“Designed Deterioration”, and the return of Links

Now that I have 2 days left at my cur­rent job, and a big move to NYC com­ing, I’m going to attempt to post more often. A new design for the weblog is also in the works, but not sure when I’ll get to it.

In that spir­it, I found myself read­ing and re-read­ing Khoi’s recent post about how we val­ue objects that dete­ri­o­rate in a cool way. Khoi is far more elo­quent than I can be, so just go there and read it:

• Sub­trac­tion: Designed Dete­ri­o­ra­tion
  Unused objects are igno­rant; only the ones that have been put to use, that have trav­eled, that have been tossed around have accu­mu­lat­ed knowl­edge. That knowl­edge and famil­iar­i­ty, if it’s worn prop­er­ly, can make an object desir­able.

So far, I’ve resist­ed the urge to get a case for my iPhone, but I know that regret will set in the moment that i drop the thing for real.

Also, I used to just have del.icio.us dump my book­marks into a post on the Weblog, but once a day is way too much… and, there are plen­ty of things that I don’t want/need in my weblog.

Appar­ent­ly, I’m not the only one feel­ing that way — Andre Tor­rez came up with a nice fil­ter between del.icio.us and our weblogs -

• Torrez.org: The Return Of Links
  a lit­tle script in JavaScript that uses the JSON feed to gen­er­ate a page where I can select which links I want to pub­lish and then have them pop­u­late a sim­ple unordered list which I can copy and paste into a new post

I cus­tomized his work a bit, which you can see here. Well done.

Now, I’ve got to make this thing worth check­ing in on (or sub­scrib­ing to) again.