nuzzaci - an online journal

The 44 links posted below are not actually all from today. They stretch all the way back to beginning of august.

• The DarkHat: Britney Spears Is Scary
  It is not that scary… just makes you wonder when she will start making the same kind of toasts as Elvis and ultimatly reach the same end screen.
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple admits excessive iPod hours
  “Apple Computer has said a report of labour conditions at its iPod plant in China found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time.”
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - UT Library Online
  If you ever need a map, these guys have got just about everything.
• My Project Puppet.com Chewbacca!
  He looks a bit weird. But if your planing to make a softtoy Chubacca…
• The Art of Adam Betts
  The guy who designed the Adium icon.
• Apple - Trailers - Borat - Trailer G
  This movie is going to be so great. Not many trailers gets me to laugh out loud.
• Getting Back To The Business Brickyard. . . Bookshelf // Dig Tank
  “The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” about marketing and it’s books.
• Internet Soul Portraits
  Screenshots of large site with there text tripped off.
• Marian Bantjes
  Very nice typography skills going on here!
• Starts to play on radio right now
  A very nice interactive piece that show’s you what starts to play on radio right now (in america).
• Jason Kottke, August, 2006 :: Rebecca Blood: Bloggers On Blogging
  An interview with Jason Kottke - a full time blogger. I don’t read his blog, but I find the whole “famous blog symptom” interesting. And the choice of accepting ad’s…
• TIME.com: 50 Coolest Websites
  Please define ‘Cool’.
• Not strictly commercial - Los Angeles Times
  “I had a guy come up to me, in my face, saying, ‘You think you’re so cool? You’re not cool’ and I’m saying to him, ‘Dude, it’s a commercial.’ ” Interview with the Apple commercial dude (also know from the TV series Ed).
• Creating graphs, Part 2 | Bartelme Design
  Illustrator tips and tricks.
• RSS Reading Preferences, Part 2 | Bartelme Design
  Feeds and behavior… now that’s the kind of blog post I’d like to see! Someone who spends some time to create content. Not just echoing the internet.
• China bans foreign cartoons from prime-time TV - Yahoo! News
  “Beginning Sept. 1, regulators have barred foreign cartoons from TV from 5 to 8 p.m. in an effort to protect China’s struggling animation studios”
• Is it friday?
  on of those really useful websites.
• Today’s Blog Music / The Hype Machine - discover, listen and buy music discussed on the best mp3 blogs
  An aggregator who search blogs for mp3’s.
• Fernando Leal {Illustration+Animation}
  Some really nice stuff going on here.
• Call Me Fishmeal.: Memes that need to die.
  “WWDC is a developer conference. Aimed at developers. Who develop software. Those of us who are developers are freaking amazed at all the great stuff that’s in Leopard.”
• 37signals: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
  “… there are literally billions of possible pixel combinations for each page we make.”
• Balancing Point In Reverse - BREAK.com
  This a pretty awesome movie made entirely in reverse. This must have taken forever to make but I think it turned out really well. It reminds me of that scene in the classic Val Kilmer movie Top Secret.
• Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas, original design by Stamen, press any key to s
  Draw. Click to change color. Very nice. A good way to make art ;) (I really like it and it reminds me of my friend Vinh Kha).
• LiveSurface Layered Image Library
  Introducing the Shift LiveSurface Layered Image Library: high-resolution Photoshop image templates with pre-masked surfaces.
• Quick change
  Honestly, even though the Hoff is in the judging panel - this is good!
• A war on terror simulation.
  “This is not a game. You can’t win and you can’t lose. This is a simulation. It has no edning. It has already begun. The rules are deadly simple. You can shot. Or not. This is a simple model you can use to explore some aspects of the war on terror.”
• Weighing a Switch to a Mac - New York Times
  “Ten years ago, if you were a Windows user, the idea of switching to a Macintosh might not have seemed enticing. An abundance of new Windows software was arriving on store shelves, while the selection available to Mac users seemed to be falling behind…”
• How About an E-mail On That? - Yahoo! News
  “Cell phone users spend lots of time talking into their devices, but they generally communicate with very few people. Just how few? Would you believe four?”
• LOVELINES : From Love to Hate, in Words and Pictures
  Basiclly the same as wefeelfine.org, but this time it’s about love (and done in flash instead of java). I prefer wefeelfine.org,
• Newsvine - Exposing Sony’s Corporate Shills
  This bookmark is saved for later use.
• Blogging the conflict in Lebanon
  The music industry got slapped in the face my Mr Mp3. Will journalism and magazines be slapped in the face by Mr Blogg?
• YMCK Official Web Site
  This made me think about Magnus Lowing. A 8bit NES sound keyboard.
• Interview with Jakob Nielsen [Usability and Information Architecture]
• The GoogleMaps flight sim
  Really nice.
• Macworld UK - Google nabs MySpace search deal
  To be honest I wouldn’t be to worried if I was Yahoo.
• Helvetica
  A movie about a famous typeface.
• Urbancounterfeiters
  Urban Outfitters plagarism, copying, and otherwise ripping-off. found on http://k10k.net/newspost.aspx?id=13898
• Daring Fireball: Highly Selective
  About anchored and unanchored lists in Apple OS X UI. I have no opinion on this one.
• CNN.com - Eskimo village destroyed by fire - Aug 5, 2006
  …. but but but but… were are the igloos?
• YouTube - OK Go - Here It Goes Again
  Since I bookmarked this one, and today (16 days), this video has done a lot of internet travel. The simple explanation for that is - it’s fucking great. (good song too).
• BBC NEWS | Technology | How the web went world wide
  One key date is 6 August 1991
• – madeyouthink –
• The World’s Most Photorealistic Vector Art
• What Web 2.0 means to 500 random Basecamp customers - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

