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Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:24:15 GMT

Should I go now?. What do you do after being in one of the most celebrated bands in the world? Become a chiropractor. [BBC News | UK News | Magazine | World Edition]

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:58:48 GMT

The Coming Age of Magic. "(...) I presented a short history of the desktop metaphor as a way of thinking about screen-based user interface design and laid out my thoughts for why magic should be a metaphor for the user experience design of ubiquitous computing." (Mike Kuniavsky - Orange Cone) - courtesy of adaptivepath [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:55:23 GMT

Virtual IPod Plays Free Music. A site for searching, compiling and downloading music called BlogMusik acts like a publicly available online iPod for anyone to use. And it's only the beginning of a movement that could become the "Napster" of Web 2.0. In Listening Post.

[Wired News: Culture]

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:29:45 GMT

in sync with giant steps.

an animated information graphic that explains the "ditone & quadratone progression" of John Coltrane's musical composition "Giant Steps", which was captured in the cool 3D animation posted just before.
[btinternet.co.uk]

[information aesthetics]

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:22:21 GMT

Crowd Pleasers: An Age of Tainted Admissions and Too Much Homework. This fall education is a particularly hot topic in publishing. New books raise a wealth of ticklish questions. By JANET MASLIN. [NYT > Education]

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:28:36 GMT

Fine Typography for the Web. "Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines." (Dave Shea) [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:10:25 GMT

Building Site - 5 new buildings for Architecture Week. Second in the series - the new Welsh Assembly gets the once over. [BBC News | UK News | Magazine | World Edition]

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:08:53 GMT

Memories of the Replacements, a Band That Could, but Didn't. Record stores and a self-selected tribe of rockers were atwitter last week when it was announced that a Replacements retrospective would be released. By DAVID CARR. [NYT > Arts]

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:15:00 GMT

http://blog.wired.com/copyfight/ http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,71157-0.html?tw=rss.index Battling the Copyright Monster

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/us/17wells.html?ex=1308196800&;en=0df361de60ad3345&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss As Oil Rises in Markets, Rigs Rise in Mississippi

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/06/16/carollloyd.DTL Innovative architects turn used shipping containers into homes

http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/more_than_cars/housing/index.html Toyota Home—building 21st century comfort and luxury into houses in Japan. Come inside and see for yourself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/weekinreview/18hamilton.html?ex=1308283200&;en=f8adff4b10deadd0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss A Fence With More Beauty, Fewer Barbs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601713.html Big Tower on the Prairie