January 2012
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Waterstone’s to Waterstones →
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November 2011
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“Captive octopuses escape with alarming frequency. While on the lam, they have...”
– Octopus Crawls Out of Water and Begins Walking on Land (Video) : TreeHugger
Nov 23rd
“Unlike animals and plants that grow from embryos and die on schedule, all...”
– Did Sex Emerge from Cannibalism? Sex, Death and Kefir, by Lynn Margulis (1938–2011): Scientific American
Nov 23rd
Nov 23rd
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“[The Islamabad high commissioner] issued a document stating that “the...”
– Err (or the creativity of the factory worker), a conversation with Jeremy Hutchison - we make money not art concerning a project where the artist communicated with factories directly in order to make imperfect objects
Nov 14th
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Field Season IV →
Nov 8th
“it could be that at around two years old infants develop a solid physical or...”
– When the Self Emerges: Is That Me in the Mirror? — PsyBlog
Nov 8th
A Cornucopia of Time Talks | Cosmic Variance |... →
Nov 8th
Q: about CSS animations
http://leaverou.me/2011/10/animatable-a-css-transitions-gallery/#comment-352730642 #CSS #animations How would you couple CSS animations to events? The only ones available in CSS seem to be psuedo-events such as :hover, :active, :focus. Would you add a class that triggered a CSS animation with e.g. one iteration? You would probably then want to remove the class in order to trigger the...
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October 2011
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4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing... →
“The portrait of identity online is often painted in black and white,” Poole said. “Who you are online is who you are offline.” That rosy view of identity is complemented with a similarly oversimplified view of anonymity. People think of anonymity as dark and chaotic, Poole said. But human identity doesn’t work like that online or offline. We present ourselves...
Oct 18th
Fake English →
A dialogue comprised of either nonsense word or real word in a grammatically correct sentence. (sounds like mostly the latter, including some of the former)
Oct 13th
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“The person charged with translating 字典.词典, being familiar with online sites...”
– Language Log » Dictionary dick
Oct 9th
Where is the best place to site a radiator →
Oct 8th
Gavin Rothery - Directing - Concept - VFX - Gavin... →
Historical overview of film filtering techniques using Industrial Light and Magic’s work on the original Star Wars trilogy as an example.
Oct 8th
Oct 8th
1 tag
You Are Not So Smart →
Overview of cognitive dissonance and how our actions may influence our perception, not vice versa as you might assume. Has links to studied mentioned.
Oct 6th
Rhizome | General Web Content: Cinematic FUIs →
film has invented its own form of computer visualization, a kind of visual language of computation that speaks to the language of film. This often involves a very particular set of visual tropes that are intended to signify computation: login screens, chat rooms, loading bars, criminal or business profiles, copying data (often clandestinely), large legible typefaces, 3D interfaces, wireframe...
Oct 5th
“Singapore exists through a near-ceaseless act of geological accumulation,...”
– BLDGBLOG: Sea Caverns of Singapore
Oct 3rd
The murky history of Arial →
Oct 3rd
September 2011
10 posts
Sep 24th
“Tables are still set for breakfast, model 1970s cars still sit in their garages,...”
– Varosha Beach Resort located in Famagusta, Cyprus | Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations
Sep 15th
“Western scientists have “fine-tuned” nutritional components into large...”
– The Unchartered Future of Food Fortification | Savage Minds
Sep 13th
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“Cologne has the shape that it does today because of the abilities and...”
– http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/shape-of-war.html
Sep 12th
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The Legal Satyricon →
To understand the importance of this open registration period, bear in mind that 10 years ago the acronym CFNM was meaningless, whereas now it’s a popular porn genre, and “twitter” was similarly a nearly meaningless (and antiquated) intransitive verb. Or noun.
Sep 8th
Jessica Hische →
Sep 6th
Rhizome | Essay by Alexander R. Galloway on Nils... →
The latest issue of Cabinet inclues an essay by Alexander R. Galloway on mathematician Nils Aall Barricelli, who created artificial evolution experiments in the 50s, with a striking visualization technique:
Sep 6th
“For the first time in the bridge’s history there will be no painters...”
– he said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14789036
Sep 6th
August 2011
3 posts
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Aug 27th
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July 2011
4 posts
» Geoffrey B. West, “Why Cities Keep on Growing,... →
Jul 27th
Amazon:Customer reviews:The Freighthopper's Manual... →
Jul 26th
Info Mining: A Look at George Tzanetakis'...
I view automatic music analysis as a way to creatively deconstruct and reconstruct music. It’s a process that has always taken place since the invention of recording. Recording made music a frozen monolithic artifact and only slowly and with a lot of manual effort are we able to erode this idea. I think when anyone will be able to take apart any music piece and recombine it in new ways, that will...
Jul 16th
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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April 2011
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“What a lesson this is to us, Jeeves, not to shut ourselves up in country houses...”
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March 2011
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Mar 24th
New typographic style
An ad came on the telly for Sucker Punch. It’s solidified in my mind that there’s a new typographic style about - sort of gothic/steampunk/psychedelic/80s goth. It’s somewhere between blackletter, art nouveau and psychedelic typography. Examples and possible influences below (an awful lot from the Brothers Quay’s animations title pieces).
Mar 24th