Weekly links
February 23rd, 2007
- Beijing 2008 Olympics pictograms. Ugh. They remind me of some sort of Boy Scout knot diagram. Do they really need to inflect every tiniest aspect of the games with some sort of twee national character? Stick with the Munich ‘72 set and be done with it.
- For fans of Squares, try Dodge, or the arm achingly missile-command-like Ellipsis
- Long, fascinating article at the New Yorker about how social networking websites are changing attitudes in young people.
Today’s social technologies are creating the biggest generation gap since rock and roll — with younger people having radically different ideas than their parents about what’s public and what’s private.
- Spring Heeled Jack
he was wearing a kind of helmet, and a tight fitting white costume like an oilskin. His face was hideous; his eyes were like balls of fire. His hands had claws of some metallic substance, and he vomited blue and white flames.
- Quote: Wernher von Braun (1912-1977)
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing
- Hallmark launch Journeys - “New cards with real words for real life”. Example:
I’m sorry about the way things turned out. I believe in you as much as ever…I hope you do, too.
I’m thinking of buying everyone I know the card featuring the banally grinning Labrador:
Things are bound to get better…Look at me, I’m smiling–and I don’t even know what’s going on.
- Must-know terms for the 21st Century intellectual according to transhumanist, George Dvorsky. It’s a grab-bag of sci-fi concepts that could keep William Gibson going for years.