Links, August 2010

The Box

A series of short interviews with people who make cool stuff, hosted by Tim Van Damme.

Aug. 24, 2010 podcasts

Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty

“We’re being driven as herd by these hot microphones—which are like flame throwers—that are causing people to run with fear and panic, and Republican members of Congress are afraid of being run over by that stampeding crowd.” Inglis says that it’s hard for Republicans in Congress to “summon the courage” to say no to Beck, Limbaugh, and the tea party wing. “When we start just delivering rhetoric and more misinformation…we’re failing the conservative movement,” he says. “We’re failing the country.”

Saddening.

Aug. 16, 2010 politics

Amazing Sword

Nine minutes of unadulterated awesomeness.

Aug. 13, 2010 anachronisms awesomeness

A Bookfuturist Manifesto

Tim Carmody:

A futurist (in Marinetti’s original sense) wants to burn down libraries. A bookfuturist wants to put video games in them.

Aug. 11, 2010 books publishing

Kickstartup

Craig Mod:

The story begins on March 29, 2010, 10:18pm JST, when a woman sitting in her Brooklyn apartment pushed the first domino. Her $65 pledge kicked off a monthlong fundraising effort that would culminate in a room full of hardcover books, a publishing think tank and the means to begin experimenting with books on the iPad. Oh, and this essay.

Aug. 6, 2010 books community publishing