Interesting material on various historical/cultural resonances around touch, to bring into making interfaces richer & more thoughtful. To use for something. From Biella.

Spectacular, simple, utterly straightforward historical directory of electronic musical instruments. Quite a few here new to me & a pleasure to discover.

I'm clearing out browser tabs as I take a break from work this morning. This article about Neandertal presence in the human genome looks really good and came highly recommended; I'll finish it later.

Really interesting presentation about the movement between the physical and the digital from the archival and library perspective. Noted for my C&W2010 presentation.

Visual aesthetics in early computing -- amazing long gallery. Good to see all this together, the flow, the mood, the form over time.

Essay on atemporality that I'd like to take a look at. (Joanne recommended it.)