Sympathy for the Robots

Link love for March 3, part 2

by Jeffrey Melton on March 3, 2010

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. Ballard.

Osmos For The iPhone Coming.

“On average, bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists.”

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 [...]

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.

Sync/Lost (above) is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music.
Philip K. Dick: A ‘plastic’ paradox. Sneak peek at an upcoming Philip K. Dick film, Radio Free Albemuth.
Steven Frank of Panic Software fame, on the next phase of computing.
Quieting the lizard brain.
The “My” water bottle from Stelton.
Researchers [...]

A Tree in Jars, an art installation by Naoko Ito (above).
Synth Britannia and Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany are two great BBC Four documentaries, but you’ll need to find torrents to watch them, as they’re not streamable online (even to rent) due to music licensing restrictions.
On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an [...]

The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones (above).
Robert Henke, aka Monolake shares his custom Max for Live devices.
How to dispose of old electronics in a responsible way.
Top 7 Best Green iPhone Apps.
Ira Glass on [...]

The artwork of Chiharu Shiota (above).
The other extreme: low-alcohol beers.
Deep below New York City’s bustling streets lies a dangerous world inhabited by “sandhogs.”
The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach.
How Robber Barons hijacked the “Victorian Internet”
Robert Henke talks with Rashad Becker about audio mastering.
Apple’s Mistake: An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose [...]

The amazing artwork (above) of David Spriggs.
Cercle et suite d’éclats, a large scale outdoor art installation.
“Natural Instincts” art print series by Tes One.
Create Democracy, an interactive exhibition.
Brian Eno three-fer: Eno, Peter Schmidt, and Cybernetics, Harmonia & Eno ‘76 Remix Album, A conversation with Brian Eno.
Roger Penrose says physics is wrong, from string theory to quantum [...]

Judith Seng’s beautiful wood stools (above) combine the synthetic and the organic.
Antibiotic resistance is more than just a medical scourge; it’s also a window into a war microbes have been waging against each other for hundreds of millions of years.
UPS offers CO2 offsets to its customers, $0.05 to $0.20 per package.
Buy slect Nau gear on [...]

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