Friday 02/25/05
Top 100 Gadgets of all time: how many have you owned? (via) ... Prog rock architecture (via #mefi) ... Pat Metheney talks about his favorite music (via) ... The Ice Wall Projects in Fairbanks, AK (via) ... The pizza man always rings twice (via) ... Flight lesson diary (I'm thinking about it -- nice to find a local who's documented his experiences)
Thursday 02/17/05
More notable links: Numbers are his friends (via) ... The Soul of Science (via) ... Rock 'n' Roll fonts (via) ... 50 Writing Tools from Poynter (via) ... How motherboards are made (via) ... Patterns in retail package design (via) ... Rules of thumb for color (via)
In other news, my car was worked over by a true Titan today. Seriously, that's the name of the mechanic who did the 30K maintenance on my car. Titan. What a name for a guy to have to live up to!
Sunday 02/13/05
Recent links of note: Seattle nice is not a bug but a feature (via Mike) ... Turing train combines two early hackish pursuits by creating a working computer in the form of a model railway (via Boing Boing) ... Escher sketch in Java ... DIY DNA extraction ... Neal Stephenson interviewed at Reason ... Fantasy Planes ... Peasant's Quest from the creators of Trogdor ... My Addicted Son from the New York Times ... Uncle Shelby's ABZ from Shel Silverstein, as it appeared in Playboy in 1961 ... (all the preceding via MetaFilter) ... Ebert's Glossary of Movie Terms (via MemeMachineGo) ... NameVoyager shows you the popularity of names through the decades, graphically (via Haughey) ... Nuclear Now! says Wired, which means it has about as much future as push (via Danelope) ... CGI in FORTRAN: ouch, just ouch (via MoreLikeThis) ... Fleeting documents the abstract art created by painting over graffiti (via Kottke) ... The Cuddly Menace (via Waxy links) ... New Ben Folds in April!
I'm planning to re-launch my blog March 1. The site will feature my latest photo front-and-center, along with regular links to interesting sites in a second column, plus links to books I've recently read and music I've recently heard and the occasional longer piece. I'm currently working on the layout for the new site, but I'd like a name a little catchier than "JerryKindall.com." Something like this or this. I've come up with a few ideas, but am not really happy with any of them, so I'm open to suggestions. (Note I'd like to get the .com domain of whatever name is suggested, so names where it's not available probably won't get serious consideration.)
