May 2010
156 posts
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - Search... →
the unfolding of the fog of war map
Flickr Photo Download: Cartographies of Time 008 →
not fog of war, Doom Clouds of Ignorance
BibliOdyssey: Time After Time →
“What does history look like? How do you draw time?”
April 2010
120 posts
Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell... →
“Once again, MS snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Nike NBA Post Season Twitter Playoff Treemap -... →
“Stamen Design, who have created several other real-time Twitter visualizations for several fancy clients”
File:2010 NBA Eastern Conference Playoffs... →
should have looked at these before, this is super cool. also like how the lines and dots are the team colors
2 Girls 1 Cup →
“So much for trying to put numbers to scat-fetish porn.”
HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion | Business... →
i was hoping htc would, but maybe this will be better?
Cinder [Cinder, C++] - New creative code framework... →
“Cinder is a new C++ frameworks created by The Barbarian Group for programming graphics, audio, video, networking, image processing and computational geometry.”
Hitler, as "Downfall producer" orders a DMCA... →
“The studio, Constantin Films, has ordered takedowns of some of them, and eventually even had this parody removed from YouTube. In this clip, Hitler is the producer, and his lawyers tell him why he…
Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis'... →
there’s a cute charm to all these kickstarter projects that i really love
DesignIntelligence » Blog Archive » Is the... →
“The internship that the architectural profession requires for licensure takes place in un-accredited, un-monitored, private offices across the country. Because this three-year period is mandatory,…
Eddy →
48 Hour Magazine →
powachamp: “We’ve been inspired by a range of other projects: Strange Light, Pop Up Magazine, Ash Cloud Tales, and The Whole Earth Catalog”
Laptopogram →
“would it be weird if the first time i developed film was from film exposed with a screen?”
“it would be like a mother eating its young….”
DesignIntelligence » Blog Archive » Is the...
The internship that the architectural profession requires for licensure takes place in un-accredited, un-monitored, private offices across the country. Because this three-year period is mandatory, offices have an incentive to exploit intern labor, using it for self-serving rather than educational ends. Interns have no leverage to change these conditions and thereby further their training. Often...
steved →
“Now any project shut down at Apple and often at any large firm connected with Apple may be said to have gotten steved. It is usually spelled lowercase despite the origin. It is almost always…
The iPad, and the Staggering Work of Obviousness :... →
“There’s a cozy, pre-existing slot in people’s brains that the iPad fills quite nicely.
“Oh,” they say. “It’s a big iPhone.”
It doesn’t matter if they utter that phrase in distaste. That little…
TUMBLR MOSAIC VIEWER - datamine →
this might be my favorite way of looking at this project
Ashcloud Timelapse GIF →
City Brights: Joe D'Alessandro : Is Your... →
if hipsters are the anti, who are the antianti’s?
There goes the neighborhood! - NYPOST.com →
“Forget the turf battle between Hasids and hipsters, the artsy young kids who’ve thronged the neighborhood for the last 15 years. Lately, Williamsburg has been invaded by free-spending crowds of…
SwapYourShop | Swap your life. Keep your job. →
“SwapYourShop is an online community that allows you to work remotely for your current employer while living in another city.”
Vakko Fashion Center by REX
Jen just sent me this new building by REX, the Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center. There are a ton of threads to be opened up about it, namely the fact that the design is a recycled one: REX’s adaptive-reuse expertise enabled it to modify plans from another canceled project in the United States, allowing construction to begin only four days after REX received the commission. The...
The lying down game | Denge →
The Lying Down Game is an Internet meme typically involving individuals having their photograph taken whilst lying rigidly face down.
Creative Review - Yugo Nakamura: The Craftsman →
Snapshots of Provence, travel notes in sound and... →
so nice
Chandler B. McWilliams : John Henry von Neumann →
all silver and shadow and vision of things not →
amazing living room installation by Rita.
windcut - model3 - closeups - a set on Flickr →
“The windcut series feature wind sensor (direction, velocity, temperature) data turned into physical form, via a computer controlled drill”
Editor B - The Degradation of Whitney in Eleven... →
“First six seconds of “So Emotional” looped eleven times, each time at a lower bitrate.”
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Only Thing That... →
“I need someone with four years of broad-but-humanities-focused studies, three subsequent years in temp jobs, and the ability to reason across multiple areas of study. I need someone who can read The…
http://www.superliminal.com/cube/applet.html →
i can do this blindfolded
Apple passes Microsoft on S&P’s index |... →
wow “It’s seems hard to believe now, but in 1997 Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple, when the company was worth around $2 billion. Those shares would now be worth $18 billion. That’s enough…
Coloring Book for Lawyers →
The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can... →
i love this blog i love this blog: “No matter what’s on the table, a few Democrats will peel away from the party core; meanwhile, all Republicans will somehow manage to stay on-message. Thus, they…
Google buys Agnilux, eyeing processors - Google... →
google buys post- PA Semi people “Agnilux.com is no longer active but it is still available, of course, via Google cache.”
Proptical Illusion on Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
The words David Foster Wallace circled in his... →
Ultramapping « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird →
“One relatively recent and very simple intervention, made possible by the lamination together of three or four different kinds of technology, has completely changed what a map is, what it means, what…
YouTube - "Air Doll" Trailer (English Subtitles) →
whoa, lars and the real girl meets pinocchio meets michel gondry?
Hulu - Labs: Captions Search →
whoa
Early look at Annotations - Twitter API... →
oh wow
Make your own Solargraph 6 month sun exposure →
“Tall beer cans are best, as not only do they take untrimmed 5x7 paper, but they also contain beer!”
East Meets West: An Infographic Portrait | Brain... →
“The evolution of transportation over the last three decades” is pretty awesome
Loper OS » Non-Apple’s Mistake →
” Every commercial product which competes directly with an Apple product (particularly the iPhone) gives me (and many others) the distinct impression that “where it is original, it is not good, and…
HeaderFooter Design →
mix of interaction / ui / architecture, postcolumbia, postarchitectural, has worked w/ glen cummings
Fold Hi | United Nude →
Lo Res, Mobius, Frame… nice
Robo-Mouth Will Make You Scream and Give You... →
“A vacuum cleaner designed by David Lynch”
Transit Authority Figures » posters →
cool imagined subway lines in new england