10/09/08

Apt’s links for September 9th

• Marco.org: Taking apart the ?e-ink? Esquire cover. (video by… - Cough. “I just want to point out that what you?re looking at is not e-ink. It?s a film transparency that?s backlit with a segmented electroluminescent backlight. C?mon, Esquire, what the hell? This would have been pretty cool if you didn?t make a big fuss over it. But no, you told us to expect e-ink. And now we?re calling you on your bullshit.”
• Esquire’s E-Ink Display Dismantled. Result: Hackable | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - “Esquire may have just put a cheap and hackable pair of e-ink panels into the hands of 100,000 hackers. Over at Make, the inimitable Phil Torrone has torn the assembly apart and found a wealth of user-modifiable gubbins inside”
• The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker - “A young designer named Laura Cahill has found a use for discarded books, which, due to the glue used in the binding, can?t be properly recycled. We think that this stool, called ?Heavy Read,? would make a delightful addition to our office.”
• Typography for Lawyers - A little bit redundant.
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The Omnigoogle - “But while Google is an unusual company in many ways, when you boil down its business strategy, you find that it?s not quite as mysterious as it seems. The way Google makes money is straightforward: It brokers and publishes advertisements through digital media. More than 99 percent of its sales have come from the fees it charges advertisers for using its network to get their messages out on the Internet.”
• Mark Porter » Blog Archive » Long live the 12-column grid - Ah, the joy of grids.

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Apt’s links for September 9th

• Marco.org: Taking apart the ?e-ink? Esquire cover. (video by… - Cough. “I just want to point out that what you?re looking at is not e-ink. It?s a film transparency that?s backlit with a segmented electroluminescent backlight. C?mon, Esquire, what the hell? This would have been pretty cool if you didn?t make a big fuss over it. But no, you told us to expect e-ink. And now we?re calling you on your bullshit.”
• Esquire’s E-Ink Display Dismantled. Result: Hackable | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - “Esquire may have just put a cheap and hackable pair of e-ink panels into the hands of 100,000 hackers. Over at Make, the inimitable Phil Torrone has torn the assembly apart and found a wealth of user-modifiable gubbins inside”
• The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker - “A young designer named Laura Cahill has found a use for discarded books, which, due to the glue used in the binding, can?t be properly recycled. We think that this stool, called ?Heavy Read,? would make a delightful addition to our office.”
• Typography for Lawyers - A little bit redundant.
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The Omnigoogle - “But while Google is an unusual company in many ways, when you boil down its business strategy, you find that it?s not quite as mysterious as it seems. The way Google makes money is straightforward: It brokers and publishes advertisements through digital media. More than 99 percent of its sales have come from the fees it charges advertisers for using its network to get their messages out on the Internet.”
• Mark Porter » Blog Archive » Long live the 12-column grid - Ah, the joy of grids.

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.

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