"OSCemote is a remote control application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It lets you send Open Sound Control messages to other programs like Max/MSP, Puredata, OSCulator, etc."

Wordle is an information visualization tool that allows users to create visual word frequency charts and display them in different formats using parameters like font and color.

This series of pamphlets pairs a designer and a policy expert to explain an important policy issue in layperson's terms.

It's about time I posted this mashup showing some of the dirty tricks used to suppress the vote in Zimbabwe.

Corbis commissioned these neat designs for pinhole cameras that use 35mm film.

I would like to get one of these for my sister as a Christmas present, but I don't think they have US distribution. The titles they have lean toward the macho side, with Conrad and Hemmingway.

This former school in rural Kansas has been transformed into an artist's colony. I sort of know one of the people involved in the project.

The Camera Van was one of the cooler things I saw at Maker Faire. Most of the cameras are clearly non-functional, but apparently it takes pictures too.

This free service apparently drafts FOIA requests for folks interested in knowing what's in their federal surveillance files.

It's like Twittervision for Flickr!

This cool project reminds me I need to get some business cards made.

This is a cool interactive visualization of economic and social data.

Steev Hise has relaunched his site devoted to sharing field recordings.

Inveneo.org, which does telecom development work in Africa is collecting new and used USB flash drives for use in their training programs.

Typographic mashup using Google maps. The there's only one glyph per letter, which I sort of think is cheating.

Azmeraw Zeleke fashions coffee machines from artillery shells left over from Ethiopia's civil war.

WIred magazine has uploaded a story about Wiki's to a wiki hosted by Socialtext and invites readers to edit it, which will run in a future issue – if it's not a disaster.

The site was down when I tried to check it out, but supposedly this is a wiki that allows you to execute Logo code on its pages.

Online tool that allows you to re-edit clips from films in the San Francisco Film Festival. Take that, Chevy Tahoe!