#interesting (17 links)
- The Imperfectionist: Interest is everything ckarchive.com
What this means in practical terms is daring to trust your own curiosity. In creative work, that might mean abandoning the effort to “remember everything you read”, or conducting exhaustive research so as to ensure you’ve considered all the factors other people think you ought to consider, and instead using what naturally interests you as a filter.
Postcard club is for people who like to send and receive postcards.
Via russelldavies.
- Code Quarterly codequarterly.com
We believe there’s a niche waiting to be filled by someone publishing well-written technical pieces longer than the average blog article but shorter than books and making them available in a variety of formats. We are aiming at depth more than absolute timeliness; there are already plenty of outlets for the latest tech buzz.
- Welcome | sugru | Hack Things Better sugru.com
"Jane was studying product design at RCA London when she had an idea: "I don't want to buy new stuff all the time. I want to hack the stuff I already have so it works better for me." So she phoned some clever materials scientists called Ian and Steve and together they invented an interesting new material for hacking things better."
- Nuclear Power [MrReid.org] wordpress.mrreid.org
Mr Reid's excellent Interesting talk: "Everything you know about nuclear power is wrong".
A very brief list of what happened at this year’s Interesting
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
- Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag - life - 18 August 2009 - New Scientist newscientist.com
Makes me want to stop using Google Maps.
Via blech.
The procession of technological discoveries is inevitable. When the conditions are right — when the necessary web of supporting technology needed for every invention is established — then the next adjacent technological step will emerge as if on cue. If inventor X does not produce it, inventor Y will.
- Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com) robinsloan.com
Finally had a chance to read this. Very good; an Instapaper classic.
Portfolio built with Google Maps controls.
- S3 Radio - Permanent Bedtime s3fm.co.uk
- Boards >> The Natural Selection of Interestingness boardsmag.com
Despite early hype, viral films are still few and far between. Why? Where is viral now, how has it evolved, and what's the future for disseminating online content?
Via rowanrosser.
"Here’s a manifesto. Being interesting is as important as being useful. Making things that delight and inspire is as important as creating value. Old systems are crumbling; the best you can do is be nimble, smart and make some trouble." [this is good]
- Really Interesting Group reallyinterestinggroup.com
- Noisy Decent Graphics: All the ephemera that's fit to print * noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com
[We] thought it would be interesting to take some stuff from the internet and print it in a newspaper format. Words as well as pictures. Like a Daily Me, but slower. When we discovered that most newspaper printers will let you do a short run on their press (this was exactly the same spec as the News Of The World) we decided to have some fun.
- Interesting interesting2007.com
Interesting2007 was a conference that happened on the 15th June at the Conway Hall, London. This site isn't so much an archive of the event as a collation of the traces and remains it's left scattered over the internet.