The ninth and final entry in this series, for now. It’s been good to dig into my bookmarks and get this stuff up here, random as it is, so it’s searchable and readable and hopefully edifying for any visitor who happens by.
Anyway, here’s what I saved to my ‘Blogfodder’ folder in the latter half of 2007:
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The penultimate link dump. This selection comes from the first half of 2007, a year when I didn’t really blog at all. I regret that. Anyway, enjoy:
- Crappy Sound Forever! / David Byrne on how recording technology changed the way music was/is written and performed.
- Freedom is slavery / Links and commentary on free will and determinism. I wrote an essay about free will in one of my end-of-year philosophy exams years ago; I think I concluded it by contradicting everything I’d asserted before the last paragraph.
- English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subjects / Or, the grammar of swearing (via Kottke).
- The stuff of dreams / Ferrofluids, dilatants and other freaky sciency things.
- Powers of 10 / “Two leading structural engineers pick their favorite feats of man-made wonder.” They wouldn’t all be my pick, but nice all the same.
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Last items from the 2006 file:
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Forgot to post these after the last batch. That was four months ago. Oops. Anyway, some more linkage from 2006:
- Wayfaring / Web service for creating personalised maps (of walking routes, etc). Completely forgot about this!
- Tom Coates’ notes on the RCA Summer Show 2006 / I attended the same show and thought I’d made some notes on it, but apparently not! I only made note of Availabot and the Saddlebag (a utility belt for your chair that really should be available in IKEA by now; sadly didn’t note the name of the designer and can’t find her/him on the RCA website).
- ChucK / “…a new (and developing) audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition [and] performance.” See also: Real DJs Code Live.
- In Praise of the Hyperlink / “The hyperlink is an amazing solution to an old problem. That problem is classification.”
- The Urban Etiquette Handbook / More rules for urban behavior. Some good points here, even if many others are over-the-top (thank-you cards to waiters are a bit much, no?).
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In lieu of weeknotes (late again, I know), here’s the first of three – three! – batches of links from 2006. I saved a lot of stuff that year:
- Come home and make this place poor again / Written five years ago, but far more relevant now, I think.
- Erasing the need for sleep / The idea of drugs like modafinil being used to facilitate a lifestyle really unsettles me.
- Doane Paper / “Combines the benefits of lined and grid paper onto a single sheet.” Saved for when I’ve filled up my remaining square-ruled Moleskines.
- The Tumblelist / This site’s still listed! (Even though I mostly gave up the tumblelog thing when I redesigned.)
- Where He-Man came from / Don’t know why I was under the impression the Masters of the Universe line was a hasty replacement for a failed Conan toy line; this clears the whole matter up.
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The rest of 2005, condensed into hyperlink form:
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Weirdly, 2005’s ratio of dead links was much higher than the previous two years. But with a bigger overall volume of links, I salvaged enough to make up two posts. Here’s the first:
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More links from the archives, this time 2004:
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The ‘Blogfodder’ folder in my bookmarks is a bit of a catch-all location for any interesting links I find and might want to explore later in more detail. That was the intention, anyway — over the years it’s completely outgrown my ability to keep up with it, resulting in a whole mess of links left unfollowed and unblogged.
But they say you shouldn’t keep anything for more than seven years without finding a use for it. My first Blogfodder links have passed that deadline, so now’s the time to wrangle out some usefulness before they rot away completely. Best to begin at the beginning and see what caught my attention way back in 2003…
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