This Week’s Weekly Links of the Week - Week 70
4.01.08 @ 12:53 pm
Happy 2008. I will be back on schedule from this point forward with some format changes and some cool articles in the coming weeks.
Enjoy the links.
This Week’s Collection of Good Design
- Foliage-Covered Seoul Building by Mass Studies Architects
- Screw aluminum siding - this is much, much cooler.
- Single Hauz Elevated Domain
- I would absolutely love to live in a house like this.
- Chocolate powered biodiesel
- The diversity of biodiesel sources will inevitably make traditional fuel look more and more absurd.
- New Energy Uses for Asphalt
- The Dutch turn lemons into lemonade.
- The Top 10 New Organisms of 2007
- The super CO2-absorbing trees seems the most intriguing to me.
- Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food
- Buy your veggies locally. It’s what your mother would want you to do.
- Handbag
- Very creative way to get people to donate money to people in need.
Current Events
- DRM Officially Dead: Last Major Label Sony BMG Plans to Finally Drop DRM
- DRM is dead.
- U.S. Album Sales Fell 9.5% in 2007
- The CD is dead.
- ‘Waterboarding broke al Qaeda captive in 35 seconds,’ says former CIA agent defending torture | the Daily Mail
- This idiot is missing the point - whether it is effective or not has nothing to do with whether it’s torture.
Design
- Juno main opening titles
- Beautiful work.
- Font Matrix
- A nice reference of the fonts different software packages provide.
- Chinese Buick Riviera Concept to Make North American Debut at Detroit
- Yes, that’s right - a Buick. And, amazingly, it’s beautiful.
- MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
- Awesome stuff.
- JE*S Jeans: Bum
- Clever. And sneaky.
Web Related
- 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging
- Nice list of WP plugins.
Photography
- UN soldier
- Photographic catch of the year.
- Mario’s Bike on Flickr
- If you know anything about photographic history, the comments on this photo will absolutely crack you up. One less reason to take amateur criticism too seriously…
Nerdery & Tech
- PureMVC
- Interesting Flex/AS3 framework.
- How to use FlexUnit with FlexBuilder 2
- Great resource for all your AS-heads out there.
- GrabFS: The Screenshot File System
- So very clever. I think we all could use this.
- WIWTW: Bitmapdata.draw and RTMP Snapshotting
- This is why my video color sampler no longer works…
- moockblog: How to Use Tween in an ActionScript Project (Flex Builder 2)
- Massive headache saver.
- QuickBooks users be cautious of recent update
- Quickbooks deleting files from desktop. Sweet…
- Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard
- Great idea. Another must-have OS X app.
- GM creates design studio to work on future electric vehicles
- Once again, GM is roughly 20 years late in innovation.
Noteworthy Articles
- Trent Reznor on Year Zero, Planting Clues, and What’s Ludicrous About Being a Musician Today
- Very detailed and thought-provoking interview.
- 6 Do-gooder Gifts for this Holiday Season
- A pretty nice list of some pretty nice gifts that do some pretty good things.
- Climate Change Performance Index 2008 released
- U.S.A at #55. Weak.
- I’m Not Happy
- Too damned funny.
- C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
- Ah, the internet chat phenomenon…
Noteworthy Sites
- Kung-Fu Election
- Absolutely awesome.
- CommitteeCaller.com
- Instantly call Congressional Committees so you can tell them how horrible of a job they’re doing.
- USAspending.gov
- See the corruption for yourself.
- Duelity
- Great concept and execution to spin the creation/evolution 180 degrees.
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