Old-fashioned consolidation of media, or new method of reading? News aggregators. Link.

The rising price of rice. Nothing to see here folks. -ehmm- Potato Famine. Link.

Mathematical Lego Sculptures. Need I say more? Link.

New favourite blog: The Magazineer.com. How to read The New Yorker in ten easy steps. Link.

Part of an ongoing series about print on demand. Link.

The ultimate book review site. Link.

The Onion - Spoofs of NYTimes Magazine covers. Link.

Some year old e-ink porn I found on YouTube. Link.

The sound of fish. Link.

Ahh the rediscovery of Wil Wheaton’s blog. I always forget about it and then find it again. Link.

Edward Tufte’s discussion on Gant Charts—the cloud discussion is quite cool. Link.

The Hamilton Spectator is, in my mind, one of the best newspapers in Canada. Their specialty is long serialized articles that address important topics for the community, family, or society in general. Their website design is lacking, but check out their serial on the ‘the way we eat’. Link.

Movable, living type. Literally. Link.

Photo from Iraq. Link.

How search has changed our appetite for news, and our reliance on one news source. Link.

Interior of an old theatre in Chicago. Amazing. Link.

Extra link of the week:

Grandma and her super-fast home Internet connection. Link.

The New York Times takes a shallow look at the dynamics between youth and online news , with focus on the elections in the US… of course. Link.

Hello Sir, your table will be available in early 2010 — from Portfolio. Link.

Ahhh, The Morning News, one of the best sites, is hosting The 2008 Tournament of Books. Link.

Sweded films…. I am glad that term has found its way into the lexicon. Lord of the Rings for your pleasure. Link.

Booklamp purports to match readers to books through writing analysis. Link courtesy of a friend. Link.

I finally got a copy of Lapham’s Quarterly and am quite impressed. It somehow comes across as history magazine (or journal) that anyone in their 20s or 30s could pick up and enjoy. Its like a large You Are Here from The Walrus. Check out some of the podcasts. Link.

Ugh. This angers me: The Clover Coffee Equipment Company was bought out by Starbucks, which according to this article in AdAge was under some market pressures. Link.

Nice use of digital images. I now have a new weekend project for this summer. (You may need a Flickr username to enjoy) Link.

Movies from the Japanese lunar orbiter (Quicktime) Link.

Swimming in bioluminescent water… Link.

Fun new ebook products. Link.

Digital art based on “selected paragraphs from Marx’s Communist Manifesto,” which creates tree-like structures. Cool. Link.

The printing press as an agent of change. Link.

The history of bookmarks with samples — I was wishing something better. Link.

New ebook concept – looks slick. Link.

Tunnels under Niagara Falls — wonderful images. Link.

Finding love — seriously. Link.

Meet The Walrus’s new friend - iPaper. Link.

The death of paper (again). Bonus Link.

1. My new addiction — numbers, polls, and more of the Donkey and Elephant from down south. Link.
2. The most engaging online read I’ve had in a long time; several parts to this discussion, but all are quite fascinating. Scientific Objectivity has a History. Link.
3. The TED Conference is on as we speak; I wish I was there. BoingBoing.net is blogging about it or you can just go to their website. Link.
4. A little mix of digital art for those wanting to relax and not read (NB. wait time to download video). Link.
5. Office supply museum, staplers… Link.

I never get tired of sky gazing through my computer… Link.

News aggregator: Newspond. It has a different way of ‘finding’ newsworthy stories. Link.

The smell of space? Interesting post on The IndieScribe. The blog is rather neat as well. Link.

The history of the umbrella, presented in a new e-reader format, iPaper, which I am finding quite useful. iPaper shares documents by creating a ’social library’. Link.

Monsters of the Edo period of Japan. Very Scooby-Doo. Link.

1. The US elections are at the forefront of online and mobile marketing, breaking ground in the new ‘selling’ frontier. Link
2. Gallery of bookshelf designs. Great blog on book-cover design too. Link
3. Leonardo: where art, science and technology converge. Still exploring the website, but I may actually subscribe. The print edition is beautiful. Link
4. enGadget gets their hands on new ebook hardware – The Readius. Neat design. Link
5. The NYT: Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? Need I explain more…. Link