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WireTap Magazine – There Goes The Neighborhood
A really interesting article about gentrification and how to confront it in new and interesting ways: [link] (via BLAST) What strikes me most about the article is this conception of the influx of young, middle-class into the neighborhood as somehow devouring the...
Inhabitat » BKLYN SNEAK PEEK: Uhuru Recycled Bourbon Barrel Furniture
I digs the barrel chair.
Cherry Blossom FestivalBrooklyn Botanical Garden
Finally made it to the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. It was like a festival as to be expected, food, music, tents but I was sort of surprised at how wondrous it felt. I floated from area to area running into kimono-clad Brooklynites and...
Pride comes before a tumble – Los Angeles Times
"But a tumble isn't even the smallest known unit of thought on the Web. You can Twitter, which are notes of up to 140 characters written from your computer or cellphone and sent to your friends as a feed or posted as the "update status" on your Facebook page. They...
Surfrider: Farmer’s Market (Via Ads of the World)
This is a brilliant ad campaign from Surfrider .. those dudes who help protect the environment. Above is pictured "Condom Strips"; condoms found on beaches and packaged as seafood. Ads of the World Describes the project: “To put beach pollution into...
Adobe – Open Screen Project
Adobe has a new collaborative project to get its flash/air platform on as many devices as possible: [link] Stuff like this makes me afraid that Flash just won't die. Just when CSS was finally catching up in the designer's imagination as a solid, and more...
x=blog+stay+informed » Blog Archive » +WORDPRESS TO IMPRESS
"Any photographer with a website should also have a blog. If you don’t, it’s like playing the PGA Tour without a putter - no serious competitor would ever do so." [link] I quite enjoy this analogy. I'm no (professional) photographer But I agree with the sentiment. In...
The Final Jeopardy blog posts a video each day’s Final… (kottke.org)
A Tumblog with every day's Final Jeopardy question? Thanks a lot Kottke yet another feed to follow: [link]
RSS Awareness Day
I guess I'm a little late today but in one of my sessions I ranted about the coolness of Google Reader so this should be just icing on the cake.
FEED » Blog Archive » Updated: Björk Stunner Now Here!
My friend Stephanie worked as second AD on this Bjork music video. Definitely very Bjorky and definitely really cool visuals. Supposedly the final project will be released in 3D! article about it:[link] high-res video: [link]
Lots to read
Hot damn! I wondered if this would ever happen!
Re-Democratizing the Third Place at Brightkite Blog
Just got my invite for brightkite.com a location based social network. I wasn't super impressed about the network (its too small just yet) though the design looks nice and the idea promising. This little article about "the Third Place" in their blog, however, is just...
Neatorama » Blog Archive » The House(s) That Spite Built
[link] Neatorama reports on dwellings built out of spite of their natural conditions, laws and or family disputes. Interesting to think about how we humans augment our environment not only out of necessity for shelter but also...
Presenting…Mister Disc!
[link] more retro technology becomes portable. (via kottke.org)
MP3 Cassette Player | gadgettastic.com
[link] Wow. This is just too cool. Too bad I ditched all of my cassette players a while ago.
CreativSpace image search – finally a cool image search
[link] A kind of coverflow style image search. Type in a term and see the images arranged above. Flip through them.
BLDGBLOG: Hotels in the Afterlife
[link] Modernist ruins
Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Curious Improvisations
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