/pdf Object) Richard Florida takes on Thomas Friedman
A Nobel Letdown in Economics, anti game theory in Business Week.
NYC Subway Flash Overlay for Google Maps : Using VGMap by Eyebeam R&D
apophenia: remix is active consumption not production (when media becomes culture, part 2)
get low, bus, damn hot
Alan Ginsberg: Howl, apparently its the 50th anniversary..
John Battelle's Searchblog: Google-Sun - The Toolbar, Ay, There's the Rub
apophenia: somewhere in-between the ALA and Google is harmony
Oolong - The pancake rabbit. an up close history of a web meme.
Organic Warfare: Tularemia Aerosol Detected Over DC Antiwar Protest
Bicycle sales boom in US amid rising gas prices - Yahoo! News
Beyond Greed and Scarcity by Bernard Lietaer - alternative monetary systems
search term advertising, is the company bragging about their placement?
Podcasting: A new technology in search of viable business models
Creativity Now - Oct. 15-16, 2005, new moderators, thank god! lineup isn't on the level of the last two though, might hit the sunday lineup.
Pruned: Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River
Reporters sans frontières - Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents
collision detection: A bioterror attack in World of Warcraft
The Prudent Investor - seeing too many bubbles: USA: The 3rd World Is Only A Few Blocks Away
wayne&wax: shocklee is a prophet and i think you oughta listen to
Jerry Saltz, Battle for Babylon, his annual state of the NY art world piece...
George Bush Doesn't Like Black People - The Legendary K.O. a/k/a K-otix
lemon-red: Yall cant see me Ray Charles. that's the birdcall
Call for Short Papers: New Orleans and Other Urban Calamities - Space and Culture Special Issue
The Uses of Disaster (Harpers.org), Rebecca Solnit on New Orleans.
Atchafalaya
by John McPhee, two decade old New Yorker article on controlling the Mississippi in southern Louisiana.
» What is Web 2.0 | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com and for the record, if my take is going to be boiled down to a Hollywood pitch then: Web 2.0 = the professional web
Alan Dershowitz: Telling the Truth About Chief Justice Rehnquist - Yahoo! News
"It seems to me, though, that successes usually come from a mixing of top-down and bottom-up approaches. Computer networking is a great example. On the bottom-up side you have all the wonderful (and some not-so-wonderful) entrepreneurs who have created services like these blogs. But dont forget the top-down contributions! Networking was invented by a big government lab (ARPA.)"
antipopper: new orleans: whiteness and the limits of the western diaspora
-Rob Walker
Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - Anne Rice in the times
Think Progress » By the Numbers: In Katrina's Wake, Race and Class Still Not Being Addressed
"Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?
* Acess [sic] to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders"
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google." ....
Thereafter, Mr. Ballmer resumed trying to persuade me to stay....Among other things, Mr. Ballmer told me that "Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
So much loaded in their, ultimately its that house of cards remark that grabs my interest...
Wired 13.09: The Dream Factory, Clive Thompson on one off fabrication
New Orleans mayor on the bullshit and spin of administration. (audio/mpeg Object)
"Cancer Alley is right where Katrina hit shore."
a black rainbow over downtown New Orleans.- - -- tobias c. van Veen in prime form
a 128 page pdf on design process, pretty good at least for the 36 pages I skimmed..
a friend has a new anonymous blog on the NY to London trend forecasting sort of tip, please enjoy.
After Centuries of 'Controlling' Land, Gulf Learns Who's the Boss - New York Times
Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index
John Battelle's Searchblog: Book Excerpt: Expanding Beyond Search
You're It! a blog about tagging, another piece of tech hype with big promises and little results yet...
Should the attack of Al Qaeda on the Twin Towers and Pentagon be considered a revolt of mercenaries?
Multitude : War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
The Pop vs. Soda Page fs. Coke vs. Soft Drink, that last of which is the big "other" in case you were wondering like me...
Back to Iraq 3.0: Update on Shi'ite clash, includes some useful background on the newest Iraqi fragmentation, the split of the Shiites. Maybe its an oversimplification, but its looking like instead of Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites at play we now have Kurds, Sunnis, "Arab" Shiites and "Persian" Shiites. Plus the secularists...
The Long Tail: "Just enough piracy", for once I agree 100% with Chris Anderson.
Ambidextrous Magazine, the forthcoming mag form the forthcoming Stanford "d.school". That stands for "Design School" and I while I'm very interested in the project I can't be the only one who retches every time they here that self chosen nickname/brand...
Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain, the New York Times on Google's growing power. Not to... but just how long have I been on this theme?
Werewolf (a "partY" game)
Speak Up, the blog of a CEO of a major PR company. I really have been surfing in the internet mud tonight, no? Sometimes the info is more interesting when its dirty and tainted...
Q & A with Dave Naylor (DaveN) more search engine spam stuff.
David Naylor » DaveN, a "blackhat" search engine optimizer blogging.
"Meet the MV-15--civilization's AK-47" (for New Yorkers at least)
âŠMy heart's in Accra » The outsourcing of blogging... and everything else?
Ecolanguage is a collection of movies illustrating economic concepts visually. Only got to look at a few minutes, but it looks like good stuff.
Feedster 500, why not 10,000?
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Vanishing Point is a map of the world based on how much each country is in the news
Many-to-Many: Governance, Scaling and Anonymity in Wikipedia Jimmy Wales benevolent dictator of Wikipedia speech at OSAF
village voice > art >Jerry Saltz rips Diller + Scofidio a new one... two years old but still great.
