July 2008
TED talks visualization sphere →
An alternative visual interface to browse through all the information & talks from TED.
Watch lectures and understand the relations between the talks’ content.
Zoomii virtual bookstore →
virtual bookstore with shelves and bookcovers…
browse, search AND buy…
New Radiohead video →
made from some 3D scanner program… in other words, no cameras or lights were used.. only data…
they’ve also uploaded the code for you to riff on it and upload your own version…
Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America →
For the Gap Minder in you. Also a good litmus of the US economic, social, demographic and environmental pattern for the last 40 years.
Life in a bubble - MIT News Office →
Much to learn.
Radiolab » Tell Me A Story →
Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich speaks at the California Institute of Technology’s commencement about the importance of storytelling to science.
Rising Oil Prices Swell Profits at Exxon and Shell... →
This is twisted…
TV viewers' average age hits 50 - Entertainment... →
The Periodic Table of Elements and their... →
Ronald Chevalier →
Holy shabam!
Tom Waits In Concert (NPR Music) →
Thanks Kristina!
GOOD Magazine →
FOR US WHO GIVE A DAMN.
GOOD is the integrated media platform for people who want to live well and do good. We are a company and community for the people, businesses, and NGOs moving the world forward. GOOD’s mission is to provide content, experiences, and utilities to serve this community.
GOOD currently produces a website, videos, live events, and a print magazine. Launched in September...
BBtv: Multi-millenial Mechanical clocks - Long Now... →
Boing Boing visits The Long Now…
MARK Magazine | Another Architecture →
My favorite architecture mag… not a bad little site either (too bad you can’t read articles online).
Edward Burtynsky at the Long Now Foundation - we... →
Ed Burtynsky proposes a 10,000 year gallery to go along side the Long Now’s 10,000 year clock.
Design Tools>Scriptographer →
Generate illustrative artwork and graphics using scripts (or our iterative proliferation a littler quicker, but not always better). I have used this tool for a few years and find it surprising, time saving, time wasting and altogether worth a few explorations a day.
Scriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator™. It gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator’s...
Global Voices Online →
Global Voices Online is an international network that summarizes the activity of the blogosphere worldwide. It was started by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, and associated with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.
GVO’s objectives are to enable and empower a community of “bridgebloggers” who “can make a bridge between two languages, or two cultures.”It’s team of...
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Feltron Eight →
Simple and informative, all in ten parts. Check out the Annual Reports for 06 / 07 / 08. Start quantifying everything.
Blackspot | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters →
For years the old pattern went on. People were jaded by corporate control of so much of their lives, but couldn’t see how they might take some power back. We decided to launch a counterattack. The result is Blackspot, the world’s first open-source brand. Blackspot represents a radical, no-compromise experiment, a total rethinking of capitalism from the ground up.
Cuil →
The latest Google challenger created by an ex-Google heavy hitter.
2008 Web Design Trends →
For the web designer geek in you.
PhotoshopDisasters →
MP3fiesta →
The name is horrid, but large-distribution albums for a couple bucks ain’t bad.
WNYC - Radiolab →
Only a select few shows a year, but all quality stuff through and through. Sort of “This America Life-ish”… but more scatter-brained and result-oriented.
CBC Radio | Ideas | The Best of Ideas Podcast →
If you have 5,000 hours to kill, this is the way.
“Welcome to Choplogic Radio, an independent...
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Third | Pitchfork →
A review of the first new Portishead album in 11 years by the best music review site on the web.
The Art Gallery of Ontario: Logo by Bruce Mau... →
View on Canadian Art features this interview with Kevin Sugden of BMD, explaining the process behind the development of the AGO logo.
