January 2007 – Page 2 – My Scattered Thoughts

links for 2007-01-10

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

A very cool (though bandwidth heavy) periodical table of visual language techniques.

(tags: visuallanguage design cool tools)

S. D. Jones: Folk Art in Bottles

It’s amazing, the things people put in bottles.

(tags: art photos sculpture esoterica)

Blogging, the nihilist impulse

An article about blogging. Haven’t read it yet. Sounds fascinating and vaguely absurd.

(tags: blogs article ToRead culture theory)

2006: Twelve Overlooked Books

12 book recommendations by Jeff VanderMeer. He never lets me down, bookwise.

(tags: 2006 books lists recommendations)

links for 2007-01-09

YouTube – Behave

A neat little music video with science fiction-y imagery.

(tags: videos cool sciencefiction)

Dr. Peter Boxall’s “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die” on Lists of Bests

A freaking huge list of books (recommendations?).

(tags: lists toread books novels)

links for 2007-01-06

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Parrot’s oratory stuns scientists

Parrots are amazing birds. I expect that this parrot is not an outlier, but far closer to the norm. What else can you expect from creatures that live a century.

(tags: cool science birds)

WorldChanging: Terraforming Earth, Part III: Geoethical Principles

It looks like we have a wild and woolly future coming. It’s nice to know that there are some who thinking about these big picture kinds of things.

(tags: future speculation esoterica world)

A Jazz Anthology MP3 Choose listen download 4384 tunes jazz artists

A ton of jazz music to download.

(tags: music downloads PublicDomain mp3s jazz)

Space Pirate Apocalypse

Some cool webcomics. Especially the pirate one.

(tags: comics pirates cool toread)

Folk-Lore of Women: Chapter XVII: Women as Wives

Pretty interesting… Basically a long collection of aphorisms/sayings.

(tags: toread culture)

links for 2007-01-05

A pen made entirely from metal

It’s a metal pen from the future! (I would recommend chewing on it, though…)

(tags: cool gadgets writing)

The Rainbow Orchid – the tale of the search for a mythical flower and a journey to a forgotten world… heroes, villains, adventure!

A Tintin-esque (Tintinian?) webcomic. Read it forever, because that’s how long it will take you to get through it all…

(tags: toread comics web cool)

The World – Video Tour

This is really really strange. Hooray for the filthy rich (or something).

(tags: weird geography videos)

Steam Wars

Some cool “steam punk” artwork.

(tags: cool art paintings)

links for 2007-01-03

Fool Proof Art

Yet another online comics site. Looks good.

(tags: comics online toread)

Kieron Gillen’s Workblog » Tracks of the Year: 2006

Another list of favorite music for 2006. (most of which I will probably never listen to…)

(tags: music lists 2006)

The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2007

A Bruce Sterling “interview”. Always interesting.

(tags: BruceSterling futurism interview)

2006: The Year Russia Schooled The West

What’s been going on in Russia. Scary/Impressive.

(tags: Russia article toread 2006)

2006 – It was a very big year.

2006 was a very big year for us.

I graduated from the Information School with a Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS).

S and I travelled to Greece for three weeks.

We got married in October.

And, perhaps the biggest news of all: S is pregnant.

I expect 2007 will be an even more exciting year!

(With lots of photos forthcoming, I’m sure!)