Viewing Color Code: A Color Portrait of the English Language
Vanity Fair Article Calls NYT, Time Mag "Part Of The Conspiracy" In Plamegate... is it me does it feel like a political firestorm is brewing?
News Corp to buy into search market? Said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, search = power in an information economy and it looks like Murdoch knows it and doesn't want to get left out.
unrealart.co.uk, in which bots play Unreal and make art.
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference - March 6-9, 2006 - San Diego, CA Call for Proposals
Walker Expanded (a new gimmicky identity)
"the ultimate activity holiday destination for graffiti writers", linked to it already, but damn, Banksy's latest pretty much cements him as the most important artist of the past few years..
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Small Town Meetings
adaptive path » an interview with ludicorp's eric costello (evolution of flickr)
wayne&wax: we use so many snares hot shit! wayne marshall on reggaeton
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2005 Part 3: Tags and Tagging
Mary Hodder on BlogHer, the Technorati 100 and new community algorithms
welcome to optimism, Wieden + Kennedy UK weblog...
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth
Flickr has some new sorting algorithms, no PageRank hit here, but when it comes to public experimentation in this area they are number one at the moment...
Exactitudes is pretty amazing, photos of people rocking nearly identical styles, done so right...
Joi Ito's Web: Similarity between contracts and open source code
Nom de Guerre updated site
peterme.com: More from "The Don" Norman -- Activity-Based Design
Say goodbye to do or die Bed-Stuy, guess the real question is whether East New York can gentrify before the bubble pops...
The Morning News - No Yellow Jerseys Here, by Geoff Badner & Pitchaya Sudbanthad -2005 Cycle Messenger World Championships
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect, global mobile phone anthropology
Booking the Bazaar: Mapping multi-level networks in a local cultural market, the academic version of the previous post.
Library Of Vinyl Experience: Blog: Boston Rocks the Commons, poor title for a good post about social networks in the live music economy.
Futura on cycling, left out my favorite story though, of the $18 no lock messengering bike...
Whiskey Bar: Breaking the Pegbillmon on the China yuan/dollar move yesterday..
BBC has a light weight report on the future of cities via the TED conference
Rapha â Performance Roadwear, damn this stuff looks nice, the arc'teryx of bikewear?
SPIEGEL Interview with Bicycle Racing Great Eddy Merckx: "Armstrong Is Damned to Victory"
The Press goes after Karl Rove, how long will they last? how long will he last?
del.icio.us direc.tor: Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker :: Johnvey
Brian Holmes - Flowmaps, The Imaginaries of Global Integration
Manuel Castells massive report on the social effects of mobile technology
Matt Cooper's Source, Karl Rove, no frogmarching yet though and Rove it seems is providing a textbook example of how to lie with out technically "lying".
Graffiti Analysis can't remember if I saw this before...
Adam's Advice and Reading List for High Tech Startup Entrepeneurs
Bicylce Trick Riding no. 2 (copyright March 20, 1899, Thomas A. Edison)
Internet Usage World Stats - The Big Picture - Population Statistics
Foreign Policy Watch, Jeb is fresh out of high school and damn smart, watch this one..
"I weigh 280 pounds. I ain't trying to get up there.", the NYT on Time Mag's Cope2 billboard. Looked better the first week, well done, lets see if Time can keep it hot or if they'll destroy it...
Library Of Vinyl Experience: Blog: Six Degrees of Reggae Riddims
Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out, Geek On Neal Stephenson on Star Wars
Bad Words: The (Conservative) Case Against Decadent Fonts, this has got to be a parody, please... Actually though what's really twisted about it is how closely it echoes the critical theory line of leftist post marxist style of thinking.
The porn princess, the Indian computer whizz and the poker bet that made $10bn
Who Will Google Buy Next? (and perhaps more importantly just who have they bought already?)
Bike Messengers Take the Street to the Track - New York Times
Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries according to conservatives
Stanford Institute of Design | d.school | multidisciplinary design innovation center
The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net (think I've posted it before, but its well worth revisiting).
ARS Electronica PRIX 2005 awards - kinda boring this year...
Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology â A Group Blog
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Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags, my personal take is that "tagging" is way to young to judge, making this piece a bit of a premature speculation. What happens when spam and capital start taking on tags? Once that's done, maybe then we can evaluate..
Class in America: Shadowy Lines That Still Divide - New York Times
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Material Issue
A Backyard Fountain Like None Before:
water cannot be "scaled" - that is, its performance in real life cannot be extrapolated from a small-scale model. "It has to be done full size,"
Watershed
"Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over."
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: On (Design) Bullshit
ArtForum: If it's Tuesday - interview with curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist - Interview
biothing::alisa andrasek:::architecture::design::computation
Critic's Notebook: Art That Puts You in the Picture, Like It or Not
Looking at the Writing on the Wall: A Critical Review and Taxonomy of Graffiti Texts
COSIGN Conference, "The aim of the conference is, as always, to explore the way in which meaning is understood by, or produced with, computers."
{GRAPHICJUNKIES} ____________ So ruff, So tuff, Out here, Baby...
A Wooster Exclusive: Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums (All of them)
Frank Luntz's Republican word strategies for 2005 document (pdf), whoa..
