bob’s link list

I’m still working on the taxonomy here and I’ll probably edit this down–artbobo

tech news
http://techcrunch.com/
http://www.techmeme.com/
http://daringfireball.net/
http://mrgan.tumblr.com/
http://db.tidbits.com/
http://allthingsd.com/
http://thesmallwave.com/
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/index.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/
http://gigaom.com/
http://www.bigcontrarian.com/

web dev
http://www.alistapart.com/
http://news.ycombinator.com/

politics
http://www.truth-out.org/
http://www.alternet.org/
http://counterpunch.com/
http://www.mediagazer.com/

living and stuff
http://www.reddit.com/
http://kottke.org/
http://topicfire.com/World
http://mashable.com/
http://boingboing.net/
http://athousandnations.com/
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/
http://37signals.com/svn/
http://www.good.is/
http://lifehacker.com/
http://makezine.com/
http://mcsweeneys.net/
http://www.metafilter.com/

Carlo Mollino (May 6, 1905 – August 27, 1973) was an Italian architect and designer.

Sexy furniture, cars, architecture and naked women.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Carlo+Mollino&qpvt=Carlo+Mollino&FORM=Z7FD

An oak and glass table made by Italian designer Carlo Mollino in 1949 sold Thursday for $3.8 million – double the previous auction record for a piece of 20th-century furniture, Christie’s auction house said.

Book- ISBN-10: 8837048572, ISBN-13: 978-8837048570
Arabesques is a celebration of the life and achievements of Carlo Mollino (1905-1973)–architect, designer, author and photographer, and one of Italy’s most extraordinary cultural innovators. In a 100 color and 80 black and white illustrations, and with commentary by an array of contemporary Mollino scholars, it examines his famously elegant furniture designs, a selection of his most iconic buildings, his wonderfully futuristic aeroplane and automobile designs and a portfolio of his photographic portraits of women. It reveals a man almost impossible to grasp in his entirety, with a ravenous intellect and a temperament both friendly and proud, whose work requires the attentions of several scholars–among them Lisa Ponti, Carmen Guererro and Fulvio Ferrari–to assess here. Yet Mollino’s approach was itself often synthetic; his interiors (which were almost always commissioned) integrated his furniture, interior design and architecture towards a unified aesthetic environment, expressing a coherent aesthetic of elegance and energetic sinuousness. Arabesques makes sense of this rare instance of a true Renaissance man, and will sweep the reader up in Mollino’s infectious energy and polymorphous genius.

New Medieval Castle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10440300.stm
Deep in the forests of central France, an unusual architectural experiment is half-way to completion, as a team of masons replicates in painstaking detail the construction of an entire medieval castle.

The ­Chateau de Guedelon was started in 1998, after local landowner Michel Guyot wondered whether it would be possible to build a castle from scratch, using only contemporary tools and materials.