Links!

• Mail Goggles. Unfortunate Google has not yet created something similar for text messages, instant messaging programs, and live-in-the-flesh behavior. Oh wait -- that's called 'impulse control'. Also a shame Google has also not yet conjured up a program what does away with stabbing regret, heel calluses, and vanity sizing.


• interactive artist daniel rozin works in a very particular artistic milieu, making mirrors from unreflective surfaces. one of his creations, 'the wooden mirror'...uses 830 square pieces of wood which are hooked up to an equal number of small motors which move the wooden blocks according to a built in camera. the camera picks up movement in light and somehow transfers the signal to the wood. the result is an eerie representation of reality depicted in tiny wooden pixels.


• While I'm not going to advocate communal bathing rituals for all (i.e., almost everyone I know), doing this falls in the top five most pleasant experiences of 2008.


• Yes, a tiny N (qualitative research), but I feel like sending the authors of this article devoted to ambivalence a greeting card.


• It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. NYT piece about Palin's "pom pom palaver".