links for 2007-05-31

• Sender 11: Case Study and discussion
  (tags: mobile patterns casestudy design interface interaction)

Seaside Jazz Fest 2007

Seaside Jazz Fest 2007

Originally uploaded by andytnisbet.

B’s brother Andy took this really nice picture of my sweetie and me. We spent Sunday down in Seaside (right next door to Monterey). Good food, great people, fantastic music (with a rotating cast of players), not too many speeches, birthday wishes to B’s sister Peg, anniversary memories of B’s mom, cold weather, no sunburn, fine beverages, did I mention the good food?
UPDATE: Andy’s photo above links to all of his photos from the party at Flickr. You can also see B’s photos from the same event there.

links for 2007-05-26

• Peter Viney on “The Weight”
  exegesis of the lyrics of the weight, or at least one man’s take on them, synthesizing much rumor and innuendo
  (tags: music reference lyrics rock theband history)
• bent spoon — cultural opinion e-zine and blog showing art and literature
  creative blogsite by friend
  (tags: art blog culture literature)
• Information Architecture Across Dimensions: Wayfinding in Second Life – An IA Puzzle
  IA enters the third dimension
  (tags: IA 2L secondlife wayfinding 3D)

links for 2007-05-25

• blog.myspace.com/athlin
  write up of the ’96-’97 Barbie censorship battle, in which I played a minor part
  (tags: barbie mattel censorship memes napier distortedbarbie detritus enterzone ezone)

links for 2007-05-24

• Stuck Between Stations » Global Warming Threatens Arctic Monkeys
  the sun never sets on England now
  (tags: music writing humor climatechange)

Fraidy is a lolcat now

links for 2007-05-23

• cecil vortex: An Interview with Ze Frank
  one of a great series of interviews
  (tags: article creativity ideas inspiration interesting interview music zefrank)

Technorati launches new design

Looks like Technorati has reconfigured itself to be less blog-centric and to take a more multimedia look at what they call over there the Live Web (Technorati Weblog: Come check out the refreshed www.technorati.com!):
> First, we’ve eliminated search silos on Technorati. In the past, you had to know the difference between keyword search, tag search and blog directory search in order to make use of the full power of our site. No more. Starting today, we now provide you a simplified experience. Simply indicate what’s of interest to you and we’ll assemble the freshest, hottest, most current social media from across the Live Web – Blogs, posts, photos, videos, podcasts, events, and more.
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> We’ve also worked really hard at making our user interface simpler, and more intuitive. We’ve been spending months doing user testing, and listening to you, our users, collecting and prioritizing what you wanted, what you liked, and what you hated about Technorati. We haven’t gotten it 100% right yet, and we’re going to keep working hard to improve, but I think we’ve made a big step forward with this launch.
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> With this launch, we also provide you with more context around more stuff like videos, music, and blogs. Over time, these pages will become richer and more comprehensive as we add more information about the thing itself, like where it was published, who links to it, what other things are similarly tagged, and more.

links for 2007-05-17

• Game design patterns
  ya pattern library
  (tags: designpatterns design development game games patterns programming gamedesign)

links for 2007-05-08

• Everything Yahoo!
  Most Yahoo properties (although Teachers isn’t there)
  (tags: internet lists yahoo tools services reference web list)