Category Archives: Ephemera and links

The design llama: CONTAINERSHIP POWERSUPPLY Shame it’s only a prototype, this is a brilliant idea for making a plug socket extender look good (tags: design house power) Ironic Sans: Photos from the Galapagos Islands Great set of photos from the islands that inspired Darwin (tags: photos travel galapagos animals) The August silly season | MediaContinue reading “links for 2007-08-03”

Hack Attack: Take Launchy beyond application launching – Lifehacker I’m a big fan of the Windows command line add on called Launchy and this Lifehacker post about using it to do more than fire up apps is excellent (tags: launchy howto windows)

TANK BOOKS – Tales to take your breath away Clever idea to package books in the style of flip-top, brightly coloured ciagrette boxes [via Boing Boing] (tags: books design literature marketing)

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)

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”

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)

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”

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”

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”

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)