Links for Later 3-13-13

1. How to get set up with an API in Pharma (hint: get an experienced consultant on board first).
2. The Feltron Annual Report 2012 is out.
3. Management advice for Pope Francis I, who was elected today.
4. Drawers, well organized.
5. How many books do you have to sell to get on the Amazon bestseller list?
6. Michael Crichton on Jasper Johns.

Flail!

For those of you with a difficult-to-shop-for hunter of the undead on your Christmas list, here's a handy little gift guide. I'm a little surprised by how much of this is available on Amazon.

Also, flail!

Links for Later 9-14-12

1. Fungus-infected wood for Stradivarius-quality instruments
2. Theo Kamecke's circuit board sculpture, which I remember seeing in the old Mondo 2000
3. Defrag your brain
4. Scott Walker's union-busting law ruled unconstitutional
5. Specimen's horn speakers

Links for Later 2-22-12

1. Third Frontier expands to new accelerator programs
2. How to do guilloche and other patterns in Illustrator
3. Gig poster graphics tutorial in Illustrator
4. The making of Thread's Not Dead, a book about making T-shirts
5. Crowdsourcing tools
6. Jeb Corliss hits Table Mountain
7. Jakprints
8. Bird skull necklace

Monster Feet

And here is a man sitting in a size 1,450 slipper he ordered, which was supposed to be size 14.5. I wonder how much it would cost to get one of these?

Animated GIF Beer Making

Brilliant animations of the Dogfish Head beermaking process, used as part of a marketing campaign.

Paris Picnic

“What’s going on?” a man asked. “Haven’t you heard?” joked my friend Aristide Luneau (who had invited me). “It’s the end of the world.”

Matthew Ryan's Taxidermy Wunderkammer

Links for Later

1. Maximilian's Triumphal Procession

2. Secretary Gates on the challenges of the all-volunteer military. Not convincing anyone to sign up with talk like that, I think.

3. Dave's eclectic apartment tour

4. Brief Jeff Sharlet interview, includes a response to the recent New Yorker puff piece on C Street

5. Earth-like exoplanet found capable of supporting life

6. Obama in Rolling Stone

7. Matt Taibbi on the Tea Party: "Narcissism"

Not Quite Cabinet

And still no Piblokto Madness bed. Zero History from William Gibson featured Cabinet, the best little fictional boutique hotel/private club in London. RL Magazine has the roundup of some real world near-analogs, ranging from a 10,000 pound a year (including 5,000 pound bar tab) club, a Zaha Hadid designed club, and others. So now, you can meet your very own Hubertus Bigend-analog in luxury & weirdness.

Links for Later

1. Art Crimes, a link list

2. The negative marginal value of a $50,000 mattress over a $20,000 mattress

3. Mark Suster on Angelgate

4. Man kills himself, leaving behind a 1,904-page suicide note

5. Explosions in space that appear to move faster than the speed of light

6. Nick Sullivan's desk at Esquire

7. Visvim store

Images of the Week

Neutrino image of the Sun, taken through the Earth.

Biedermeier secretary from Colombo Mobili. The world's most awesome piece of furniture. Look at it. It's got colonnades and roundels and marquetry and decorations that were most likely modeled on narwhal tusks. I must possess it.

Rollout of the last space shuttle mission. Click to embiggen. (via cousin Steve)

Punk Frog

True Knight

Sir Terry Pratchett mines, smelts, forges and decorates his own knightly sword

Old School Printing

Interview and video essay with Nick Sambrato of Mama's Sauce letterpress printing business. He displays a surprising nonchalance at the frequency with which printing presses snip off the printers' fingers--less surprising in light of the fact that he's clearly having the time of his life in this business. A finger is a small sacrifice for finding your bliss.

Best Magazine Articles Ever

A list by Kevin Kelly and friends.

(via kottke)

Fragrance Review: Comme des Garcons Wonderwood

Comme des Garcons built their latest perfume entirely around woody notes. The result is a perfume that feels like the inside of a box at the opera or a Brabus Maybach: tightly crafted, luxurious and polished obsessively smooth.

Luckyscent identifies the following notes: Madagascan pepper, bergamot, Somalian incense, nutmeg, Cristalon, Cashmeran, guaiac wood, cedarwood, caraway seeds, Javanol, sandalwood, vetiver, oud

It's one of the few perfumes I've tried that actually gets louder over time. It begins very light, with a very subtle cedar and then moves into the heart notes dominated by the sandalwood and Cashmeran, coupled with a note like a wooden version of a lemon that is neither citrusy, nor herbal (as lemongrass), nor synthetic (as found in polishes). Late progression turns a little bit nasty (in a cool way) as the oud and patchouli come to the fore.

I tend to like perfumes that have a little more flourish, but this one is undeniably well made. Really strong structure and a smooth progression throughout the entire experience. High marks all around.

iPhone vs. HTC Evo

(via Joe)

Aerator

For those of you who want to get me something for Christmas, may I suggest this preposterous piece of wine apparatus?

Perfume Gardens

Nice article about people formulating perfumes from their own gardens. Makes me want to grow a Chinese perfume tree and boil it up with some jojoba oil.

Birth of a Spartan

Bungie's new trailer for Halo Reach deals with the ambivalence of becoming a cyborg in the game's increasingly grim meathook future.