nextdoor: private social network for your neighborhood
october 2012
"meet the neighbors, share goods and advice, keep the neighborhood safe"
social
|cities
october 2012
neighborland: share ideas and insights for improving neighborhoods
october 2012
grown from candy chang's "i wish this was" stickers and related public art projects (http://candychang.com/category/projects/)
social
|cities
october 2012
seeclickfix: report neighborhood issues and see them get fixed
october 2012
tools for citizens, community groups, media, government
government
|cities
october 2012
"a set of 'master keys' to the infrastructure of nyc popped up on ebay last month" (bldgblog)
october 2012
"surely someone could now produce, given enough dedication and perhaps a metal-based 3d printer, hypothetical copies"
nyc
security
government
|cities
via:ignatz
october 2012
photos of parklets around sf and their designers (the bold italic)
october 2012
info on application process for parklets: http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?recordid=27&page=2719
sf
architecture
government
|cities
october 2012
"the birth of the ipod" by benj edwards (macworld, october 2011)
january 2012
includes a picture of "the braun t3 pocket radio, designed by dieter rams, an inspiration"
apple
computers
january 2012
two styles of illustrating south van ness avenue (tag savage)
october 2011
hand-drawn and vector-y buildings
drawings
sf
architecture
october 2011
table of contents for "dan's geometrical curiosities"
october 2011
made an index page for a side project, potentially of interest to people who like math/geometry/art/physics/gifs
blogs
friends
geometry
math
october 2011
"looking for someone", the history of online dating, by nick paumgarten (new yorker)
october 2011
starting with a pen pal matching system at the 1964 world's fair in queens
net
social
emotion
october 2011
photos of the eames house interior, preserved as they left it (la times)
october 2011
"the living room does not resemble the type of rigorously formal space that people today expect in a modern house from the era...the extraordinarily diverse collection of objects"
architecture
la
1940s
october 2011
storm king art center - sculpture park north of new york city
october 2011
"more than 100 carefully sited sculptures"
nyc
october 2011
sfpark: post-launch implementation summary and lessons learned (pdf)
october 2011
thorough and friendly documentation of san francisco's new smart parking meter program
sf
government
transport
october 2011
"there's a robot beneath the fluff", a photo project by matt kirkland
september 2011
"i've always been curious about stuffed animals that sing, dance, light up, or talk back. there must be a fascinating robot underneath the fur and fluff, right?"
invent
toys
creatures
september 2011
newly developed cheap paper diagnostic tests for diseases etc. (nytimes)
september 2011
"with dried proteins and chemically triggered dyes, the thumbnail-size square could be a mini-laboratory"
paper
invent
health
september 2011
"one coffee cup a day...an experiment in creativity and rapid manufacturing"
september 2011
printed in glazed ceramics by shapeways; "the following images are computer generated visualizations of the cups"
utensils
drink
blogs
september 2011
an artist asked children to draw dresses and then crafted them (nytimes)
september 2011
"how interesting it would be to bring to life the clothes in children’s artwork, designs by children too young to be influenced by commercial fashion"
clothes
drawings
age
september 2011
about a film inspired by w.g. sebald's walks (guardian)
september 2011
"'in any case, i can't believe sebald's walk was as miserable as he makes it sound. he was walking in the summer, staying at a pleasant hotel, visiting old friends, going to places that interested him.'"
books
fiction:meta
europe
september 2011
the leggy lady - an everyday fashion blog
september 2011
a person with non-outrageous style dressing for work
clothes
blogs
september 2011
a windcatcher is a traditional persian architectural device used to create ventilation
september 2011
used in combination with qanat canals etc.
