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.
Raph’s 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, it’s 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)
The Big Picture | EMH (Part 3): The Home Builders
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
Status Ain't Hood - Ten Years After Biggie's Death
'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.
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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
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