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Meme Weaver In which
"the author tries—and fails—to cash in on a big idea". Warning: skippable full-screen ad alert. Behind it is an article in the Atlantic (the magazine, not the ocean). Of possible interest to fans and critics of the popular science genre of books, Wikipedians, and underdog/failure sympathisers.
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at 5:06 AM on November 18, 2011
(7 comments)
Embarrassment alert: some would say Channel 4 hired the
wrong man (Youtube) to host live coverage of the Athletics World Championships. The
consensus seems to be that Channel 4 are to blame.
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at 5:11 AM on September 4, 2011
(50 comments)
Jay-Z and Kanye West collaboration
Watch the Throne, as reviewed by
Ghostface Killah. Words: they are not minced.
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at 5:04 PM on August 13, 2011
(60 comments)
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism have been carrying out research into the extent of drone missile strikes carried out by the CIA. Today they
published findings. See also:
facts and figures, a
timeline, and their
Twitter feed where updates are ongoing.
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at 3:14 AM on August 11, 2011
(56 comments)
Comedian
Stewart Lee clarifies his view of comedian Michael McIntyre following a Jan Moir (
the very same)
article in the Daily Mail (itself a culmination of coverage elsewhere), which included for me the definitive out of context quotation...
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at 7:20 AM on July 20, 2011
(35 comments)
Star forts from above (Google Maps links):
Alba Iulia,
Arad Fortress,
Almeida,
Bourtrange,
Coevorden,
Estremoz,
Goryōkaku,
Naarden,
Neuf Brisach,
Nicosia,
Palmanova,
Retranchement,
Terezín,
Willemstad.
More.
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at 5:03 AM on June 8, 2010
(47 comments)
The rise of the f*** yeah tumblrs has been
noted on MeFi, but with the appearance of
Is it a F*** Yeah!?, it's easier to find curious FYTs. So in addition to the obvious
cats,
sharks and
what have you, one might happen upon
modernism,
Hamlet,
e.e cummings,
chinchillas,
archeology,
Romania,
The Kinks,
weather, and
ballet.
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at 3:58 AM on June 3, 2010
(59 comments)
Between the art nudes and fashion shots, Doug Kim's
Chasing Light photography blog (front page mildly NSFW, archives more-so) is fast becoming a secret museum of photography with examples and insightful quotes from great photographers. One need go back only as far as December for posts on
Dennis Hopper's photography,
Cartier-
Bresson,
Mary Ellen Mark's on set photography,
Annie Liebovitz on Hunter S. Thompson,
Jousef Koudelka on The Soviet invasion of Prague,
Robert Frank's visit to London and Wales, and
Akira Kurosawa's group compositions in Seven Samurai.
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at 2:08 AM on June 1, 2010
(11 comments)
The greatest internet sports games of all time according to The Guardian.
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at 11:45 PM on May 18, 2010
(12 comments)
Jane Graham in the Guardian on the
new wave of fan films, with links to notable examples. "... fan films have come a long way from two fat blokes with beards running through a forest waving pound-shop light sabres."
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at 7:41 AM on May 14, 2010
(12 comments)
Weaponizing Mozart - "How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control".
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at 1:05 AM on March 1, 2010
(88 comments)
The Daily Bunny
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at 3:31 AM on February 26, 2010
(39 comments)
Bank Notes - a collection of bank robbery notes, successful and otherwise.
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at 3:43 AM on November 2, 2009
(64 comments)
Alastair Levy is a photographer.
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at 3:53 AM on October 21, 2009
(16 comments)
Adobe UI Gripes
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at 5:28 AM on September 30, 2009
(82 comments)
The pictures and sketches of JRR Tolkien
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at 12:01 PM on September 16, 2009
(24 comments)
Kemp Folds - Ross Kemp's face, folded. (
Who?)
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at 8:36 AM on August 5, 2009
(33 comments)
The Present Sound of London --
"I’ve been lured to London by money at the hottest, stickiest time of year. Every time I visit, I’m struck by the noises—not necessarily their volume, but their strangeness and variety in comparison to the quiet humdrum of the provincial town where I live. So this time I’m equipped with an audio recorder." By Giles Turnbull.
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at 4:13 AM on July 21, 2009
(8 comments)
Meeting Ticker -- if this helps shorten even one meeting by one minute, it'll have been worth it.
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at 12:34 AM on July 17, 2009
(20 comments)
London Shop Fronts
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at 2:57 AM on June 2, 2009
(71 comments)
That was too close. RAF Tornado comes within 30ft of mid-air collision.
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at 2:54 AM on February 16, 2009
(50 comments)
Some articles about Blade Runner
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at 10:17 AM on January 29, 2009
(59 comments)
I Hardly Know Her - is an "alternative way to view Flickr photostreams. It is designed to facilitate high quality viewing with minimal distractions." By
Justin Ouellette, creator of Muxtape.
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at 7:24 AM on January 27, 2009
(52 comments)
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches -
"Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea."
