links for 2007-06-27

• WordPress Theme Generator
  This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.
  (tags: wordpress themes generator WebDesign)

links for 2007-06-20

• Interview | Michael Connelly
  Unlike many authors who’ve pursued crime fiction writing as a second career or hobby, Michael Connelly has known since he was in college that he would be a mystery novelist.
  (tags: interview connelly literature writing fiction)

links for 2007-06-16

• identity theory | the narrative thread – michael connelly
  City of Bones author talks with Robert Birnbaum
  (tags: books authors interview connelly detective fiction pulp genre literature)

links for 2007-06-13

• The Relentless Cult of Novelty
  But in the 20th century the necessary equilibrium between tradition and the search for the new has been repeatedly upset by a falsely understood “avant-gardism,” in which denigrating the past is often deemed to be the key to progress.
  (tags: art culture novelty solzhenitzyn)

links for 2007-06-08

• O’Reilly — The Architecture of Participation
  I’ve come to use the term “the architecture of participation” to describe the nature of systems that are designed for user contribution.
  (tags: collaboration participation architecture web2.0 web essay biblio)
• The Cornucopia of the Commons: How to get volunteer labor
  In our case, we find the Cornucopia of the Commons: Use brings overflowing abundance.
  (tags: collaboration web2.0 commons social essay web biblio)
• open-ils blog
  Home of the Evergreen ILS
  (tags: opensource libraries ils biblio)
• BiblioCommons wireframe walk-through – Coffee|Code
  After the Future of the ILS Symposium wrapped up, Beth Jefferson walked some of us through the current state of the BiblioCommons mocked-up Web UI for public library catalogs
  (tags: library2.0 opac bibliocommons catalog biblio)

links for 2007-06-07

• Crossing the Deadline – MISSION ETERNITY
  MISSION ETERNITY is a metaphysical adventure: an arcane network of computers, mortal remains, emotions, cargo containers, scientists, artists and hackers – a technical as well as a legal, an organizational and an economic night mare. MISSION ETERNITY is a
  (tags: art newmedia storage afterlife death imaginary)
• TinyProjector
  The basic idea of TinyProjector is to create the smallest possible character projector that can be either integrated into mobile device, or linked dynamically with wireless RF connections like serial low range transceivers.
  (tags: projector laser MIT diy hardware project imaginary)

links for 2007-06-04

• Graham Nelson [The Craft of Adventure. Five articles on the design of adventure games]
  The Craft of Adventure Five articles on the design of adventure games
  (tags: arg games RPG)

links for 2007-06-03

• Extenuating Circumstances – SXSW 2007 – ARG! The Attack of the Alternate Reality Games Transcript
  The simplest thing that you can do is take your narrative and break it into a thousand pieces and hide them all over the place.
  (tags: ARG args games transcripts SXSW imaginary)

links for 2007-06-02

• Bay (TTC) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  There’s an abandoned platform at Bay station.
  (tags: ttc)
• Queen (TTC) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  “Lower Queen” is another abandoned subway stop on the TTC.
  (tags: ttc)
• ATU 113 – History 1861 to 1920
  History of the TTC union.
  (tags: ttc)

links for 2007-06-01

• Press at Improv Everywhere
  Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.
  (tags: improv theatre public space performance)