Kitchen-Table Industrialists
An interesting piece in the New York Times Magazine about the maker revolution in electronics, focussing on small companies producing short-run kits out of improbable locations in Manhattan. The thrust of…
Visual Twitter
As if Twitter wasn't enough of a time-suck, along comesDribbble, a repository of designer/developer's visual creations. Membership is by invitation only, to keep out the riffraff. But they do let…
Born to Run
A fascinating book for runners and non-runners alike. Chrisopher McDougall does a brilliant job of weaving together a rollicking tale that explains the human drive to run, all begun by his…
SOFT Rockers
Really interesting project from MIT that developed a design for a solar-powered outdoor lounger that recharges personal electronics via USB while the user relaxes. "TheSOFT Rocker blurs distinctions between pleasure…
Inventables
This site is an amazing cornucopia of odd-ball materials and devices. They bill themselves as "the innovator's hardware store", and it really is just that – a one-stop source for all…
givemesomethingtoread
The name pretty much says it all. While it's easy to find stuff to read on the web, it's a bit harder to find things that are worth reading. I…
Not a Libyan URL Shortener
As maybe most people don't know, popular URL shorteners like bit.ly rely on use of the Libyan .ly top level domain. Some may find this distasteful. A new, ironically named…
Longreads
A really great site for aggregating long(er) form journalism from publications like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, etc. Articles are beautifully presented with the title and first paragraph, along…