May 2012
7 posts
“the people on the Titanic overlooked the possibility that the iceberg could have...”
– Why We Can’t See What’s Right in Front of Us - Tony McCaffrey - Harvard Business Review
aron:
Vim Introduction
Best Vim introduction I’ve read so far in that it just gives you a list of really useful commands.
Blond hair evolved independently of European genes →
April 2012
2 posts
Christopher Hitchens on The Baader Meinhof Complex... →
March 2012
9 posts
“the former missionary discovers that the language these people speak...”
– Researcher’s Findings in the Amazon Pit Him Against Noam Chomsky - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“If you try to roll up the rainbow to make a color wheel, there will be a gap...”
– Stop this Absurd War on the Color Pink | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
Did the Titanic Sink Because of an Optical... →
An unusual optical phenomenon explains why the Titanic struck an iceberg and received no assistance from a nearby ship, according to new research by British historian Tim Maltin. Atmospheric conditions in the area that night were ripe for super refraction, Maltin found. This extraordinary bending of light causes miraging, which, he discovered, was recorded by several ships in the area. Read...
Driftwood Service > Port of London →
“More than 500 tonnes of assorted rubbish - from plastic bottles and traffic cones to shopping trolleys and bicycles – “migrates” into the River Thames each year and is cleared by the PLA’s driftwood crews.”
“On many ships thousands of workers below deck work often 7 days a week,...”
– BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT - AREN’T WE?
“I particularly love the “midnight buffet”. At midnight the doors to...”
– BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT - AREN’T WE?
February 2012
2 posts
History of Ashanti Kente Cloth →
January 2012
3 posts
Waterstone’s to Waterstones →
November 2011
11 posts
“Captive octopuses escape with alarming frequency. While on the lam, they have...”
– Octopus Crawls Out of Water and Begins Walking on Land (Video) : TreeHugger
“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
“[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
Field Season IV →
“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
A Cornucopia of Time Talks | Cosmic Variance |... →
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...
October 2011
12 posts
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...
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)
“The person charged with translating 字典.词典, being familiar with online sites...”
– Language Log » Dictionary dick
Where is the best place to site a radiator →
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.
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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.
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...
“Singapore exists through a near-ceaseless act of geological accumulation,...”
– BLDGBLOG: Sea Caverns of Singapore
The murky history of Arial →
September 2011
10 posts
“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
“Western scientists have “fine-tuned” nutritional components into large...”
– The Unchartered Future of Food Fortification | Savage Minds
