June 2008

167 bookmarks saved in June 2008

Sound Chaser

http://www.yurisuzuki.com/soundchaser.html
"A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records."

FreakAngels » Interlude 02

http://www.freakangels.com/?p=42&page=4
"I flood my poor ageing head with information. Any information. Lots of it. And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes."

Believe in Yahoo! - RussellBeattie.com

http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/believe-in-yahoo
"Yahoo! is best when it's a Fast Follower, innovating on the back end and letting other companies try to figure out the next best thing, and either buying/integrating or duplicating those services once the market has been created."

Radiohead Blasted By Veteran Rockers KISS For Giving Their Music Away For Free - Entertainment

http://www.aol.com.au/celebrity/story/radiohead-blasted-by-veteran-rockers-kiss-for-giving-their-music-away-for-free/604011/index.html
Uhh... Yay? "Bassist Gene Simmons says the British rockers – who gave fans the choice to download last year's album 'In Rainbows' for free or pay a sum of their choosing - says their decision is contributing to the demise of the record industry and ins

My New Role at Wiley

http://ckwebb.com/publishing/my-new-role-at-wiley
"I will be taking a new position at Wiley, serving as the Associate Publisher of Technology for Wiley’s EMEA Group beginning July 1. I will be based in the US, but will have an office at our UK division located in Chichester to which I will travel fre

Samuel Bayer: Mike, Dammit

http://www.sambayer.com/whymike.html
"it seemed to me that there was probably an awfully good argument against "mic", and since I happen to have a Ph.D. in linguistics, I thought I'd finally try to put my stake through the heart of this particular beast."

THE FUTUROLOGIAN CONGRESS

http://burri.to/~joshua/fut.html
"In The Futurological Congress, Stanislaw Lem's protagonist finds himself discussing futurology with a scientist and discovers it has been superceded by futurology — the science of predicting the future by making up words and guessing what they might me

When Did Ann Arbor's Library Get So Cool?

http://www.concentratemedia.com/features/AnnArborLibraryCulture0072.aspx#039;s%20Library%20Get%20So%20Cool%3F
"Part of the library's dynamic growth is in its programming - the events it holds at its locations. In fact, the library is much more than a provider of circulating materials. It’s increasingly a venue for speakers, community organizations and a wide va

Royalty Free Sound Effects Library

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/wmcstore/WMCshop.cgi?action=dbview&id=RSFX01
"This library has over 2 gigs of audio, a total of over 1400 sounds. ... When you purchase The Royalty Free Sound Effects Library you will receive a license for royalty free use and you will also get a free copy of Web Designer's Sound Collection which in

Hairy blobs found in acidic hell

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/ns-hbf060408.php
"Kathleen Benison, a geologist at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, led a team that studied the sediments formed by acidic and very salty lakes in modern day Western Australia, and those deposited around 250 million years ago in North Dakota."

Notional Slurry » Personal brand: red hot, with a smell of burnt flesh

http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/06/03/personal-brand-red-hot-with-a-smell-of-burnt-flesh
"Branding is what you do to shit you plan to sell in a bottle, when you don’t want to give away the recipe but do want to assure customers that it will consistently be the same shit no matter which branded bottle they open. A brand is a promise of etern

Sharper Image in final throes, stores being liquidated, then shuttered - Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/01/sharper-image-in-final-throes-stores-being-liquidated-then-shu
"Not that anyone really expected Sharper Image to make a comeback after getting put up for sale, but Hilco Merchant Resources and Gordon Brothers Retail Partners (the same peeps who gutted CompUSA) are putting the lame brand out of its misery, liquidating