Today’s Links

• MadInkBeard: What is this all about? “I have created this blog to discuss the idea of formal constraints (mostly in writing, but also in other media) as well as offer explanations and examples of various constraints.” (Via LanguageHat.)
• Toward a General Theory of the Constraint, by Bernardo Schiavetta. “This text proposes a series of definitions, the aim of which is to better circumscribe what is, and what is not, meant by writing under constraint.” (Via MadInkBeard.)
• John Battelle’s Searchblog: A Morning With Danny Hillis. “What I really thought was incredible was the playground Danny and Bran have created for themselves at Applied Minds.” (Via Mark Frauenfelder.)
• Salted Wound: Import Mail from Mac OS X into Gmail. “[W]ouldn’t it be nice if you could get all of your old email messages into Gmail from your Mac OS X Mail.app without forwarding the thousands of messages you’ve accumulated over the years by hand?”
• Accessing your Gmail inbox with Python | Holovaty.com. “Introducing gmail.py, a Python script that can log into a Gmail inbox and export messages as raw e-mail source [...]. It doubles as a Python interface to Gmail.” (Via Erik Stattin.)
• bryanboyer.com: Terminalscapes: RELAMINATE. “Finally, I’m posting the studio project derived from the Terminality series of essays posted last Fall.” This looks really interesting, although I haven’t had time to read it.
• Strange Loops – The Abolition of Work. “No one should ever work.” Mentions Johan Huizinga’s ‘Homo Ludens,’ which I’ve intended to read for quite some time. (Via Erik Benson.)
• AIGA – Symbol signs. “The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge.” (Via Jeff Veen.)
• Paul Greenberg: The semio-grads. “[S]emiotics is the study of meaning itself—or rather how images and words (like semiotics, for example) come to mean anything at all.” (Via Steven Johnson, who says it’s a good intro.)
• Camillo Sitte: Modern Systems. Artistic Limitation of Modern City Planning. Interesting because Le Corbusier refers to Sitte in ‘The City of Tomorrow and its Planning’. (Via fishea.)
• Return to Broadacre City (Essay by James Krohe Jr). “What should suburbia look like? Frank Lloyd Wright had an answer for that, too.” (Via fishea.)

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