19 days ago
nelson : Olympics photography - Great notes from a guy working the Olympics
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22 days ago
nelson : Cavic's blog - Great, honest writeup of what it felt like to come in 2nd by 0.01 seconds.
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1 month ago
Cameron Moll : skate - "skate" is a beautiful short video shot at 120 FPS with (I think) a RED camera, which employs a "35mm cine sized sensor ... with wide dynamic range and color space in 12 bit native RAW." The music featured is "It's Alright" (iTunes) by Bang Gang. Props to
nelson : Slow motion skate - Beautiful 120fps HD video of skateboarding
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1 month ago
Andy Baio : Librarian responds to complaint about "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" - incredibly thoughtful and well-reasoned defense of a mildly controversial children's book [via]
philgyford : Myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding - Imagine if every complaint about anything received a reply this thoughtful. (via Kottke)
wearehugh : myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding - librarians can say "fuck you" better than anyone else
Eric Meyer : Uncle Bobby's Wedding - Now that is one fantastic response.
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1 month ago
philgyford : Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known - Good Experience - Nice clear description of having a book published. Even if you have a publisher, you're on your own. (via Kottke)
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1 month ago
philgyford : Times Higher Education - All the privileged must have prizes - About teaching at Harvard and the sense of entitlement the kids there have. (via Kottke)
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1 month ago
philgyford : Chris Gilmour - Wonderful lifesize (I assume) sculptures of everyday objects (bikes, cars, dentist's chair, etc.) made entirely out of cardboard. (via Kottke)
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1 month ago
philgyford : Last Call, Bohemia: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com - Christopher Hitchens on gentrification, New York's West Village, London's Soho, etc. (via Kottke, yes I'm catching up on a lot of Kottke)
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1 month ago
philgyford : Survival tips for the Middle Ages - Completely awesome stuff. I've thought about this kind of thing loads since I was a kid - how would you cope if you travelled back in time? Lots of conflicting ideas there.
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2 month ago
gleuschk : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - he's talking to people like me (I hope -- he certainly isn't talking in a way that the plumber in his kitchen can understand him)
philgyford : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - Great measured rant about what Ivy League educated kids are missing out on. (via Kottke)
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mmb : Economics of POW Camp - Economics of POW Camp via POW camp economics (kottke.org) [via]
philgyford : Economics of POW Camp - Fascinating description of the bartering network in World War II Prisoner of War camps. (via Kottke)
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3 month ago
adamrg : Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips - Surviving the year 1000 with 21st century knowledge. Fun thought puzzle.
philgyford : Marginal Revolution: Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips - The post that resulted in Jason's post. Yet more conflicting but interesting ideas about how you'd survive. (via Kottke)
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joshua : Ten Books on Investing Recommended by Warren Buffett
philgyford : Ten Books on Investing Recommended by Warren Buffett | Business Pundit - I love lists of books recommended by people who know what they're talking about. (via Kottke)
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : Displacements - film installation projects a rotating video onto a whitewashed room [via]
philgyford : Displacements – today and tomorrow - Very nice video / installation art thing, worth a look. (via Kottke)
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4 month ago
philgyford : Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online's Bill Taylor - Much linked-to article about an online shoe-selling firm and how it's a great place to work. They offer new recruits $1000 to quit, in order to only keep people who are keen. (via Kottke)
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nelson : David Lynch panties in his mouth - Must be great to be so completely bizarre
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4 month ago
nelson : 100 essential Jazz albums - Great list with links to purchase. Note the lack of Amazon associate IDs in the links; d'oh!
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5 month ago
nelson : Antarctic explorers' huts - 100 year old expedition bases
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Estupido Espezial, a joke version of OCR-A with swashes - even their joke typefaces get them paid [via]
nelson : Decorative OCR font - Funny story of typographer love
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Landon Dyer's story of working on Donkey Kong at Atari in the 1980s - don't miss the rest of his blog, too [via]
philgyford : DadHacker » Blog Archive » Donkey Kong and Me - Lovely early days of computing story about the guy who wrote Donkey Kong for the Atari 400/800 home computer. (via Kottke)
Milo Vermeulen : DadHacker - Donkey Kong and Me - DadHacker - Donkey Kong and Me [more] [via]
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6 month ago
nelson : Star Wars vs. Saul Bass - Awesome "what if" title sequence
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philgyford : Breaking Through - New York Times - Just because I find it interesting what movies make a performer's reputation, and in some cases makes it harder for them to different roles later. (via Kottke)
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nelson : TV movement map - Beautiful visualization of a family watching TV together
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