Obsolete Airbases « fringejoyride"Ultimately, these hard-shelled aircraft shelters holds the two most commonly wanted superpowers: Flight vs. Invisibility. In John Hodgeman’s ‘informal’ survey, the desire for flight was really an ‘inflated mythical, heroic” image that people only aspired superficially. Ultimately, nobody wanted to use the powers to fulfil our traditional sense of ‘good’. As it turned out, being [...]

Years ago, I blogged some notes by Matt Webb & Jack Schulze, back when they were Schulze & Webb, on the notion of a “social letterbox.”  Later, Schulze & Webb and Matt Jones fused into the creature known as BERG, and became a company that did all kinds of interesting stuff, including publishing SVK. Hello [...]

Late Friday Link"augmented print"(tags:papernet )

Entry, descent and surface science for 2016 ExoMars mission"Once on the surface, the DREAMS (Dust characterisation, Risk assessment, and Environment Analyser on the Martian Surface) scientific payload will function as an environmental station for the two to four days of the surface mission." TWO TO FOUR DAYS. How utterly fucking embarrassing. That's the best we'll [...]

Icon’s “Rethink”: turning receipts into ‘paper apps’ – Blog – BERG"We think the humble receipt could be something like a paper “app” and be valuable in small and playful ways."(tags:papernet design design+fiction )

ROSE QUARTZ: Guest Mix: DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE (tags:music mixes ) Found Objects: The Haunted Pod Village of San-zhi (tags:architecture hauntology cities ) Paper BitsI was showing off some of my designs at a recent Makerbot user group meeting, and I wished I had tags for them with QR codes and some other relevant data. [...]

Implementing the Demon-Haunted Notebook"I recently posted a sketch of a notebook that demands use, and complains loudly to you and others when you neglect it:"(tags:papernet ) Introduction – Google Cloud Print – Google Code"Our goal is to build a printing experience that enables any app (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to [...]

BBC News – (tags:Sci ) PaperComp 2010"Paper is not dead. Books, magazines and other printed materials can now be connected to the digital world, enriched with additional content and even transformed into interactive interfaces. Conversely, some of the screen-based interfaces we currently use to interact with digital data could benefit from being paper-based or make [...]

(I started writing this this afternoon, and it’s turned into a huge random braindump. Oops.) Once again listening to THE SPOILS by Zola Jesus, while I wait for Baron Mordant to post me the new Mordant Music. With the autumn’s biggest bumblebee hanging around the top of my netbook in some confusion. Feels like the [...]

Jean Snow: …the “Urban Paper” paper toy art show and book launch is still happening at Cafe Pause next month. Produced by Josh McKible … it celebrates the recently launched book Urban Paper: 25 Designer Toys to Cut Out and Build by bringing together new works from a host of designers who were featured inside [...]

Create your own printable magazines and eBooks | zinepal.com"Create your own printable magazine from any online content."(tags:papernet )

The Incidental is a daily newspaper being published by and for a design event in Milan. This is a wonderful idea that could be transposed to other events. Matt Jones on the genesis of the thing: …we came up with the idea of a system for collecting the thoughts, recommendations, pirate maps and sketches of [...]

Experimental Ebola Vaccine"It was a nightmare scenario: A scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice. Within hours, members of a tightly bound, yet far-flung community of virologists, biologists and others were tensely gathered in a trans-Atlantic telephone conference trying to map out a way [...]

Instapaper (analogue edition) (blog.thoughtwax.com)Guy built up a hefty backlog of unread online articles, couldn't face reading them all on laptop or phone screen – so he dumped the lot to PDF and uploaded the PDF to Lulu and bought it as a book to read at his leisure.(tags:papernet )

Massively random thing that I’m just trying to get down on the screen so I can see it properly: So Wil Wheaton released his new book SUNKEN TREASURE as a POD book. And it was doing fine. And it occurred to him that, hey, maybe people would like it as an ebook. He only had [...]

I am really fucking busy and do not have time to think about this. So here I am doing it anyway. Tabbloid: you put an RSS feed into it. Every day, at a time you select, it’ll wrap whatever’s been on that RSS feed into a PDF and mail it to you for printing off. [...]

The book as open source software: never finished, revised and mutated in v* versions, supported by social dev teams. See also this, and Adam Greenfield’s take, which he prefaces with: I’m not sure precisely what’s driving it – maybe it’s the bracing, clarifying, liberatory aspect of a severe economic downtown – but I sense an [...]

Seej500’s launching a broadside/papernet object called THE NEW CALL.  One-pagem broadcast as PDF.  Take a look.

One of my favourite music writers ever, Simon Reynolds, is now blogging regularly for the web end of the Guardian newspaper here in Britain. This is his first piece: In the age of Blogger, Live Journal and other online formats for non-professional music commentary, the fanzine ought be on its last legs, a relic of [...]

I just want to get these down in some kind of order for later consideration. See previously: Papernet: Papercamp announcement: Papercamp 1.0. As noted previously, my interest in this revolves around making printers spit out sheets of paper with interesting things to look at and read on them. This all stems from Aaron Cope’s 2007 [...]