Lynne Carty’s site is fun!
I think that if you want to know how something is made, you should look for the grids. They are the ever-present, behind-the-scenes structure of our cities, our machines, our homes, and our lives. You’ll find the grid in the artist’s studio, in the patterns of the textile weaver’s pattern book, in the architect’s floor plan sketches, in the engineer’s CAD software; even the monospaced fonts that programmers use fit to the grid.
Source: GRID WORLD by Alexander Miller
To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).
AllttA - Savages featuring an AI Jay-Z.
Palette of a beach sunrise by Slater
Podfriend. A “friendly podcast player app for mobile & desktop” (and in browser).
good personal blogs an Are.na channel. Fill thy feeds!
This Audio-Cassette-Shaped Object Lets You Stream to an Analog Boombox. “It’s essentially a Bluetooth receiver shaped like a cassette, and through some technical sorcery it can deliver audio through analog tape heads.” It’s like the modern version of this!
When my dad was sick, I started Googling grief. Then I couldn’t escape it. “There’s an assumption the industry makes that personalization is a positive thing.”