Gimme! XMAS!

These folks got the domain all the David Carsonites wanted. “…resource for modern and post-modern design of the 20th Century where you’ll find informations on furniture, dinnerware, glass, lighting, ceramic, plastic, wood or metalware. Our goals are to built with Design Addict a crossroads where the amateur, the collector, the dealer, the student or just simply the curious would visit spontaneously when they need information on 20th century design — to have a place where the sharing of knowledge permitted by internet can be expressed and fulfilled.”

A catalog of talking products for those of you who can’t get enough annoying disturbances into your life.

Links and links and links and links! All Bauhaus!

Very academic. “All existing societies have been societies of information (and d[i]sinformation); all have been modern, from their point of view (at least since somebody first brought up the idea), and postmodernity will have to await the nuclear explosion or some other Fall of Man. But contemporary society possesses its peculiar mode of information, as Poster (1984) puts it, teaching once again historical dialectics to walk on its head (which will at least account for all the headaches of history). At present, pictorial significations would seem to permeate this mode of information, although in different ways from which this may have been true of some hypothetical preverbal period, or in the prehistory of (almost) universal alphabetization. Moreover, this contemporary mode of information is not the same in Europe and other more nearly occidentalized parts of the world, which are still (at least) paraverbal, as it is in the Third world, where, for the larger part of the population, the impact of television and publicity posters have preceded (and outdone) alphabetization.

Cape Town, October 1999: Neville Brody, Lewis Blackwell, Dale Tomlinson, Fabrica, Lynda Relph-Knight, Walter Herbst.

Articles, links, resources…

Very academic. “All existing societies have been societies of information (and d[i]sinformation); all have been modern, from their point of view (at least since somebody first brought up the idea), and postmodernity will have to await the nuclear explosion or some other Fall of Man. But contemporary society possesses its peculiar mode of information, as Poster (1984) puts it, teaching once again historical dialectics to walk on its head (which will at least account for all the headaches of history). At present, pictorial significations would seem to permeate this mode of information, although in different ways from which this may have been true of some hypothetical preverbal period, or in the prehistory of (almost) universal alphabetization. Moreover, this contemporary mode of information is not the same in Europe and other more nearly occidentalized parts of the world, which are still (at least) paraverbal, as it is in the Third world, where, for the larger part of the population, the impact of television and publicity posters have preceded (and outdone) alphabetization.”

“Coming soon.” A search engine that’s supposed to include Allsport, The Bridgemann Art Library, EyeWire, Hulton Getty, PhotoDisc and Tony Stone images.

“Google is a fairly new Web searching database. It is distinguished by its powerful ranking algorithm based on how many good sites link to each site, along with other factors like the proximity of your search keywords or phrases in the documents. Google lacks sub-searching, Boolean operators (except - to exclude), and other ways to refine results or focus on an aspect of a large topic. But, if you have a fairly distinctive phrase in ” ” or keyword to use as a ‘hook’ to search on, its ranking often leads you to what you want, because a lot of other folks have ‘voted’ for it by linking to it in their pages.”

Searches 14 engines without redundant results. Ugly, but comprehensive and smart… RedeSearch is a metasearch lets you pick up to 10 search engines and displays them on one results page. Also smart, but can be redundant. Called “the new Google of meta search engines” by SearchIQ.

Alright! The xBlog gets a nice mention on the Linkwatcher Metalog and gets described using two of my favorite words: Cool and neat. It’s also now listed on the Linkwatcher list of fresh blogs. Thanks Michal. We’re also on the famous Robot Wisdom weblog today. Cool. Neat.