The Year in Review
A political assessment of the past year in global affairs. From the always excellent Viridian Design.
Slowly Going West
I’m in Iowa right now, relaxing amidst the corn and swine. Did you know that Christina is an Iowan too? Ask her about the butter cow sometime – everyone should visit the Iowa State Fair at least once in their life. This week I’ve been reading some of the literature on space/place. Don’t bother with [...]
Inputs
A Directory of Sources for Input Technologies Bill Buxton is developing this taxonomy of input devices for a book that he’s working on. An input device I’ve been using lately is a little MIDI keyboard called an Oxygen 8. It has lots of knobs that allow you to control various parameters in music sampling, sequencing, [...]
McCloud’s Comics
For those who’ve read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, here’s a critique of the book, which focuses on how Scott defines the term “comics”. And it looks like Scott is doing the weblog thing.
More interest than available time
3600 Research Essays about the Net. It’s like stringing together all your favorite keywords and then slapping them on one page. Also from the same site: 750 Internet Researchers and 1800 Net Art Links. From Red Rock Eater Digest
RSS Feed for Food
It somehow slipped my mind, but this site does have an RSS feed. I’ll post one of those XML/RSS buttons that’ll serve as a permanent link when I get a chance, but this week is likely going to be a bit rough, so it may have to wait. I’ve been using NetNewsWire Lite for OS [...]