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philgyford : Asian Poses - The Definitive Guide to Asian Poses - A blog describing all the common standard poses people in that part of the world use in photographs. Fascinating. (via Kottke)
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philgyford : Systemic - Too cheap to meter - Trying to calculate the monetary value of distant planets. I'd like to see calculations with a different example at the start, and different measures of inflation.
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cobra libre : Sean Carroll: Rules for Time Travelers [via] #
deusx : Rules for Time Travelers | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine - "0. There are no paradoxes.1. Traveling into the future is easy.2. Traveling into the past is hard — but maybe not impossible.3. Traveling through time is like traveling through space.4. Things that travel together, age together.5. Black holes are
philgyford : Rules for Time Travelers | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine - Entertaining list of rules about time travel. (via Kottke)
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nelson : Falling in love on a train - Great David Sedaris bit
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philgyford : Buildings and Food: How to look at billboards - Brilliant essay from 1960 about how outdoor advertising is entirely wrong. Wish I'd written it. When I rule the world outdoor advertising will be banned. (via Kottke)
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Andy Baio : Josh Poehlein's Modern History - collages made exclusively from YouTube screengrabs, artifacts and all [via]
philgyford : Modern History - Awesome stuff: "a series of collages assembled exclusively from screen grabs of Youtube videos." Free printable versions too. Remind me of John Martin paintings. (via Kottke)
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3 month ago
philgyford : The Eyewash Station: Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack - "You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack." (via Kottke)
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nelson : Git vs. Bazaar vs. Mercurial - Python project evaluates distributed source code control systems. In a shocker, picks the one implemented in Python
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philgyford : The first one's the hardest | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog - Nice description of someone designing their first font over eighteen months. I'd love to try this (you know, if I had ten times the time I do). (via Kottke)
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philgyford : Op-Ed Contributor - For Sale - The $100 House - NYTimes.com - This is fascinating, showing a way the make-up of parts of cities could change drastically due to the recession. Although I wonder whether the journalist is extrapolating from an isolated one-off incident. (via Kottke)
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nelson : Underwater armageddon - New BBC HD nature documentary showing an underwater hunt
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Jeremy Zawodny : office faq - office faq: that is mildly insane
nelson : Geek attic office - Amazingly designed single person office
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philgyford : Datamoshing - This stuff is awesome... ten years ago we wouldn't be able to see this as anything but an ugly mistake. In a couple more years it'll look really dated. It's now, yesterday's future here.
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philgyford : The Online Photographer: The Trough of No Value - It's lovely when you find a phrase to name a thing you've always known but never been able to reduce to a handful of words. (via Kottke)
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philgyford : Snarkmarket: A Snarkmarket Book Project: The New Liberal Arts - Writing a book about "the new liberal arts" and asking "what are they?" Also, the most pointless use of video ever. (via Kottke)
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nelson : NYT OpEd on the financial crisis - Scathing, detailed argument that the government's response to the financial crisis has been exactly wrong. Read the followup, too.
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nelson : Worst photo evar? - Annie Liebowitz makes a commercial stinker
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philgyford : Michal Kosakowski " films - Very, very good silent film about the hours before 9/11 made entirely from clips of movies made before 9/11. Set aside a few minutes and watch. (via Kottke)
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nelson : R.I.P. H.M. - Man famous in the cognitive science world for his inability to form memory.
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Andy Baio : Newsweek's exclusive Election 2008 report, embargoed behind-the-scenes story from both campaigns - they were given major access on the condition nothing would be released until today
philgyford : Barack Obama: How He Did It | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com - A series of seven articles about the campaigns. Worth a long read. (via Kottke)
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Andy Baio : Fred Armisen shows off Weekend Update's new megapixel giant touch map - art imitates life [via]
nelson : HCI gone bad on TV - Great parody of all these silly interface gadgets TV stations are playing with
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10 month ago
philgyford : The School Of Life - Homepage - "A new cultural enterprise based in central London offering intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life." A religion without religion? Intriguing. (via Kottke)
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