[maps] - Worldprocessor infographics on globes. Hopefully, some day soon, these datasets will all be one click away, as layers on google earth, updated in realtime. (article)
flashearth "See anywhere in the world using satellite images from Google Maps or MSN Virtual Earth."
Gvisit - Visitor log for blanketfort. recognize yourself? shows up to 20 most recent visits. (script will be removed in a few days)
Google Earth: Indian Reactions.
Placeopedia.com - Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations. another google map hack.
map of burning man including this list of street names over the years.
[meta] - The film page now has a slew of Best-Of lists, and online archives linked. (bottom right)
Fresh bookmarks up (for those keeping track), and now kept under the '~web' dropdown on the homepage/portal/exit. also gmail/hotmail/yahoomail links.
I fudged together an rss feed. However i dont use rss, so could someone who regularly does tell me whether it displays clearly/normally in their feedreader of choice? thanks.
I threw together a brief page, explaining how i installed winamp (current version) so that it doesnt track my habits and otherwise invade my privacy, and to make the installation quite a bit smaller. Just a few screenshots showing what to switch off. Someone might find useful.
[games] - in my past - part 2
Then I was old enough to leave the house by myself, and found the arcade: Hard Drivin', Final Fight, Golden Axe, Street Fighter II, Paperboy, Operation Wolf, Out Run, Smash TV, Mercs, Rampage, Super Sprint...
After outgrowing the atari (ie getting jealous of my friend's computers) i discovered the continuing joys of hardware upgrades, with the pc. 386, 486, 586, 686: SimCity, Lemmings (play online!), Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max: Hit the Road, Monkey Island series, Freddy Pharkas, Prince of Persia (play online!), Myst (oh myst..), Syndicate (video and game!), Grim Fandango, Descent, Dungeon Keeper II, The Sims, Wolfenstein 3D & Doom & Quake and other first-person shooters (serious sam, tribes 2, no one lives forever, quake3, return to castle wolfenstein, ut2004, counter-strike, half-life), IL-2 Sturmovik, Darwinia, with a brief foray into MUDs.
with the occasional stab at a friend's console system: GoldenEye, Wipeout XL, Herzog Zwei, Klax, Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, Pilot Wings, Return Fire, Road Rash 2. (and watched a friend (hey Justin!) play most of The Secret of Mana, and The Ocarina of Time)
and finally i bought my own console, a Playstation2. most enjoyed so far: Katamari Damacy & We love Katamari, God of War, Ico, Rez, GTA: Vice City, Spiderman 2, SSX 3, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, the Burnout series, Mad Maestro, Resident Evil 4, Sky Odyssey.
[games] - in my past - part 1
The Escapist - The Left Behind "I know I'm not alone. I've seen entire tribes of refugees during my travels, people fixated on one dead game or another."
the first game i ever played, was Space Invaders on my mom's greenscreen amstrad.
possibly the second, on the computers at her office, was Leather Goddesses of Phobos (a text adventure, that came with a scratch-n-sniff card, and a "lewd" setting...)
at my grandad's house, when on holiday, i got to play a small handful of Apple II games: Choplifter, California Games, Black Magic, Frogger, and Rogue (play nethack!)
then for christmas one year, i got an Atari ST: cue hours of Dungeon Master (play the clone!), and more...
Altered Beast, Another World, Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Battle Chess, Buggy Boy, Elite, Flood, Gauntlet, Gods, Ikari Warriors, International Karate plus, Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart's Super Off Road, Joust, Kick Off 2, Magic Pockets, Marble Madness, Mega-lo-Mania, Midwinter, North & South, Populous, Powermonger, Pirates!, Super Hang-on, Speedball 2, Stunt car racer, Super Sprint, Wicked, Wizball, Xenon 2 Megablast,
if you're feeling masochistic, download this emulator, Steem Engine, and games.
plus, scattered encounters with Game & Watches and Game Boys.
[books] - Ware's Candide. Chris Ware does fabulously detailed illustrations. I'm not a fan of his writing, but I love his artwork.
a new novel by Paul Ford of Ftrain.com is out: Gary Benchley, Rock Star
also, Adam Greenfield's new book: Everyware : The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Flickr: Photos tagged with library and The Bookshelf Project Pool (via)
I've been reading With Borges, Griffin and Sabine, and Going Postal, and rereading Good Omens and Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
[humour] - Things to do in SF when you're dead: Zombie Flashmob. There's another planned for today: Toronto zombie flashmob Oct 23
My Little Golden Book About Zogg
The Original PuppyPurse. so wrong. so very wrong. also.
Great Pyrenees & Chimpanzees.
lifesize Mousetrap at Burningman
BBC | Air force payout cures Santa woes
[art] - more 'faux-trophies'. (previously)
Trophy Lamp which also points to the horribly kitsch Gemmy Talking Buck (albeit hackable)
Bear rugs and the Poor Teddy Table.
Hirschgeweih and rabbit 3 from the portfolio of Patricia Waller
Jackalope and Jackalope #2, from Nemomatic.
