links for 2008-07-03

• Death by Typography by *GCORE on deviantART
  Funny graphic picked up on ffffound – a typography gun
  (tags: typography presentation_fodder)
• Q&A: A Summary of Text Analysis Tools
  Lorna reminded us to look harder for existing tools – this page looks like a goldmine for text analysis tools.
  (tags: bookviz)
• Software: Text Analysis, Text Mining and Information Retrieval
  Another useful looking list of text mining applications
  (tags: bookviz)
• Text Analysis Info – Information retrieval software
  Lorna just sent this page through too – this list of tools includes summaries of each tool’s features.
  (tags: bookviz)

links for 2008-06-30

• quadrilateral: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
  Great taxonomy of quadrilaterals for when your kids say “Dad, what’s a trapezium?”
  (tags: maths homework)

links for 2008-06-28

• The Paper Version of the Web at Deeplinking
  Fabulous short post about paper prototyping including the wonderfully zen original sketch for twitter.
  (tags: design paper)

links for 2008-06-07

• http://swissmiss.typepad.com/
  (tags: design blogs)

links for 2008-05-29

• Amigurumi Tutorial 1 (learn how to crochet) | Hook and Needles: Knitting and Crochet Blog (cool stuff, techniques, and things I find)
  Hmmm, doubt I’ll get the time for this but here’s hoping
  (tags: knitting crafts)

links for 2008-05-23

• Nathalie Henry’s Home Page
  Just watching the recording of Nathalie Henry’s recent Microsoft talk. Wow. She’s done some amazing (and beautiful) work combining graph and matrix based visualizations of social networks
  (tags: socialcomputing visualization)

links for 2008-05-09

• plasticbag.org: On the BBC Annotatable Audio project…
  Inspirational wiki meets radio listenning project. I’ve been wracking my brains to dream up an interesting follow-up project to this for some time.
  (tags: socialcomputing radio)
• Find Listen Label (a.k.a. Annotatable Audio)
  This is the next stage of the Annotatable Audio project. Still tied to a few old recordings though. It would be great to have this live – though it would rely on programmes being available for more than seven days.
  (tags: radio socialcomputing)
• //*PAPER WARS*//–
  I saw this on the Craftzine blog. It’s at the Craze Gallery 15 – 21 May. It looks well worth a trip.
  (tags: art paper)
• Radio stories – we make money not art
  More interesting radio art
  (tags: design radio)

links for 2008-05-07

• Info Design Patterns
  A pattern approach to information visualization, picked up from Information Aesthetics. I’m normally sceptical about applying the pattern approach to graphic or product design but Christian Behrens has done a good job on this (it is his masters thesis at
  (tags: visualization)
• PVC Flute Recipes
  From the Make Blog – the measurements etc for making PVC ‘flutes’ (or tin whistles)
  (tags: music crafts)
• Olinda (Schulze & Webb)
  Wow. I got this from the Make blog. brilliant product design + recent design fascination with radios + industry standard DAB chip-sets + Tristan Ferne et al’s Radio Pop = an amazing modular radio with built in social networking called Olinda
  (tags: socialcomputing radio)

links for 2008-05-01

• Disseration Project: – Resource Page Disseration Project: Deeper Magic in Shallow Times? Negotiating Religious Identity
  Mike’s PhD thesis is taking shape – he’s exploring the way that fantasy fiction for children is employed and adapted by society to negotiate religious identity
  (tags: religion kidslit)

links for 2008-04-30

• designboom weblog, design related news, reviews and previews
  Not sure if this should be tagged bookviz or sewing, but Dan Collier has added red thread hyperlinks to books: beautiful, silly, and thought provoking
  (tags: bookviz art embroidery)