September 2010
51 posts
Illustrating Information with Photography on... →
that candle multiple exposure photograph is really great
Hello, want to kill some time? →
div asteroids
HESCO Bastion →
insane “In recent trials, RAID deployed approximately 333m of Concertainer Mil 7 units in just under one minute - that’s 333m of cover from view, 2.2m high, in just under one minute. “
History Theater – Win Some, Lose Some (and Then... →
history walk through the run down theaters in the mission
George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay «... →
chewbacca’s origin story
A Discourse on Map Pins and Pinnage « Making Maps:... →
“May I suggest cartopinography as the appropriate nomenclature for this deliciously narrow subset of the cartographic arts? Yes I may.”
Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in scooter cliff... →
“George Bush dramatically illustrated the hazards in 2003 when he was photographed on holiday in Maine, leaping from a Segway after losing control.”
MI6 'used bodily fluids as invisible ink' -... →
“In October he noted that he “heard from C that the best invisible ink is semen”, which did not react to the main methods of detection. Furthermore it had the advantage of being readily available.”
My First Week with the iPhoneBehind the Curtain |... →
this is making me cry in a coffee shop
“The next day, I went outside. I looked at the sky. I heard colors such as “Horizon,” “Outer Space,” and many shades of blue and gray. I used color queues to…
what nefarious surveillance scheme is this in San... →
zach ran into a random movity namedrop: “I bet you it’s the Movity guys. They’re building a startup to help people rent/buy houses by providing fine grained, detailed information about variables such…
Cat Parkour | Misinterpreting Architecture... →
haha, great
Why we shut NewsTilt down | Bad Nomenclature →
paul being pretty harsh about nathan and the failure of newslabs/newstilt. sad to see
Sept. 16, 1985: Jobs Quits AppleSept. 16, 1997:... →
“On Sept. 16, 1997, Apple announced that Jobs had officially been named interim CEO, or — as the company cleverly put it — iCEO.”
Good Fucking Design Advice →
“Encode your fucking ampersands.”
Cellphone Sales Boost Best Buy Profit - WSJ.com →
wow “Mr. Dunn also said internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50%.”
Nokia Is the McDonald's of Phones →
“Reading Nokia’s official statements these last few months about the N8, the company sounds like a degenerate gambler just waiting for this one big score to get him back in the game. Every financial…
Weeplaces Blog: Geoprofiles launched - make your... →
weeplaces:
We’re extremely excited to launch geoprofiles as well as Facebook Places and Gowalla integration!
Though badges, points, and deals are fun, what do you do with 150 checkins and 3 badges?
Well, checkins are a record of our experiences, activities, and places we’ve been. WeePlaces makes use of…
AOL Hidden Chat Room Commands @ Re-QUEST dot Net... →
oh {s drop} memories…
Atlantis World's Fair →
“Did You Know: The national bird of Atlantis is the sting ray.”
Brandon Aaron : Event Delegation with jQuery →
“To stop .live() events, you’d use the .die() method.”
Sukkah City: NYC 2010 →
excited for this / new york nostalgia
Why founding a three-person startup with zero... →
“This tendency reached the height of comedy inside the strategies division, where some of the quants published academic papers on the more theoretical aspects of their work. If an author quit Goldman…
Peak detection in a 2D array - Stack Overflow →
“I’m helping a veterinary clinic measuring pressure under a dogs paw. I use Python for my data analysis and now I’m stuck trying to divide the paws into (anatomical) subregions. … I’m simply a…
Clay Animation: Strata-Cut →
“Strata cut animation involves making 3-D rectangular pieces of clay in layers. It was invented by David Daniels. David lays out the clay in a four dimensional space to create the large block of…
Tutorial: How to overlay polygons on a map with... →
“This tutorial will show you how to find a publicly available dataset, convert the file into GeoJSON, and display it on a Polymap.”
A Technology World That Revolves Around Me -... →
“I call this “1, 2, 10.” These simple numbers represent the distance a screen is from your eyes. Cell phones and e-books are approximately one foot away when you hold them in your hands. Computer…
Kill Counts for the Cast of the Expendables →
whoa, lundgren. and what’s arnold’s?
YouTube - A maid cafe, Gundam and Gatchapon! It's... →
faving this weird slice through japan to compare after october…
Commute Map →
“The CTPP provides data on a census tract level. However, this map uses zip codes to identify regions because they’re more familiar to most people. The mapping from census tract to zip code is done…
Bruce Willis, papparazi, and arguing with Dwight
Just woke up from a pretty aggravating dream. It started out I was Bruce Willis and I was walkin through some mansion that was all lit up, investigating something. There was also something about me and Jen in n apartment and then a few dogs worming through the mail slot and barking and then we opened the front door and there was a confused family outside. Anyways I was Bruce Willis and ended up on...
Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: How iTunes... →
saved because his post on Quora looks like it’s been deleted. also http://gigaom.com/2010/06/04/heres-how-the-web-reads-your-mind/
Farewell, FontShop | Typography Commentary |... →
stewf leaves fontshop [at last]
3quarksdaily →
“I’m hunting for an apartment in Brooklyn. It’s 2010. I only halfknow the borough; it’s hipster havens and borderlands, vacant lots and lofts, new towers and old clapboard – a shredded…
The Rap Map — Mapping the Gangsta Terrain of the... →
places mentioned in rap songs. awesome
Dreaming about infinite gym space and Mos Def and...
I was in an elevator — well first I was on a black bg website with purple and teal brush script text, I think it was a blog, various inspirational things. One was a drawing of a woman (from top view) sitting and looking up that said ‘i guess I’m on this website now’. I don’t remember the other ones. Then I was in an elevator and I took it to the 3rd floor and it was...
jnby.shop →
remember to get something for my sister or jen here
Frank Chimero - There is a Horse in the Apple... →
“When does the magic of a situation fade? When do we get acclimated to the exceptional?Is this how we get by? Would anything get done if we were constantly gobsmacked? Is this how we survive, how we…
速写 - Croquis →
new favorite store in shanghai
8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York... →
“In addition, 3 million New Yorkers reportedly left the city because they realized the phrase “Only in New York” is actually just a defense mechanism used to convince themselves that seeing a naked…
YouTube - The Data Game: Visualizing IP & Gambling... →
JOCHEM HENDRICKS - Werkauswahl Zeitung →
“This newspaper has already been read. The eye movements while
reading were recorded, digitized and printed. It is something
visible from the otherwise invisible process of reading, a trail of …
Time / Bank by e-flux →
“Through Time/Bank, we hope to create an immaterial currency and a parallel micro-economy for the cultural community, one that is not geographically bound, and that will create a sense of worth for…
FUEL — Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia... →
“His recording of this esoteric world was reported to the KGB who unexpectedly supported him, realising the importance of being able to establish facts about convicts by reading the images on their…
Shanghai is my dream within a dream. Time...
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Poll Reveals Asian Girl On Bike As Summer’s Top... →
“However even as the poll results were revealed, some in the hipster community are already moving onto more extreme accessory choices, by carrying around an Indian girl on roller blades or an Eastern…
Data Hounds and Prettymaps | Fall Arts | East Bay... →
“We’re trying to create as many on-ramps and off-ramps to this kind of mapping technique as possible.”
Mint Data :: region :: California :: San Francisco →
mint data gets exposed
Twitter Help Center →
“Our link service will also be used to measure information like how many times a link has been clicked. Eventually, this information will become an important quality signal for our Resonance…
moritz.stefaner.eu - Map your moves →
visualization of the WNYC map your moves data
Autodesk Announce CAD on the Mac OS X. Plus Free... →
wowzers — but too little too late in the post-rhino world?