Travel day. While I’m singin’ in the rain between New York and Philadelphia, here are some nice, dry links for your pleasure.
- Cover Browser
- Jackpot link! Recall every lost issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Identify with Betty or Veronica. Discover the Mad Magazine you never knew. Cover Browser intends to catalog the cover of every comic book (not to mention every book, game, DVD, magazine…) ever printed. With 77,000 entries, they are just getting started. Via Veer.
- Things on Things
- If basking in the nostaliga of Cover Browser (above) makes you feel like everything that can be digital is becoming so—and if that thought (however inaccurate it may actually be) makes you wonder if widespread digitization is changing the way we perceive and value reality—you’re not alone. But you may not be as articulate about it as the pseudonymous author of the untitled essay posted yesterday at Things Magazine. Read it. Bookmark it. Share it. Via Coudal.
- Learning from the Facebook Mini-Feed Disaster
- The great Jared Spool on lessons to be drawn when a hot new feature fails to please the public for whom it was ostensibly created.
- Multi-touch on the desktop
- Hockenberry on interface design. Some people who love the iPhone can’t wait for multi-touch to come to the desktop. Hockenberry explains why it won’t.
- Radio Telepathy
- Eclectic music podcast.
- Design Interviews: ROB WEYCHERT of Happy Cog Studios
- Web designer, artist and writer Rob Weychert on typography, humor, haiku, neurotically meticulous attention to detail, and the bearded cult.
- iTrapped
- A photoset on Flickr (and a new meme). Fun!
- There is no “first blogger”
- Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon corrects the breathless coverage of The Wall Street Journal, beginning with its fallacious assertion that “It’s been 10 years since the blog was born.” There are journalists who get this stuff right, but not nearly enough.
- Icon Archive
- Over 12,500 desktop icons, organized in sets, for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems. Non-commerical use is allowed in most cases. The site’s offerings are culled from other sites (e.g., Star Wars 2, by Talos, comes from Iconfactory); original authors are credited and linked.
- “No Compassion“
- Artist Jiri David’s manipulated photos of Bush, Putin, Berlusconi, and Chirac.
- Hope is Emo, Chapter 9
- Hope gets emotionally damaged at a family wedding. (Video.)
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