Category / Bookmarks
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Low-budget Mac
“The breakthrough is done, OS X runs on Apple TV!” wrote “Semthex,” the anonymous hacker responsible for the mod, at his website. “Now we got (the) low-budget Mac we ever wanted.” (via…
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Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing?
Jack Dorsey has long been obsessed with status. [I’M WRITING THE LEAD TO MY COLUMN] Not in the snob-appeal sense, but status as in “where are you and what are you doing.”…
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Blogger’s code of conduct
In a discussion the other night at O’Reilly’s ETech conference, we came up with a few ideas about what such a code of conduct might entail. These thoughts are just a work…
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Powercast’s technology cuts the electric cord
Powercast and its first major partner, electronics giant Philips, are set to launch their first device powered by electricity broadcast through the air. Powercast’s technology cuts the electric cord
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Keep the Internet neutral, fair and free
Most Americans believe that if you play fair and work hard, you’ll get ahead. But this notion is threatened by legislation passed Thursday night by the U.S. House of Representatives that would…
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Justin.tv
Eleven days ago, 23-year-old Justin Kan was just another no-name startup guy with big dreams of the small screen. Then he and his friends launched Justin.tv, an Internet reality show chronicling their…
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Why to Not Not Start a Startup
We’ve now been doing Y Combinator long enough to have some data about success rates. Our first batch, in the summer of 2005, had eight startups in it. Of those eight, it…
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U.S. “No Longer Technology King”
The US is now ranked seventh in the body’s league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations. A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US…
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Top 40 sites according to FeedBurner stats
Thanks to FranticIndustries for including both EmilyChang.com and eHub on his list. FeedBurner is a popular RSS feed manager, with over 600.000 feeds in their roster. One of the advantages it offers…
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Think Small
“Matthew Adams outside his 120-square-foot house by Modern Cabana on his 160 acres near Red Bluff, Calif. He wanted a well-designed dwelling that would have the least effect on his land.” Minimalism…
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PicoLED
Kyoto-based electronic component creator, Rohm, announced today that the world’s smallest LED, the PicoLED will go into mass production in April. [Via FujiSankei Business if you can read Japanese] I am now…
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Superflat Platform Art
This refreshing superflat mural is showing in the London Underground. Each of the arches has a different part of the scene. The artist is “chiho aoshima, born 1974, tokyo, japan. she uses…
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Dreamlands
“Aurora borealis casting it’s glow over Seltún geothermal area in SW-Iceland.” By Helga Kvam, All Rights Reserved. Visit Helga’s flickr page to see more of her stunning photography from Iceland.
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Suggested Reading, November 18, 2006
A round-up of some articles and ideas that I’ve enjoyed recently with a focus on global change, community, action, and design thinking. Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century “A groundbreaking…
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The Cloud
This combines so many elements that I’m drawn to into one functional environment – beyond object. It’s meditative, ethereal, and draws from camping technology (rip-stop nylon, portable). Camping in my tent has…
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Rumsfeld Resignation
Summarized in a Mac OSX screenshot… Via Boing Boing
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A Good Day for America
The Democrats finally make the move to regain power and I couldn’t be more excited. My parents live in Northen Virginia so it was a victory on many levels. San Francisco’s Nancy…
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Tell it All
I’ve had phases where I was really into digital video. In the early 2000s, I shot a lot of footage of my daily life with my one-chip Sony DV cam and turned…
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080906
“Most people spend their lives living in dreary, beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colors. The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their…
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Bubble Portraits
Julianne Swartz’s Bubble portraits are playful and refreshing, where the ordinary becomes ethereal. Given my own work with translucent water bubbles, I appreciated her perspective. ps – happy bday eric!
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Less: alternative living strategies
maxi capsule luxus by atelier van lieshout, 2002 Some of my favorite artists are showing in “less – alternative living strategies” at the Padiglione d’arte Contemporanea (PAC) in Milan from April 5th…
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Clever Car
Researchers in England have been working on a prototype for a “clever” (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) car. The car has three wheels and tilts for easy manueverability. The prototype…
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Jenny Holzer: For London
As part of the Beckett Centenary Festival at the Barbican, American artist Jenny Holzer presents a series of light projections on the Barbican and buildings around London including City Hall and Somerset…
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Pleo: designer life form
Pleo is a “designer life form” created by Caleb Chung, the creator of the Furby. The Pleo looks like a miniature dinosaur toy, but it’s much more – stuffed with 38 sensors…
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Lego Creations
I’m definitely part of the Lego generation – played with them as a kid, went to Lego world in Holland, and was a fan of Lego Mindstorms. This Lego Volvo is crazy:…
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A-Z West
Andrea Zittel has always been one of my favorite artists since I saw her work in NYC in the late nineties. The NYTImes has a review of her latest work in Rethinking…
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guimp
This reminds me of the artweb projects that I first fell in love with in the late 90s and the pixel art sites that followed. Check out guimp, the world’s smallest website.
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Extinction alert for 800 species
In the BBC article, “Extinction alert for 800 species,” researchers have compiled a global map of sites where animals and plants face imminent extinction. “It’s impossible to know or predict how long…
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Mobisodes
In “Pocket-size screen’s new rules”, Laura M. Holson writes: Mobisodes are more popular among teenagers in Europe and Asia, largely because the advanced technology in use there makes it easier for them…