The Way We Live Now: Our Currency, Your Problem Niall Ferguson on the US Dollar vs Asian Central Banks
Beware the Product Death Cycle, Art Kleiner on the decline of product quality.
Spike Jonze addidas ad, not bad but if this is all that's going to come from his long rumored Harold and the Purple Crayon (aka best book ever) project then its a let down..
Raph's Koster's Keynote Address at the 2005 Game Developer's Conference.
John Battelle's Searchblog: Google Updates Desktop: MSFT Will Take Note
Chris Jordan Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption
r - echos / jerome rigaud / informations flux / electro typo graphisme / electronic installation / media art(maybe I just linked to this, can't remember)
In My Backyard, Please: The Infrastructure Beautiful Movement
flickrGraph: a good flickr powered social network visualizer
cityofsound: New York Changing: Revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York
Democracy Now! | Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"
Paolo Massa Blog: What is "Tag Spam"? Or better, Tag Spam exists?
Blog Overkill - The danger of hyping a good thing into the ground. By Jack Shafer
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: The Vice Design Issue
"Young Global Leaders" (pdf Object), "organization" is the interesting column..
blood is the new black go keren!
"You know what the south is today? I brought to the table. From TI to Flip to Banner to Haystak to Trick to a lot of people. What the south is right now is what I had my hands on when I was working at Def Jam and they passed on all that shit. I dont know what it was."
MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG (very nice but very Gurskyesque)
MTAA-RR [ news/twhid/super_mario_movie.html ] Galloway Paper Rad/Arcangel text
Tom Moody makes me think I went to the wrong Cory Arcangel opening last week..
Thom Mayne: How Did He Become the Government's Favorite Architect?
so if pizza slice is the crack of food, then nostalgia is the critics heroin..
Cabinet Magazine Online - The Wall and the Eye: An Interview with Eyal Weizman
In the field of prediction markets, what were the most memorable moments of the year 2004?
Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect, Clive Thompson interviews Bram Cohen
The Sentinelese "probably one of the world's only surviving palaeolithic people" and probably safe after the Tsunami.
The Center for Corporate Policy's Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004
Piet Zwart Institute - The Revenge of the Concept: Artistic Exchanges, Networked Resistance
université tangente - tangential university, mapping the networks of power
Rice University Computer Scientists Find a Flaw in Google's New Desktop Search Program
Mariko Takahashis FITNESS VIDEO for being appraised as an EX-FAT GIRL
Choose The Blue (political warfare)
BBC NEWS | Europe | Behind the scenes at Kiev's rally/protest/frozen burning man thing
On Evil (and Liberal Democracy): An Interview with Alain Badiou
What Is Iconoclash? Or Is There a World Beyond the Image Wars?
'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida - this stuff doesn't quite pass my personal Occam's razor yet, but I'm watching it..
we make money not art: A step towards "self-cleaning" clothes
"This is the horror of American politics today -- not that Richard Nixon and his fixers have been crippled, convicted, indicted, disgraced and even jailed -- but that the only available alternatives are not much better; the same dim collection of burned-out hacks who have been fouling our air with their gibberish for the last twenty years."
- Hunter S Thompson, The New York Times, January 1, 1974
Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Money: Technology-Based Art and the Dynamics of Sustainability
Everything Bad Is Good For You: Why Today's Pop Culture Is Making Our Kids Smarter
For the hardcore paranoid, here's your stolen election... Personally I find it a touch silly, Bush won the popular vote and quite honestly the Repugs just outplayed the Dems. Doesn't make it any better I guess.
provide access to the google desktop search service from remote machines (looks like they may have removed the link or at least hidden it, consider it a warning).
Damn, this has got to be the funniest thing to grace network TV in a long time..
Life With Alacrity: Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil warned of slum 'bloodbath' aka another bubble of cyberpunk today surfaces.
S. Zizek: An introduction to the 150th anniversary edition of The Communist Manifesto
gsap online^0304 : Francois Roche and Stephanie Lavaux
"(Science) Fiction and mass culture crisis"
"(Science) Fiction and mass culture crisis"
John Bruneau's Interview with Cory Arcangel vs The Stefanix of _SWITCH
Resfest starts in 2 days! New York first this time.
"Happiness is an index directly proportional to elapsed time since last mass-media exposure"
George Lakoff nails the frames of the Republican Convention: Day One
Nietzsche: The Problem of Autumn, photo feature from The Good European by Krell and Bates
Rendezvous by Claude Lelouch.mpg (video/mpeg Object), racing across Paris in 9 minutes..
Bring me my social networking, friendster looking for advice on where to go?
Six Degrees of Bullshit (a prelude). I've written about this before and you can expect me to write more soon.
bike drag race (1rst person perspective) (video/mpeg Object)
Sex Industry Poised to Profit When Republican National Convention Comes to New York
Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound From Afar, is far more interesting then the title... Hints of how the internet will reconstitute society.
W KTokyoLab, pretty colors...
Who's A Rat - Largest Online Database of Informants and Agents
BetaVote.com letting the world have its say...
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Liberating the Billboard?
NLG - NYC, RNC Mass Defense. And if you ever get arrested during the protests: (212) 679-6018
jane dark's sugarhigh!: The Land of 1,000 Bad Analogies, on Gandhi
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: What is Design For? A Discussion
Victorious Chavez vows to continue his 'revolution for the poor'
The Paul C story, a beat junkie tragedy
Funky Do Morro has *way* more Brazilian funk then it did on our last visit.
