Links for December 4th

• Building shaped like a brain – The International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover, Germany is shaped like a brain. Brilliant. Would this ever happen in North America?
• Software development: The Vast and Endless Sea – If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
• Eventlet – A Python networking library – A highly-scalable networking library which uses non-blocking IO through the use of coroutines. Requires the greenlets module, which adds coroutines to the standard CPython interpreter.
• Design evaluation of the Amazon Kindle – French designer Thibaut Sailly evaluates the physical interface of the new Amazon ebook reader, and suggests an interesting alternative design.
• The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOURCE » Elevated Wetlands – A functional sculpture on the Don Valley Parkway, and one of my favourite things in Toronto.
• Bright Blind creates fake windows – Makoto Hirahara’s “Bright Blind” can be hung on any window-free wall to create the illusion of a window covered by a venetian blind.