2008

Jul

McCain's Response

The New York Post (owned by Rupert Murdoch. just sayin’) published the John McCain op-ed that...

Places of a Lifetime

Is this the end of the high-five? - Safire, NYTimes

China’s new 10 yuan bills do not feature the...

Jun

Yes, I am still alive.

I’ve been insanely busy over the past couple of weeks and I haven’t found the time to...

Ralph Steadman Interview

Do Not Hire Me to Fix Your Roof

For anyone reading this blog who might want to hire me: I have no practical skills that are useful...

NBA Finals Predictions

KG will have a filthy baseline dunk over the unkempt Spaniard, Pau Gasol. He will then revert to...

Bigger moment in United States history: Obama securing the...

May

Your Debut Album

poortaste: 1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia...

New campaign work from Scott Hansen

School of Art, Design, and Media

Some Potentially Useful Information!

“Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality...”
— Tom Waits interviews Tom...

The Whole Earth Catalog

It certainly feels like something is happening. Record...

yourdp: Oh America you’re fat but damn it all tastes so...

Generation Slap: Radar Online

In the past couple of days, I’ve run across a number of morbid literary discussions on the...

i can’t tell you how happy i was to see this article on Slate about Vince Offer, the douchebag...

Bird Watching: Thinking About Charlie Parker...

cakeface: rach: Artist Robert Rauschenberg died last...

David Byrne turns a building into a musical intrument. (via...

Google Friend Connect

ohlarissa: via handa: CONTEMPORIST - The 2008 Modern...

cakeface: 44th Pl Studio

“So if the music industry’s getting cannibalized by the...”
— P.Diddy, on surviving tough...

Abu Dhabi Making Us Look Like Oil Hungry...

Neil Young at JavaOne

Had to share: behind the scenes of the upcoming ?uestlove + Al Green collaboration.

Hoop Data Dreams

Obama Rally in Greensboro, NC last night; the one in...

Visualizing data with Twistori a pretty cool shorthand way...

Pre-Experience Design

Architecture of Ascent - BLDGBLOG

Architecture of Ascent

Apr

To Save a Species, Serve it for Dinner

“The idea is to find one thing to do in your life that...”
— Michael Pollan (via...

Plant Something

cakeface: I was thumbing through Time Magazine tonight and...

“Throughout the primary season, voters have expressed a...”
— CBS News - March 2, 2004 hmm

17 Obscure Creativity Sparking Websites

to go along with yesterday’s link to “Guerilla...

Cognitive Surplus

The Moral Logic of Suicide Bombing

Guerilla Gardening (via PSFK)

We're Huge in Europe

timhoran: Swarming packs of Segway’s are now a pretty...

Carrboro, NC, May 2

PETA is offering $1 million to anyone who can...

Just Enough: a new trend in the works

NYTimes Magazine: lots of good stuff over the weekend in...

Toward a Quantum Internet

Social Action (via visualcomplexity) Visualizing statistics...

Micro-Compact Home (via Dwell Blog)

More Social Justice 2008

Social Justice 2008 (via Groundswell)

See Change Happen

messing around with Twine. i’ll put together my thoughts on the experience shortly. right now...

Why I Migrated Over to Twine

slantback: When the fourth season of “The Office,” an NBC...

Trial Sized Wine

I have 10 invitations to Evernote for anyone interested.

The Gym Experience

I was reading this BBC article about redesigning the airport experience and I started thinking...

Making the Cut

I’m hardly the world’s greatest arbiter of cool, so my criteria for what makes it on my...

The Art of the Title Sequence

Spring and Summer Fashion Trends 2008

10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10...

dihard: A 2007 article from Entrepreneur.com discusses the odds of survival of ten industries....

walking the cow

the lack of m4a/aac support on muxtape is really putting a damper on my muxtaping. i hope this comes...

Understanding USA

More muxtape goodness. The simple beauty of the format leads...

