Tag: design

Bookmarks for March 9, 2009

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Bookmarks for February 23, 2009

Bookmarks for February 5, 2009

  • Southbank Centre > Music > Mouse on Mars soundtrack Herzog's Fata Morgana
    Anyone interested in this? Herzog + weird German Electro sounds like a moral victory to me.
    Tags: music, art, theatre
  • Should The New York Times Ditch Paper, Distribute Kindle E-readers?
    According to one set of maths, it might actually work out cheaper for the paper to give away Kindles for a while, and then switch to digital only. The logic is flawed in a number of places (the move would cripple their ability to pick up new readers in the short term for example), but it's still fascinating to see that even with e-paper equivalent as expensive as the Kindle, the maths looks to be becoming favourable.
  • Open the Future: Flunking Out
    Jamais Cascio explaining quite clearly why the academic program offered by the recently opened "Singularity University" is a load of old trousers, and offering a rather more sensible sounding educational program for teaching people to think about the coming years/decades.
  • DesignAday – Truism
    "Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever." Having recognised that as true, I don't particularly need to refer to the actual this link myself, but I thought I'd mark anyway it just as an action to ensure I commit it to memory.

Bookmarks for January 30, 2009

Bookmarks for January 29, 2009

  • Stephen Fry – Don't Mind Your Language
    I'm a bit of a linguistic conservative – my objection to neologisms like "squee" and "woot" is well-documented. But I'm also in firm agreement with Mr Fry here, even if my method of expressing it would be 180 degrees from his own. But then, that's why he's a national treasure and I'm not.
  • WebHome < Main < Reprap
    I know fuck all about engineering, electronics, or most of the tools this might be useful for. And yet still, I want one.
  • London from above, at night – The Big Picture
    Some staggeringly beautiful shots of my hometown. There is a small, mean part of me whispering that anyone who was half competant with the right kit and a helicopter could produce these. This is untrue, because he has (I assume) put time, effort and work into getting to a point in his career where it is economically viable for him to do so.
  • More of London from above, at night – The Big Picture
    More shots by the same photographer. And I know that small mean part of me is dead fucking wrong. These are superbly composed, beautifully shot exposures that evoke feeling and mood, that betray a really bloody good eye. Even were I up there with the right kit, I'm sure I'd miss most of the more interesting shots here.

Bookmarks for January 28, 2009