architecture
earth
from delicious
september 2011
photos of the construction of eagle rock reservoir, 1952 (usc digital library)
september 2011
as seen (long empty) on google maps: http://g.co/maps/jrg3a
la
1950s
via:asfaltics
from delicious
september 2011
watercolor-tinted shapeways gyroid print
september 2011
"made from a very porous nylon material"
geometry
paintings
from delicious
september 2011
historic ibm building 25 (1957) -- preservation action council of san jose
june 2011
"a forerunner of high technology campuses to come...a radical departure from the solid wall construction of most industrial and laboratory facilities of the time"; with a spider-leg covered entrance
architecture
computers
1950s
from delicious
june 2011
putting the new apple headquarters design into historical context (alexandra lange, design observer)
june 2011
"an inward-looking, hermetic, heterotopic corporate world", 1950s-style
architecture
apple
from delicious
june 2011
robot flâneur (booktwo.org), exploring snapshots from google street view
june 2011
"google street view is both the view from the machine (from the car, the ballardian view-of-our-times) and the view of the machine (the way the machine sees)"
photography
web
transport
from delicious
june 2011
"how the photograph the entire world: the google street view era" -- it's never summer
june 2011
"the ability to frame decisive moments on city streets, or sparsely populated landscapes in lapland, without ever leaving your room is a profound shift in photography"; connected to photos from car windows
photography
web
transport
via:migurski
from delicious
june 2011
pttrns: ios ui examples from various apps
june 2011
login pages, about pages, custom tab bars, etc.
ui
from delicious
june 2011
"the unsung heroes of biscuit embossing" -- edible geography
june 2011
looking at the patterns on oreos and other cookies (and the technology invented to produce them)
sweets
geometry
invent
from delicious
june 2011
"playable archaeology: an interview with telehack's anonymous creator" (waxy.org)
june 2011
"people can run programs again that haven't been run -- and experienced -- for 20 years. and see old files through a lens that makes them look like they used to. that's fun."
net
games
fiction:meta
1980s
from delicious
june 2011
untitled (santa barbara), by liz kuball, on 20x200
june 2011
orange trees and surf cars
photos
santabarbara
from delicious
june 2011
hussam's list of fifty reasons to jailbreak your iphone
may 2011
notes on a bunch of currently popular packages
cydia
from delicious
may 2011
"sister corita kent's assemblages of text and image" (eye magazine)
may 2011
"a new perspective on the 1960s obsession with messages and media"; with visits to the ihc from buckminster fuller and charles eames
school
paintings
photography
1960s
via:designstories
from delicious
may 2011
the sunol water temple, built in 1910, is an unusual structure in the bay area
may 2011
"hired willis polk to design a 'water temple' atop the spot where three subterranean water sources converge"
architecture
earth
sf
1910s
from delicious
may 2011
"why i jailbreak", a list by amit gupta
may 2011
including voicemail forwarder, activator (gesture/button customization), nolockscreen, and winterboard for fun
cydia
from delicious
may 2011
jay freeman on the mobile application market at 360idev (april 2010)
may 2011
looking at the larger ecosystem of how money flows through mobile apps, markets, taxes, etc.
cydia
business
from delicious
may 2011
moleskine artist marketplace
may 2011
selling modifications of notebooks, mostly the covers and sometimes the inside pages too. book art with a bit of cydia
paper
business
brand
from delicious
may 2011
lifehacker's "always up-to-date guide to jailbreaking your iphone, ipod touch, and ipad"
may 2011
currently sorted into a six-step process using redsn0w
cydia
from delicious
may 2011
web-based cydia search made by planet-iphones
may 2011
unofficial browsing and search interface
cydia
from delicious
may 2011
iphone download blog
may 2011
pretty good source of reviews/news about the jailbroken ecosystem
cydia
blogs
from delicious
may 2011
"putting the science in science fiction" (physics today)
may 2011
mika on her work consulting for stargate atlantis and stargate universe
physics
fiction:meta
friends
from delicious
may 2011
suave hd theme for iphone, by thyraz
may 2011
also available by searching within cydia
cydia
from delicious
may 2011
"colorgasm hd" theme for iphone, by neon sheep creative
may 2011
original icons and wallpaper etc.
