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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 [...]

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.V. Club interviews John Crowley on the occassion of the 25th-anniversary of Little Big (above)

We are all mutants say scientists.
Books to read now, from Seed magazine.
Forget design thinking and try hybrid thinking.
Human Centered Design Toolkit from IDEO.
Spirograph, spirographs, spirography.
Get your Philip K. Dick collection boxed set from The Library of America and save $30.
Researchers have [...]

Hayo Miyazaki’s Ponyo (above), a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Little Mermaid.’ (video)
Futurespeak: Shane Hope’s keywords defined.
Gary Hamel on managing Generation Y.
The evidence is growing that privately owned, consumer-driven, small-scale, geographically distributed renewables could deliver a 100% green-energy future faster and cheaper than big power projects alone.
The Sears Tower is going [...]

Link love 2009-04-24

by Jeffrey Melton on April 24, 2009

Babushka (above) is a modern, lit version of the classic Russian Doll. Turn Babushka on and off by pushing down on the top of the light, and watch it faze through its cycle revealing varied colors as it goes.
Field is an open source framework that combines code and visual views for creating dynamic media arts.
NYT [...]