NASA has produced some stunning
NASA has produced some stunning images of urban growth and of the biosphere.
NASA has produced some stunning images of urban growth and of the biosphere.
The Village Voice is doing a great job covering the RNC protests (isn’t it a little odd that these stories aren’t all over the place?) and to top it off their new design features snazzy dHTML navigation.
I’m fascinated by this mirror made of 830 little pieces of shiny wood, 830 servo motors, a camera, a few spotlights, and a Macintosh 8600 AV with ten serial ports.
If you come across any stolen music while sojourning in cyberspace, be sure to give it back!
Bratta.com is a great resource for dHTML beginners like me. The free scripts are bulletproof in NS 4 thru IE 5, and I’m learning a lot from this article on 5th generation browsers and the Document Object Model.
If I had a cell phone that sent email, I’d try out the Robot Project.
American Routes is a great weekly radio show focusing on “the important and soulful territory” of American music – starting with jazz, blues, rock, and folk and expanding into klezmer, tejano, zydeco, swing and more. Plus, their Web site has neato pictures like the one above.
It takes you to another time, and to a frightening, alien land, windswept and gray, dying in quiet obedience to insane decrees of insane leaders. Its authors took the time and space to tell their tale in its every moment, often devoting many pages to scenes that wouldn't last three panels in a monthly American superhero comic book. We come to know the players, large and small, as we meet them, as they reveal themselves to us. Koike and Kojima tell their story masterfully and artfully, portraying a man, a boy, and a country on their journey into Hell.About 1/3 of the incredible Japanese comic Lone Wolf and Cub was published in English in 1987, and I was blown away by its stark beauty and powerful story. Beginning this month (Aug 30), Dark Horse Comics will release a monthly series of trade paperbacks collecting the entire story in 28 volumes of about 300 pages each. I'm going to need a new bookshelf.
The guy behind Gengoid.com has a good hip hop station at live365.com.
Dru Jay of misnomer and the monkeyfist collective took some photos at the demonstrations in Philly last week.
One day my house will be this cool. The Icepick house, however, is just scary. In the short term, this slashdot post sounds about right.
From the I-want-to-believe department: natural vision improvement.
The Evil Genius Hoaxes are lots of fun to contemplate.
Will people in the future have souls? Or will our souls pass into the machines?
It's easy to forget that the Web had that brief period where there were no commercial sites at all, and people did all kinds of strange and interesting and stupid stuff with that space for the hell of it out of weird obsessions or whatever. And they were, in a sense, necessary for laying the foundation for the commercial Web, because the Web wasn't some kind of unoccupied territory; it was fucking nonexistent until people evoked it into existence by creating what the business geeks call "content."R.U. Sirius and Justin Hall have a talk.
Single Square goes disco!
meta:matrix brings us “Deja Vu: the web as we remember it”, a Web-based emulator of early versions of Netscape, IE, Mosaic, Lynx, and other browsers. My site degrades gracefully… does yours?
We always recommend that you drink 2 to 3 cups of hot ginger tea a day. Make it a habit. More info (and recipes) at The Chopra Center.
The Philadelphia Independent Media Center is a collective of journalists and independent media organizations providing alternative coverage of this week’s Republican Convention. Check this site several times a day this week for firsthand accounts of the action in the streets.
Hell-Raising in Philly - an activists guide to protests outside the republican convention.
Every once in a while, I’ll take a half-hour and comb my system folder for extensions and control panels that I don’t absolutely need for most of my daily Mac activities (i.e. http, smtp, a little ftp and maybe some irc. I’d like to deny the occasional MSFT, but I do dabble in Adobe) – anything that doesn’t pass the test is outta there. It’s time to rebuild. A restart, and Wow, that feels fast! Inevitably, I turn them back on, one-by-one, over the next couple weeks – but for a while, my computer no longer creeps. Things zoom again, almost like my first time on the machine. It’s a good feeling.
I listened to a lot of SquidRadio today. Good things are happinging in indie rock again. Or did they ever stop happening? Probably I just stopped listening.
The official Star Wars site has a good page about Urban Legends. I’m sure everyone who’s really interested in it has already seen it, but I wish someone had told me about it, so here it is.
Will my next portable be a YOPY, or a keyboardless Mac? Decisions, decisions… thanks, ubiquitous computing.
It’s not that I’m scared of the dark so much as I just think it’s a bad idea.