My Scattered Thoughts

These are my links for July 29th through August 2nd:

• A meditation on Ben Franklin – in Pictures
• Pretty Desktop Images – Pretty. Minimalist.
• Introducing Internet Garage Sale – Move over eBay, Craigslist… I guess. An interesting idea: invitation only, plus $5 registration fee to keep the community honest….
• SF Magazine Covers from the 1950s – Specifically, the magazine IF. Pretty nice.
• S.britt.com – Some Sort of Website – A boardgame-themed navigational index. Not very useful, but fun to look at. Also, if you can find a gallery, the art is pretty fun.

These are my links for July 17th through July 28th:

• .::Maklers 2×2::. – A delightful little tile game.
• Reinventing the desktop (for real this time) – Part 1 – A great essay discussing the flaws in current computer OS UI design. (IE, the desktop/windows metaphor, plus more.)
• PatternWall – Free Seamless Patterns – I don't have much use for these at the moment, but they're quite pretty.
• iPhone : Mobile Air Mouse – This looks pretty sweet. If it works as advertised. (Yet another thing for S to roll her eyes at, I suppose. :)
• 50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland – I really like the CROCODILE DUNDEE.

These are my links for July 2nd through July 17th:

• The Game Crafter – It's self-publishing for games. Pretty incredible.
• Some excellent movie posters – Make sure to check pages 2 and 3 as well.
• Beautiful Modern Vintage Illustrations by Tom Whalen – These are beautiful. But why are they all looking left?
• Invading The Vintage – a set on Flickr – Aliens + Vintage postcards. Pretty sweet.
• Little Green Guys With Guns – Looks like a fun little game.
• Game Design Essentials: 20 RPGs – A long article about foundational roleplaying games.
• Chris Harrison – WikiViz: Visualizing Wikipedia – Wow wowee wow.

These are my links for June 26th through July 1st:

• information aesthetics – Information Visualization & Visual Communication – A beautiful collection of data visualizations. Art from data is a beautiful thing.
• Jourdon Anderson, an ex- Tennessee slave, declines his former master's invitation to return as a laborer on his plantation – Amazing. Primary historical documents are so very worthwhile.
• Power Moby-Dick, the Online Annotation — Chapter 1 – Using arc90's annotation tool
• Unobtrusive Sidenotes – An online annotation tool by arc90. Brilliant.
• Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie – A really quite funny review about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

These are my links for June 18th through June 25th:

• SCIENCE AND SANITY by Alfred Korzybski – If you want your ideas to spread, you've gotta put them online.
• Get Smarter by Jamais Cascio – He's been busy recently!
• The Need for Geoengineering by Jamais Cascio – He's always worth reading.
• Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air by David JC Mackay – "This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics: an accessible, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and practicalities of energy."
• The Book Seer – I'm not sure how awesome the recommendations are, but I dig the bearded book recommender guy.
• Robert Fisk: Iran's day of destiny – Wow. Man on the street article about protests in Iran. Amazing stuff

These are my links for June 16th through June 17th:

• Five Movements To Watch Out For – China Mieville comes up with five as-yet-nonexistent literary movements that people should write books for. I'll read this soon…
• IE6 denial message for Momentile.com on Flickr – Photo Sharing! – It'd be sad, if it weren't so true.
• Multicolr Search Lab – A pretty Flickr image search tool, by color.
• Wordnik – A really excellent dictionary, tapping into all that social networking stuff.
• "A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra" by Richard Wilbur – A delightful little poem about a fountain.

These are my links for April 8th through June 15th:

• Brent Swanson's song poem stories – My friend is writing some fascinating stories about song poems. One of these days I'll get around to reading more than a couple of paragraphs. They're interesting so far.
• "From hell to paradise for ex-Gitmo detainees" – The US has a lot to atone for, it seems. These are the people we were/are so afraid of?
• "The Variant" by John August – A respectable experiment in self-publishing. I've been meaning to read at least the first half of this for a couple of weeks now.
• the secret knots – "The detested 'A rain of cyrillic characters'"
• some good fantasy « the m john harrison blog – The corresponding fantasy list.
• some interesting science fiction « the m john harrison blog – A nice list of science fiction from M. John Harrison
• Rules for Anchorites – Circumnavigating Fairyland – Worthwhile fiction project from Cat Valente
• Little Wheel – A delightful little robot game.
• Blueprint: A CSS Framework – This looks pretty excellent.
• NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast : NPR Podcasts – Look for the decemberist performance here. SXSW
• Watch "Sita Sings the Blues" on Reel 13 | REEL 13 – Indian mythology plus 1920s jazz vocals. Pretty sweet-looking cartoon.
• The Terrordactyls – Nice site. The only thing left is to try their music
• Clerkdogs – An interesting movie recommendation service
• Field Notes Notebooks – Some simple notebooks
• Home – flashbake – GitHub – Automatic versioning for non-programming writing projects