BarlowFriendz: Dancing in the Streets: Revolution with a Smile
The Pinocchio Theory: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Should New York City Secede? - I'd love to see the indy city state, but as a pragmatist I say lets make the 51st state bit a reality.
TypeCultureâą - A Digital Type Foundry and Academic Resource
LIVE FROM KGN,JAMAICA: THE AFFLICTED YARD..MEDIA TERRORISM IN A TERRORIST-UNFRIENDLY WORLD
Will Ferrell - A message from White House West watch the video my friends.
Trades Union Congress - Nanotechnology could be the new asbestos
In conversation with Peter Lamborn Wilson, and man he's not the happiest camper.
"...sure to attract stylists, bloggers and fashion assistants..."
The missing Matt and Trey Shockwave cartoons unveiled (update: now that I've watched them I realize that they sort of suck...)
Sparklines, Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics, revised from early versions.
The Pinocchio Theory: Playlist, summer songs...
"someone has been shitting in Duchamp's urinal" - JG Ballard interview
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: The Tyranny of the Tagline
inating racismâ� and âempowering womenâ� and put them on two lines in a bold sans serif typeface. Then u
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: In Iraq, It's the Jobs, Stupid
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: More on Stern Labor Speech
cityofsound: Designing adaptability into MIT: Building 20, Gehry, and knocking walls through
woebotnik, cause the future of blogging is text.
"That all changed once Danny came out to meet me. After chit chatting for a few minutes, he took me to a small room - no wider than my outstretched arms - at the far end of which stood one of those classic red English phone booths. We stepped inside - a bit cramped - and Danny lifted the receiver and dictated a passphrase of some sort. Presto - the rear wall of the booth opened, and we stepped into - nerdvana.
"From a cramped phone booth into massive pure-white-lit space two-stories high, adorned with all manner of things strange and beautiful. Over to one side stood the Terminator-like skeleton of a forty-foot dinosaur, it's 15-foot pneumatic legs gleaming and exposed. Nearly blending into the walls, itself painted movie-set white, was a tricked out Hummer-like RV refitted as a communications/command center - complete with built-in kitchen and bedroom. The space was a great big project lab, with happy geeks combing over various assemblages of wiring, motors, processors and plans like ants on a summer picnic. It's Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for geeks."
danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Tim Berners-Lee finally makes a buck
Soul In Code: Viral Media (updated link)
Support Viral Media!!! Good cause, give them some cash. While you are at it you can donate to me via the links on the bottom of this column! Thanks!
No Sweat Sneaker Union made y'all!
NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict, no idea if this is true...
thickeye: presumptuous.aspirations - unauthorized art found in met and gug
The Undead Zone - Why realistic graphics make humans look creepy. By Clive Thompson
Looks cool, although it pisses me the fuck off that people keep falling for the utterly bullshit concept of "6 degrees of separation". Perhaps its time I write a more vicious version of Six Degrees of Bullshit...
Elaine Cassel: The Secrets of Surveillance, of the digital sort.
Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund, which as of this morning has become even more critical, as two members just got subpoenaed by the FBI in the case they are building against artist Steve Kurtz. Kurtz's art materials have been seized and he is suspected of being a terrorist, a charge that is almost certainly not true.
Wave Messaging, if I were branding this maybe I'd call it "air graffitti"...
A New Archinect! "Making Architecture More Connected" is what they tag.
John Battelle's Searchblog: Google Responds To Gmail Privacy Issues: The Higher Standard
Time lapse of a stencil. Mute your speakers the music is awful...
"Rezedents Rights & Rispansabilities", by the department of Housing and Urban Development no less...
Official Lynndie England Fansite, and it might not even be a joke...
'Star Spangled to Death': Fishnets, Race and Religion in an American Hodgepodge
Zenarchery.com: Download My Banners! - says the good Dr. Josh Ellis and he's of course entirely right.
Good news libertarians, Somali passports have been privatized!
Scary Chicks in Underpants; Lady Marmalade, skip down to nearly the bottom and read the Christina Aguilera bit, classic uncut snark...
John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died on the same day.
They all went to the same place.
Kennedy went to hell because he trusted in the Roman Whore.
Huxley went to hell because he trusted in himself alone and his hybrid Eastern mystic notions.
And, Lewis went to hell because he invented a new god, and he ended his life a Taoist.
We will prove it here."
The Lost Washingtonienne (WONKETTE EXCLUSIVE, ETC., ETC.) Belle du Jour meets power politics. Plus ass fucking. Enjoy.
collision detection: "Game Theories": on the economic life of virtual worlds
Do-it-yourself ringtone software encroaching on potential profits, some record labels say
The New York Times > New York Region > City Reshaping Building Codes to U.S. Model
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: India Switches Brands
The Buck Stops... Where? - Stop blaming your henchmen, Mr. President. By Fred Kaplan
"Who knew that dated disco bling-bling makes an ideal motif for a 21st-century library?"
THE FOUNDATION - hip hop history.
The Anti-Olmsted, giving new meaning to the phrase "industrial park".
biopresence, will merge your DNA with a tree!
THEY RULE has been updated for 2004! With a blog too. As always much respect to Josh On.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the country of Molvania.
World War II Poster Collection from Northwestern University Library
John Battelle's Searchblog: From the Ephemeral to the Eternal
The Religious Policeman a Saudi blog.