Tomorrow I’m off to my hometown Skelleftea in the north of Sweden to celebrate midsummer. This has kind of grown to be a standing tradition - that I every year go back for this event. Since my parents have moved from Skelleftea and lives in Italy, I don’t go home for christmas. So you could almost say that midsummer is my christmas (Im saying that I’m going home. It’s weird. Since it’s not where my parents live. It’s not where I live. It’s where I was born, raised and grow up… is there a name for that kind of “home”? is it hometown or more like growing-up town?).

Normally it’s loads of fun. Meeting a lot of old friend. My sister (who still lives there). Playing silly games. Having barbecue. Singing songs. Playing volleyball. Drinking beer (Norrlands Guld). I’m really looking forward to it, and a full report on this event will be posted on this blog once I’m back.

This year, two ‘non-northern friends’ are coming with me (and Willow of cause, but it’s not her first time); Henrik Engdahl and Johan Enstrom (a.k.a Mr Tall).
So this year we’re also taking the opportunity to do a little road tip by hiring a car in Stockholm and drive up. I love driving. And since I live in a country where they drive on the left side of the road - driving have come to be something I don’t do very much. - which is kind of sad.

What makes the north of Sweden special during this time of year is the midnight sun. And that, my friends - is amazing! First time I really realised how amazing it is, was the first summer I wasn’t there; my first summer down in Karlskrona (where I went to university at Hyper Island). That year, for some reason, I decided not to go back up north… then I started longing for the midnight sun and jumped on a plane and went back.
When living there, in the north, the midnight sun wasn’t something I regarded as that special. It felt more like my human right after the long and cold winter (yeah, the winters are quite the opposite). But… it is very special and I can suggest the experience to everyone at anytime.

I also have a sad - and happy - announcement to make; My lovely PowerBook, named Alecia (after the artist Pink) and I have separated. After over three wonderful years together, we decided it’s time for her to go in pension. So tomorrow she’s taking a flight over to Stockholm with Mr Tall to go and live her last years with my brother Jonaz.
This means as well that in about 3 weeks I will adopt a new girl. This time around it’s probably gonna be a MacBook Pro.

Here’s some links related to this post:

• skelleftea.se
• Henrik Engdahl
• Willows site
• and Willows blog
• Hyper Island
• The official Pink website
• Apple - MacBook Family

and here are some random links I have found interesting in the last few days:

• listography
  your life in lists create. share. read.
• La Coupe du Monde 2006 de Football en un coup d’oeil
  Every single goal so far in the World Cup. Click on the match score, then click the spinning ball next to the player’s name.
• CSS for Designers
  If you don’t learn, or get more understanding for CSS through this - just give it up.
• Apple - Trailers - Why We Fight - Trailer
  This seem to be a very interesting documentary. Probably a scary one as well.
• Beggr - Scrounging 2.0
  He he, Im afraid he makes a very very good point
• MacNN | 50 Cent turns to Apple for Mac deal
  What caught my attention is the “I never got into it for the music. I got into it for the business.” part. I don’t think Mr 50 is the only one we can blame for all shit music that is floating around - but he sure as hell feeds the beast. After have seen Foo Fighters twice within a week and all… just wished more people did it for the same reason as FF, and with the same respect towards music as an art from. About the Apple deal… if it follows through I will be very disappointed with Apple and Mr Jobs.

• Apple - Trailers - Who Killed The Electric Car? - Trailer
  business business business. it’s mad; how money have become something so bad for the society and world. power, money, greed… that’s what will bring everything down.
• Codewave Software - myTunesRSS
  This little application seems very interesting. Haven’t tried it… but hope it delivers what it says on the tin.
• Nike and Apple find common trought iPod and iTunes
  This most be one of the things that have been past around today. also on the apple website.
• YouTube - SmackBook
  I think, and believe, this is just a hint of whats coming.

• Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language
  does what it says on the tin.
• Preparing Websites with Active Content for Upcoming Changes to Internet Explorer for Windows
  brought to you by apple.
• Apple - Trailers - World Trade Center - An Oliver Stone Film - Large
  and… probably one in many to come…
• Cork’d - Welcome
  wow. wine reviews! in a very webb 2.0 design.
• Inquisitor - Instant Search
  a very interesting searchengine. I have used the Inquisitor safari plugin for a while and really like it.
• PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting | liquidx
  “PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support.”
• YouTube - Hooked on a feeling
  warning: David Hasselhoff