The Cathedral and the Bazaar
One of the great lines: Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.
Less is More (More or Less): Uncommon Sense and the Design of Computers
LessIsMore
Bill Buxton lays out why single purpose device and software design are better than the do everything approach so often in practice.
Another interesting article along these lines is The Rise of “Worse is Better” by Richard Gabriel.
Another TiVo for internet radio
Griffin is now selling the RadioShark
Here is a couple of similar products on this site: Radio YourWay and Replay Radio
Nuclear war, yup that’s what the US does.
Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto
Bruce Mau Design     Incomplete Manifesto
From the manifesto:
9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.
See what your neighbors do with it and how they make it
Neighbor Search
Wow! Donating more than $200 to a campaign, the world knows..! From an art organization, what does this mean? Is Eyebeam showing everyone what information is collected and available to those in the know?
From the site:
Use the location search (on your home address) to find those who live near you that have made presidential campaign contributions. You can also search for friends or celebrities by name
RedHat’s next generation Linux Kernel project
Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.
IIDC (IEEE 1394 or FireWire based Digital Cameras) for Linux
Coriander Home Page
From the site:
Coriander is a Linux graphical user interface (GUI) that let you control a Digital Camera through the IEEE1394 bus (aka FireWire, or iLink). By Digital Camera, I mean here a camera that complies with the IIDC v1.04 (or later) Digital Camera Specifications, published by the 1394 Trade Association.
A related project is: http://www.linux1394.org/
Makers of Modern Lava Lamps
mathmos – the original since 1963
I like the sound responsive Tuba.. Looks like an ITP project, LEDs in some funky plastic mold that respond to sound.