One of the consequences of being blog-free for half a year is the accumulation of old data -- bookmarks, feeds, ideas, reviews, etc. Normally when I'm facing an RSS feed with over 100 unread articles, I'll just give it up for lost and zero it out. It's the internet, right? There's always more of it. But today I started skimming through a year of posts from Things Magazine, a great source of interesting links. Here are a few things that caught my eye:
The History of Visual Communication. Antique Dental Instruments. I Love Typography. Twin Peaks, Then and Now. How Michael Finds Good Stuff on the Web. Douglas Coupland on Visual Thinking. Face Research. Morbid Anatomy. A Short History of Anatomical Maps. A Timeline of Lego Minifigs. The Evolution of the Front Page. The Green Knowe books, one of my favorite kidlit series, had a final book I didn't know about? The Paris Exposition of 1900. London Poverty Maps. UK Loneliness Map. New York's ugliest skyscraper. New York in Black and White. Digitally tracking nightlife in San Francisco. Fictional Cities and Towns. 72 Views of the Tower of Babel. Zeppelins! Fembots! The Circus! What can you buy for five dollars? Business cliches. Wal-Mart v. Starbucks. The pointless museum. A personal history of electronic writing. Suggested Donation, "a blog about Museums, Archives, and Libraries: and the poor suffering lot who work in them." 50 cult books. Survival tips for time traveling back to 1000 A.D. Throttling in Comics (a bit like Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day.) How to Hack a Traffic Jam -- I've been using this method for a few years now, it's also safer and much calmer. PostCrossing -- get postcards from around the world, hopefully better than a chain letter promising same. Microtypography, Designing the new Collins dictionaries. The aesthetics of Star Wars, James Bond, and Bond Villains.
That is all.