300 Images From 1800 Sites, and they are all icons...
This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology & Economics
Political Patterns on the WWW -- Divided We Stand -- May 2004. Valdis Krebs releases another iteration of his excellent analysis of Amazon political book buying patterns.
Of Dada and Dr. Davis, The LA Times on Vaginal crème Davis...
Funky Do Morro, loads of Baile Funk MP3s...
The memorial tra-la-loki orchestra and broken-hearted bullshit band aka lokidesignv6, the excellent Kevin Lo has a new site. What's happened to the collab Kevin?
howiesź is another politically concious clothing company, let their numbers grow!
One more time around for: The Onion | Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over', make sure to check the date it was written...
"The genteel mainstream news reports of this scandal (which have given it less attention than it deserves or than it will get in the Arab press) have not commented on the explicitly sexual message sent by the abusers, which is that Iraq is f**ked."
The Memory Hole > Photos of Iraqis Being Abused by US Personnel
FLASHPOINT, a disposable projector for political uses, nice.
Ben Affleck lobbies lawmakers to raise US minimum wage, prepping for a political career?
John Battelle's Searchblog: Privacy, Gmail, and Unintended Consequences
Hash, At, Slash, Backslash, Open, Close, Bang William Safire on ASCII...
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: Subcontracting: Big Lie of the Economy
Malcolm McLaren: 8-Bit Punk, missed this when it came out somehow.
v-2 Organisation | news | Redesigning the 1040: my magnificent obsession, Adam redoes the 1040, nice work, more comments to follow...
WILLFUL INFRINGEMENT: A report from the front lines of the real culture wars
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Catharsis, Salesmanship, and the Limits of Empire
Yahoo! News - German Buys Rights to Communist East German Emblem, for $330.
c u l t u r e k i t c h e n: Condoleezza Rice, a Sally Hemmings for the 21st Century, one of the best blog posts I've read in a long while.
Core77 presents -- Timex 2154 : The Future of Time | International Design Competition
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Malaysian Solar-Hydrogen House
Slice is a blog devoted entirely to NY Pizza!
Crooked Timber: To think that an old soldier should come to this
"In fact, 'Bergdorf Blondes' makes 'Sex and the City' resemble a carefully constructed anarcho-feminist critique of capitalist society... If you have any sense of justice at all, the publication of this book demands that you rouse yourself from the couch this very second and set out to loot and burn Manhattan. Meet us at Da Silvano and bring weapons." Or so says the NYT, where 'blogging it in' must be replacing 'phoning it in'...
Fundrace 2004: Neighbor Search. Find out which of your neighbors gave money to politicians. You know what to do with the Bush donors....
An American coup d'etat? (plot against Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1934)
Tim O'Reilly: The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It's Bogus. I don't agree on a lot of the points, but the argument is well made.
That's apparently the bombshell from the upcoming Woodward book. Its a nasty jab, but is it a KO punch?
BUSH: Yes, I think this is a fantastic opportunity.
WTF?!? That's really the transcript... Mofo NEEDS to go and November is barely soon enough.
Chomsky's tone tends to annoy the hell out of me, but he actually makes a great point in this post.
MoveOn is organizing a series of bakesales for democracy tomorrow. So find one in your hood, get fat, enjoy spring and beat Bush!
The New York Times > Arts >Brooklyn Museum: Brooklyn's Radiant New Art Palace
The Dark Side of Numbers: The Role of Population Data Systems in Human Rights Abuses.
ANTIHERO SKATEBOARDS has some of the best web design I've seen in a long while. Make sure to watch the Tent City trailer.
Conscientious: Chemigrams are beautiful
"I mean, why bother with suicide bombers when you've got both major political parties on your side?
"A friend of mine likes to call the Israeli-Palestinian issue the "Death Valley" of American progressives -- a hellish, blasted wasteland that sucks the life out of anyone who tries to cross it. Better not to go there, and instead work the land that can be watered and tilled: health care, the environment, econoimc policy, etc. And for a long time I thought that was good advice.
"But since 9/11, I've come to think that the desert has to be crossed, otherwise the gradual descent into an endless war in the Middle East is going to doom whatever slim hopes there may be for a revival of progressive domestic policies in this country -- much as the coming of the Cold War did after World War II. "
- Whiskey Bar: A Higher Law
angermann2 » Embodied information retrieval » The edge-notched punch card
While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard. By Fred Kaplan
"Few libertarians may believe in God, presumably because they think the universe was created by the market in a moment of perfect efficiency." Wow, believe it or not I think we've discovered the rarest of anomalies, a right winger with a sense of humor. Libertarians are such easy targets though...
Empire Notes is reporting live from Iraq.
Hitler wasn't real, says one in 10 historically challenged Britons
âummation: How San Franciscans and New Yorkers Differ, not a bad take at all.
Saturday 17 April, 15.00 sound/surface @ Tate Modern
Saturday 17 April, 15.00
sound/surface
Dark Suspicions About 9/11- by Justin Raimondo, who is a bit of libertarian wingnut, but he's also been right at times. Treat as suspect, but do not dismiss outright.
apparently the BBC News tonight wrapped up its 9-11 commission coverage by saying that Rice told the commission that "the president lacked sufficient intelligence to prevent the terrorist attack of 9/11."
Heh, I hope that's true, that it went out on the news that is, we all know the intelligence bit is true...
