- Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
I think I must find some people, and somehow stage this. It would be *amazing*.
- Prices | Newspaper Club
12 people, stumping up less that 50 quid each could all get 40 copies of a 12 page full colour printed product that would be easily saleable for 1.50 plus P&P. That's a tabloid newspaper page to do with as you will, and ten quid in your pocket. Creative people out there: what would you fill your page with?
Tag: newspaper
Bookmarks for August 13, 2009
- YouTube – The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
This is where you live. Go and look.
- The Trouble with the Segway
Interesting piece on the design of objects, and the effect it can have on perceptions of their use.
- New consumers and new business opportunities
My brain is a bit fried right now, and even though I'm mainlining coffee, I'm not in a state to really retain serious information. So I'm marking this as one to come back to, as it looks interesting.
- Local newspapers in peril: The town without news | The Economist
I cut my teeth building systems for a local newspaper company – one, in fact, that I had delivered as a teenager, for pocket money. It's very easy to dismiss local papers as lacking in real news content, and full instead of trivial local rubbish, but the reality is that they provide local-community level news that really is important to the daily lives of many people. There is a very real need to find alternative infrastructure to distribute this information, ideally in a non-digital form.
- Introduction To LED Lighting | DIYPhotography.net
I think I could have fun with some of this shit. Need to go LED shopping soon.
Bookmarks for April 1, 2009
- The Problem With Music
Steve Albini's breakdown of exactly how much a band can expect now to earn in a normal record industry contact. Figures would need to be adjusted for inflation, but I bet they're still proportionally the same. I've seen this a few times over the years, I just wanted to log it in case I need to refer to it again.
- Micro scope – The Engineer
Some notes about the practicalities of nanomachinery in the body – both the propulsion/navigation, and the means by which they might operate on us.
- Blood powered fuel cells.
Good to know that my future cybernetic implants aren't likely to need batteries.
- Jacek Utko asks, Can design save the newspaper? | Video on TED.com
After the links the other week, here's a talk about how they newspapers might yet be kept alive: by making them beautiful objects.
- Ramachandran on synesthesia, creativity and metaphor
A fascinating talk on the some of the possible neuroscientific explanations for some of the more remarkable and ill-understood operations of the brain.
- wrongcards
I shall be sending these in future. Well, maybe not, but there are a few things in here that made me laugh.)
- Anki – friendly, intelligent flashcards
This could be a really useful little learning tool.