Exploiting Sound, Exploring Silence – New York Times Great piece on the (non-)use of sound in the Coens’ ‘No Country For Old Men’ (via super colossal) (tags: sound film music nyt) collision detection: Paper explains how the “engineering mentality” produces terrorists curious. sounds a little forced, but read the paper (tags: terrorism sociology TWOT religion [...]

Messiaen: From The Canyons To The Stars (tags: music southbank Messiaen) Guardian Unlimited: Sport blog: The truth the soccerphobes refuse to face Entertaining rant at US opinions of soccerball. “prepare for fisting, soccer participant!” heh (tags: football guardian) will ashford (Monoscope) beautiful book art (tags: illustration art) Recycled Words more Will Ashford (tags: drawing art [...]

Warren Ellis » Manned Cloud Straight out of Pynchon’s Against The Day (via blackbeltjones) (tags: design future travel fiction)

With friends like these … Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian Very interesting (tags: FaceBook surveillance technology future)

Visualizing: tracing an aesthetics of data – we make money not art Terrific history of visualisation (tags: visualization art blog maps) Movies on iPhone not okay with David Lynch I love David Lynch (tags: iphone film interface)

Strictly No Photography – home great site full of illicitly taken pics – if a little heavy on ‘no photography here’ signs. (via blackbeltjones) (tags: photography art gallery social) Digital Urban: 2008 The Year of Virtual Worlds (?) various forthcoming virtual worlds – you have to wonder how virtual a google virtual world might be [...]

napkin vs. towel (tecznotes) ‘green’ vs ‘natural’ solutions. well argued by Michal Migurski (tags: design sustainability technology environment) The digital challenge | Media | The Guardian Roy Greenslade compares and contrasts the various approaches to online of the grown-up papers (tags: digital newspapers media)

London’s 50 best unsung museums – Features – Aroundtown – Time Out London from ben’s lishus review of the year (tags: london museums)

eyes by rankin gaze (via supercolossal) (tags: eyes photography art) BBC – Homepage love it. and when the BBC can go wider than 800px, we can all go wider than 800px (tags: bbc beta design) Happy Christmas from AKQA would be better if the mouse got on the bloody wheel occasionally… (tags: agency christmas) Merry [...]

Digital Urban Home of the Worst Urban Spaces project (via Russell) (tags: blog Urban photography map flickr visualization) russell davies: best urban spaces On the Davies-Hill Best Urban Spaces sister project (tags: flickr urban photography Architecture publishing)