Last Exit to Nowhere T-shirts featuring the brands from famous Hollywood movies; as William Gibson has been saying recently, the notion of the hyperlink is, through things like this, increasingly making the leap from screen to real life (tags: t-shirts movies Shopping)
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links for 2007-07-28
Forbes: The Washington Post goes digital Business orientated story from Forbes on the problems even net aware media faces; the Washington Post has invested in the web, but online revenue isn’t growing fast enough to counter the fall in print revenue (tags: journalism newspaper web2.0) The Megacity – Decoding the Chaos of Lagos – TheContinue reading “links for 2007-07-28”
links for 2007-07-27
Funky16Corners Radio v.28 – Rubber Souled Pt1 Great set of old soul/jazz Beatles covers culled from Vinyl (tags: beatles mp3 covers mefi) .::PopJunkie2006::. Not enough t-shirts have typewriters on them. This one redresses the balance somewhat. (tags: t-shirts cool shopping)
links for 2007-07-26
Amazon Bookstore’s Blog interview with William Gibson Third and final part of Amazon’s interview with Gibson; far from the duff PR piece you’d expect from a bookseller. Great observations from WG on real life becoming Googlable… (tags: gibson books writing google) Top 10 Incredible Recordings – The List Universe Hear a castrato, the worst singerContinue reading “links for 2007-07-26”
links for 2007-07-25
Pimp my rice paddy ::: Pink Tentacle Eye-popping shots of rice paddies with artistic designs (including a copy of a Hokusai woodblock print) grown into them. (tags: japan rice design ukiyoe) Plastic Bamboo » Pizza Hut Double Roll Can a pizza be evil? You’re thinking “noooo” right? What about a pizza with a stuffed crust?Continue reading “links for 2007-07-25”
links for 2007-07-21
YouTube – Nurburgring F1 1967 onboard In car view of a lap of the infamous Nurburgring in 1967; the bonus is the excellent ’60s chase music and classic BBC voice commentary accompanying it (tags: formula1 nurburgring youtube) Guardian Unlimited to stream US cop series The Wire Wow. Interesting that it’s the Guardian, but it’s greatContinue reading “links for 2007-07-21”
Most definitely not a 40 degree day
Do you know who this man is? If not, you are in for a treat… This is Stringer Bell, one of the many brilliant characters from a fantastic TV show called The Wire. It is to cop shows what Charles Dickens is to books about orphans. Smart, brutal, compelling and just true, true in thatContinue reading “Most definitely not a 40 degree day”
links for 2007-07-20
Gamasutra – The History of Civilization Brilliant 10-page look at the development of the game Civilization; it probably is the best game I’ve ever played, and this piece is chock full of details and quotes (tags: design games civilization sidmeier)
links for 2007-07-19
YouTube – Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion Now *this* is how you build a lego kit: superb stop motion video of the Millenium Falcon being built with real panache (tags: lego youtube build stopmotion) News feature: BMW F1 at the Ring | evo News | News | evo Short piece that gets the most fromContinue reading “links for 2007-07-19”
links for 2007-07-18
Gone with the Blastwave – Haven’t you heard? Real is brown! Darkly humourous web comic set in a spooky war time environment; a tip from one of the blogs on the new CPC site (tags: webcomic comics illustration war) What phone calls sound like in hell. – By Evan Eisenberg – Slate Magazine “Please noteContinue reading “links for 2007-07-18”
The Wired Jester 