December 2009
129 posts
Matt Blaze: Fighting Terror with Uncertainty →
“Thirty spokes are joined together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that...”
– Lao Zi (I learned this at uni from my old Russian-with-amazing-accent design history professor. Uni is pretty awesome.)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Eels (86)
Tristen (26)
Arleen Augér, Julia Hamari, Peter Schreier, Wolfgang Schöne, Helmuth Rilling: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (19)
Camera Obscura…
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold →
“Taronga and Taronga Western Plains Zoos are open throughout the summer school...”
– I can’t imagine celebrating Christmas in summer, but happy holidays anyway! ZooBorns: Wallaby Joey Jolene Celebrates Her First Christmas
Heilige Vorhaut →
Teehee. (Holy Prepuce that is, for you English-speaking people. But it sounded more hilarious to me in German.)
(Found while trying to figure out when to listen to which part of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. One of the parts is supposed to be enjoyed on the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, which I hadn’t heard of.)
“Nichts, nichts hat dich getrieben zu mir vom Himmelszelt als das geliebte...”
– Carol.
Christmas Week: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) →
RUSH COIL 8-bit Christmas →
I don’t normally like 8-bit music. It is Christmas, though. And this download is exemplary, including various pictures and Cubase files and notes and such. I wish more musicians would do this. (But then again, maybe I just don’t know the right ones.) Plus bonus points for giving the proceeds to charity.
analog.coop →
kriesse:
Good people doing good work: coop is the company of designer Alan Colville, Jon Tan and developers Andrei Zmievski, Chris Shiflett and Jon Gibbins. Look at their perfectly crafted website (and don’t forget to try ALT+G).
Especially don’t forget to ALT+G! I’d say make it the first thing you do after the page loads.
Milwaukee, Adam Serwa (for 12/15) - Poetry 365 →
I sort of like this because it has epic analogies that make no sense at all. Especially ‘our lips smashed together, an atom meeting Hiroshima then splitting town’, that I like best. Which I guess proves again that I am very childish.
Pico Iyer on the tyranny of the moment →
Selbstgewählte Dummheit →
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I... →
Behind The New York Times Magazine’s Redesign →
Panic Blog » Q: “Once in a blue moon” is a rare... →
My favourite blog post this year. Also: here’s what October 1582 looks in iCal.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Eels (73)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (56)
Tristen (35)
Jenny Owen Youngs (14)
Ulf Wallin, Roland Pöntinen (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
@arjunbasu →
Some great 140-character short stories.
Dictator Goods →
Holiday greeting cards with sayings of famous dictators on them. Brilliant if you want to send Johan your best regards!
Vorurteile gegen den Islam - Kopftuchfrauen -... →
via @lambo
Gold →
edouardbriere:
From [this support ticket](http://help.propaneapp.com/discussions/propane-bugreports/75-cannot-hide-annoying-image-on-uploaded-images). This is gold.
It is.
Browser Pong →
Dry Erase Paint for Work, School and Home White... →
Paint that turns anything into a whiteboard! Colour me impressed!
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - Interactive Data... →
edouardbriere:
It might come handy very soon.
Thanks a million Édouard, this is *exactly* what I need for a uni project!
Please Scroll →
Microsoft DreamSpark →
Microsoft giving away all their developer tools for free, if you’re a student. And I guess you need Windows, too.
Mag+, a concept video on the future of digital... →
I suppose I don’t really need to link it here because surely by now everyone and their bunny have subscribed to Berg’s RSS feed. It gives me the opportunity to say this though: I’d love to turn off landscape mode on my iPhone because I’m using it to read while lying down, and the constant accidental turning annoys the hell out of me.
Googling for Sociopaths →
