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• Bruce Sterling in Belgrade

  YouTube link: Bruce Sterling in Belgrade on the future of cities

  (tags: design future video architecture research)

• Apocalypse Scale

  via Beyond The Beyond *and* Warren Ellis: “A Richter Scale for the End of the World.”

  (tags: future research apocalypse)

• Your 2007 Personal Finance Calendar

  via Morningstar.com (via LifeHacker)

  (tags: lifehacks money personal tutorial todo)

• Learn Cocoa

  via Cocoa Dev Central (via TUAW): from a first-glance look at it, it’s a “lite” tutorial to help you build some basic Cocoa programming skills in the Xcode IDE.

  (tags: Cocoa dev tutorial Xcode todo)

• Sex for fun, IVF for children
  via New Scientist Tech (”Reproduction revolution”) - - “Will we one day see natural conception as irresponsible?”
  (tags: future research science)
• Whitespace
  via A List Apart
  (tags: CSS layout webdesign design web typography)
• 52 Proven Stress Reducers
  via LifeHack.org
  (tags: lifehacks health stress productivity)

• DualOsx v.1
  Rock 2 mice.
  (tags: freeware Mac OSX mouse hack)
• Ballardian: The World of JG Ballard
  Picked up via Fimoculous.com; going to check this out in the RSS for a while.
  (tags: writing blog future research literature fiction)
• William Gibson
  Re-adding to the rotation…
  (tags: blog fiction literature scifi writing)
• cityofsound
  via fimoculous.com: looks interesting…
  (tags: blog art design research)
• Pruned
  via fimoculous.com: architecture, design hybridization, etc.
  (tags: architecture art design blog research)
• we make money not art
  via fimoculous.com: art, design, politics thereof, etc.
  (tags: art blog design future research politics)
• if:book
  via fimoculous.com: like the URL says — the “future of the book”
  (tags: blog design future literature publishing research writing)
• data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
  via fimoculous.com: information aesthetics, visualization, design, etc. (awesome)
  (tags: blog design art visualization graphics research)
• indexed
  via fimoculous.com: part comic, part blog; pure genius
  (tags: art blog comic humor)
• HandBrake
  DVD-to-MPEG-4 “ripper” for backing up DVDs.
  (tags: DVD software video Mac tools OSX HandBrake)

• CSS Cheat Sheet
  Great, visual reference for CSS…
  (tags: CSS webdev webdesign reference)
• Beyond the Beyond: Doctorow on the American standard of living…
  “I’d be more interested in how much it would take to provide every person in the world the kind of life they enjoy in one of the moderate-priced European ‘B’ cities like Florence.”
  (tags: future research environment politics)

• Miller Auction
  (tags: automotive Vermont history)
• Say Hello to the Goodbye Weapon
  via Wired News (via B^2): “It makes your face feel like it’s melting.”
  (tags: future research)
• Wired 13.06: The Xbox Reloaded
  {In January, Allard and the rest of the Xbox senior executives gathered to write brief statements on what motivates them to come to work every morning. The mission: to inspire the group’s rank and file. “Most people put down flowery, make-the-world-a-bett
  (tags: essay tech leadership Allard)

• How to Choose a DSLR Camera
  via LifeHacker (on the long-term to-do list…)
  (tags: hardware howto photography shopping todo)
• Understanding the Spime
  via Bruce Sterling (via Warren Ellis)
  (tags: future research spime)
• Disk Inventory X
  via LifeHacker: disk usage visualization
  (tags: software freeware graph visualization OSX tools)
• Mac OS X: Cannot locate a shared Windows printer
  (tags: Apple Mac OSX reference network printing Windows)
• Dynamic Drive
  DHTML & JavaScript code library
  (tags: html javascript CSS webdev reference)

Earlier this week, I linked out to an article about “why [tag]Web 2.0[/tag] will end your [tag]privacy[/tag]” and then (via B^2) I see this one on “hot products from the [tag]future[/tag]“.  I immediately thought of the printed Wired’s back-page monthly feature “FOUND ARTIFACTS FROM THE FUTURE!” that I so enjoy.  Of course, the convergence point of the two above-mentioned articles comes in with items 4 & 5: the “American Premiere” reputation statement (whuffie, anyone?) and the movie tickets that invite your local friends (I thought the $15 price tag was cute and so were those antique nickles).