cydia
from delicious
may 2011
recipe for artichoke and white bean salad (williams-sonoma)
may 2011
pre-roast artichokes; better when prepared in advance
recipes
from delicious
may 2011
"youtube founders acquired delicious from yahoo!" press release
april 2011
"make the site even easier and more fun to save, share, and discover the web's 'tastiest' content"
delicious
from delicious
april 2011
calendarbar, simple os x menubar item for upcoming events
april 2011
$1 in the mac app store
osx
via:waferbaby
from delicious
april 2011
ubuntu and debian amis for amazon ec2 (alestic)
april 2011
table of trusted amazon machine image ids
net
via:saurik
from delicious
april 2011
"why the king james bible endures" (nytimes)
april 2011
"the most powerful religious language is often a little elevated and incantatory, even ambiguous or just plain hard to understand"
religion
books
words
from delicious
april 2011
"the best jailbreak apps and tweaks for iphone" (business insider)
april 2011
bitesms, lockinfo, mywi, winterboard, sbsettings, activator, voiceactivator, snaptap, ifile, infinifolders, netatalk, my 3g
cydia
from delicious
april 2011
pinboard in the economist tech blog, "the price of fame: stick a pin in it"
april 2011
retelling the anatomy of a crushing; "a few years ago such spikes in traffic could kill a nascent firm"
delicious
friends
from delicious
april 2011
breakdom, "a remix of the classic breakout game"
april 2011
with checkboxes, radio buttons, and a scrollbar
games
html
silly
from delicious
april 2011
hexagonal awareness project tumblr
april 2011
lots of pretty hexagons of all kinds
geometry
blogs
from delicious
april 2011
"mobilenotifier dramatically improves ios push notifications" for jailbroken devices
march 2011
allows a person to temporarily ignore alerts without them disappearing forever
cydia
ui
from delicious
march 2011
"serious sbsettings hd", theme for quick-settings extension for iphone
march 2011
with replies listing extra icons for additional settings
cydia
from delicious
march 2011
"color app hack lets you spy on anyone's photos anywhere" (forbes blog)
march 2011
using fakelocation from cydia; color says "it is all public, and we've been very clear about that from the very beginning"
social
software:meta
cydia
via:lemonodor
from delicious
march 2011
"southern california's great citrus had its crate advertising" (la times)
march 2011
"the lettering specialists were pros in their own right. many were aging bank-note engravers from the east or midwest...'they came out west to retire'"
advertising
veggies
paintings
via:asfaltics
from delicious
march 2011
"the shape of space: how to visualize surfaces and three-dimensional manifolds"
march 2011
recommended introductory book about geometry and topology
books
geometry
*consider
from delicious
march 2011
songsmith fed with stock charts (youtube, 2009)
march 2011
catchy tunes based on graphs of not-so-good things
music
statistics
politics
from delicious
march 2011
"introducing the slider" on the canv.as blog
march 2011
playful remix-comparison feature; nice work!
