Links for 2006-09-06

Posted September 6, 2006 1:17 AM.

• Chris Messina talks about, "The yin-yang of FOO and Bar" Interesting comments from Robert Scoble surrounding the contention (which I agree with) that FOO and Bar are entirely compatible parts of the same ecosystem...
• Islam vs. Christianity - it comes to a head on The Daily Show Frankly it's about time a primetime TV show tried to answer the question, "Which religion is correct?"
• Sprites sing a song called, "I Started A Blog Nobody Read" on Odeo It's like it reached into my soul and sang me a song based upon the activities I do on the internet...
• Awesome pictures of an iPod Shuffle case mod using an old Nintendo controller Probably - definitely - the most fun thing I've seen so far this week.
• Mr Webb has relaunched his 'dirk' project on the interconnectedness of all things I remember this from the first time around when he launched it in 1996 and promoted it on Lance Arthur's glassdog.net webnerd artistic community. This time I believe it's built on Ruby on Rails. If you think about it, it's sort of a proto-anti-tagging...
• "The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes" - a piece on design and style by Adam Greenfield from 2001 I read this at the time, but was sent it this morning by a friend and re-read it. I'd be interested to know what he thinks of the current state of the design industries - certainly it's got a bit more function focused, at least on the web...