Life & Research Notes

blackaller on deviantART Luis Blackaller's deviantART page. Includes some of his OPENSTUDIO drawings. blackaller drawing art store

Dead Man Eating…Last Meals on Death Row a history of last meal requests of executed prisoners in the US. fascinating but sad. weird depressing prison food humor data

Mind Hacks: Digital drugs emergency - paging Dr. Beat hacking the brain into altered states. reminds me of the goggles/headphone setup kevin let me try way back when. potentially interesting medium to explore. drugs brain perception vision

http://thisisharrington.com/projects/nasa/index.html interesting, nostalgic photos of retro, decaying nasa jpl trailer equipment. i love the type. photos retro nasa space science design technology nostalgia

Escape to Detroit | Laughing Squid fascinating take on the emerging detroit renaissance, in particular the greening and gentrification of detroit. another sign of the urban/suburban shift? green detroit culture urban city future

Urban flight from Los Angeles | Straight outta Compton | Economist.com another article on the changing of suburbia, focusing on black flight. suburbia urban culture future

America’s suburbs | An age of transformation | Economist.com "America's suburbs are coming to resemble its city centres." Interesting economist article on the shift of suburbia. urban suburbia culture future

Software Studies social "control, communication, representation, simulation, analysis, decision-making, memory, vision, writing, and interaction" understood via study of software theory culture software code research programming design art blog ucsd

CultureVis received an email about this via swivel feedback. interesting new initiative by Lev Manovich at UCSD. visualization culture data graphics design

THE ORWELL PRIZE orwell's diary republished 70 years later as a blog. great project. orwell writer blogging

wordscapes by peter cho peter cho's new exploratory typography piece. very rich. via maeda's out.risd.edu blog. typography design interaction processing.org

mudd up! » archive » GAAN A BED rupture on the new "crunked out breakstep" music breaks breakstep dub dubstep ragga crunk audio

Git for the lazy - Spheriki git is the new svn. seems like the way to go what with the easier branching/merging and the cool local commits. tutorial versioncontrol svn wiki

Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund fun read. i can definitely identify a few of these that i have been thinking about and working on the past few years, both at Swivel and the Media Lab. startup ycombinator entrepreneurship advice venturecapital business web2.0

steve schofield – land of the free - © 2007 lovely surreal pics of scifi and other characters in mundane environments. vis vsl. vsl starwars startrek scifi science photos

Open Innovation | Innovation Management a marketplace for innovation. this is fascinating and weird. from the nyt article. business capitalism design economics innovation market participation research web

Project C-90 | Catalogue | Compact cassettes from tang. huge archive of cassettes. nice inspiration for nostalgic designs. cassette design inspiration nostalgia

Museum of Notebooks ooh this is a nice set of notebooks. blog book design print

Josef Müller Brockmann - a set on Flickr nice flickr set of images of brockman posters. very nice reference. some surprising colors. via coudal. brockman design graphics posters swiss

How to Live With Just 100 Things - TIME i would like to do this. via coudal culture home life simplicity stuff

YouTube - Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga this is so lovely. thanks arikan and rocha. art computer drawing retro software video

pagetable.com » Blog Archive » 1200 Baud Archeology: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape Listen to the audio from the “Apple I BASIC” cassette tape that came with the Apple I. apple audio basic history programming retro

CogWiki seems like good wiki resource for developing with embedded linux stuff. mostly about this guy's virtual cogs components, which seem cool, and use the i.mx21. development electronics embedded hardware linux virtualcogs

Anti-Terrorism Exercises in China - The Big Picture - Boston.com fascinating, somewhat frightening photos of chinese anti-terrorism training. the segway exercise photo is particularly riveting. urban combat of the future. via laughing squid china photos politics

0xDECAFBAD » Queue everything and delight everyone interesting blog post on architectures for scalability of microblogging and messaging/publishing. argues for queue systems over sql queries, which is reasonable. consider extensibility of the queue processors as the hook for new apps/innovations. article blog microblogging scalability twitter web

Let the microblogs bloom - RussellBeattie.com this guy is right. there are definitely opportunities for niche microblogs, and they don't need to suffer from the same scaling issues. think ning for microblogging, or twitter/plurk for workgroups. the shared timeline becomes a wonderful communal asset. blogging development future microblogging publishing scalability twitter web

Handwritten Typographers this guy sent requests to various famous typographers to get a sample of their handwriting. I personally prefer (and relate to) Söderström's messiness. :) from dave merrill. design fonts typography

DOWNTEMPO | Internet Product, Strategy, and Design andy volk's product, strategy and design company. design internet marketing product strategy web

HyveUp Web 2.0: Swivel: Cornerstone for the Information Age - Gerad Suyderhoud, Product Manager gerad is famous on the internets today. data friend gerad swivel video