July 2010
17 posts
“The singer of the original recording of Ça Plane Pour Moi spoke with a...”
– Belgian singer Plastic Bertrand denies allegations over hit song | Music | The Guardian
“What Is Data, Anyway?”
– Introduction to Data Visualization
Shawn Allen
“The data revolution is here for social science,” says Albert-László...”
– Social web: The great tipping point test - tech - 26 July 2010 - New Scientist
Keepin' it wrong
And no matter what we say our religion is Whether it’s islam, christianity Juddaism, buddha-ism, old school-ism or new school-ism If we’re not schooling the youth with wisdom Then the sins of the father will visit the children And that’s not keepin it real… That’s keepin it — wrong
“Are you a hate-filled sociopath? Are you upset because you have an intense...”
– Did the media help pull the trigger on this shooting spree? : Johann Hari
Mind Hacks: Neuroplasticity is not a new discovery →
WatchTate Channel: Fiona Banner: Harrier and Jaguar
“Dig, however, the page-curl animation (beautifully rendered, but...”
– What Apple needs to do now « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
“England and Portugal have been allies for 600 years. It’s the oldest surviving...”
– Fast Friends | Futility Closet
“‘The foolish/ fear that God is dead.’ On the other reading, it is...”
– Maverick Philosopher: Amphiboly
June 2010
12 posts
Oil →
british postage stamps - a set on Flickr →
british textiles stamp - andrew foster
Sound less loud →
This short link has made me think about urban noise. There’s a lot of it, and generally it’s awful. It also made me think back to my trip to Japan, where, as I recall it (probably erroneously) there was a lot less noise, and ‘undesigned’ incidental noises, such as alarms, announcements, etc were less intrusive (the birdsong compared to the beep of equal volume).
It’s...
“The laser was invented just 50 years ago. Then nobody thought lasers might...”
– To be a science ignoramus is simply not on | Robert Winston - Times Online
“Your parents never told you “verb in the middle” (if you’re...”
– Tacit knowledge: you don’t know how much you know - opinion - 31 May 2010 - New Scientist
May 2010
12 posts
“Alaska has a longer coastline than all other U.S. states combined.”
– Misc | Futility Closet
“Professor Woods: your research into bonobos is fascinating, in its implications...”
– Women Against Violence – Be More Bonobo! | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
“Mari at watashi to tokyo explains how they are so common that sense of ownership...”
– Global Voices in English » Japan: Those Commonplace, Vinyl Umbrellas
“The facility currently has a capacity to conserve 4.5 million seed samples. With...”
– Svalbard Seed Bank located in Globe | Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations
Operation Mincemeat and spycraft in World War Two... →
Malcolm Gladwell article about spying in the second world war and its wider implications.
Nikola Tesla predicted mobile phones in 1909 -... →
April 2010
3 posts
“Ten years ago, people were afraid to buy stuff online. Now they’re sharing...”
– T.M.I? Not for Sites Focused on Sharing - NYTimes.com
“Ours is a world where a relatively ordinary technical problem like the so-called...”
– This shutdown is about more than volcanic ash | spiked
Design leads us where exactly?: The limits of... →
March 2010
49 posts
“I was puzzled. “You mean you haven’t turned Clippy off?” Long...”
– Language Log: Doing Meta: from meta-language to meta-clippy
“Here’s a maddeningly open-textured memory — time and place uncertain,...”
– Language Log » Quote query
“Anything you can do, I can do meta”
– Language Log » Quote query
This article covers the uncertainty in attribution of this quote. It gives a cut-off point of 1946: “The limiting time would be 1946, the date of Irving Berlin’s musical Annie Get Your Gun, in which “Anything you can do, I can do better” is...
“What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to...”
– [AAANZ 2005]: Nicolas Bourriaud - Keynote