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July 18 2008

nungee
04:00
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Impostor
If you think this is too hard on literary criticism, read the Wikipedia article on deconstruction.

July 14 2008

nungee
17:37

Radiohead + Google + data visualization + lasers = I am

Radiohead + Google + data visualization + lasers = I am contractually obligated to post this. Google has the backstory and some code for Radiohead's new music video, which was "filmed" using lasers instead of cameras. (via jimray)

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nungee
16:49

Solution, or Mess? A Milk Jug for a Green Earth - NYTimes.com

A simple change to the design of the gallon milk jug, adopted by Wal-Mart and Costco, seems made for the times. The jugs are cheaper to ship and better for the environment, the milk is fresher when it arrives in stores, and it costs less.
What’s not to like? Plenty, as it turns out.

July 11 2008

nungee
23:04

An amazing collection of abstract satellite photos, demonstrating the "impressionist, cubist

An amazing collection of abstract satellite photos, demonstrating the "impressionist, cubist and pointillist" side of the earth's landscape.

The images you see below were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA's scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.

You must see these. Bonus: all the images are available in wallpaper size for your computer desktop.

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nungee
09:09
Ich sollte bei gewissen Blogs manchmal doch die Sidebar lesen. Danke, dass ich dem Trio e.s.t. vor nicht allzu langer Zeit in Wien zuhören durfte.

"Im Frühjahr 2008 wurde Esbjörn Svenssons Klangästhetik mit dem German Jazz Award ausgezeichnet. Nun ist der Pianist 44-jährig in Stockholm gestorben. Eine Würdigung"

via Nachruf: Zum Tod des Jazzpianisten Esbjörn Svensson | Nachrichten auf ZEIT online
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nungee
07:56

I Eat Beats

drum sequencer built with webcam, Processing, and a bag of Skittles  

July 10 2008

nungee
23:17

Time lapse video of a designer laying out an article for

Time lapse video of a designer laying out an article for a magazine. I could watch stuff like this all day. It's also the type of video I wish were on Vimeo...sometimes YouTube is like watching a UHF station from 200 miles away with the rabbit ears positioned just so. (via quips)

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nungee
21:52

André Zucca's color photographs of Paris during the German occupation of

André Zucca's color photographs of Paris during the German occupation of WWII have provoked controversy because Zucca worked for a German propaganda magazine. But Richard Brody argues that Zucca's photographs are true to the Paris of the time and don't just show the "cheerful ease" of the city's residents.

Certainly, Zucca couldn't get the whole story: he photographed Jews wearing the star but couldn't show the roundups or the deportation to Auschwitz; he could show German soldiers but couldn't show the arrest, torture, and execution of resisters. He couldn't, but nobody could; the problem wasn't that he worked for a propaganda rag: photographers who actively worked for the Resistance couldn't do it either. But what he did do was to capture the paradoxes of the Occupation, where horror and pleasure coexisted in shockingly close proximity, where the active resistance to Nazi occupation was in fact far less prevalent than the feigned daily oblivion of those who kept their heads down and tried to cope.

More of Zucca's photos are here.

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nungee
21:31
nungee
21:31
Ich sollte bei gewissen Blogs manchmal doch die Sidebar lesen. Danke, dass ich dem Trio e.s.t. vor nicht allzu langer Zeit in Wien zuhören durfte.

"Im Frühjahr 2008 wurde Esbjörn Svenssons Klangästhetik mit dem German Jazz Award ausgezeichnet. Nun ist der Pianist 44-jährig in Stockholm gestorben. Eine Würdigung"

via Nachruf: Zum Tod des Jazzpianisten Esbjörn Svensson | Nachrichten auf ZEIT online
Reposted fromfain fain

July 08 2008

nungee
19:56
"Viola! The mean shape of England , Scotland and Wales by 14 graphic designers. Not very accurate, is it?"
via Noisy Decent Graphics: This Isn't England
nungee
19:06

How big is England? Mapmakers can't seem to agree. So for

How big is England? Mapmakers can't seem to agree.

So for the last two years I've been taking pictures of Britain on world maps. Not accurate maps, but drawings or illustrations of maps. The differences are amazing. You might assume that all maps were accurate, or at least accurate-ish. But no, designers play fast and loose with the truth making the host country bigger, more important or more central. Look at Britain in these photos. Look at the size of it compared to Europe. It's the same, but different.

I love the averaged England near the bottom of the post. (via migurski)

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nungee
12:45
George Carlin on Soft Language
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nungee
11:59
nungee
10:56
Working for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, I wasn't allowed to look scruffy. Dressing smartly was another lens, a weapon. It got me into places and certain people spoke to me because I was presentable. Dressing smartly has been a bigger help to my career than probably anzthing else.
— Harry Benson, Glaswegian photographer
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nungee
10:44

Thumber: A Movie Thumbnailer

Take snapshots of a movie at one-second intervals. Stitch them into one image. What can you see? Pacing. Color palate. Maybe story
nungee
02:46

The Greatest Bug of All

Great debugging story from Wil Shipley.

July 07 2008

nungee
17:22

Zoomii, bookstore-like interface for browsing Amazon

Google Maps-like controls for zooming and panning the shelves [via
nungee
17:16

Adrian Holovaty duets with himself on gypsy-jazz Super Mario Bros. 2 theme

the most talented guitarist-programmer-journalist I know  
nungee
16:28
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