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links for 2008-03-13
Episode 1: All Over the Map | Titlepage.tv Site fostering passionate conversations about books. Hosted by Daniel Menaker, aims to be 21st century version of “Algonquin Round Table.” (tags: books writers conversations)
Read more →Poems On Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Poems and notes from a delightful talk with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Bokara Legendre (filmed for her “Conversations with…” series for LinkTV, so surely you can see it soon too.)
Read more →links for 2008-03-12: Moko Saves the Whales
NZ dolphin rescues beached whales When a group of pygmy sperm whales repeatedly beached themselves off Mahia beach, people tried over an hour and a half to get them to sea. Just when humans were about to give up, a dolphin appeared, communicated with the whales and led them to safety. (tags: interspecies altruism animals [...]
Read more →links for 2008-03-06: so much WOW
To Feed the Birds, First Feed the Bugs (What to Plant this Spring) Gardeners could slow the rate of extinction by planting natives in their yards. In the NE, a violets feed fritillary caterpillars. Phlox supports 8 species of butterflies. Blueberry bushes (like the one above from White Flower Farm) support 288 species and thrive [...]
Read more →links for 2008-03-05: Just Need 989 More Fans
1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly — The Technium A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living. (tags: longtail truefans digitaleconomy economicsofabundance abundance)
Read more →links for 2008-03-04: Secrets of Happiness and Hyperbolic Geometry
Want to Save a Coral Reef? Bring Along Your Crochet Hook The Institute For Figuring‘s Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project embodies “conecptual enchantment,” the “beauty and creativity that comes out of scientific thinking.” As it turns out, the gorgeously crenellated and undulating corals, anemones, kelps, sponges, and slugs that live in the reef have what [...]
Read more →links for 2008-02-28
BricaBox – Social Content Platform Create a super powered site rolling up your own combination of blog, wiki, maps, mashups, photos, videos, voting and ratings, data and discussions. (tags: socialnetwork webapp publishing collaborative social mashups maps photos tools free)
Read more →links for 2008-02-24: Dragons’ Gifts
Birds Do It. Bees Do It. Dragons Don’t Need To. Biology is about variation. Without variation, the world would be static and unchangeable, and species would gradually disappear as they failed to meet challenges like changing climates and environments. So as we continue our very necessary debates over e (tags: biology,reproduction,morality,ethics,cloning,biodiversity,kansas,dragons,virginbirth) The Dragon’s Gift: The [...]
Read more →links for 2008-02-23
Brooklyn Museum: Brooklyn Museum: Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition Click! is an exhibition in three consecutive parts. It begins with an open call—artists are asked to electronically submit a work of photography that responds to the exhibition’s theme, “Changing Faces of Brooklyn,” along with an artist statement. (tags: crowdsourcing art exhibition museum nyc brooklynmuseum click! [...]
Read more →links for 2008-02-22: Design to Inspire
More images of the show . (tags: moma art patterns scale nano informationvisualization technology ) Gotham » A Font We Can Believe In Obama’s main “change” banner font is Gotham, designed by Hoefler & Frere-Jones for GQ to be something that would look fresh, yet established, to have a credible voice to it. … Mission accomplish (tags: typography politics obama gotham fonts typeface ) Endemic – New Zealand Design Store online outpost of devonport, auckland, nz based Endemic, devoted to artist and designer made fashion, publications, art toys and a wide range of playful imaginings. (tags: playful design creative shopping newzealand endemic artbooks )
Read more →links for 2008-02-21: girls love fonts
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. [...]
Read more →The Latest Issuu
Copenhagen-based ISSUU invites everyone to upload and turn their documents into beautiful turn-the-page magazine experiences for free. Once uploaded, people can bookmark, share and comment on it. Text is searchable so the document is easy to find. You can subscribe to an RSS feed of publications. Finally, you can also post and embed Issuu documents [...]
Read more →links for 2008-02-20
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 [...]
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