Social Trendcasting

I’ve been playing with this: edopter Edopter combines early adopter insight and worldwide...

Best of the Tokyo Art Fair - PingMag

Check it out, here

Internet Trends Report (Morgan Stanley)

I’m finally upgrading to Leopard and this is what’s doing it for me: Evernote. The...

Tasty, Tasty Placenta

Miranda, Adam, Elisa, and I all recently had an in-depth placenta conversation (don’t ask) and...

The Death of MSM

I like it… I think dying elephants is going to be an interesting project. dyingelephants: ...

muxtape: deplorableword: Put Muxtape in your Dock Keep...

Automated Restaurant

Dying Elephants

My roommate from college, Adam, has started a tumblelog dedicated solely to pithy responses to...

hulu: Arrested Development

Collective Memory

I spent much of this weekend reminiscing. Friends were in Chapel Hill for the Final Four and since...

Booklending with Paperspine

Twitter predictions - Fluid Design

Brilliant Desktop: this makes way too much sense.

Human-Computer Interaction

I'm moving

I’m slowing moving my entire life online: Calendar, Documents, Email, RSS: Google To Do:...

Mar

I’ve been a woefully absent tumblr this week as I’ve been in Framingham, MA and...

Current State: a real time energy use monitoring system and...

PSFK on "Neocartographers and the Ego-Centric...

AWOL

i’ve been sort of distant in my blogging relationship and that is because it is march and i am...

New Life for the Independent Bookstore

Thanks for this Max. A dance craze that I could have started, Le Tabarnak, which is French for...

Visual CV

Seth Godin asks “why bother having a resume?” and this seems entirely reasonable. Can...

Free Photo Editing

Hipster Farmers

Alltop is like marijuana

Tumblr NCAA Bracket Competition

a fine example of everyday engineering slantback: How to...

chetgulland: Scalable Brands // NoahBrier.com

More interestingness at PingMag on Japanese taxi cab logos

Anxious Climate: reminds me of this from a couple of weeks...

“There is a kind of lurking Victorianism in some aspects of...”
— David Gissen on Anxious...

Thanks to all who have followed me at shootingelephants. my tumblr experiment has gone incredibly...

YouTube for You

Why is Twitter exploding?

The Next Slum and the New Green City

Amateurs and Experts at SXSW - "Cult of the...

Etch-A-Sketch Clock

the 10x10 housing project - designing low-cost housing in...

The Social Media Shift

Twitter Evangelism

The Beatles Finally Hit iTunes

Decotora: Pimp Your Truck - from PingMag

Ecospace Architecture

World’s First Positive Energy Building in Masdar, Abu...

“Some design became famous for being famous, rather than...”
— Beyond Fashion: Reviving...

chetgulland: Noah mentioned a few stats at dinner last...

Evite sucks. Pingg does not.

“Could a coffeemaker be worth $11,000?” - from...

Workplace Experiments

In the “what took so long category?” is...

vitaminbriefcase: 15 Concept Phones. I’d buy nearly all of...

Miranda’s recent culinary inspirations and aspirations...

More on Sports Technology

Is Victoria's Secret Too Sexy?

The Linc: a touch screen cell phone that is leased to the...

New York Times Once Again Defines What You...

“What the labels have failed to recognize is that the...”
— Would you buy music on a flash...

Schoolkids Records, in my current home of Chapel Hill, is...

This somehow deserves mention: Erotic Falconry

Suburbs are the New Ghetto

Cheap Eats Not So Cheap

Logo Design Trends, 2008

Feb

More Bookshelves

Samsung: First 3D Plasma TV

"Crowdsourcing" with Kluster

The future is… transparency nath: simko: I’d really...

Anti-Gravity Treadmill

This is the G-trainer. Athletes have always looked for a technological edge, but it’s never...

2007 Digital Economy Fact Book

it feels like...

hrrrthrrr: …tumblr just exploded today (in a good way). yes!