Friday Links - 9/12/08

Mickey McManus
September 13, 2008 in

———-Top Five———-
1. Being a bird.

2. Being alive… warning beautiful, painful… if you start this one, finish it.

3. Being silly… if you start this one finish it too.

4. Being Making Doing… or two sensors and a microphone… I think this goes back to my premise that the world fundamentally changed the day the word “Tivo” was coined.

5. Being human (or not).

———-The Rest————
Ok bonus being… Being ground beef (almost).

What happens when you separate an island from the mainland for 6-7 million years?

Collecting Humans.

Crowdfire, or why we may want to start teaching people about framing, pacing, negative space, and Hitchcock’s rules of thumb…

Table origami

Netflix origami

Election (bipartisan) infoporn…

New, fast, form of text entry for mobile devices… click on the video link in the sidebar.

An experiment in using tilt-shift camera tricks with video (it doesn’t totally work but its a nice start towards taking low-cost video and a bit of depth of field processing and making the world look like a miniature diorama)…

When 311 broke.

Fitbits.

This week in music Rudy probably would like.

Book of the week goes to Thomas Friedman as a follow up to his “World is Flat”… this one is about global green.
The book has a nice graph or two about the dropping of oil price and the increasing of freedom in countries that primarily sell oil to survive (essentially wherever you can prosper just by tapping a hole in the ground you don’t need to rely on tapping your own peoples’ creativity, innovation, and intelligence)…
Chock full of statistics, stories, and a clarion call the next moonshot.