Emily Davidow

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

Chandler Burr translates scent into words so powerfully i just want to close my eyes and inhale his prose…. 5″ left me with more questions and a slightly wan aftertaste.

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

The Big Here – 30 questions to elevate your awareness (Kevin Kelly) You live in the big here. Wherever you live, your tiny spot is deeply intertwined within a larger place, imbedded fractal-like into a whole system called a watershed, which is itself integrated with other watersheds into a tightly interdependent biome. (tags: watershed awareness [...]

Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing, trekked across India, Tibet and China to explore how technology is changing the lives of Tibetans inside and outside their homeland.Her blog links to each of the radio, print, video and online reports she’s filed from the trip along with all the how-tos of life on the road and reviews of the production hardware and software she tested. Fabulous project!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Duran Duran to give virtual gigs British band Duran Duran are to create a virtual island within online game Second Life, on which they will perform actual live concerts. I’ll see you in the front row as my 7th grade avatar! All sorts of 80′s music messages streaming towards me [...]

Love Made Visible blog highlighting beautfiul things and priya’s exquisite taste in design (tags: design blog fashion art shopping style trends) OrangeBeautiful lovely letterpress and bookbinding (tags: stationery letterpress paper invitations design print) SCENT of Colors japanese photo blog organized by colors, mostly floral and botanical (tags: pictures flowers colors photoblog blog plants images photography)

It Died for Us – Frank Bruni – New York Times Interesting essay on the ethical implications of our diets. From lobsters to feed lots to foie gras…. lots of good questions! (tags: nutrition food ethics diet consciousness animals compassion) Seed: No Longer a Mind of Our Own “New research is blurring the species boundary, [...]

As King Kong‘s release date approaches, other great interspecies love stories come to mind this morning: Owen and Mzee, Kamunyak and the Oryx, and Cosmo and me.