June 2008
41 posts
Video: World of warcraft geophysical survey |... →
“Game designer James Wallis explains the problem with geophysics inside the World of Warcraft.”
Very amusing talk from interesting2008.
New York Magazine's Summer Muxtapes →
muxtape:
“What jams are rocking RZA’s iTunes these days? And what beats are bumping in Albert Hammond Jr.’s ride? In this week’s magazine, we asked members of five New York bands (also including Free Kitten’s Kim Gordon, the Jealous Girlfriends’ Alex Lipsen, and Pistolera’s Sandra Lilia Velasquez) to make playlists for classic New York summer activities. “
Liner notes here. RZA is the central...
ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs
So if McDonald’s wanted a TLD…
…then ICANN has .chzbrgr?
A Slashdot user comments on ICANN’s plans.
woopwoop:
THE NOTWIST // Boneless // 11,781...
Watchcode_swarm - Flickr SVN, a visualization of flickr’s SVN repository created using code_swarm.
Blue: PHP Green: HTML Red: Java Purple: JavaScript / CSS Cyan: Flash / AS Yellow: Other
BBC iPlayer - Imagine - A Wild Sheep Chase: In... →
“Alan Yentob explores the mysterious, offbeat, sexually charged world of Japan’s most popular and internationally acclaimed writer.
Haruki Murakami is incomparable, a literary novelist tipped for the Nobel Prize, who writes cool, witty, and often surreal bestsellers. Notoriously enigmatic and media-shy Murakami has always shunned radio and television. However, he agreed to a rare and...
roamin:
tumbled/from woopwoop:
Tortoise “Djed...
“It’s a widely accepted axiom of business that great companies grow their...”
– 37signals quoting Small Giants. Nice to hear.
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Interesting 2008 - thirty more interesting things →
headlessness:
Interesting! Roo Reynolds has posted link-fallout from Interesting 2008.
Five Dials →
“…is the product of a few editors and writers who would like to push a small enterprise into the inboxes of anyone interested in good writing. It comes from Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin books, and though HH publishes writers like Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, John Updike and Jonathan Safran Foer, the magazine will not only feature the work of HH- ers, nor will it feature only...
UK electronica/idm/post-rock group Posthuman have gathered together their entire back catalogue, put it into one big torrent and released it to the public. Brave move. It includes the full albums The Uncertainty of the Monkey, Lagrange Point and The Peoples Republic, unreleased albums Blue and Grey, live sets plus remixes of and from Maxïmo Park, LJ Kruzer, The Doubtful Guest, Cursor Miner and...
Barbara Carlotti - Les Lys Brisés
Chanson...
Wevie de Crepon (aka Wevie Stonder) - Ton Wah.
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“Hipness is another thing you wouldn’t have seen on the list 100 years ago....”
– Cities and Ambition
Lazy quoting; this is an excellent essay.
smoke#12: a london peculiar →
“… a love-letter to London, to the wet neon flicker of late-night pavements, electric with endless possibility, and the soft dishevelled beauty of the city’s dawn… to the overheard stories and unexplored histories, the facts and the fictions, the accidental poetry and fugitive art of graffiti-slashed suburban stations and rain-splashed shopfronts… the out-of-shot lives...
“Hulk. Smash!” Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars....”
– The Incredible Hulk | Reviews | guardian.co.uk Film
Console - Buy 14, Zero, Zero.
Handy guide to...
Billy Childish & Sexton Ming - Insects In Your...
batshit.muxtape.com →
A daft muxtape. I’m obsessed with that Wevie de Crepon song.
“There are some architects and developers who really get climate change, but most...”
– Matt Bell, director of campaigns and education at the CABE. Developers accused of pursuing gadgetry instead of saving planet | The Guardian