TIME.com: When Private Armies Take to the Front Lines -- Apr. 12, 2004
US Army Chief Says Iraqi Troops Took Bribes to Surrender, last May that is, you know when they could have kept the Iraqy Army on payroll and possibly provented a huge amount of disaster...
"d as I blog this, all the mosques, Sunni and Shia alike, are calling for Jihad..."
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: Reflections: War, Globalism & Sectarianism, is an excellent round up of Newman's very articulate and reasoned leftist stance. It also provides a fascinating glimpse into the infighting that has hindered the left for decades now...
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: The Lying Game No. 2 (Or Vietnam Redux)
The Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2000
Just finished Mind Wide Open by Steven Johnson and all I have to say is that Steven Shaviro's review is very much on point, so go read it, and the book of course, if ya interested of course.
Who's Got the Acid? - These days, almost nobody. By Ryan Grim
The Journal of Murketing is still email only and still one of best reads online:
Another P&G manager who had convinced an actual, living consumer to spend time with him in a grocery store in exchange for some kind of "research" fee, was surprised when his lab rat requested that fee on the spot, apparently lacking the money to pay for groceries without it. "Due to experiences like this," Ad Age says, "top P&G executives began realizing how many poor people there really are in the world, [and] what a big potential market they made up."
angermann2 » The Beatles of architecture, which is lots of Archigram links.
Air America Radio, launches today!
Lets build a hell to scare everyone into the arms of Christ, yeah?
RUDI: Bookshelf: Classics: Christopher Alexander: A city is not a tree
Ghostface Killah interview, Pretty Toney is due April 20th, 3 weeks y'all! Plus if Tupac is ever coming back to life, that's the day...
You are where you live? aka what target market are you...
Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works, currently featuring the Three Gorges Dam in China.
Digitally Mediated Urban Space: New Lessons for Design (application/pdf Object)
Rhizome.org: I am a pirate ?! - another story in the copyright vs. creativity battles...
Salon.com News | "We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001"
it = innovative flash navigation
A Letter from the Texas Border. I'm fascinated with the border towns, the poorest part of America, a long striation between two countries, a world tension. This piece barely graces the surface.
Turning the Tide is Noam Chomsky's new blog. Not much of a fan of the man, but worth reading none the less.
People Tree Online: Bookstore, a gateway to Indian literature.
Dark Future a la Blade Runner: Destroyed Buldings from Sarajevo
The Pinocchio Theory: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Plato, Strauss, And Political Philosophy: An Interview with Stanley Rosen
Whiskey Bar: Out of the Loop, its spring time, and the devistating Billmon humor is warming back up, holla!
The Strategist and the Philosopher: Leo Strauss and Albert Wohlstetter
Asleep at the Wheel, an imaginary ad via Billmon.
Richard Clarke pulls the sheets off of the way Bushco deliberately ignored the threat of Al Qaeda.
Its really tempting to just publish The Journal of Murketing email newsletter on this site. But instead you should just subscribe by following that link above...
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: Did the Terrorists Win in Spain?
the kid stays in the picture, perhaps a time for fear has passed us by?
Zenarchery.com: More Thoughs On Terrorism, Josh really nails it here. Terrorism is not the major issue that some would want you to believe. The acts are tragic and dramatic, but really there far deeper and more pressing issues at stake. More in the main bar later...
Bush's favorite terrorist, the Democratic inability...
Wired News: Who's Teaming Up Against P2P? Is the California Attorney General taking orders from the Motion Picture Association (MPAA)?
african oil politics, reads like freeze frames from a thriller, but this the real deal friends. dark gold, dark continent, dark intentions.
Kathryn Cramer: N4610: More Names, a Face, & Some Conservative Thoughts, Kathryn is all over the mercenary plane in Africa story, loads of fascinating details.
RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them
Archined: Glossy with Content, Rem Koolhaus has a magazine.
Don Park's Daily Habit - Korean President Roh Impeached, a Korean American perspective.
v-2 Organisation | Battle of the Celebrity Designer Restaurants | Lever House vs. Brasserie, round for round, blow for blow!
Sparklines, Intense, Simple, Word Sized Graphics. Edward Tufte releases some drafts from his upcoming book Beautiful Evidence. And beautiful it is indeed.
Transcendent Interacitons: Ludicorp's Presentation at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
Heavy Metal Madness: My Smokestack is Bigger than Your Smokestack
- Dick Cheney
In other words if a Democrat was in the White House we would not have had negative job growth...
Stalin's Last Army: Gigantic Commie Crabs Horde Invades Europe!!!
Balkinization: President Purges Bioethics Council of Unbelievers
The Judith Miller travesty, apparently the New Pravda York Times has failed this hard before... 80 some years ago. But really the Times of late has been a complete embarrassment to NY.
plasticbag.org | weblog | The problems of visualising social networks...
Scalia asked to recuse himself, from the Cheney case.
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Information Design and the Placebo Effect
Deliberately Concealed Garments Project | Clothing found hidden in buildings
Calpundit once again brings the utmost clarity to an issue, this time Alan Greenspan's fuck over the middle class Social Security game. Once again this is some third world shit, tax the masses and use the government funds to finance an elite. Utterly un-American to the core.
Political Patterns on the WWW -- Divided We Stand, Valdis Krebs updates his excellent mapping of political book buying patterns on Amazon. Its as striking as ever.