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at 3:39 PM on January 11, 2009
(74 comments)
Scientists at the Auckland Museum will be performing a
necropsy of a great white Shark between 11am and 1pm New Zealand time on Thursday. Though they will be examining the contents of its gut, they will also, among other things, look at its sex organs (female) and jaw. The necropsy will be
viewable on the web from 2pm NZ time (
when's that?).
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at 8:44 AM on January 7, 2009
(18 comments)
A Guardian interview with Lynndie England (of Abu Ghraib notoriety).
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at 6:26 AM on January 6, 2009
(111 comments)
The sections of
britishbattles.com about The First Afghan War have
apparently been quoted verbatim in Al-Qaeda propaganda. Site author, amateur historian John Mackenzie, told the press "It's exactly appropriate to use the account of the first Afghan war to point out the pointlessness of the current operations and the dangers that they run of a similar disaster,"
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at 2:49 AM on January 1, 2009
(17 comments)
I Wish I were the Moon by Daniel Benmergui - a small, simple puzzle game. Find the 5 endings.
About.
Redux (with more endings). Via
gamasutra's top 5 indie games of 2008.
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at 5:10 PM on December 28, 2008
(15 comments)
Push tin with
ATC-SIM, an air traffic control simulator.
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at 3:19 AM on December 24, 2008
(31 comments)
Pocketful of dough - an article on where the art of, er,
tipping up front can get you. Originally printed in a year 2000 edition of Gourmet.
Via Juicy Tidbits.
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at 6:05 AM on October 10, 2008
(59 comments)
Return to sender: Artist puts Royal Mail to the test - "To put them to the test, Harriet Russell concealed the addresses of 130 letters to herself in a series of increasingly complex puzzles and ciphers. Among the disguises she employed were dot-to-dot drawings, anagrams and cartoons. The answer, it seems, was very far indeed. Amazingly, only 10 failed to complete their journey back to her." Be sure to click the "more pictures" link to the right for more samples.
Via one.point.zero.
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at 5:27 AM on October 9, 2008
(56 comments)
A novel youtube page promoting Nintendo's latest platform game. The page itself adds context as the video progresses.
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at 3:16 AM on October 8, 2008
(24 comments)
The Eureka Tower Carpark in Melbourne makes makes great use of forced perspective for its way-finding system, designed by Axel Peemoeller.
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at 3:19 PM on September 7, 2008
(31 comments)
Ghostschool is a collection of photographs taken of the sketchbook/scrapbook of designer Wil Freeborn (and a few other tumbled bits and pieces).
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at 11:55 AM on September 6, 2008
(3 comments)
penaddiction.blogspot.com - a blog about pens, with links to lots of other pens and stationery blogs.
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at 6:32 PM on September 4, 2008
(66 comments)
Richard Wilkinson's illustrations - modern, melancholy pictures with a subdued palette but vivid identity.
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at 11:27 AM on August 18, 2008
(6 comments)
Sushi Go Round - a sushi serving game.
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at 8:33 AM on July 24, 2008
(14 comments)
Open Doors - a puzzle game.
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at 2:48 AM on July 15, 2008
(10 comments)
"We create
sewn art and artifacts based on the drawings of our two children using only thrifted and recycled materials. We also make custom pieces with a child's drawing provided or requested by you." Via
plsj tumblelog.
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at 7:53 AM on July 8, 2008
(8 comments)
toneshared is a library of free mobile phone ringtones made by electronica/alternative musicians. From the
subtle to the
mashed to the
downright annoying.
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at 2:08 AM on June 26, 2008
(18 comments)
LEGO is full of WIN - Roo Reynolds' Interesting 2008 talk.
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at 11:17 AM on June 24, 2008
(26 comments)
Record player + video camera =
Phonographantasmascope, animator Jim LeFevre's extension of the zoetrope. "It is all live action and works by using the shutter speed of the camera rather than the rather irritating stroboscope methods other 3D Zoetropes use."
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at 12:38 AM on June 23, 2008
(15 comments)
New Kiribati "...will future climate change refugees become a new caste of service sector workers inhabiting a sort of Floating Hotel & Duty Free Mall ... ?"
Small island states are on the front line.
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at 8:16 AM on June 19, 2008
(3 comments)
GrifBall!
Red Vs. Blue's Sarge and Caboose introduce the rules. A sample match:
Bungie Vs. RvB. Context: Since the release of online multiplayer first-person shooter Halo 3, Bungie have allowed players to customise maps with the placement of objects, weapons, spawn points etc. using the
Forge feature. Combined with customisable rule sets, unusually innovative custom games are possible.
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at 6:16 AM on June 17, 2008
(4 comments)
Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green. Last month, Wired published what it called "10 green heresies" which makes the case for urban living, intensive forest management and, er, air conditioning, among other things.
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at 7:09 AM on June 13, 2008
(120 comments)
Ping.fm lets you update your social network statuses, blogs and microblogs simultaneously from one place. The current
sign-up beta code is "tastyping".
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at 2:23 AM on June 12, 2008
(28 comments)
