August 2008
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New In Rainbows Numbers Offer Lessons for Music... →
Radiohead’s “pay what you want” distribution gamble paid-off despite — or perhaps because of — rampant file sharing, according to new analysis from Will Page, chief economist at the MCPS-PRS Alliance, a British rights organization, and Eric Garland, CEO of Big Champagne.
July 2008
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Luminescent, Moddable Wallpaper That's Stylish... →
Wall decor is probably the last home improvement you’d expect to go high tech, but a new breed of designers is here to rescue your vertical surfaces with a fresh take on wallpaper. They grew up on Nintendo, enjoy luminescence, and hold science near and dear to their hearts. Thanks to them, matching habitat to inhabitant is easy. Their light-emitting, moddable, and re-stickable wall...
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“$150 isn’t bad for a 500GB external USB hard drive, especially one that is...”
– SimpleTech Goes Green with Bamboo Hard Drive | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
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Apartment Therapy San Francisco | Vintage Logos as... →
The Oregonian highlighted Vintage Roadside, a company that makes t-shirts emblazoned with the logos of long-forgotten hotspots of the ‘40s, ‘50s and early ‘60s. From motorcourts to drive-ins and roller rinks, the designs evoke old memories and keep alive locations that have since been bulldozed. Owners Kelly Burg and Jeff Kunkle take this seriously… they’ve set up a fiberglass A&W family in...
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British UFO Hacker Gary McKinnon Is Coming to... →
Apparently he was stoned through a lot of it, which explains why most of the intrusions were into Army computers, when everyone knows the Air Force is hiding the UFOs. McKinnon’s noble quest for the truth about extraterrestrial life also obliged him to leave this message on an Army computer in 2002: “U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days … It...
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“The primary question we have received in recent weeks is, ‘What happened...”
– How American Youth Will Screw Viacom | Epicenter from Wired.com
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New Lightroom 2DOT0 Refines the RAW Image Editor -... →
Adobe recently gave us a sneak peak at the new features and we’re happy to report that, not only is it worth the upgrade, you may well have no reason left for Photoshop. From the new graduated filters to improved sharpening tool, Lightroom 2.0 offers even tools to spare you the RAM-hungry trip over to Photoshop.
Among the new features in Lightroom 2.0 is native 64-bit support, which means that...
How Not to Be a Douchebag Tourist in NYC →
mareen:
Haha.
(via danvanmoll)
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Inspirational Design Posters : Frank Chimero :... →
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5 Great Social Networking Sites for Designers :... →
Are you a graphic, web, industrial, or other designer? If so, there are 5 invaluable sites where you can network with other designers, get inspiration, and build a sweet portfolio
“I’ve got four grams on me and one gram in me which is why me heart is...”
– Ray (Colin Farrell) - “In Bruges”
Gallery: Scenes From Comic-Con 2008 →
Internet Endangers Big-City Tradition: The Bike... →
Spam King and Family Dead in Apparent... →
BENNETT — Just four days after escaping a federal minimum-security work camp, “Spam King” Eddie Davidson shot his wife and child and wounded a teen-age girl before turning the gun on himself.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of gunfire in the small plains town of Bennett at about 11:15 a.m. today and found Davidson, 29-year-old Amy Lee Ann Hill and their 3-year-old...
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Q&A: X-Files' Chris Carter Talks Paranoia, Secrecy... →
Chris Carter knows how to keep a secret.
The X-Files creator and his writing partner, Frank Spotnize, finished the script for The X-Files: I Want to Believe last November and raced into production over the winter. Along the way, Carter — who produced and directed the film, opening Friday — took extraordinary measures to maintain secrecy about his storyline, which catches up with Fox...
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