adamrice

http://www.austincomputerworks.org/museum/

Run by Goodwill. Want to visit someday.

http://tapplastics.com/

Spotted at Maker Faire. Finally bookmarking

http://www.robundo.com/

Makes the Adana desktop letterpress. Not sold outside Japan.

http://letterpressprinting.com.au/index.htm

Lots of historical information about early letterpress machinery

http://www.nationaljournal.com/campaigns/2008/wh08/promises.htm

Will assess promises vs performance in the Obama white house

http://www-mit.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/

An extensive overview of Japanese page layout. A few goofs, but useful.

http://www.panix.com/~footage/harpers.pdf

Harper's article on the Prelinger Library (which is online after all). Parts of this read like something out of a David Foster Wallace story.

http://home.earthlink.net/~alysons/library.html

Harper's ran an article on the Prelinger Library about a year ago, which I just read. I'd heard of the Prelinger Archive before, but never imagined it was the work of a couple of countercultural autodidacts. Fascinating

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/22/origami-inspired-folding-bamboo-house-by-ming-trang/

I want a truckload of these. Beautiful, ingenious.

http://xylocopa.com/content/mad-science-blocks

Gwen and I bought a couple of these at Maker Faire. They're great

http://www.translatedfiction.org.uk/show/feature/Home/Translation-Hahn-blog

A translator is blogging about the process of translating a book.

http://basekit.com/

Seems to be a web-based development environment for web apps. Freaky.

http://www.austinstreetknowledge.org/

Wiki of Austin Knowledge by McChris

http://www.runkeeper.com/

iPhone-based bike computer

http://www.trailguru.com/ui/tour/iphone.php

iPhone-based bike computer

http://beta.typd.in/index.html

Lets you type in Japanese on a computer with no IME installed (but you do need Japanese fonts). Pretty freaking amazing.

http://280slides.com/

http://cavorite.com/labs/presentacular/

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

http://howwikipediaworks.com/

A book about Wikipedia

http://rushkoff.com/2008/09/30/no-money-down/

Rushkoff has been writing some provocative stuff about the current madness in our financial markets. I don't agree with all of it, but it's food for thought.

http://www.snappages.com/index.php

Next time someone asks me to build them a website, I might use this.

http://goodmagic.com/carny/index.htm

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010593.html

TNH knocks it out of the park, again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvQwXOCKNLY&feature=related

Classic

http://www.enotes.com/blogs/wikipedia/2008-09/meet-a-wikipedian/

Interview with me about the Hachiko article in Wikipedia, which I originated.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242

About the subprime meltdown

http://www.invoiceplace.com/invoice/signup.jsp

Yet another web-based invoicing app

http://www.getharvest.com/

Another job-tracking and invoicing app

https://www.getcashboard.com/

web-based job tracker and invoicer.