Links
A listing of the 50 most recent links I've tagged as "kinoeyepicks" using del.icio.us
del.icio.us/cinemakinoeye/kinoeyepicksI Love Typography, devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical (bookmarked 3 Jul 2008 at 1:17pm) A site designed to inspire and make people more aware of the typography that is around them. We really cannot escape typography; it's everywhere: on road signs, bottles, billboards, posters, books and magazines, online...
Neave Games ...remakes of retro arcade classics (bookmarked 3 Jul 2008 at 12:11pm) Bring back those fond memories of endless hours spent twiddling with joysticks as a kid. Here's my collection of retro arcade games remade in Flash. Enjoy!
Pew Internet: 2008 Election (bookmarked 1 Jul 2008 at 6:58pm) A record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the 2008 campaign, share their views and mobilize others. And Barack Obama's backers have an edge in the online political environment.
Gnip: We got $h*t to pop (bookmarked 1 Jul 2008 at 6:55pm) Gnip makes it easy to aggregate user data so that you can focus on doing something cool with it. Check out their API.
bethemedia (bookmarked 1 Jul 2008 at 10:06am) Be the Media Project: The Social Media Empowerment Guide for Nonprofits help build a toolkit and instructional guides about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofits to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world.
Colin Owens: Mission Hill: The Fluidity of Neighborhood (bookmarked 30 Jun 2008 at 5:12pm) Colin Owens sets his eye on the people and architecture of Mission Hill, a Boston neighborhood in transition in this photo exhibition. The site shows the photos that were at his March 2008 exhibition at the Massachusetts College of Art Doran Gallery.
280 Slides (bookmarked 29 Jun 2008 at 3:06pm) A cool way to create & share presentations online, remincent of Keynote, very elegant, 280 Slides runs right in the browser, with no download and no installation, and it works just like a desktop application.
Granta (bookmarked 29 Jun 2008 at 2:14pm) Since 1979, the year of its rebirth, Granta has published many of the world?s finest writers tackling some of the world?s most important subjects, from intimate human experiences to the large public and political events that have shaped our lives.
Postmodern Culture (bookmarked 29 Jun 2008 at 2:03pm) Journal founded in 1990 as an experiment in scholarly publishing on the Internet which has become the leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures, publishing the work of many noted authors and critics.
The Cyberpunk Project (bookmarked 29 Jun 2008 at 2:00pm) Cyberpunk subculture, cyberpunk science-fiction and general cyberculture in the form of collected information. The result of gathering and sorting to compile cyberpunk related documents and work. Started in 1996 and actively supported until late 2002.
The Magic 8-Ball Unofficial Home Page (bookmarked 29 Jun 2008 at 10:56am) Visual Thinking (bookmarked 29 Jun 2008 at 9:38am) Essays Douglas Coupland in Granta 101, he writes, "... around 2000, I began to rethink my relationship with words. I looked back on the origins of my relationship with text to the first time I ever remember getting an almost erotic charge from words."
The Evil Side of Google? Exploring Google's User Data Collection (bookmarked 27 Jun 2008 at 10:38am) Do no evil? Or is the motto really, Look as if one is doing no evil. A look at the data Google collects about you.
Is Social Media The Ultimate Buzz Kill? (bookmarked 26 Jun 2008 at 8:06pm) ... complaint about the impact of live photo and video journaling on ability to be present in the moment, drink in the juicy energy and participate fully in the ?collective conciousness? that infuses a crowd connecting with a common experience.
whoisi.com (bookmarked 26 Jun 2008 at 7:58pm) Follow your friends on the Internet, this is a really interesting idea, let's see where it goes...
Rocketing into HIPerSpace: New Visualization System at UC San Diego (bookmarked 26 Jun 2008 at 10:33am) Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world ? with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels. The potential for science, engineering, art, and entertainment is interesting
Synergy (bookmarked 26 Jun 2008 at 10:29am) Synergy lets you share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers w/ different OSs, each with its own display, without special hardware. Intended for users with multiple computers since each system uses its own monitor(s).
Wordpress Themes Are GPL Code (bookmarked 26 Jun 2008 at 10:14am) Themes link and use lots of internal WordPress functions, which make them linked under the GPL and subject to being a GPL-compatible license. Anyone who does not release themes under the GPL is not working within the spirit of WordPress.
Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method (bookmarked 26 Jun 2008 at 10:03am) Every so often, someone not a practicing scientist suggests that we replace science with something better. Chris Anderson is suggesting that the cloud of scientific data may free us from the need to use the standard scientific method. Not so fast!
Summize Conversational Search (bookmarked 26 Jun 2008 at 9:23am) Search Twitter in real-time, advanced search very powerful. Quite cool.
Lawyers, money needed for Psystar's legal battle | One More Thing - CNET News.com (bookmarked 25 Jun 2008 at 7:24pm) Psystar is currently selling Open Computers with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled, in what appears to be a clear violation of Apple's software license agreement for that product.
Multiply: The Social Network That Backs Up Your Media, Too - washingtonpost.com (bookmarked 25 Jun 2008 at 7:09pm) Multiply, a media-heavy social network geared towards adults, has introduced a new backup system that will backup users' videos and photos at full resolution. The premium service will cost users $20 per year for an unlimited amount of storage.
Olivier Beaudoin | motion + design graphique (bookmarked 25 Jun 2008 at 5:42pm) 2008/05/09 Typolution @ Barcelona Typolution will be appart of the Kosmopolis festival in Barcelona. The event comming every two years in october, is going to make the promotion of literature and writers.
Expanded Cinema (bookmarked 23 Jun 2008 at 3:17pm) Expanded Cinema is an online platform for experimental film, early video, and sound-based, durational work. All of the material is being curated from available media online, emphasizing an overlooked facet of the archival function of new media.
Video Data Bank (bookmarked 23 Jun 2008 at 3:07pm) Video Data Bank was founded in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement, the Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists.
TimesPeople Adds Social Layer To NYTimes.com (bookmarked 19 Jun 2008 at 11:47am) The Problem with Music (bookmarked 14 Jun 2008 at 4:46pm) Steve Albini pens a sobering (and sadly very accurate) picture of the recording industry. Every young musician's guide to the industry. Reminds me of Hole's famous rant about recording contracts.
YouTube Tests Higher Resolution Videos (bookmarked 5 Jun 2008 at 8:01pm) Following the announcement from November, YouTube started to test higher quality videos. If you append &fmt=6 to the URL of a YouTube video, you should get better quality videos. Note that this only works for a small number of videos.
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files (bookmarked 5 Jun 2008 at 7:59pm) A side-effect of YouTube's recent push for higher quality video is that many videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Check this out!
Watch YouTube videos with QuickTime embedded player (bookmarked 5 Jun 2008 at 7:58pm) Some YouTube videos are available as high quality QuickTime, and some sites have published methods of downloading those versions. Here's a link and code for a bookmarklet that replaces the YouTube Flash video player with embedded QuickTime player.
internetGIRLfriday.com (bookmarked 1 Jun 2008 at 9:53pm) A group of virtual assistants (people working from home offices) that will do your work (administrative, bookkeeping, personal) so you can have your free time back to do whatever you want with it.
