links for 2008-02-20

by grant on February 20, 2008

Patrick Winston – How to Speak | overstated

Every year during MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP), Professor Patrick Winston gives a wonderfully reflexive and recursive talk about giving talks titled How to Speak.

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disobey.com | content for the discontented

Services tend to have shorter lifespans than resources: when everyone is making map APIs, social networks, and photo and video sharing, they crash and coalesce into one, stranding Site B’s complementary content or sub-services when Site A takes the cake.

(tags: content services ideas)

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- Loc8 Code - The All Ireland Digital Address Code
  GPS Ireland says its Loc8 codes can define any location on the island of Ireland, accurate to within six metres. The codes uniquely identify addresses and could be used as a navigational tool on satnav devices, smartphones or online. Any business or individual can get a code for their premises or house for free at www.loc8code.com.
- Home-made life insurance, the Apollo way - Boing Boing
  Of all the places I never expected to learn anything cool about the Apollo astronauts, number one would have to be the blog run by ukinsurance.net.
- Design with Intent Toolkit
  A set of illustrated cards showing how design can be used to change, prevent, or encourage certain behaviours. The way that spaces, objects and systems are designed heavily influence the way that we live our lives around them. They serve as both suggestions and critiques, showing how spaces and objects are designed to control us for better or for worse.
- Hard to find
  Why it’s increasingly difficult to make discoveries – and other insights from the science of science. This type of research, studying the science of science, is in fact a field of science itself, and is known as scientometrics.