Objectified by the director of Helvetica. Thoughts?
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Objectified by the director of Helvetica. Thoughts?
Foreign Policy has been a must blog for me lately and they have just revamped their site with a bunch of new blog authors. Check it out.
Two part editorial on the financial crisis from Michael Lewis in the NYTimes.
More NYTimes on the origins of the financial crisis in Bush admin policies.
London Review of Books on video games
my latest adventures in target marketing
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"An eminent roboticist and Ph.D. at MIT's Media Lab, Dobson is exploring "machine therapy" - a personal, societal and psychoanalytical study of machine design and its effects on peoples' everyday lives. Watch as she exhibits Screambody, Blendie and Omo, three fascinating robots that respond to - and influence - their users in provocative ways."
[popcast talk video, ~30 min]
you may remember blendie. it was posted on partymode a little while ago. it is a blender that responds to the human voice. the video for blendie was basically a woman growling at a blender, with the blender responding.
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scotch tape x-rays
there's no other technology news? really?
the origins of new years:
agata, can we have these guys build a store so we can go there?
also, just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year! and its not too late to give a little and have it count as a 2008 tax deduction:
a couple from my list:
http://www.aidslifecycle.org/
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/
http://www.carbonfund.org/
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
http://www.maximumfun.org/
http://www.savedarfur.org/
Don't miss Big Picture's Year in Pictures series.
Also, do you all put your phone number on your website? And what format do you use for your e-mail so spambots don't take it? Is there a convention for that?
looking into price fixing on text messaging: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html (via df)
continuing the trend of posting 'ardcore mixtapes that will surely be ignored:
http://dazeddigital.com/Music/article/1583/1/ZOMBY_Exclusive_Back_to_92_mixtape_download
mix cd of music from spaghetti westerns free download.
Also, apologies for podcast.partymode.org being dead. If someone want to take that over, lets talk.
Does anyone have thoughts on K2 for WordPress?
Scholarly gif!
So I need to make a new portfolio site before January 19, prob with an emphasis on writing samples and photography. Jon recommended http://www.indexhibit.org/ but I am curious if anyone has any other thoughts. I'd also like to update my flickr account and integrate the two. Any suggestions are very welcome.
Coal at home. Seriously.