web
drawings
friends
from delicious
march 2011
typophone, a typographically-aesthetic lockscreen theme for iphone 4
march 2011
on some phones it needs a bit of setup fiddling to make it work properly
cydia
from delicious
march 2011
isla vista beach cliff erosion, 1980-2008
march 2011
documentation of the eroding bluffs at the edge of del playa houses
earth
ucsb
architecture
from delicious
march 2011
"geology teaching slides of dr. arthur gibbs sylvester"
march 2011
with links at the bottom to more of his work
photos
earth
found
via:asfaltics
from delicious
march 2011
tricky truck pc game: "test your parking skills with huge trucks"
march 2011
"limited view from the drivers seat in hard mode...design your own levels and share them"
transport
games
physics
via:agenthh
from delicious
march 2011
five most-popular paid products for jailbroken iphones from cydia (iphone download blog)
march 2011
bitesms (improved texting), ifile (filesystem access), lockinfo (useful lockscreen), mywi (tethering), folderenhancer (better folders)
cydia
from delicious
march 2011
a lissajous curve is the graph of a system of parametric equations
march 2011
the figures often seen on oscilloscopes
geometry
words
from delicious
march 2011
mathowie's sxsw talk about metafilter moderation and tools (vimeo)
march 2011
effective use of flagging and favorites
web
behavior
from delicious
march 2011
"luminant point arrays", photos of "tube televisions in the moment they are switched off"
march 2011
"the television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light"
photos
tv
geometry
via:migurski
from delicious
march 2011
aerial archaeology, a flickr pool
march 2011
"awareness of the importance and fragility of most of the global archaeological heritage"
photos
earth
from delicious
march 2011
"infrastructure" on pictory: photos with captions
march 2011
lots of dramatic bridges
photos
transport
from delicious
march 2011
display recorder, a cydia app for making iphone screencasts
march 2011
"you can quickly start a new video from within any app, with a quick swipe or tap"
cydia
from delicious
march 2011
"c'ups" icon theme for iphone, by jackietran
march 2011
available under the name "cups hd" (free)
icons
cydia
from delicious
march 2011
sidestep: automatically secure your internet connection with ssh (for os x)
march 2011
"automatically encrypts...it does all this in the background so that you don't even notice it"
net
security
from delicious
march 2011
canvas in the nytimes ("4chan founder parlays a raucous site into a new venture")
march 2011
"'it's pure entertainment on the internet...a shared experience'"
web
friends
from delicious
march 2011
"have onboard wi-fi? see what's happening below" using mondowindow (cnet)
march 2011
"a compelling alternative to the onboard entertainment systems...little more than 'dumb talking dog movies'"
transport
software:meta
friends
|maps
from delicious
march 2011
*broken
*consider
1400s
1500s
1600s
1700s
1800s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
advertising
africa
age
animals
animation
apple
architecture
asia
behavior
biology
blogging
blogs
body
books
brand
business
ccscslab
censorship
chat
chemistry
clothes
color
comics
computers
corporate
creatures
css
cydia
death
delicious
diet
drawings
drink
earth
emotion
europe
fiction
fiction:meta
film
food
found
friends
games
gender
geometry
government
health
html
icons
info
insects
invent
jewelry
la
languages
law
learning
loaf
mail
math
meat
media
metal
microsoft
money
multi
music
music:meta
music:tech
musicians
names
net
nix
nyc
osx
paintings
paper
pets
photography
photos
physics
plants
plastic
poetry
politics
privacy
psych
race
recipes
religion
restaurant
robots
santabarbara
school
security
sf
silly
social
software
software:meta
space
spoken
statistics
subvert
sweets
teen
text
textiles
time
toys
transport
tv
type
ucsb
ui
usa
utensils
veggies
via:asfaltics
via:ash
via:bk
via:bkerr
via:blackbeltjones
via:blech
via:cityofsound
via:cosmic
via:cshalizi
via:designstories
via:douglaswth
via:ethan_t_hein
via:fakeisthenewreal
via:gavin
via:glass
via:holly
via:ignatz
via:joshua
via:kenspeckle
via:ktrey
via:lemonodor
via:maciej
via:marisaolson
via:migurski
via:n0wak
via:negatendo
via:nelson
via:notgluegun
via:ouroboros
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via:problemboard
via:pvg
via:ramage
via:revgeorge
via:riotnrrd
via:robinsloan
via:rodcorp
via:saurik
via:serial_consign
via:sevensixfive
via:snej
via:spike
via:splodinvark
via:stamen
via:stlhood
via:straup
via:timb
via:tomc
via:topsyturvy
via:tvancort
via:vaguery
via:wizardishungry
web
web:tech
webdev
weird
wood
wordplay
words
world
writing
zine
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|commonthings
|computersilliness
|everydaypoison
|fibercrafts
|geometry
|glass
|goodcomics
|imagevocabulary
|libraries
|maps
|money
|mortality
|moviedetails
|netart
|oldpictures
|paperart
|plantart
|recycling
|ruins
|surface
|swimmingrobots
|symbols
|ucsbdetails
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