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Links for 05/30/2008

Paulin’s CM 141 desk to be reissued
I like the style of this desk (and most other things Bauhaus).
tags: design, home, bauhaus

Links for 05/29/2008

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 [...]

Links for 05/23/2008

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.”
tags: lat, france, baseball, sports

Galaxie 500
With a good discography, for the completists like myself.
tags: music, galaxie500, topurchase, wikipedia, boston

Links for 05/21/2008

Design Patois
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.
tags: design, writing, quotation, orwell, marketing

Links for 05/20/2008

Vampire Slayer Buffy Saves Iraq Reporter’s Soul
Jamie Tarabay, on how Buffy helped get her through a stint in Iraq.
tags: buffy, television, npr, iraq

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.
tags: aperture, howto, photography, [...]

Links for 05/19/2008

ITC Conduit
Described as “stiff and naive” and “wonderfully stupid.”
tags: font, typography, design

Links for 05/14/2008

Trace: Mapping The Emerging Urban Landscape
tags: mapping, urban, digital, article, academic

Strobist: Lighting Tip: Neuter Your SC-17
tags: topurchase, nikon, photography, camera, flash, howto

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