Links for Tuesday 9 September 2008

Stefan Glerum: I’m liking this chap’s black and white illustrations so far. Dark and humorous. (via Drawn)
Daytum: Lets you keep track of any kind of daily data you like and graph it. Brilliant. I don’t often think "I wish I’d thought of that" but… (via Kottke)
Futurelab - Innovation in education: "Transforming the way people learn through innovative technology and practice." Interesting looking place, based in Bristol.
Pillow Speaker With Volume Control: Electronics & Photo: Amazon.co.uk: Years ago I tried a Laurie Anderson sculpture that pretty much did just this and it was lovely. Hmm… (via Haddock)
Illustration Friday: A different topic every week for you to create an illustration about. Lovely idea. Why are there so few hours in the day and days in the week? I want to do everything. (via Haddock)
Rule Forty Two - » Welcome to the Future: Scroll some way through for evaluations of how futurists’ predictions turned out. (Although the futurists I know never called them "predictions" because we know they’re never 100% correct.) (via Boing Boing)
Superstruct! Play the game, invent the future. | The Institute For The Future: "The world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game." Interesting. There’s either a lot more futures stuff around at the moment, or I’m just stumbling across more of it. (via Wonderland)

9 Sep 2008 at Twitter

Way too jaded: My thoughts on dConstruct 2008, whose talks left me underwhelmed.

Conferences and Corridors - Vox: While few of dConstruct’s talks thrilled me, the conference is pretty good for the socialising aspect — more so than Interesting (whose talks are much more up my street). Aside from lunchtime and the pre/post parties (which I didn’t attend)…
Conferences and Corridors - Vox: Although the idea of a conference with no talks appeals I think it would need some kind of structure… something other than the standing/sitting around chatting. But I don’t know what that would be that wouldn’t be just as annoying…