[video] - portfolios / demoreels / large quicktime movies (previously)
mk12's demoreel(21mb). their site is worth digging through.
lobo.cx's old demoreel(16mb) and new demoreel(50mb). lobo also made the old classics Golden Shower Video Computer System(8mb) and Total Control(17mb). also check their commercial for Diesel Dreams(11mb)
Motion +61(3mb), from the dvd by backpack. a compilation of moving image design from Australia.
Pinthin's demoreel(47mb) (they were the makers of the Mr Wizard short mentioned previously)
The Embassy's 2004 designreel(51mb). i particularly like their two Toyota(11mb) Scion(11mb) ads. They made the original Citröen C4 Transformer ad(6mb), cleverly spoofed by Danish Bacon(4mb) (via)
Methodstudios 5 demoreels, plus 7 years of combined portfolios. (it sounds like they buy out smaller design firms, such as 525 Studios, whom i was trying to find..)
[art] - land art, earth art
Andy Goldsworthy. I highly recommend the movie Rivers and Tides (imdb), and the book Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
Balancing Point from Rock On, Rock ON : The Rock Balancing Art of Bill Dan
Spiral Jetty, by Robert Smithson, is only visible when the lake is at low levels.
Maya Lin's WaveField (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I also recommend her book, Boundaries.
Two Japanese sculpture parks: Site of Reversible Destiny - Yora Park, Gifu (large photos, more, more) and Moerenuma Park
[art] - Brian Jungen at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (more images)
Jinyoung Shin's illustrations
rland's paintings
Fire speaking to you. more of his work
wallpaper (for your dwelling) by Joshua Davis (from a collection)
Tiny Showcase and Arthur de Pins (via)
[design] - B&B 2005
100% Design London Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. lots more at Core77
The Space Cycle - "an artificial gravity system to deal with muscle atrophy on long-term space flights".
Digital cuckoo. would make a classy outdoor speaker.
[design] - watery decadence
Evendesign's Moody sink (related)
Starck X tap and sink, which goes with the other water-wedge faucets: Waterblade, KWC Murano, MEM, and Hansacanyon.
2 current sink memes, basin-less slabs: Betty Blue, and Thoms & Nilsson's HF01 and HF03
and: William Garvey, and other wooden sinks
sideways: Aquapub
[books] - Commonplace books, "a book in which noteworthy quotations, comments, poems, etc, are written".
The Whiskey River Commonplace Book
more online examples: Identity Theory, The Constant Reader, Scott McLemee, Risa, Bret Mulligan, Watermark, boren.nu
Maya's Micronomicon. the notebook is a crypticly dense compilation of diary, quotes, sketches, notations and lists.
articles: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Exhibitions, Yale Bulletin, Residential College Tips, U of Delaware
meta: The Lyceum, j.jacobs
see also: Marginalia (images)
[art] - Jessica Joslin's sculptures. (via)
more on Roadsworth
Complexification | Gallery of Computation (via)
Everyday Matters - on cross hatching and on perspective.
illustrations of Brian Taylor: Candykiller
[audiobooks] - The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan (1968). one of the greatest books ever. this is the vinyl variant. (previously linked origin of title)
Greylodge also hosts audiobooks of
... Neuromancer by William Gibson (as read by gibson) and The Man in the High Castle By Philip K. Dick (bittorrent).
... the The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - The original radio series (Primary and Secondary Phases), The Tertiary Phase, and The Quandary and Quintessential Phases.
...Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (1993) (search for 'chomsky' at chomskytorrents for lots more audio and video)
...The Day the Universe Changed - James Burke (host of the tv show Connections)
also by James Burke, a fun, high-paced, 1 hr lecture on The Knowledge Web (gets rolling at about the 7 minute mark (streaming realaudio only))
... also lectures by Hunter S. Thompson - Boulder CO, 1977
and Douglas Adams - Parrots, The Universe and Everything
plus see How to enjoy audiobooks : Lifehacker
[photography] - PositiveNegative Art Parade 1, Art Parade 2
ConsumerReports Vintage photo gallery: 1960-1969 (via)
"Les Oiseaux de Sens", par Emmanuel Berry (via)
Burning Man 2005: photos from Wired, packing checklists, flickr photos, Faces of Burning Man, the Dicky Box, and the official and wikipedia sites. more links at growabrain.
The 2005 Photobloggies point to a variety of new or good photoblogs i hadn't seen, incl: Durham Township, Camereye, Decksitter, KamHeadz, Shanghai Streets, yamasaki ko-ji.
[art] - more silhouettes. (previously)
from Children's book illustrator Okamoto Kiichi: Pole Jump, Horse Jump, A Beehive, Seesaw, Baseball, Excursion, Basketball, Diving, Football, Jumping Rope, and A Flag Race
El Morro in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico from Flickr: The silhouette Pool
Threadless T-Shirts - Predicament
Turn Your Head . cheesy, based on the classic optical illusion. (via)
i suppose the ipod ads warrant a mention.