June 2010
65 posts
The Difference School Can Make - WSJ.com →
what a weird sentence pairing “One day he told Ms. Pankhurst that his goal was to make straight As. Ivan took to wearing straight-leg jeans and fashionable glasses.”
GOMBOC.EU - A gömböc - definition →
the self-righting shape “If placed on a horizontal surface in an arbitrary position the Gömböc returns to the stable equilibrium point, similar to ‘weeble’ toys. While the weebles rely on a weight in…
May 2010
156 posts
All Those Numbers: Logistics, Territory and... →
walmart as china ” These kinds of calculations and practices have led one columnist to suggest that Walmart “could drive the climate debate faster than years of congressional bloviation.” “
ScriptShadow →
indepth script reviews for mostly as-yet-unmade movies, fascinating
Remembering Quokka | Inventing Interactive →
“Perhaps their biggest achievement was for NBC’s coverage of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. It was big, bold, information dense, and constantly updated — a radically new experience for users who were…
indiemaps.com/blog » indiemapper →
whoa, didn’t even realize this finally happened: “Indiemapper took a long time coming. The seeds were planted in December 2007. I had just discovered Edwin van Rijkom’s AS3 SHP library, which lets…
Badass Games Day 1 →
“Nothing is more old-school than baking your own damn staff of life!”
YouTube - 100 Hand Slap Attack →
the comments on this video are amazing
WTF Japan Seriously: Noodle Catch →
haha
Gamers more likely to experience sweet, lucid... →
well that explains a lot “Her research corroborated that — and a second study revealed even more interesting tidbits — such as the fact that gamers are also more likely to switch from first person…
Home and Away: The fallen in Afghanistan –... →
“Each name leads to another, of other hometowns, of other places away from home”
Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why... →
whoa interesting comment: “Having worked at Conde Nast, both on the internal iPhone dev group and the Wired.com site, I can make an educated guess on why the app works this way. First, by making the…
A New Subway Map for New York - Interactive... →
the changing proportions of manhattan are super fascinating. still glad the subway map hasn’t turned into the tube map abstraction
Creative Review - StreetMuseum iPhone app →
nice “The really clever thing about this app is that if you are in the location pictured, you can click on the “3D view” button and the app will recognise your location and overlay the historic image…
Peer's Blog - Let's Pickle! →
i was one of those … “There were apparently quite a few people in the ’90s who thought Mario yelled “Let’s pickle!” at the outset of each Super Mario 64 stage.”
loop Drawings →
so pretty
Tech Influx Transforms San Francisco's Mission... →
Tech Influx Transforms San Francisco's Mission... →
“I knew it was an area we could attract people to,” says Mr. Nivi, 33. “I like intense people, and intense people like the Mission.”
Home and Away: Tracking the casualties of war –... →
“It’s been a privilege to work on this project for seven years but it’s a privilege that I wish didn’t exist. No matter your feelings about the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, this list is a vivid…
Friend — Peter Esveld » Plotter – Process... →
wow, i want to make a sf version of my mint map with this “Plotter is an open-source tool for designers to map their data into the real world. Plotter asks the you – the designer – to define that…
“It’s BP’s Oil” | Mother Jones →
what the noir is going on “When I tell Chief Aubrey Chaisson that I would like to get a comment on Barbara’s intimations—and my experience so far—that BP is running the show, he says he’ll meet me in…
The Big Caption →
“fuck you flowers / how does it feel to get kicked / right in the face”
United States Magnetic Geography Puzzle by... →
haha “Rhode Island and Delaware are lightly etched on larger adjoining states.”
AT&T Reportedly Confirms June iPhone Launch to... →
if i can buy it before i leave for shanghai i will download all over myself
Big Ben (big_ben_clock) on Twitter →
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About : W/———— →
withnyc, a small gallery right near where jen used to live
Wired Magazine’s iPad Edition Goes Live | Magazine →
looks like a less conceptual, more functional version of the pop sci app
adidas Football Match Tracker →
heatmaps of soccer games, annotations along a timeline, filtering by type of pass/shot, wow!
The Britney Spears Problem » American Scientist →
“In the past few years the tracking of hot topics has itself become a hot topic in computer science. Algorithms for such tasks have a distinctive feature: They operate on a continuous and unending…
Flat spline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“To draw curves, especially for shipbuilding, draftsmen often used long, thin, flexible strips of wood, plastic, or metal called splines (or laths, not to be confused with lathes). The splines were…
BADASS RAINBOWS →
raimbo
What Netflix Heat Maps Say About Society | The... →
“I wonder if you could predict voting patterns according to where people rent Paul Blart: Mall Cop or Frost/Nixon. I wonder what the map for Napoleon Dynamite looks like?”
iA » Cosmic 140—Final Beta →
twastronomy
Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties - CNN.com →
CNN Observations :: Home →
“CNN is combining the unparalleled strengths of its on-air and online platforms to honor every Coalition Forces casualty in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
The Geotaggers' World Atlas - a set on Flickr →
gorgeous drawings
HTML5 vs Flash →
doombot » Blogging the Trilogy: The Empire Strikes... →
“Now, if you watch the prequels before the original trilogy (in chronological order), the ending of Empire is completely without weight. The biggest reveal in the history of cinema is ruined. Sure,…
Who Knew? Kevin Costner's Been Working on Oil... →
“The biggest Ocean Therapy unit can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute, which is faster than the oil is leaking. If it works, this will totally make up for Waterworld.”
The Way We Live Now - Judging Women - NYTimes.com →
“By 1990, when these women were in their 30s, the percentage of women between 30 and 34 who had never married (18 percent) was triple what it was back in 1970 (6 percent), when the older women on the…
Google Maps API Styled Map Wizard →
i thought this ui was a joke at first but it’s real
100 Miles and Running: Re-Occurring Themes in... →
“young brown men running from authority figures: police officers, security guards and other young brown men who posed as perceived or real threats”
« Hannu's Plaza » Metaball math →
metaballs!
Norsk Kartozoologisk Forening →
“Cartozoology n. The science or practice of discovering and studying animals outlined paradigmatically by street layouts as they appear on maps” including “Landlocked Migratory Salmon”
Bye bye wall of long German words #officecleanout... →
lumpenproletariat is the least interesting of these
Gallery - Paper Folding Spirals & Organic →
very impressive
Galleri Tom Christoffersen →
“Their process is always silent, controlled and structured by repetitive movements as the machines transform a single material - plastic, wax, metal or stone - into peculiar objects.”
Google Geo Developers Blog: Add a touch of style... →
yeaouch
Sam Winston : Made Up True Story →
wow
Craig Venter creates synthetic life form | Science... →