lotsa interesting mappage

a cautionary read

via The Automata / Automaton Blog, and just SUPER cool to see the process of design (even though I realize thereby the poverty of my own creativity, automata-wise)

…continued…

"…debilitating belief disorders..". "It's a plausible scenario…" "A Great Plague can fix that…" "Why do I keep falling in love with these loser unlicensed massage therapists?" "henh henh henh" "Who has half a brain anymore?" "…memorizing the entire Zeitgeist addendum…" "this is some repugnant shit, man…"

disassembly of stuff: "comprehensive disassembly photos, hardware analysis, and witty commentary"

I've missed Jon Udell's contributions to my learning (much of his Microsoft work has just been outside my areas of interest/knowledge), but this one is worth a look to remind us of the powers that URLs can be endowed with.

Oooooh I wish I knew what to do with this…

Another anniversary. Coincidence?

Happy 30th!

via ResourceShelf. A marvelous but mostly forgotten resource

I've been thinking about these issues for a long time, and this is just a (very promising and highly suggestive) beginning. Many other quasi-imaginary geographies could be treated thus: ethnic territories, politicized subregions, etc.

via Strange Maps

a pretty good primer for anyone beginning to think about expanding the concept of Mashup, from OUseful.Info, the blog

Bruce Sterling is worth listening to ANYhow, but perhaps especially on this set of issues

a good investment of 4 minutes of your time

"…the web's most comprehensive site devoted to the art of landscape, nature and documentary photography using digital as well as traditional image processing techniques. … instructive feature articles, product reviews, travel and technical discussions, inspiring portfolios, and a Discussion Forum…"

an earlier version, a bit easier to hear the lyrics. Think of it as folk process

you'll want to watch the other two… or maybe not

Now THAT's what I'm talking about! What a wonderful way to present this stuff, which certainly takes some aural effort to get snuggly with, but repays that effort with wonderful intensity of performance. The link to Excavated Shellac on Dublab is really worth your time too.

via Dave’s Whiteboard, and applicable to oh so many domains…

from Wondermark

"cheeseburger of the gods"

via Gizmodo. I begin to perceive, however dimly, what this revolution betokens

subtitled: A Crunk Omnibus for Thrillionaires and Bampots for the Ecozoic Age. Available as PDF (which may be unweildy, but hey…). I note that I bought the sucker when it came out, so MY heart is pure!

you KNOW you want to play with it…