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Olympics photography

19 days ago

nelson : Olympics photography - Great notes from a guy working the Olympics

Tags : photography via:kottke olympics

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Cavic's blog

22 days ago

nelson : Cavic's blog - Great, honest writeup of what it felt like to come in 2nd by 0.01 seconds.

Tags : cavic phelps olympics swimming via:kottke

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skate

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

Tags : skateboard skateboarding via:kottke

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WWDD?

1 month ago

nelson : WWDD? - What would Don Draper do?

Tags : via:kottke madmen tv dondraper

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Librarian responds to complaint about "Uncle Bobby's Wedding"

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.

Tags : top via:kottke library librarian letter complaint marriage gaymarriage jamielarue unclebobbyswedding book culture

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Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known - Good Experience

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)

Tags : top via:kottke publishing books writing markhurst

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Times Higher Education - All the privileged must have prizes

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)

Tags : top via:kottke education harvard ivyleague university college privilege elite entitlement usa america johnhsummers tls

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Chris Gilmour

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)

Tags : top via:kottke cardboard sculpture art chrisgilmour card

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Last Call, Bohemia: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

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)

Tags : top via:kottke christopherhitchens vanityfair gentrification redevelopment cities urbanism newyork westvillage london soho bohemia

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Survival tips for the Middle Ages

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.

Tags : top jasonkottke kottke timetravel middleages

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The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz

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)

Tags : academia college communication education elite top via:kottke ivyleague america usa university williamderesiewicz americanscholar theamericanscholar privilege

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Economics of POW Camp

2 month ago

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)

Tags : link top via:kottke pow powcamp powcamps prisonersofwar economics bartering markets market

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Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips

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)

Tags : history interesting sideblog survival timetravel worldhistory top via:kottke middleages tylercowen

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Ten Books on Investing Recommended by Warren Buffett

3 month ago

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)

Tags : books econ finance top via:kottke investing investment reading readinglist warrenbuffett recommendations

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Displacements

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)

Tags : art installation room rotating top via:kottke video

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Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online's Bill Taylor

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)

Tags : business company employment hr shoes top via:kottke zappos

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David Lynch panties in his mouth

4 month ago

nelson : David Lynch panties in his mouth - Must be great to be so completely bizarre

Tags : davidlynch movies panties via:kottke

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100 essential Jazz albums

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!

Tags : jazz music via:kottke

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Antarctic explorers' huts

5 month ago

nelson : Antarctic explorers' huts - 100 year old expedition bases

Tags : antarctic cold edmundsen explorer scott shackleton via:kottke

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Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Estupido Espezial, a joke version of OCR-A with swashes

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

Tags : design fonts ocr rollingstone swash typography via:kottke

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Good Paris / Bad Paris

6 month ago

nelson : Good Paris / Bad Paris - Amusing expat diary

Tags : expat france paris via:kottke

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Landon Dyer's story of working on Donkey Kong at Atari in the 1980s

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]

Tags : atari computergames donkeykong programming top via:kottke videogames

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Star Wars vs. Saul Bass

6 month ago

nelson : Star Wars vs. Saul Bass - Awesome "what if" title sequence

Tags : credits design saulbass starwars titles via:kottke

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Breaking Through - New York Times

7 month ago

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)

Tags : acting actors article fame films movies newyorktimes nytimes top via:kottke

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TV movement map

7 month ago

nelson : TV movement map - Beautiful visualization of a family watching TV together

Tags : homebrew house map maps tv via:kottke visualization

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