Emily Davidow

Polymorphous Perversity I can’t help getting excited about FF Polymorph. This new typeface family by Stefanie Schwarz is inspired by characters from languages around the world. It morphs into 4 styles: decoration, serif, loop and interrupution and also 4 directions: north, south, east, west. Check out also detailed PDF of features and possibilities of Polymorph. [...]

Welcome to the National Bitter Melon Council! Love eating bitter gourd/ bitter melon in Bhutan and China… Looking forward to studying this beautiful reference to all things bitter melon and figuring out what to do with it at home. (tags: bittermelon food cooking) The Wild Side: When Life Goes Cloudy Olivia Judson asks what’s it [...]

So looking forward to reading Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin, after these two fascinating articles on it today: Hiccups are Your Inner Fish Breathing Consider hiccups. These spasms in our diaphragms are triggered by electric signals generated in the brain stem, which [...]

Photos from 18th Annual Tibet House Benefit Great photos by Kathryn Yu from a fantastic concert including Sufjan Stevens, Ray Davies, Tom Verlaine, Band of Horses, Nawang Khechog, monks from the Drepung Gomang monastery, Philip Glass, Phamie Gow, Ashley MacIsaac, and Marisa Monte (tags: concert photos tibethouse) Choose from over 180,000 new releases and classics [...]

Kevin Kelly – The Technium – The Bottom is Not Enough The bottom-up hive mind will never take us to our end goal. We are too impatient. So we add design and top down control to get where we want to go. The systems we keep will be hybrid creations. Pure 100% smart mobs or [...]

Todays links are about freedom of communication across the globe — from kids posting video in Uruguay to people coming together to create free wifi networks in sydney, australia and wellington, new zealand. Valentines greetings from scientists. Robotic insects. Social networking’s ad revolution. Pixish, a new kind of marketplace for photography.

Betting a Farm Would Work in Queens – New York Times Sur les paves la ferme (Over the pavement, the farm), is the theme of Work Architecture‘s winning proposal for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center‘s 2008 summer courtyard. Reflects the movement from industrialization to postindustrialization, from global to local, from free market to farmer’s market, and [...]

In Popular Terms In Popular Terms is an interactive visualization that tracks the shifting language of ecology. It maps the catch phrases, scientific technologies, and bumper sticker slogans that surround the changing language used to describe our relationship to nature. (tags: ecology environment buzzwords visualization informationvisualization) Molly Wright Steenson’s Brief History of Boredom Boredom is [...]

SpaceCollective “where forward thinking terrestrials exchange ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction today” (tags: toexplore space science future scifi visualization generative emergence navigation) February 4, 2008 update from David Weinberger 2 great articles: Is the Web different? Is the Web just [...]

Unevenly Distributed: Production Models for the 21st Century Mark Pesce illuminates how the audience became not just the distributors but the producers of their own content, and have brought down the walls which separate pros from amateurs. Then he outlines the future: how the value of media is based on salience. (tags: mustread media production [...]

Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky, most lucid thinker on social effects of communication tools, launches new book and thought provoking blog, Here Comes Everybody, about what happens when people have the tools to do things together without needing traditional organizational structures. Eureka! It Really Takes Years of Hard Work Epiphany has little to do with [...]

Google China Released Holiday Mass Migration Map (tags: google China internet map maps mashup weather service)

BBC NEWS | Africa | GPS helps pygmies defend forest When Baka pygmies in Cameroon go into the forest to hunt and gather, they take GPS units to record locations of hunting grounds, sacred trees and rivers. Before if someone chopped down a tree, there was no proof it existed. Now there is. Watch the [...]