- cityofsound: Sketchbook: Melbourne Smart City, for City of Melbourne/C40 Cities (incl. a note on why it's easier to crowdsource a revolution than a light-rail system)
If you want to understand how the cities you are going to living in in ten years time are being built, this is a good place to start.
Tag: information
Bookmarks for April 29, 2009
- Kickstarter » Projects
A commercial scale ransomware/fundraising site that'll work for any creative endeavour. Now to think of something people will want to give me money for…
- Daily Scans – Alan Moore's Glory proposal
Hadn't seen this before, and I can see approaches in this that clearly got recycled into Promethea, and Tom Strong and the other ABC stuff, which makes it all rather more interesting than just a document about an old Supreme character.
- Noisy Decent Graphics: "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end."
God, I hate it when I discover that Margaret Thatcher said something I agree with.
- Noisy Decent Graphics: 7 ways to be a Graphic Design student online
Never mind "Graphic Design Student" – 7 ways to be a thinking human being. If you're not using a decent number of these services, well, OK, it hardly makes you a bad person, but still: most of these are basic tools for information management and digital note taking, and if you like to think of yourself as engaged with the world, and aren't using them, then you're probably doing something wrong. (Saying that: I keep trying to get some cognitive traction with tumblr, and have never really managed it. Might take another go soon. And it did take me rather longer than many of my friends to get twitter.)
Bookmarks for February 19, 2008
- Wikileaks
Wikileaks is under attack by a bank whose shady dealings they’ve published info on – unable to effectively censor their hosting across multiple countries, they’ve gone after their DNS. The site is reachable by IP, and linking will help stop the bastards.