Evan Roth’s Graffiti Analysis project is an attempt to design a standard markup language to describe graffiti writing, and also a digital blackbook collating an open source library of tags from writers around the world.

Zombie ukulele rockabilly tunes. Good Halloween music.

Douglas Adams, what a guy. Takling eminent sense about the Internet (etc) ten years ago this week.

The story of Nelson & Company’s iconic workplace and the people who worked there over the years. One of the all-time great cross-disciplinary design companies, from the ’40s to the ’80s.

Simple, effective and thoughtful product design from Scott Amron in New York.

Jim Rossignol has written a gripping synopsis of last month’s Thrilling Wonder Stories symposium in London—a sort of idea-swapping get together between architects and Science Fiction authors.

Make a list of RSS feeds and, at a scheduled time daily or weekly, Tabbloid makes them into a nicely formatted PDF and emails it to you, so you can print it out and take it to read on the bus.

Looks like the Italian version of Wired has beaten the UK one to launch. Their website is also up and running at www.wired.it

Matt Jones being brilliant again. This is his presentation from Webstock ’09 on city magic—the way that software is enhancing our urban experience. Some really nice touches in here, like James Chambers’ Has Needs project.

The Orphan is dedicated to publishing the otherwise unpublishable: marketless short stories, chunks of abandoned novels, beautiful photographic errors, bizarre brilliant blather, even first sentences impossible to expand upon.