Links for December 4th
December 4th, 2007 | Filed under: links | No Comments »- 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.
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