Archive for December, 2003

Found a nice collection of vintage car racing posters. They accompany an exhaustive history of Vintage Grand Prix cars and German Silver Arrows from the 1930s.

Are imported hipsters the secret to revitalizing the economies of forlorn backwaters?

Have America’s post-911 security measures given birth to a new culture of security? Katherine Lemons et.al. coin it Securitarianism. Keeping us safe from our own foreign policy.

Perennial link trove Metafilter, has launched a great new thang. Ask Metafilter lets you post a question and get answers from, well, anybody who wants to answer. Collective knowledge seems like a great idea, but we’ll see how it works.

Great flash site for johncoltrane.com from Austrian firm Automat. Clean as a whistle design.

Apple Computer opened its newest store in Tokyo’s Ginza district a couple of weeks ago. It was a huge success. Checkout this video of people waiting in line just to get in to the store. Keep watching, you won’t believe this. –and they are waiting in the rain!

The freaky crossing dressing potter Grayson Perry wins Britain’s most coveted contemporary art prize. His vases with drawings of “boring cool people,” pub signs and child abuse were interesting, intricate and crafty, but Anya Gallaccio was my pick.

You might also like… Amazon.com customer suggestions are brutal and hilarious.

The Village Voice has an interesting piece on Crystal Evans, a 22 year-old homeless blogger in Massachusetts. Her blog, beinghomeless, is pretty inspiring at times. She’s applying to Harvard University for fall of

The only watch that’s also a weapon- it shoots BBs, dried peas, popcorn kernels, lentils and more up to 8 feet accross the room! It’s the Amazing Catapult Watch.

It’s like that scene in Wings of Desire where Damiel can hear everyone’s thoughts. The World as a Blog watches the world and spouts the latest entries from all the planet’s blogs.

He’s breezing over to an Upper East Side boîte and needs someone to watch his Hummer. It pays $7/hr and assuming you don’t screw up, we should have some leftovers which you are welcome to.

Harper’s Magazine has relaunched harpers.org. Though it has a sparse, almost dowdy design, it has some fancy coding under the hood. For instance, click around in the latest Harper’s Index to reveal sources and past references to subjects mentioned. Read Paul Ford’s description of the nuts and bolts of his redesign.

Look Dad, I cloned the cat! The hot new xmas gift this year seems to be the Discovery DNA Explorer Kit. With this deluxe, first-of-its-kind kit, you can extract, view and map real DNA yourself. Ideal for budding forensic-scientists or secret agents, the working lab and tools are just like the real thing.

There’s a nice flash presentation that accompanies an article in this week’s New York Times about the slow death of rural American towns. I like these little flash features– they’re richer than a simple audio program but not as bandwith-heavy as a full-on video documentary. This is the way 21st Century journalism is published.