linkdump for 2008.07.20
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Design Observer: Annals of Ephemera, Part III: Aging 2.0
Jessica Helfand discusses techniques that are used to make new goods look old, and what it might say about our culture. I wonder if this is a white thing; the article doesn’t seem to make any claims about ethnicity, but it sure seems white.
(del.icio.us tags: design preservation)Bob Donlon’s Web TV Blog: Son of Ben Kurns
This tutorial shows how to use After Effects to create the parallax effect used in The Kid Stays in the Picture.
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linkdump for 2008.07.19
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Office of the City Clerk: Boards and Commissions Vacancies
This page lists the many vacancies in the city government’s boards and provides information on how to apply for a position. Vacancies include boards concerning the arts, urban transportation, and telecommunications.
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linkdump for 2008.07.17
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The American Prospect: The White Stuff
Samhita Mukhopadhyay argues that the blog “Stuff White People Like” is too gentle and celebratory in its critique of what David Brooks would term “Bobo” culture.
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linkdump for 2008.07.10
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Data Robotics: Drobo
This Firewire 800 enclosure uses RAID 5 striping to allow for hot-swapping hard drives. It ain’t cheap, but I want, want, want.
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linkdump for 2008.07.08
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Center for Social Media: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
Here is a set of guidelines for appropriating footage and publishing the product online.
(del.icio.us tags: teaching intellectualproperty reference)Austin American-Statesman: Burnt Orange Productions stops making films
I’m disappointed but not surprised to see this project fold. Although I had some concerns about the ethics of building a business based on student labor, it was great to see students get big-budget experience.
(del.icio.us tags: education film austin utexas)Anarchogeek: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities
One of the founders of Indymedia claims “we won” because Web 2.0 sites now offer the self-publishing abilities that Indymedia promised.
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linkdump for 2008.07.06
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The Growing Life: The Alternative Productivity Manifesto
This aphoristic piece offers a response to mindless GTD-zero productivity approaches and their surrounding ideologies that encourages readers to focus on important accomplishments.
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linkdump for 2008.07.05
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The Nation: Surveillance Protest Group Tops Obama Website
It’s really quite amazing that the largest group on a campaign site is one protesting the candidate’s action on the telecom-immunity bill. It seems as if administrators would have snuffed out the group by this point.
(del.icio.us tags: politics elections yasns)my.barackobama.com: Senator Obama - Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity - Get FISA Right
This group on my.barackobama.com protests Obama’s lack of a clear stance on telecom immunity.
(del.icio.us tags: elections surveillance privacy yasns)Wordle: infobong tag cloud
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.
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1 Comment linkdump for 2008.07.02
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AP: Haysbert thinks his ‘24’ role helped Obama
President David Palmer may have paved the way for a President Obama or Clinton, according to the “24″ actor.
(del.icio.us tags: elections race thereal TV)Official Google Blog: Google learns to crawl Flash
I suppose this could be a good thing in some ways, but it’s one less excuse to not create a Flash-based abomination.
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