http://www.thenaturalhome.com/shadecloth.htm yummy shade cloth, I'm thinking about 30%
http://www.gemplers.com/a/shop/product.asp?T.. cheaper shade cloth
http://home.earthlink.net/~erinys/contactmic.html how to build your own contact mic
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Electricity/Microphone/Microphone.html an early mic, resistance between two pieces of carbon is directly related to the pressure between them
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/greenery/viol/violbits.html a little about using a retail contact mic for tuning
http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/04/17/0845214.shtml?tid=146&tid=126&tid=14 reading previously unreadable piles of ancient rubbish scrolls through infrared
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1013.html considerations for building a cold frame
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/victorygarden/knowhow/pp/antiqueplanters/index.html casting old looking planters out of a moss concrete mixture
http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC1704.htm considerations for building and function of a greenhouse
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/greenhou/building.htm more of the previous, but more in depth
http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-1105/ this time with steps and more pretty line drawings
http://www.sherrysgreenhouse.com/pages/structures/greenhouses-build.html lots of links about greenhouses
http://www.annaortt.com/index.html how about that, a gallery representing several people i know
http://www.alamut.com/proj/98/nuclearGarden/bookTexts/Lovelock_Oklo.html nuclear reactions that occur naturally in the environment, and much prettier than a gigantic cooling stack
http://www.bluechairpress.com/artdolls.html DaDa Dolls
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~khoshnev/RP/CC/Contour%20Crafting.htm the concrete extruding whole house printer
http://www.discover.com/issues/apr-05/features/whole-house-machine/ a candy article about the extruder
http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/04/10/189239.shtml?tid=146&tid=14 there are scientists drilling down to the edge of the earth's crust
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/magazine/10NIELSENS.html... it's a whole new ball game when it comes to how to survey people's media viewing, sub-audible messages and everything
http://www.jamespiatt.com/pillorytablebom.html Pillory dinette, maybe art, maybe bondage, maybe interesting
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005284.php turning light into sound, it seems like one of those experiments that is fundamental as human feel out how technology can work with life/nature
http://justinecooper.com/KHG/index.html photos taken behind the scenes by an artist in residence at a natural history museum
http://www.sciammind.com/article.cfm?... figuring out what dejavu is and how it happens
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/ an interesting blog by a professor form MIT Media Lab
http://smart.tii.se/smart/index_en.php interactive institute, these guys are responsible for Brain Ball
http://www.kenfeingold.com/feingold-moma4.97.html Feingold on interactive art and how it fits into the bigger picture *
http://thecontemporary.org/pages/education/edu_currsched.html The Contemp 's Art survival skills lecture series starts soon. I'll be there
http://www.arttec.net/ArtProjects/GeorgeStone/BodyBags.html a little about building the body bags for George Stone
http://www.arttec.net/index.html A great guy who seems to be responsible for a good deal of tech behind a good deal of contemporary art
http://chromogenia.typepad.com/artatlanta/2005/04/weekend_recap_b.html Susan Krause gets a small mention for her show in Atlanta
http://www.tcef.org/php/shownews.php?item=20040603 funny pictures of Krause and Jarivs on a trip to Argentina
http://www.fylkingen.se/hz/n3/cascone.html "Post-Digital" Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music
http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/ Site seeing via Google Maps
http://www.kottke.org/05/04/lessig-tweedy-copyright Lessig and Jeff Tweedy speaking on copyright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_%28aesthetic%29 this is what cool is
http://www.mesagarden.com/index.html lots and lots of succulent seeds
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/opinion/08greene.html... Brian Greene on the legacy and the 100th anniversary of some of Einstein's greatest accomplishments
http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/04/09/2121254.shtml?tid=191&tid=14 manipulating objects in the computer space via purpose-made 3d printouts and camera interface
http://www.kottke.org/05/04/pick-two "good, fast, or cheap, pick two"
http://www.succulent-plant.com/home.html tons of succulent information
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/2005/050305.Rube05.localwin.html reports of the 2005 Rube Goldberg contest winning team from Perdue
http://www.ubu.com/film/fluxfilm.html 37 short Fluxus Films
http://www.tokyoflash.com/viewwatch.php?id=75&KW=radio-active-watch radio active reactor symbols interpreted into a watch
http://mocoloco.com/archives/000990.php The absolute best play structures that I've ever seen. click through to their web site i must see some of these in person. i must meet the people who build these. I would love to do this.
http://instantsoup.interaction-ivrea.it/index/index_instantsoup a set of recipes to teach interactive and industrial designers a thing or two about physical computing. I'll get around to trudging my way through this eventually.

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