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The Enron Explorer
from
Trampoline Systems "lets you investigate the actions and reactions of Enron's senior management team as the noose began to tighten" (through some 200,000 public domain corporate emails) using Trampoline's
SONAR social network mapping platform. (via
FutureFeeder)
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at 5:45 AM on October 31, 2006
(1 comment)
Design Times Square: The Urban Forest Project
"brings
185 banners created by the world’s most celebrated designers, artists, photographers and illustrators to New York’s Times Square. Each banner uses the form of the tree, or a metaphor for the tree, to make a powerful visual statement. Together they create a forest of thought-provoking images at one of the world’s busiest, most energetic, and emphatically
urban intersections." Including work by
Milton Glaser, the
Walker Art Center, and many, many others. Via
Speak Up.
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at 5:58 AM on August 29, 2006
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Inner City Youth, London
"In 2002,
Simon Wheatley began photographing London's publich housing developments...and was able to obtain a level of intimacy with his subjects that provides a true picture of the daunting project of growing up in the intimate confines of drug use, societal neglect, and poverty."
This (Flash-based) narrated slideshow features Wheatley's work, and is a look at the culture...and also the music (
grime) "as an artistic response to the place and circumstance, an expression of the violence, bleakness, and neglect..." (via
Future Feeder)
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at 7:24 AM on July 20, 2006
(38 comments)
The Alvin Lustig Archive
- "Alvin Lustig's
contributions to the design of books and book jackets, magazines, interiors, and textiles as well as his teachings would have made him a credible candidate for the AIGA Lifetime Achievement award when he was alive...Lustig created monuments of ingenuity and objects of aesthetic pleasure." The archive collects over 400 examples of his book, architectural, and ad-design work (see also AIGA's list of
Lustig's Top-10 designs). Via
HOW magazine...
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at 5:21 AM on December 20, 2005
(5 comments)
Web 2.0 overload
- "eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (
web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing." Tons of links to mashup apps like
PervWatch,
Podomatic,
ThinkFree, etc, etc, etc...(note: a lot of these sites are in beta)
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at 6:20 AM on September 30, 2005
(41 comments)
Shutterbook
- "drag and drop photo sharing." A flash-based Flickr-esque photo community..."
The service is similar to Flickr before Yahoo and while it is in an open beta at the moment, there will be a cost for the premium version..."
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at 12:22 PM on September 9, 2005
(22 comments)
HorizonZero
a Canadian new media and culture web journal, wraps up its run with
Issue 18: Ghost [Flash]...a tribute to and investigative archive of itself....
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at 6:20 PM on December 29, 2004
(4 comments)
Tracking African locust swarms
- a rainy winter and spring in northwestern Africa promised a rich harvest for area farmers, but instead has brought
plagues of ravaging locusts...
"Swarms of locusts can contain as many as 80 million locusts per square kilometer...a small part of a typical swarm can eat as much food as 2,500 people in a single day."
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at 6:01 PM on October 18, 2004
(3 comments)
Lego Astrobots Blog From Mars Rovers
- The Planetary Society has teamed with NASA to "man" it's two Mars Exploration Rover spacecraft with Lego "Astrobots." The bots, Biff Starling and Sandy Moondust, are
blogging their adventure "to allow kids to vicariously experience life in space, from launch, through the six-month space cruise, to landing and roving on the Martian surface."
posted to MetaFilter by tpl1212
at 7:30 AM on June 13, 2003
(4 comments)
2002 Worst Manual Contest
- as selected by Technical Standards, Inc (a documentation company). Some pretty good examples of confusing or confounding manual design (also check the
2000 - 2001 winners), with everything ranging from poor translation ("Operate it on the loosen condition of the levers without comfirmation can cause the handle pole bent and cause Incident") to perplexing images to just poor or absent proof-reading. PDF-intensive.
(Heard about this on NPR's "On The Media")
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at 6:35 AM on March 25, 2002
(6 comments)
INS grants visas to deceased hijackers
- on Monday, the folks at Immigration and Naturalization services finally got around to issuing student visas to Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi (who were aboard the two flights that struck the WTC).
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at 8:47 AM on March 13, 2002
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The return of "Water Cooler News?"
The Boston Globe discusses whether or not the trial of hockey dad Thomas Junta (on trial here in Cambridge, MA for allegedly beating to death another dad, Michael Costin) is ushering in "a kind of news normalcy" as it ushers out terror-related news (more)...
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at 5:36 AM on January 10, 2002
(5 comments)
The United States - "Sexual Superpower"
-
according to a study done by condom maker SSL International, folks in the US are having more sex (an average of 124 times per year), with more partners (an average of 14.3 partners), and starting to have sex younger (average age of 16) than any country in the world.
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at 9:07 AM on November 27, 2001
(40 comments)
Cronyism, alive and well in Boston
- departing Massachusetts Port Authority (the authority that oversees Boston's Logan Airport) executive director Virgina Buckingham has been given quite the golden parachute...in the form of a $175,000 severance package. This, uh, outrage puts Gov. Jane Swift in
tight spot...
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at 5:42 AM on October 31, 2001
(12 comments)
Marvel Comics ditches the Comics Code
- I haven't been
with it in terms of comics for about 10 years now, but I found this article to be fairly interesting. Apparently,
"Marvel is growing up with the rest of the country" (according to editor-in-chief Joe Quesada) by
ditching the CCA and introducing its own internal "ratings system." I can't decide whether to stodgy and support the campiness of what I grew up with (DC's
"Crisis On Infinite Earths," for one) or agree that comics should change (Captain America in a "compromising sexual situation," though?)...or perhaps I shouldn't really care, considering the last "comic" I picked up was
the Watchmen graphic novel...and I have an inkling that not much out today could compare...
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at 4:59 AM on October 25, 2001
(26 comments)
