• FORA.tv - Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Gen
• Wiremap
• iPhone first impressions "using the iPhone features feels more like playing a casual game, than flying the Microsoft Flight Simulator."
• Random Roles: Teri Garr | The A.V. Club "I used to say that in Close Encounters, God was revealed to be a chandelier. And then that same year, I was in a movie where God was revealed to be George Burns."

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• The Five Dollar Comparison "To explore the relative value of five dollars we are collecting examples from around the world by asking people to submit photos of objects or services that cost the equivalent of $5."

• O'Reilly Events on Dopplr - O'Reilly Radar "If you have a public page for your users I would suggest following Dopplr's interaction design choices closely."

• Hip Hop Sample Junkies – Group at Last.fm

• MySpace.com - sweet baboo - UK - Country - www.myspace.com/sweetbabootheband
• MySpace.com - SILVERY - London, UK - Indie / Rock / Pop Punk - www.myspace.com/silverytheband
• Lee Byron » How » Rivers of the World via blech
• Dust Bunnies: Work by Joannie Wu

• Design Observer: I was a mad man Bill Drenttel on his life as a mad, ad, man
• soylent green was made of people, too Sippey on Davies on Anderson. This is getting good.
• Developer Interest in the iPhone, Android, and Symbian Unsuprising in the extreme
• Dashboard For Your Life
• DIRECT Space Transportation System Derivative | Safer, Simpler, Sooner

• potlatch: "who's been a naughty consumer, then?" "Perhaps the credit crunch, caused partly through consumers ceasing to fear debt, will result in a culture of Fausterity, a new respect for an ethos of self-control, discipline and superego. And naturally, there is someone on hand to sell this to them."
• Why Google can't replace theory Will Davies vs Chris Anderson
• tracer — grappling with everyday networks of spaces, places, people and things what Antipopper did next
• Lonely Planet Developer Network - Welcome to the Lonely Planet Developer Network!
• Lawrence Krauss: Worth every penny | Science | The Guardian
• when all your moneys gone and you are drunk as hell tag – Music at Last.fm Nice tagging
• wattzon.org
• hitotoki : A Narrative Map of London
• Shedworking one day...
• Brian Moriarty | Home
• Mamihlapinatapai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start" via Kottke
• Nokia Conversations: Location based services still do not measure up? Or do they?
• Kurt Vonnegut on Writing Better "4. Have guts to cut" - Yep. Need to work on this one.
• RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code Bonkers.
• Glancing ETech 2004: slide 13 Still good.
• Can Serendipity Make You Rich?
• Fontsmith: Alvar
• Fontsmith: Lola
• Fontsmith: FS Me

• Turn Your Broken Laptop into an Arcade Cocktail Cabinet [Weekend Project]
• Dr. Woohoo: Painting with code
• Eating Spin "By offering a non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement farming system, it allows many more people to farm".
• The Outquisition "if folks who knew tools and innovation ...traveled to the dead mall suburban slums... and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed...[they] would be redistributing the future at a furious clip."
• Open the Future: Superstruct: Play the Game, Invent the Future "It’s not just about envisioning the future—it’s about inventing the future. Everyone is welcome to join the game. Watch for the opening volley of threats and survival stories, September 2008"
• Dream Recorder via Tom Coates

• stuart hall = genius

• Superstruct! Play the game, invent the future. | The Institute For The Future
• Patton Oswalt

• Neurowarfare and the modern Rogue Trooper
• Not Quite T2... "The US military has signed a GBP 1.6m deal with a technology firm to design robots which are intelligent enough to work out how to wiggle through small spaces to reach their target."
• Grow Your Own, Eat Your Estate
• Nokia's Haptikos tactile feedback tech revealed in patent application
• BBC - Radio 4 - iPM - Sir Clive Sinclair.
• Adventures in Physical Computing, Part 1: Adaptive Path’s Interaction Design Lab

• WorldChanging: Web 2.0, Ubiquity, Sustainability and Consumer Rights Great googlly-moogly - our Web2.0expo presentation made it onto Worldchanging!
• VW Camper van hire Bristol » The Bristol Camper Company
• Digital locality and friendship stasis

• monkish ignorance and superstition GWB doesn't do Deist
• FriendFeed. More Like (Fake)FriendFeed "FriendFeed isn’t the only start-up that seems to move away from the whole notion of friends and personal web." More 'friending considered harmful' evidence...
• How To Draw v1.3 by *spoonbard on deviantART Paul 'Freakangels' Duffield's essay on How to Draw
• What good is collective intelligence if it doesn't make us smarter? - O'Reilly Radar Hmm. The Web2.0summit is impinging on Etech's territory?
• Why Is Symbian Charging Its Partners? - GigaOM Nokia still charging developers. Muppets. Don't they realise they'd have to *pay* most hackers to code symbian?

• PostSpectacular: Rule making & breaking Toxi/Karsten's manifesto
• Click opera - Serious Sans Momus on Serious Sans - one of my favourite things at the RCA show this year.

• Crime Mapping - proof of concept « Power of Information Task Force "Rather than a ‘fear of crime map’ how could one show the trends in crime in someone’s area and on the same screen provide information about police priorities in your neighbourhood and a one click connection to local police."
• Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
• Dementia and Dopplr - how designing for extreme users benefits us all « matt.me63.com - Matt Edgar "Matt and Matt have stayed true to Dopplr’s laser-focused mission - to be the best in their chosen niche, making the experience of travel more delightful with added serendipity, and helping people look back on their travels afterwards."
• Kayaking Epic post by David Smith

• On the Dopplr shift - broadstuff "Is Great Design more a UE thing or a Marketing thing? - answers have I none here, others have noted that great taste and Digerati acclaim historically is no guarantee of crossing the chasm ( Dopplr is like a software Apple, aesthetically beautiful )"
• blogging and its opposite
• How bad is the recession for start-ups? « azeem.azhar
• Previous/Next and Back/Next pagination links considered harmful Obvious when you think about it, but still damn right. Well put Mr. Haughey.
• Scenes from a Franchise To illustrate how good ‘Batman Begins’ [is], I thought it would be an interesting exercise to go back through the reviews of its predecessors written in The New York Times, to see how each movie had been received at the time of its release.
• BULLITT Chase Scene Geocoded

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• All the Lego’s gone up the Dyson « The Ideal Tiger "And if we’re going to play cultural history, then Lego is surely somewhere between the Bauhaus and nu-rave, as well as forming a fruitful early connection between technology and near-idiocy."
• And Muxtape for All yep. I want to write liner notes on muxtapes too...
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom
• Things to do in July | Allotment Blog | guardian.co.uk From carrots to kohlrabi, via garlic, basil and Florence fennel: everything you need to plant and pick in the vegetable garden this month.
• Nokia, Symbian, Open Source "Symbian is THE MOST developer hostile system I have ever worked with. I’ve done plenty of embedded systems development... And nothing has ever made me more frustrated and confounded than trying to develop for Symbian."