Links

At Pruned: The curious inner world of the termite mound and what we can learn from it.

early photography from Wales

Wayne on contrasts and similarities between traditional world music and ‘new’ world music and issues of translation, appropriation etc. Interesting post, interesting comments.

via designboom: ‘No longer limited to traditional birds and boats, origami—the art of paper folding—is evolving artistically and technologically, thanks to a small but growing number of mathematicians and scientists around the world, including Lang.’

via Coudal: ‘Here’s a clever and useful little business card design that perfectly expresses the mission of the company it represents: landscape architecture firm Tur & Partner.’

Those squiggly puzzles that you have solve to show you’re a human at many websites (called CAPTCHAs)….His idea is to use them to help digitise out-of-print books.

another great photo at Shorpy: ’15-cent photo booth in the lobby at the United Nations service center at Washington, D.C. December 1943.’