May 2011
16 posts
long exposure photography, video and sculpture →
Remembrance of Links Past (Pinboard Blog) →
“Since Pinboard has collected a lot of bookmarks at this point, I thought it would be interesting to actually run the numbers on link rot - the depressing phenomenon in which perfectly healthy URLs…
JavaScript link() Method →
whoa
App Myopia | Blog | design mind →
“In my previous post, I talked about an “opportunistic cluster” of hundreds of smart devices. The pain of App Myopia makes these types of devices nearly impossible to interact with easily as each new…
Voyaging Into the Cosmic Minimalism of Ryoji Ikeda... →
“Enlightenment guru Immanuel Kant would have called the “mathematical sublime,” the aesthetic experience of being overpowered by the inhuman immensity and complexity of the universe.”
'Planking' death puts spotlight on bizarre Web... →
“Planking takes its name from how players mimic a wooden board by lying rigid — preferably in a public place or on an unusual spot, such as a washing machine, a sign or a railing. The point is to…
Flickr: The Bad Public Art UK Pool →
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival: March of the... →
love this old ad for the documentary film festival
Straight lines & primary colors. →
Crunching the numbers: How many people have ever... →
“Astonishingly that means over 12% of all the people ever born are walking the planet at this very moment. Or to put it another way: one in eight people who have ever been born are alive today.”
form follows behavior - Data visualization as... →
“Inside Apple” Reveals Steve Jobs Anecdotes,... →
“Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” Having received a satisfactory answer, he continues, “So why the f*** doesn’t it do that?”
50 Posts About Cyborgs | 2. The Project →
“In May 1960, Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline attended the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine to participate in the Psychophysiological Aspects of Space Flight Symposium. They presented a…
Ye | Define Ye at Dictionary.com →
apparently Ye Olde was pronounced The Old… fck”The word ye 2 , as in Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, is simply an archaic spelling of the definite article the. The use of the letter Y was a printer’s…
kokkugia →
more generative aa drl work
What Did Historical Swords Weigh? →
“Medieval swords in general were well-made, light, agile fighting weapons equally capable of delivering dismembering cuts or cleaving deep cavities into the body. They were far from the clumsy, heavy…