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Link Love for May 19

by admin on May 19, 2010

After missing footage was found in Argentina, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” has been restored and its narrative better understood (above).

Oxo Good Grips Designers Take on Tablet Magazines.

How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

Apple to xplatform developers: We’re no longer suicidal.

Create Your Own Virtual Instruments With Maize Sampler v2.0.

New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer: eat organic, drink filtered water, avoid plastic containers.

Dear nerd, start a nerd sash with nerd merit badges (nerd).

SKTCH is an interesting generative drawing iPhone app.

We’d love to buy the My water bottle in light blue, but the shipping costs as much as the bottle! The Big Bang Was an Explosion OF Space, Not IN Space. New Reverse Vending Machine Pays You to Recycle, Interview with David Toop, one of our favorite music writers. The iPad, the Kindle, and the [...]

Recycled, Modern, Outdoor Furniture (above) by Loll Designs. Apple and the politics of phoney outrage. Modern House Numbers giveaway. Curated hypocrisy: How Google camouflages its attacks on Apple. Biomimicry Challenge: IDEO Taps Octopi and Flamingos to Reorganize the USGBC. How Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Your Community. Polar Beer pint glasses, for fans of Lost. 88% of [...]

The Pattern & Shape project brief was to design a t-shirt using a geometric shape and incorporating pattern (above). Plants affect ecology from the bottom up. Raiding Eternity by Joel Johnson. Michael Lewis writes about a handful of Wall Street outsiders who realized the subprime mortgage business was a house of cards and found a [...]

What the census said about us…in 1870 (above). Transportation secretary announces “Sea-Change” for american transport: Bikes! The sulphur compounds that litter the surface of Mars may contain the signature of life. Consuming Smarter: Fly less often, eat less red meat and dairy, drive a small car. The Institute for Human Centered Design store. NASA finds [...]

Setgo Transport Urban Bag from Yanko Design (above). Thermopower waves: MIT scientists discover new way to produce electricity. Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency. A loot valued at $20 million lies off the coast of Staten Island, and Ken Hayes is on the hunt for the sunken silver bullion. Demolishing density in [...]

Incase’s Courier Collection (above) looks sweet. Oxygen-enriched booze makes for less-intense hangover. Trapcode ProLoop is a powerful and flexible loop player for iPhone. A brief history of monome production. Physicists look for the arrow of time, biologists find it. A conversation with Robert Henke: Silence, Technology, and Process. In Disobedient Rooms: China Miéville On J.G. [...]

The lost culture of New Island is 43,500 years old (above). Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work. Buy the book or PDF. The doormat, the jerk and the lizard brain. Livid Instruments’ new Builder is a line of DIY parts that make it easy for users to design their own USB [...]

Check out this lovely laptop cover in orange felt wool (above). Yoink is an iPhone app for dumpster divers and freecyclers. Sumedicina is a piece of experimental short fiction told entirely in charts and infographics. Draw! The neuroscience behind Hollywood shoot-outs. The iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing.

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