July 31, 2006

Wired 14.08: Pinch My Ride on cracking arphid key systems.

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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..

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Back to Iraq 3.0, Chris Albritton is unstoppable, now he's in Lebanon...

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July 30, 2006

The Brand Underground - New York Times A Rob Walker longform, nice. Or medium-form really looks like the book is coming...

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July 29, 2006

History of the Fugs

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STREET/FRUiTS/TUNE

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alex dragulescu - spamplants

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July 28, 2006

July 27, 2006

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Lee Gomes responds to Chris Anderson on the myth of the long tail.

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Air Power Won't Do It

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High-ranking officer: Halutz ordered retaliation policy | Jerusalem Post, 10 buildings in Beruit for every missile...

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July 26, 2006

Pheeder

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July 25, 2006

digg labs

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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.

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July 24, 2006

"I make $1.45 a week and I love it" Salon on Amazon's Mechanical Turk

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July 23, 2006

Robert Fisk: Elegy for Beirut

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July 22, 2006

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...

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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).

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July 21, 2006

July 20, 2006

Information Design Watch

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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.

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July 19, 2006

July 18, 2006

July 17, 2006

Wired 14.07: His Space

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July 15, 2006

9/11 corporate profiteering

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Lunch over IP: Cloning Skype

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July 14, 2006

bopuc/weblog: Trust, a blog post tracking Yahoo and Google hires, interesting.

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reveries magazine » Intelligentsia Coffee, beyond fair trade.

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July 13, 2006

Communist Jokes

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July 12, 2006

Hans Rosling on TED Talks

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July 10, 2006

July 09, 2006

July 08, 2006

July 07, 2006

Capitalist Roaders Car Culture in China

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July 06, 2006

danger opportunity != crisis

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July 05, 2006

July 04, 2006

"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.

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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.

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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.

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July 03, 2006

Foreign Policy: Minority Report.com Bruno Giussani on blog journalism from the suburban ghettos of France.

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July 02, 2006

HOPE Number Six Conference NY, July 21-23.

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Magical Urbanism

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