The top 10 ways to destroy the earth. One day someone very smart was very bored. There are some pretty creative methods here.
Mr. Suicide bath plug
Out of 5
Out of 5 presents a weekly themed mix-tape with 10 songs chosen by 10 individuals.
Bad New York Times
The Star calls bullshit on the New York Times for their review of the recent Broken Social Scene album. The problem is that the review spends a lot of time talking about the band’s Montreal roots, which is great, considering they’re from Toronto.
5Q with Khoi Vinh
We have another short interview up at Seal Club. This one is 5 questions with Khoi Vinh of subtraction. Featuring screams of terror, penguins and grain embargoes.
Time’s 100 best books since 1923
Time picks the 100 greatest novels since 1923. I’ve read 15 of them, so it looks like there are still a few to chew through.
New eightface wallpaper
I needed something new for my desktop, was starting to get sick of the photo that was there. Of course the results are posted here for your pleasure.
The image links to the file on flickr. I also have two versions available here: 1024px and 1280px. Made use of the second brush set from the howiezine site, mostly for the arrows and dots. It took 3-7 hours depending on how you feel like counting time.
Raiding the 20th Century
You should go download Raiding the 20th Century, an hour long mashup by DJ Food covering some of music’s best.
Presidents of the Royal Society
A list of presidents of the Royal Society from the 1660s to present.
Vying for your attention
The NYTimes is running an article about life hackers. This quote sums it up perfectly, “Information is no longer a scarce resource – attention is”. A large portion of my HCI classes were spent discussing how to notify people without actually interrupting them (aka attentive user interfaces / more). It’ll end up being one of the larger problems facing the computer industry for at least the next 10 years.
We’ve reached a threshold in terms of information availabily and devices to interact with that information; be it iPods, cellphones, laptops, whatever. What we need are devices that work for us. A microwave is pretty convenient, but wouldn’t life be a lot easier if your frozen dinner had an embedded RFID chip that told the microwave exactly how to cook it? What about that punk kid on a skateboard listening to music? Should you hit him with your car, or have it send a message to his iPod? The ability to invade music devices probably isn’t that smart, but you get the idea.