March 2010
126 posts
6 ways iPhone and Android users differ - Apple 2.0... →
i wonder what they’ll buy when they grow up “Based on the survey, 78% of iPod touch users are younger than 25, compared with 25% of iPhone users and 24% of Android and webOS users.”
Ryanair passenger eats scratch card - The Irish... →
“An airline passenger ate his €10,000 winning scratch card after he was told he could not claim the money immediately”
Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical -... →
this and a lot of the onion skinning / ghosting they were doing in broadcasts were really great “At the Olympics, the blink of an eye can be all that separates the gold medalist from the 10th-place…
February 2010
71 posts
polis: a blog about cities: Shenzhen: Villages... →
“With the rise in land value and their proximity to city jobs, the existing one-story dwellings have extruded to 7 stories, occupying the entire lot in which they were built originally. The streets…
LukeW | "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion... →
inessential.com: On switching away from Core Data →
On Language - Against Camel Case - NYTimes.com →
“Steep is the descent into orthographic antinomianism.
It’s hard to say when the humps began to multiply, but in the 1950s…”
polis: a blog about cities: Shenzhen: Villages...
via thepolisblog.org “These “villages within a city” (VIC), as they are now called, have defied the industrial city’s speculation boom, although they have undergone their own special type of expansion. With the rise in land value and their proximity to city jobs, the existing one-story dwellings have extruded to 7 stories, occupying the entire lot in which they were built originally. The...
SVG Wow! Flickr Light Table →
well. that’s something..
Dear Voltron Girl… - Kids - Jezebel →
“This picture is basically the Venn diagram demonstrating the intersection between asskicking and ADORABLE.”
San Francisco, California (94101) Conditions &... →
whoa okay, cool. where’s my mission donut hole
lG670.jpg 550×400 pixels →
stay classy canada
Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages - Video... →
ChirpTracker / Welcome to ChirpTracker →
i… thought this was a twitter app…
Web FontFonts (FF Release 52) | Blog | FontShop →
although they still set their mockups of Din / etc in images, feels like new times for font foundries
Buchheit’s lucky streak as an angel (and a... →
Find my iPhone rescues two phones at Busch Gardens →
apple makes not just emotional connections but spatial ones between users and their devices
Technical Hand Books 2nd. Islamic Solidarity Games →
$180,000 In Debt →
“Its ironic that the money I borrowed to educate myself to be an architect, is the very thing deterring me from being able to continue on during these tough economic times and truly become the…
Jessica Hische / Humble Pied. →
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”
Best "Remake Of Asian Film" Titles →
interesting
Flash Player 10.1 on Google Nexus One on Vimeo →
Airportainia →
map of nonplaces, via straup http://www.orangecone.com/archives/2005/03/my_own_private_1.html
The Coming Conservative Health Care Freakout | The... →
hope against hope “You can imagine how this feels to conservatives. They’ve already run off the field, sprayed themselves with champagne and taunted the losing team’s fans. And now the other team is…
Apple COO Tim Cook: 'We Have No Interest In Being... →
“We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of.”
The Curling Lords of Argyle - Vancouver 2010 Blog... →
“Well within earshot of the Norwegians, he added, “But pant colors in no way determines who wins.””
inhab.it →
this line, wow “In San Francisco though they are not burn victims or legless farmers, they are not his age, and their injuries are invisible.”
The Architect's Newspaper →
“DESPITE THE IMMENSE COST OF DECKING OVER FREEWAYS, SUCH PROJECTS ARE SEEN NOT ONLY AS BOONS TO URBAN PLANNING BUT ALSO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. THE LOTS IN PINK ARE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SITES, WHICH…
March of the Robo Chef - Mechanized Cooks Invade... →
and then they turn their knives on us “When it’s slow, the robots act out a scripted comedy routine and spar with knives.”
Understanding AS3 ColorMatrixFilter class :... →
Indirect Collaboration: Collective Creativity on... →
5 Surprising Signs You're Sleep Deprived - Page 1... →
hunger, sensitivity, clumsiness, sickness / in other words, rampant hunger, tearing up over tiny things, cutting my foot, sniffling as i type
The Architect's Newspaper
via archpaper.com “DESPITE THE IMMENSE COST OF DECKING OVER FREEWAYS, SUCH PROJECTS ARE SEEN NOT ONLY AS BOONS TO URBAN PLANNING BUT ALSO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. THE LOTS IN PINK ARE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SITES, WHICH COULD EVEN HELP PAY FOR CONSTRUCTION.” Posted via web from postarchitectural | Comment »
$180,000 In Debt
Its ironic that the money I borrowed to educate myself to be an architect, is the very thing deterring me from being able to continue on during these tough economic times and truly become the designer and architect I dreamed of becoming. via huffingtonpost.com The Fear Posted via web from postarchitectural | Comment »
Curbed SF: Two IwamotoScott-Designed North Beach... →
iwamotoscott gets real, nice
SKOAL! « Cooking Issues →
was trying to find an image of wylie dufresne
Axe Cop →
written by a 5 year old and illustrated by his 29 year old brother. brilliant
View Trailer | Marina - A Documentary Film about... →
wow isabella, wow “Participants slept outside and did not eat nor speak for four days. They engaged in a regimen of individual and group exercises, such as walking backwards in slow motion, counting…
sportsBabel » Pixel →
“If we can locate the card stunt at the modern stadium as a genealogical precursor to the pixelated bitmap computer display, we might consider the increasingly cramped seat and leg room at the…
Cell phone subscriptions to hit 5 billion globally... →
markus leitsch: coat & suit →
“in ‘coat’ leitsch uses a cow hide soaked in resin to create a mold of his body lying on the ground.”
Is Your Life Just One Big RPG? -- Mind-Blowing... →
sportsBabel » Pixel
via sportsbabel.net “If we can locate the card stunt at the modern stadium as a genealogical precursor to the pixelated bitmap computer display, we might consider the increasingly cramped seat and leg room at the contemporary stadium, then, as both an intensification of its capital productivity and a process toward becoming more high resolution. All surfaces become screens, it...
The Weird Poetry Of The Olympics Twitter Tracker -... →
“It’s accidental poetry of a sort, where unrelated words bump into each other in unintended ways — “double amazing” — and all of a sudden, it’s just, “Why, yes. It was double amazing. Thank you,…
Roger Ebert: The Essential Man →
“Music plays. Words come.”
New York #9 - PechaKucha Night →
wow
Shanghai Airlines at Los Angeles International... →
wow when did lax have little histograms of the airline’s performance?
Critics Say Google Invades Privacy With New... →
“E-mail, it turns out, can hold many secrets, from the names of personal physicians and illicit lovers to the identities of whistle-blowers and antigovernment activists. And Google, so recently a…
wtfjs →
great “typeof NaN // number, of course.”
The Architecture Machine - blog →
“More to the point, the Architecture Machine is a blog for observations on the mechanics of architectural production: the discipline of architecture; architects’ tools; the strictures of…