Archive for August, 2006

links for 2006-09-01

Posted 31 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: art, links | No Comments

Meet Blake Jones of Namaste Solar (lime)interview covering interesting trajectory from halliburton to renewable energy in nepal to solar in USA “A lot of Nepalis would say to me, Hey, you’re telling us to do it this way, why don’t you Americans do it this way? You tell us not to use dirty coal,(tags: interview energy solar alternative renewable environment green) Kira Greene-Paintingsfound through url typo.

food notes – nyc

Posted 31 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: culture, emily approved, food, health, senses, shopping, taste | No Comments

The Green Table, one of my favorite city treasures, is expanding their hours to Monday-Saturday Noon til 9pmSundays 11-5 and introducing a dinner prix fixe option: appetizer, entree and dessert for $30, and for $10 more, a 3-course organic wine pairing.They serve up great take-out lunch boxes Monday-Friday.

links for 2006-08-30

Posted 30 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: links | No Comments

Google Book Search download free PDF versions of full books in the public domain (here a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetry). (tags: books publicdomain free google) Caterina.net: Notes from FOO Camp: Getting High Performance out of High Potential People Caterina Fake’s excellent notes from FOO Camp series starts here. Thanks for taking and posting [...]

links for 2006-08-28

Posted 28 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: culture, design, links, technology | No Comments

adorable always-on net wifi device that’s open to mods both inside and out — software, programming and exterior.

Death and the Chumby

Posted 27 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: books, consumerism, culture, emily approved, happiness, interconnected, movies, video | 1 Comment

I was checking out what’s new on Gretchen’s Happiness Blog and noted August was all about memento mori, remembering we will die.

links for 2006-08-27

Posted 26 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: links | No Comments

Today, we are increasingly creating and responding (sometimes in a very painful way) to non-visual electromagnetic fields: those emanating from our devices and environments.

…part of fun “come out and play” festival weekend sponsored by eyebeam.

links for 2006-08-25

Posted 25 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: links | No Comments

Second Life Liberation Army The SLLA is a national liberation movement commmited to the establishment of citizens rights within Second Life. As Second Life currently operates as an authoritarian government we are going to press our demands through the tactical use of force. (tags: secondlife citizen rights)

links for 2006-08-24

Posted 24 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: links | No Comments

ThisNext social shopcasting network where people can discover, recommend and share products and services they love. (tags: business collaboration commerce community consumerism consumption culture discovery folksonomy reviews retail playlist marketing gallery social wishlist trends)

links for 2006-08-22

Posted 22 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: food, links, music | No Comments

tori’s live covers, bjork live, bowie live, cat power live and lots of new peeps i can’t wait to discover…

The Hype Machine keeps track of new songs posted on the best blogs about music.

links for 2006-08-18

Posted 17 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: food, links, travel | No Comments

maya’s egg curry looks delicious and easy to make.

…chrispitality faved one of my flickr photos (bed in the skt petri) and that led me here.

tomato season

Posted 14 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: food, senses, taste | No Comments

tomatoes Originally uploaded by this is emily. thanks, mightyfoods, for compiling 10 delicious things i can do with summer’s amazing bounty of heirloom tomatoes.

links for 2006-08-15

Posted 14 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: art, culture, emily approved, links, video | No Comments

The R2 is a high-resolution digital video camera that shoots in three hundred and sixty degrees.

Atta Kim’s large-scale, visually spectacular color photographs employ extended exposures—sometimes as long as eight hours—to explore fundamental questions of time and perception.

links for 2006-08-14

Posted 14 August 2006 | By Emily | Categories: culture, interconnected, links, travel, webstuff | No Comments

WorldWiki – WorldWiki a free travel wiki that you can edit (a la wikipedia) (tags: travel wiki)