Due Diligence has notes from the near future of paranoia and digital security
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Bruce Mau: The Aura of Power
424 Sound Monster rips up those ring tone beats
Bruno Latour's Paris: Invisible City is apparently a "sociological web opera". Sort of like what hypertext academics where dreaming of pre dot com, only now realized successfully. Need to spend more time with it to judge whether the web is the most apropos venue for the work...
Scot Hacker's thoughts on the Grey Album, pretty on point, although I'd argue that Jay-Z's talents as an MC are mainly of the subtle sort that is difficult to impress on the non hip hop fan. Took me a long time to appreciate him as a brilliant MC and I love the music...
" The draw of these shows is obviously their romantic lure: we get to watch in astonishing detail while a couple falls in love. But doesn't the format of the show make it a little too obvious just how mechanical the whole affair is? After all, on every single one of these shows all you have to do is give the guy/gal 25 members of the opposite sex for a few weeks and bingo! With almost computerlike precision they fall deeply in love with at least one of the contestants and usually with two or three of them.
"How is it possible to retain our fantasies about the ineffable and mysterious qualities of love under these circumstances?"
Dove Beauty, more signs of marketing's classy, artsy future?
MarketingWonk: Toyota in Exclusive eBay Deal, signs of the future marketing web?
Howard Stern Pulled Off Air, they say "indecency", I say repugnant or not Howard Stern is the most popular leftwing radio personality on the air. Hmmmmm
the Dubya Constitution, funny and not funny at all, simultaneously.
"We don't support that" and other tales of tech support hell. Makes me like Dell even more, living proof that you can build a company on service. Lets hope others wake to it.
Fuck, as if Bush pushing the anti gay marriage amendment is bad enough, now I have to learn that the proposed language might be a bait and switch banning all civil union protections for gay couples. Does this administration have no shame? Do I even need to ask that?
Under the Freeway, by Rob Walker, public space in New Orleans, well worth the read.
Education Secretary declares the largest teacher's union a terrorist organization.
Talking Points Memo and Whiskey Bar are breathing fire this morning. Chalabi offers to take the fall, illegal immigrants and more political nastiness...
Metatempo: Surviving Globalization, Decision Support Systems, Inc.
Even the Religious conservatives get screwed by Bush, is there anyone left who hasn't?
tech ronin: FlipStart Micro PC 1lb, I want one.
Joshua Micah Marshall on the next Republican scandal, yep another one...
Coming Attractions, the Lords of the Bling, heh. Ja Rule as Golem is absolutely classic...
More Cities Supportive of Gay Marriage and I've got to admit that Newsom has surprised me in a good way as SF mayor. Meanwhile Jack Balkin argues that constitutional change often starts with political action and hits the courts last.
Patrick Moore, the Battle for Biotech Progress, sums up some of the inherent contradictions in the environmental movement. Peep the latest Harper's for another eye opener.
WHERE IS THE RUNAWAYCHEF?: S-21 CAMBODIA, the "security prison" for the Khmer Rouge, damn.
S/FJ on Shopsin's with bonus Stienski remix.
Cowboyz 'n' Poodles: Checking Out of the Holidae In and letting dem other bloggas know how to get down.
Yahoo! News - Dean to Leave Race, Mobilize Supporters, looks like my 'new DFA' predictions are coming true.
Mperia.com, an indie iTunes Music Store.
Martial Law in the NYC? Either way the GOP convention in September is going to be hectic in the streets...
"Scott McClellan finally lost it Friday, according to White House reporters."
Michel Gondry : Steriogram Walkie Talkie Man Music Video, can Gondry do no wrong?
Forget an Affleck when I begin my own failed engagement to the J.Low I'm getting her this
Question? How old and conservative do you need to be to think that John Kerry hanging with Jane Fonda is a political negative?
The Dubya Abortion? them rumors, they spreading
Bush's driving arrests disclosed, second page of arrest info still redacted.
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Neville Brody Revisited
How to steal an election online, step by step instructions, don't have time to process this, but damn, this story gets bigger and bigger every month...
v-2 Organisation | interface usability | Mike Buzzard: the v-2 interview
Joshua Micah Marshall as he often does, make things a lot clearer, this time with the Bush military records fiasco. So what are you hiding Mister Dubya?
Did Bush Get a Nose Job in the Oval Office? And is that worse then...
Political Wire: Chandler Looks Good With One Week To Go, and he raise $40,000 in 10 days off of blog ads!
danah boyd on Joe Trippi + Manuel Castells on the segregation of information
Is Tony Toast?, don't miss the illustration too...
completely surrounded by no trees, TV on the Radio have a blog, yeah.
Style: The Sound, S/FJ chops up the Neptunes/Timbaland axis for the NYTMag...
The Virus Underground by Clive Thompson with photos by the one Ryan McGinley
gigantic artspace tonight an opening
The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare, Abrupt climate change, brrrr.
Massive Change - Call for Images deadline is tomorrow (today?) Friday the 6th...
Joi Ito's Web: Lunch, the universe and everything with Seth Lloyd
infovore.org one who consumes information.
Social Design Notes: Protest and New Media, 1787 the roots of non profit tactics.
A Well-Imagined Star, the Mingering Mike story, damn that's a good read
G A P M I N D E R Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics
oh shit... the electronic voting fear grows increasingly legitimate
stevenberlinjohnson.com: My Theory About Dean's Demise: He Got Fewer Votes Than The Other Guys
Andrew Orlowski is talking more shit, this time about the Dean campaign. More on point then usual for once, which means he maybe got 1 out 5 facts right... Follow the picture link though that's a legitimate critique. Cool that Mr. Armstrong credits Deleuze and Lakoff too.
