Links for 05/30/2008
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Paulin’s CM 141 desk to be reissued
I like the style of this desk (and most other things Bauhaus).
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Links for 05/29/2008
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Subterranean robot train to beat the jams
Cargo Cap’s genius lies in its simplicity. Beneath city streets would run a series of tunnels. An electric monorail system would be built to run sealed capsules guided by computers and sensors, each carrying up to 600kg in weight. The plan is for them to run, in tens of thousands, 24 hours a day, gliding silently direct to delivery points.
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Tower Bridge, London, is an example of a twitterject.
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Chris Harrison - Web Trigrams Visualization
Visualizations of three word search terms (trigrams).
Chinese websites mourn
Chinese corporations and multinationals doing business in China toned down the colors on their websites after the devastating Sichuan earthquake. Most opted for black.
Although white more commonly signifies death and mourning in China, black is a more effective way of expressing grief on the white background of a Web page.
Links for 05/23/2008
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French connection to America’s pastime
“A village mayor had a vision: build a field and spark interest in baseball. It did, just barely. But what a ballpark.”
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With a good discography, for the completists like myself.
Links for 05/21/2008
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When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like cuttlefish squirting out ink. —George Orwell.
Links for 05/20/2008
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Vampire Slayer Buffy Saves Iraq Reporter’s Soul
Jamie Tarabay, on how Buffy helped get her through a stint in Iraq.
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Reader Submitted Tips for Aperture
Using the RGB Channels along with the monochrome mixer can create much more dynamic black and white images in Aperture than just using the luminance channel.
Links for 05/19/2008
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Described as “stiff and naive” and “wonderfully stupid.”
Michigan’s MEGA tax credits to include creative industries
On the recommendation of Detroit Renaissance, Michigan hopes to attract more creative sector employers with recent legislation making these firms eligible for the state’s high-tech or high-wage MEGA tax credits. [via]
Links for 05/14/2008
Local government yet to discover Paypal.
One of Terry Heaton’s criticisms of municipalities is that a lack of competition has kept them from adopting all those convenient little innovations that make internet commerce a relative breeze. It’s very difficult to find an online vendor asking you to use anything but your internet connection and a credit card to complete a transaction. Local governments, on the other hand, often request that you fax, mail, call or drive something to an office somewhere.
This same inability to innovate holds true for communicating with their citizens. Almost daily, old firms embrace new tools allowing them to better communicate with increasingly sophisticated consumers. Why not local government?
photo credit: Danielle Scott