Author Archives: oook

links for 2009-01-11

• Switching to Digital TV
  how many Ws?
  (tags: geekery media)

links for 2009-01-10

• Dubya, Drawn and Quartered: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
  someday we'll laugh at these without pain…
  (tags: argybargy)
• The Altruist 1965
  video on Laurie Munn's illustration project, based in a 1965 high school yearbook
  (tags: video chronotope)

links for 2009-01-09

• The History of Visual Communication
  via information aesthetics
  (tags: visualization chronology)

links for 2009-01-08

• Doc Searls Weblog: Seeing how ugly it can get
  Doc points to Intellicast weather
  (tags: geospatial weather)

Camden clog

oh yes!

(via The Guardian)

links for 2009-01-07

• The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe
  Mark Liberman at some length, as nice a summary as you'll find
  (tags: dialects languages diasporas)
• PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS
  recommended by Stephen Downes
  (tags: tutorial PHP MySQL)
• Zoom Baby, Zoom: Guided Tour of Bath and environs
  via William Gibson, and he's right: "Many more like this, please!"
  (tags: photography gigapan)
• Michael Wesch's Zeitgeisterator
  What's The Buzz at Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University
  (tags: geekery wesch media)

links for 2009-01-06

• the semiotics of toilet signs
  via SavageMinds
  (tags: anthropology semiotics iconography)
• Half an Hour: What Not To Build
  Stephen Downes is ALWAYS worth listening to, even if you then go and do elsewise yourself. Wise and fearless, and in Moncton NB
  (tags: geekery technologies)

links for 2009-01-05

• NYT Op-Eds: End of the Financial World As We Know It / How to Repair a Broken Financial World
  yes folks, the hype is well deserved this time
  (tags: argybargy economics)

one is taken aback, aghast almost

Compare and contrast:

(via Crooked Timber)

and

links for 2009-01-03

• The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2009
  always interesting
  (tags: geekery writing)