Dean Campaign Hires Bellhead, worth noting though that this "bellhead" jumped right in and started blogging on day one.
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: NYC Housing Boom- Zoning to Kill It?
Adam please tell me you are joking, please? I mean now that my eyes are open I guess I'll stop using V-2 to describe your site, as its obviously just part of your marketing scheme. And that last name, that's just a way your family markets their DNA. Hell why not just throw away names entirely, or maybe make up new ones every day? That will keep people from marketing themselves and shit you know...
Whiskey Bar: You Can't Please Everyone, Billmon gets technical and scary on interest rates and dollar exchange rates, for the hardcore only...
| s t r a n g e a t t r a c t o r | celebrating unpopular culture
Dean's VCs Force Trippi to Resign as CEO, the shareholders are confused
Even the people inside the Dean campaign are comparing it to a dot com now..., Jim? what's up?
Ben Fry, elegant information visualization
Dean vs. Privacy?, ouch
Bush 2004 Campaign Pledges To Restore Honor And Dignity To White House
Dovester, taking social networks way way back
Oliver Wang's Pop Life
oh shit, Ghostface mix tape joints Beatles samples, hip house with the Mexican samples (Burnin'), freestyles and more, hottt. When's the new record?!?!
Many-to-Many: Is Social Software Bad for the Dean Campaign?, Clay Shirky in top form on this one
Clive Thompson on social networking
eyestorm - Helmut Newton - biography by JG Ballard no less
Remarks by the President to the Press Pool, wtf is it about our president that he's able to make us go "wtf, this is our president?" with remarkable consistency...
Distorted: Don't Look Now, beautiful
Josh Marshall on state by state organization and internet fundraising, read that and note that kerry raised $365,000 yesterday...
democratic music taste, and Lieberman wonders why the voters don't relate. Kerry wins this one with the Beatles, although the Stones would have been better. Dean goes for Wyclef and risks permanently losing the vote of all music fans...
The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, haven't read it, but the subject matter is right up my alley, we'll see about the politics.
The Iraqi reconstruction business convention. God I love it when Naomi Klein does what she's great at, journalism, rather then kicking utterly crap theories around. Here she covers a convention for business men attempting to bathe in my tax dollars via Iraq contracts. Good stuff.
receiver writing about mobility and phones
John Dean: The U.S. Supreme Court and The Imperial Presidency
antipopper: purity is expensive, is organic better or just more expensive?
Boyfriend: "Hey, let's crash that party!"
Girlfriend: "Let's invite Jacques, he's always fun at parties!"
Boyfriend: "I hate that French fuck."
Girlfriend: "Why are you so mean to all my friends?"
Boyfriend: "I hate all your friends. We don't need any of them. Just the two of us, baby."
Girlfriend: "You're suffocating me."
Boyfriend: "Can I borrow some money?"
Junk for Code: Domination of nature, Tasmania is trouble
WTC Memorial = James Turrell? Turrell is of course the new black as well...
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson's latest hits the shelves
"The merger is expected to result in the elimination of about 10,000 jobs"
The merger is expected to result in the elimination of about 10,000 jobs
Jihad Unspun has a slightly different perspective on the news
Creative Class War, its Richard Florida writing so filter accordingly.
Daring Fireball: The H-Bomb, Apple + HP commentary
PRINT'EM free Japanese poster designs, lots of em.
magma - rarefuel : a network for visual junkies
John Battelle's Searchblog: How Superbowl Ad Prices Prove Old Media Is Splintering, prove is probably the wrong word, but interesting none the less
thickeye: Perceptual Moments & Consciousness thickeye on Oliver Sachs
In the River of Consciousness, Oliver Sacks on the the perception of images
WOEBOT: Milkshake a visual history
Ben Fry, artistic information visualization
Most Americans have more debt on their credit cards than money in their mutual funds
The real Iraqi radiation threat (and it ain't from Saddam)
Gladwell archives
David Crawford - Stop Motion Studies, watch the faces
Survival Research Labs play Vegas!
Please mistake me for a hit, Sasha Frere-Jones kisses Swizz Beats bye bye
social circles visualizes mailing lists
Dean gains 6 inches in just 1 minute!, warning its on Rush Limbaugh's site, but if you've got a gas mask you can learn a bit about media manipulation.
rhythmic danger, the zone of fruitless intensification and the death of jungle, aka Simon Reynolds in absolutely top form. Holla
Gary Hart for Colorado Senator, please?
Wooster Collective calls for a naming of a movement, I call it "post graffiti" but it sure could be better then that.
sponsoring bands like skaters, when do they start doing artists?
Speakerboxx x/The Love Below vs. MTA2 Baptized in Dirty Water "When the album finally dies, then and only then will we come to appreciate the value of filler"
John Battelle's Searchblog: Stats and Trends in Online Media
Fourth Annual Weblog Awards, go nominate y'all
Agenda - American Brandstand 2003 Wrap Up, 50 Cent push Mercedes to the top, and then what?
Greenfield on Korea in top form no less
japanther is the new Big Black
Trust, Institutions and Institutional Change: Industrial Districts and the Social Capital Hypothesis (pdf) is unread my me.
the iPod mini is small, not cheap
underground meat, overground disease?
Leaderless Resistance Today, well in the spring really, but it's a history anyways...