This site's a compendium of people, places, ideas and things I love (at least noticed) and want to share. About Emily
links for 2006-01-18
Stardust Webcam live webcam from stardust cleanroom at the johnson space center in houston texas. the stardust sample return capsule arrived here on january 17, 2006. the time listed is cst; image updated every 60 seconds. (tags: astronomy stardust space webcam wonder)
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Glypho collaborative storywriting tool (tags: storytelling collaborative social web2.0)
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feltron vii hilarious personal annual report. (tags: personal corporate annual report 2005 lists graphic design branding) HubbleSite – Hubble’s Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula – Image – 1/11/2006 exquisitely detailed view of orion nebula. how fun to stare into space! (tags: space hubble telescope nebula photograph orion astronomy)
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Project Lü Lü, is a green fashion magazine in the making. It means green in Chinese. What China does in the next few years will decide the fate of the earth. Chinese text is influencing Western culture through Feng Shui, movies, videos. The majority of our clothes (tags: green fashion magazine chinese american creative environmental) [...]
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EAST VILLAGE RADIO New York City happy to discover this refreshing music available streaming or podcast format… enjoying GBH and MC Eschers playlists so far (tags: music dj radio nyc streaming podcast mp3)
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David Byrne Journal: 12.25.05: Trip to the Philippines Fascinating travel journal and history lesson on the Marcos era of Philippines, photos, insights, philosophical musings on language and US politics. Could not put the laptop down. Looking forward to “Here Lies Love,” DB’s musical on Imelda’s life. (tags: Manila Philippines Travel Journal History Mythology Politics Philosophy [...]
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THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006: What is your dangerous idea? Q for 2006: “What is your dangerous idea?” Lots of food for thought from multiple disciplines…. so much more interesting than end of the year lists. (tags: dangerous ideas edge thinking question science art literature philosophy)
Read more →on the love that dare not print its name in helvetica (or god forbid, arial)
Hilarious little article in the NYT today on type anachronisms in film, “Good Film, Shame About the Helvetica,” featuring link to Mark Simonson’s Typecasting article. (Note also the ongoing notebook of sightings.*) As one who can’t help recognizing and calling out the name of the typefaces in the world around me, I’m not ashamed to [...]
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Participatory Culture Foundation | Watch Internet TV – DTV internet tv on your mac, built in channel guide, subscribe to any video rss feed (video podcast), download, watch and manage videos in one application. auto-download your favorite channels. (tags: tv podcast video rss internet channels download opensource) front design sweden love the objects “designed by [...]
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LibriVox – acoustical liberation of books in the public domain LibriVox provides totally free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. Also record and contribute your own!”> (tags: book audiobook audio free collaborative culture download media literature voice storytelling stories community)
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Art Mobs participate in remixing MoMA’s audio guides and other fun projects with art + technology + communication (tags: art audio podcast hack diy bricolage storytelling social mobile cellpohone sms) WorldChanging: The Dalai Lama and the Rivers of Tibet Saving Tibet is not just about the culture or people, but the very land itself. Tibet [...]
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Sonja Lyubomirsky researcher on happiness at UCR (tags: happiness mindfulness psychology research)
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Compassion is active ingredient in better health BYU study reveals compassion, not religion, is a key to health. (File under “Everyone’s a Buddhist, but not everyone knows it yet.”) (tags: compassion health religion buddhism mormons) soundtransit collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. “book a transit” feature lets you take an audio trip [...]
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