'Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility -- unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it -- that goes by the cult name of "Camp."'

"AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s."

"Here's an hilarious video in which Seth Godin enumerates the essential broken-ness of many contemporary things, and takes a stab at explaining why all this broken junk continues to exist."

aza waxes china

"London is a city full of visible and invisible layers of information and of digital and analogue spaces. New technologies have prompted designers to question the use of traditional communication methods (e.g. posters, billboards), as well as the ways in which design and motion might be more effective in its mediation of information. The way information is sent, received and mediated presents new challenges and opportunities."

compiling the meme @ davario.livejournal.com

I'm not going to die on this hill!

Bittman @ NYT on information overload

Japanese folklore

"Tales from the public domain. Trapped in a Stuggle she didn't understand."

@ BBC "it's time that we recognised that for the majority of the world's population, and for the foreseeable future, the cell phone is the computer, and it will be the portal to the internet, and the communications tool, and the schoolbook, and the vaccin

2007 in review

produced by trey parker and matt stone of south park fame

"We design, build, and distribute electronic games for persuasion, instruction, and activism."

by julian dibbell from the nyt

rashomon in da public domainz!

by A.J. Jacobs (and Honey)

“There was research on whether computers cause miscarriage. Then the next wave of research is, ‘Will it hurt children?’ Then, ‘Will it hurt society?’ That’s the pattern of looking into a new technology."

year in review 2006

by Tad Friend - great review of The Office

blogs about the peace corp in Togo

not feeling entitled enough? see how your income compares with the rest of the world.

amazing collection of zines dating back to the sixties

"Most news becomes old hat within a day and a half of being posted -- a finding that could help website designers or people trying to understand how information gets transferred in biological cells and social networks"

wonderful monotone album of classic video game hints, etc.

2005 in reviews