July 2010
72 posts
Map of a Twitter Status Object →
whoa
Twitter Convert Kanye West Changes His Rap |... →
“His account already has 222,712 followers, and he’s following no one.”
Management Leisure Suit →
what.
Everyone's an Architect - Architects, Business -... →
“There is a chance, however, that the whole debate will prove moot—that the appeal of “architect” will fade as other, more novel titles gain traction in Silicon Valley (and elsewhere). According to a…
Urbanized →
Collaborative Mapping Startup CloudMade Lands... →
guess that means they’ll still be around for a while?
Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg of... →
“We’re interested in larger-scale projects. We don’t innately have any interest in jewelry, in an intellectual way. We want to work on furniture, housewares, and architectural-scale projects. “
"Inception" Sound for Film Profile on Vimeo →
guys in floppy hats shooting machine guns
San Francisco Crime Map Test →
padmapper gets dangerous
Fish in a barrel - Neven Mrgan's tumbl →
pages for imacs vs all in one dell / hp computers
Marco.org - iMac or Mac Pro? →
my quad core mac pro [06] can still the renderin done
Redesigning the New York City subway map -... →
really in depth walkthrough of the kickmap nyc subway map
YouTube - Anna Konda Firefighting Robot →
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War... →
“We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have, and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying….
A Real Web Design Application | Jason Santa Maria →
“A web designer jumping into the browser before tackling the creative and messaging problems is akin to an architect hammering pieces of wood together and then measuring afterwards. The imaginative…
Most iPhone users love AT&T - Jul. 23, 2010 →
truth “The iPhone is also the gift that keeps on giving: 77% of iPhone owners say they’ll buy another iPhone, compared to 20% of Android customers who say they’ll buy another Android phone.”
The ever-arrogant Apple « Observatory →
“How dare Apple think they can make this problem go away with a free case that makes the problem go away. They need to suffer more than that.”
July SF Underground Market Full Vendor List |... →
fuck yeah zach, seema
Bobbie Johnson dot org : Is journalism a product? →
“You aren’t a content factory: you are building a thing, a thing that you show to other people. You want it to carry on and have an impact, be picked up and passed around. And if that’s not a…
Main : The personal website of Chad Carpenter →
nice chad makes nice things
YouTube - Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch - SGC Demo... →
head hurts, heart aches
OOM Creative →
<3 postarchitectural people: “As well as director of OOM CREATIVE, I’m also a lecturer of architecture + design at RMIT University, where I recently curated a show entitled Synthetic Environments.”
reddit: "Experts" misunderestimate our traffic,... →
“The problem is, advertisers generally don’t trust Google Analytics numbers. They have their own preferred sources of traffic information that they put their faith in. Let’s take a look at some of…
flickr shapetiles / july 2010 →
aaron makes me jealous
Larry Ellison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“On 18 December 2003, Ellison married Melanie Craft, a romance novelist, at his Woodside estate. His friend Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple, Inc) was the official wedding photographer.”
Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales -... →
keyword is hardcover not paperback, but still crazy
squid314: World War II Plot Holes →
“Anyway, they spend the whole season building up how the Japanese home islands are a fortress, and the Japanese will never surrender, and there’s no way to take the Japanese home islands because…
Pykrete - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“Pykrete is a composite material made of approximately 14 percent sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86 percent ice by weight. Its use was proposed during World War II by…
Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform – the... →
“The final thing I’d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected…
Darren Aronofsky: 'Everyone gets cheques now' |... →
“A daring and hardly accountant-friendly blend of Jewish mysticism, high-end mathematics, obsession and paranoia-fuelled horror, Pi was made so cheaply (for just $60,000 / £36,000), that the director…
Elena Savina →
i love the scrollbar as loading bar
Subtraction.com: A Change →
“What I won’t be doing however is starting another design studio. While I might do some freelance project work here and there, the heavy lifting required to build a practice of continuously running…
Wishing that Feelings Were Facts | Flickr - Photo... →
james leng meets color
music philosophy →
oh man oh wow
Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High |... →
i just got dumber reading this
Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build... →
“Facebook is literally filled with master baiters: Whenever I return to Facebook I am barraged with information about many friends, to encourage me to stick around and click around.”
Demo | Cabulous →
this old demo is much more ambitious and has more foursquarey bits
Traverse Me →
“The University of Warwick campus map was drawn on foot at 1:1 scale with 238 miles of GPS tracks walked over17 days”
Introduction →
shawn’s introduction to data visualization for the summer SVA class
“Jersey Shore” Meets KTown? | iamkoream →
“If I were cast on this show and they made me bunk next to some creeper with Yellow Fever, I’d be straight pissed.”
Apple Acquires Another Mapping Company →
apple buys poly9: “Our company’s flagship product, Poly9 FreeEarth, is the first geographic 3D globe that works in all browsers, and does not require any download or installation.”
Square vs. Merchant Account Comparison Calculator... →
kind of pisses me off that the “bar chart” only has two states, one where the square bar is half the merchant account, and one where they are the same even though the differences are never that big
3quarksdaily - HOW SUPERMODELS ARE LIKE TOXIC... →
“Modeling agents drum up buzz using options as selling points too, as in, “Russell Marsh just optioned Coco Rocha for Prada!” To most fashion designers’ ears, such words sound like warm honey; they…
SpatialMatch™ Video →
Wired UK, Barabási Lab and BIG data | blprnt.blg →
“I can’t get into a lot of detail about the specifics of the data set, but needless to say, phone records for 10 million individuals take up a lot of space.” jer thorp on mobile data and mobility…
Attenborough Design Group - today and tomorrow →
“It investigates the use of animal behaviours to defend emerging technologies. These products include the Gesundheit Radio, which sneezes periodically to expel potentially damaging dust, Floppy Legs,…
IEEE Spectrum: Amazing Robotic Sculpture Balances... →
“The Balancing Cube is an example of a distributed control platform. Each module [see illustration below] is a self-contained unit with a computer, battery, motor, and inertial sensors (a tri-axis…
LEGO.com DesignByMe : Home →
“design the LEGO creation of your dreams!” and have it shipped to your door. my childhood self just wimpered a little
Official Google Blog: App Inventor for Android →
with App Inventor is Android going to become MySpace or Little Big Planet?
Welcome to United Nude | Fashion Footwear | Ladies... →
so my sister told me this was started by Rem Koolhaas and i freaked out but it’s just his nephew, who went to TU Delft. still amazing stuff