November 2010
42 posts
FastForward Radio -- Strange New Worlds - Oct... →
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fastforwardradio/2010/10/07/fastforward-radio—strange-new-worlds Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss the implications of the discovery of the first potentially…
October 2010
57 posts
“Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
Oliver Sacks →
Neurologist Oliver Sacks tells stories of people who manage to navigate the world and communicate, despite losing what many consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the…
American Spirit: A History of the Supernatural →
Halloween – despite its solemn Celtic roots – has become a safe way for Americans to transgress social norms and toy with the idea of ghosts in a family-friendly fashion. But for some, spirits from…
What Technology Wants →
Kevin Kelly, former executive editor of Wired magazine, discusses his brand-new view of technology, and explains how technology can give our lives greater meaning. In What Technology Wants he…
“Some universes, Carroll argues, don’t experience time at all; once a universe...”
– “Could Time Flow Backwards in Another Universe?”
WatchAmerican car designer Chris Bangle is best known for his work as the Chief of Design at the BMW Group. At the age of thirty-five, Bangle took the helm of design at BMW and stayed there for seventeen years becoming their longest serving director. During his sometimes controversial career at BMW, Bangle undeniably established himself as one of the most influential and important car designers of his...
Simple and usable - an interview with... →
http://www.infodesign.com.au/uxpod/simpleandusable
The Next Big Questions - Part One →
What are the biggest questions facing our world today? Listen in as some of the brightest minds and leading researchers from a variety of disciplines debate The Next Big Question, in a national…
“Black hole physics, in which space and time become compressed, provides a basis...”
– Finding the resolution of the universe
Never Not Funny feat. Jon Hamm →
Raymond Carver's "Chef's House" →
David Means reads Raymond Carver’s “Chef’s House.”
Helmut J - Spring Day →
Into : sample from The Wizard of Gore
Terence Fixmer – Electric City (Function Remix)
Xpansul, Imek – La Salud (From Karaoke To Stardom’s Remix)
Exercise One – Narrating (Jeremy P Caulfield & Elon…
Design Caffeine for Search and Browse UI →
In this straightforward, practical session about search and browse interfaces, Greg Nudelman talks about improving the search experience from the customer’s perspective- a perspective on which few…
Milton Glaser Podcast Interview: Observer Media:... →
http://observermedia.designobserver.com/audiofile.html?entry=8927
To The Best of Our Knowledge: The Universe →
Leonard Mlodinow and co-author Stephen Hawking say that you can explain the existence of everything without requiring God. Charles Yu’s novel details some of the perils of existence in multiple time…
“Your sense of time will continue to shred. Years will feel like hours”
– #22 on Douglas Copland’s “Guide to the Next 10 Years” -A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail
“Something smarter than us is going to emerge”
– #14 on Douglas Copland’s “Guide to the Next 10 Years” - A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail
KQED Forum: Where Good Ideas Come From →
The book “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” explores why certain environments seem to disproportionately spark the generation and sharing of good ideas. Author Steven…
DrumSkool215 Episode 7! w/ DJ Armen: "Jeepers... →
Ed Rush and Optical’s seminal 1998 full length debut “Wormhole” always gets all the love… and for good reason. It pretty much changed the game for drum n bass, single-handedly dragging the sound…
Jan Chipchase on future trends →
The executive creative director of global insights at frog design on watching devices change hierarchies in the world’s poorest places.
“It would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of...”
– Graphene Will Change the Way We Live | Dr. Kaku’s Universe | Big Think
LukeW | Audio: Innovations in Web Input →
Jared led off the discussion, by diving into one of Google’s latest public innovations, Google Instant. If you’ve missed the hubbub, Google Instant starts searching and returning suggested queries as…
WatchMighty Mouse - ABBA ‘Midnight Mouse’ (Mighty Mouse Not So Official Edit Type Thingy) MP3 320k - SoundCloud
ho, damn.
WatchEVIL BOY (official) (by Die Antwoord)
LSE - 'It's my body and I'll do what I Like with... →
We commonly use the language of body ownership as a way of claiming personal rights, though we do not normally mean it literally. Most people feel uneasy about markets in sexual or reproductive…
Richard Rhodes, “Twilight of the Bombs” →
http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/sep/21/twilight-bombs/ Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun, and Arsenals of Folly completes his tetralogy on nuclear weapons with his…
The Next Generation of Microfinance →
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/the-next-generation-of-microfinance.html Visionary Kushal Chakrabarti is providing a solution. design mind ON AIR’s Chris Sallquist spoke with Kushal, the…
Gerard t'Hooft on Science Fiction and Reality →
Gerard t’Hooft, a Nobel Laureate from Utrecht University, delivers a lecture on Science Fiction and Reality at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario on May 7, 2008