You’d think it was only librarians who wanted to catalogue books – but apparantly not. Library Thing has over 300,000 users who have more than 20,000,000 books listed between them! http://www.librarything.com/ Scary! But sometimes useful and often interesting.
Amongst lots of discussion about whether Wikipedia is a good thing or a bad thing, whether it should be used or banned in academic work, and how it might be used (or abused), comes this urh… spin off: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Delightful contribution someone’s dug out of the internet’s ‘archives’ this morning. Quite as relevant today: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30146
Discussing virtual identity, someone mentioned they’d read this over the weekend: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2210318,00.html Presumably with the rise of virtual worlds such as Second Life – where avatars don’t necessarily genuinely represent the real humans behind them – this kind of thing …
Not everyone responds to the graphical nature of mindmaps, but for those who do this is an attractive example. And shows that it’s not just libraries who have mountains of information that is ‘buried’ and ‘underutilised’. http://ca-global.biz/images/mindmap.jpg
Here’s an interesting combination of ‘peformance’ and mobile phone technology. http://www.txtualhealing.com/ The idea is that graphic novel / comic images are displayed in a public space with empty speech bubbles. The bubbles are filled with text messages contributed by members …
Apparently the Lego posting from three weeks back struck a chord, hence a couple of suggestions along these lines… This most certainly comes into the category of ‘brilliance in its own small world’. Who’d have thought you could make a horror …
This is both quite fun in itself and quite interesting when you think about the algorithms and computing that’s going on the background. http://oracleofbacon.org/ What’s surprising is how few links are usually required. Four or more are hard to find …
Here are some pictures that help keep things in perspective: http://www.statusq.org/archives/2007/04/03/1375/
Marshall McLuhan said the “medium is the message”, so presumably “the font is the phrase”. While they can be over/poorly used, the right font at the right time can really enhance the printed word. This site has all sorts of …
