“Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found online, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. Mappr adds place to pictures. Mappr takes advantage of the cornucopia of descriptive information provided by Flickr’s users to organize their photos.”

“A lot has been said, good and bad, about the fad of the nineties, LOMOgraphy. As we’re nearing the end of the year 2002, is it too late for me to put in my two cents worth? Perhaps it is. LOMOgraphy lost its brilliance years ago, and it’s so easy to kick a dead horse, especially when the dead horse lends itself to being kicked.”

“The telegraph may have fallen by the wayside, but eye-catching communication that commands attention will never go out of style. Everybody likes to get a Retro-Gram. Retro-Grams are not just another e-card: your message on a carefully crafted telegram delivered via e-mail. Retro-Grams are free, fun and easy to send, and a little thrilling to get. Say farewell to ordinary cards for the holidays or special occasions. Authentic vintage telegrams sent from your computer and delivered across the globe via first class post. Delight your correspondents by sending a Retro-Gram today!” (Thanks The Cartoonist!)

“From innovation to scandal, if it happened in advertising, we’ve probably got it mentioned here. Take a trip down memory lane and see if you can remember some of these exciting events.”

“Selecting a Subject, excerpted from On Being a Photographer by David Hurn / Magnum in conversation with Bill Jay.”

“We advocate separating structure from style… Writing great CSS means understanding document structure from the ground up… The relationship between structure and style is an integrated one… Separation is in the layers, but together they form a whole…”

“Yesterday I started reading Paul Graham’s Hackers and Painters, and it is wonderful. It literally is changing my perspective about how I think about the world we live in, and where we want to go from here.”

“I mean I know itís a photo sharing site, but what makes it so damn interesting? Then, last night, I finally figured it out: flickr is a MMORPG.”

“It is an interesting story on how the offset or lithographic process was invented. Back in 1789 a law student at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany, wrote a play entitled “Die Maedchenkenner” and had it published. After printing costs were subtracted, he made a sizable profit and was now convinced his fortune was to be made on the stage. Alois Senefelder is little known to us today as a playwright, but is recognized as the inventor of lithography.” (Thanks Coudal Partners!)

“I began this trek towards SIMPLICITY based upon a simple whim. I discovered that the letters of M-I-T (the school at which I serve as a Professor) occured in natural sequence in the word SIMPLICITY. Look at this: SIMPLICITY. I was even further surprised when I found that M-I-T is also in COMPLEXITY. To ignore this sign would be a kind of sacrilege for me, thus the quest for SIMPLICITY began.”

“Chosen by The Webcomics Examiner Advisory Board.”

“‘m close to declaring the form of personal web design dead. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am when I come across yet another site that has copied the look and feel and code from Antipixel, Simplebits or Kottke.”

“On Tuesday, November 5, 1996, a standard 15 by 15 crossword puzzle constructed by Jeremiah Farrell appeared in The New York Times that the editor, Will Shortz, said was the most amazing puzzle he’d ever seen.” (Thanks Waxy.org!)

“Urban Cartography is a collaborative weblog (i.e., anyone can contribute, and we wish you would; just write us for a posting account) dedicated to covering cartography and related subjects: urban planning, land use, imaging, GIS technology, urban studies and anything else that fits under the umbrella.”

“The troubles that beset the arts, though perhaps less amenable to diagnosis than those besetting the political and social order, may be thought relevant to the whole question of civilization. And their particular phenomena often seem to be melded with the attitudes one finds in those other fields.”