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Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again
— A generation of British Islamists have been trained in Afghanistan to fight a global jihad. But now some of those would-be extremists have had a change of heart. Johann Hari finds out what made them give up the fight.
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at 6:59 AM on November 16, 2009
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The Polar Discovery
team has documented science in action from pole to pole during the historic 2007-2009 International Polar Year, and
covered five scientific expeditions. The science projects explored a range of topics from climate change and glaciers, to Earth’s geology, biology, ocean chemistry, circulation, and technology at the icy ends of the earth. Through
photo essays and
other multimedia, they explain how scientists collected data and what they discovered about the rapidly changing polar regions. From the awesome folks at
WHOI.
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at 10:01 AM on November 9, 2009
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Take your nose on a stroll down memory lane with vintage perfumery.
The Vintage Perfume Vault features fragrance reviews and articles on perfume history.
Perfume Shrine offers articles on perfumery including essays on the science of fragrance and aroma materials, interviews with perfumers and industry professionals, trend-watching.
Inspiration in Perfumery profiles Henri Robert, Andre Fraysse, Ernest Beaux and Edmond Roudnitska. More about olfactory delights from
1000 Fragrances.
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at 8:17 AM on November 6, 2009
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Michael Surtees latest photo experiment is called #walkingtoworktoday. The rules are simple and open to anyone—while walking to work take a photo. From there the photo needs to be pushed to Twitter via Flickr while containing the hashtag #walkingtoworktoday somewhere in the tile. But there wasn’t one dedicated space outside of Flickr to see the photos, and even then it was only seeing it through one medium—you didn’t get to see the tweets. So that’s why he decided there needed to be a site. Surtees created
#walkingtoworktoday using Daylife tools that contained Flickr and Twitter moduals. The main modual streams photos from Flickr while the right rail shows the tweets. It’s an interesting redundancy that works.
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at 11:23 AM on November 4, 2009
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Ride the City
maps the best or safest urban bicycle route from point A to B. Presently featuring multi-lingual maps from New York, Chicago, Austin, Louisville, San Diego, and Seattle.
Their blog posts updates about new cities added to the grid, or other topics relating to urban bicycling.
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at 11:19 AM on October 29, 2009
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Just Add New Zealanders
— a compilation of short-form film, music videos, movie trailers, and interactive promos. Check out the
locations section for photos of the world-class scenic beauty New Zealand is famous for.
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at 7:09 AM on October 28, 2009
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A Heart a Day
— Freelance illustrator Thomas Fuchs manages to include a heart in his daily drawings.
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at 5:59 AM on October 26, 2009
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Knowledge Score
is a general knowledge quiz game. Categories include Art, Astronomy, Food and Drink, Geography, History, Literature, Movies, Politics, Music, Economics, Languages, Sports, Math and more. If you want to try out Knowledge Score without registering, use the "Play as guest" feature.
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at 7:30 AM on October 24, 2009
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The Images of Eyes
Gallery exhibits images and paintings of eyes by international artists, featuring work from about 200 artists from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
Gallery I contains figurative paintings, oil and watercolor paintings, portraits, charcoal and ink drawings, lithographs, sculpture, digital, and other fine art content.
Gallery II exhibits nude paintings, so may be NSFW.
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at 5:17 PM on October 11, 2009
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Remember when your computer just worked? Did you click 'OK' to that recommended update on programs like iTunes, Adobe Reader, or Yahoo Messenger, only to realize that the older version ran faster or had better features? Then
Version Download may be your solution. Includes back-level versions of browsers, audio and video, security and anti-virus, FTP, file-sharing and communications software.
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at 6:37 AM on October 10, 2009
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DSLR News Shooter
is a new photo site featuring the use of the latest HD-dSLRs like the Canon Eos5DmkII, 7D and Nikon D300s for news, documentary and factual shooting. By Guardian news photographer
Dan Chung, it's a place for professionals, educators, students and industry figures to discuss the practice and the art of cinematic photography in documenting the real world. For example, the time-lapse and slow-motion film of the recent
60th anniversary parade of the PRC. Other places to look for information and discussion of DSLR video are the
Planet5D blog, and filmmakers such as
Vincent Laforet and
Phillip Bloom. (previous
1,
2)
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at 5:34 PM on October 7, 2009
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The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean, were among the earliest filmmakers. Their father,
Claude-Antoine Lumière, ran a photographic firm and both brothers worked for him. It was not until their father retired in 1892 that the brothers began to create moving pictures. They patented a number of significant processes leading up to their film camera — most notably film perforations as a means of advancing the film through the camera and projector, and the
cinématographe. Their first public screening of films at which admission was charged was held on December 28, 1895 in Paris. This history-making presentation featured
ten short films, including their first film,
Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory). Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds.
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at 5:14 PM on October 6, 2009
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Appalachia Ohio is home to an eclectic mix of individuals united by a common sense of place. Through photography, video, audio, text and interactive graphics,
Soul of Athens reveals the spirit of this unique community. Produced by students at Ohio University's
School of Visual Communication. (
2008,
2007)
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at 4:34 PM on October 5, 2009
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So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
Take 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and redo them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. Instead, call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake?
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at 6:47 AM on September 30, 2009
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About 8% of the male population has some sort of color vision deficiency. The
color blind are unable to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites. The patterns and examples on
We Are Color Blind help developers create websites the color deficient can use with minimal problems. Take a
color vision test to see where you stand.
50 facts about color blindness.
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at 6:44 AM on September 28, 2009
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The New York Review of Ideas
is a web magazine reporting about New York commerce, literature and politics.
The Manzine is actually £2 for the print version, but some of the its best is also online.
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at 4:35 PM on September 25, 2009
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The True Love Project
— People are exhorted to "say cheese" for the camera so their faces will approximate a happy look. Other emotional states, such as love, are far more complex and not easily photographed. Love is intimate and deeply personal, and its expression may be hard to share in a staged setting. Hypnosis opens a pathway into the unconscious, the neurological realm of emotional memory. In TRUE LOVE a group of volunteers worked with a professional hypnotist to reach, in trance, a point where they were able to visualize the camera as a beloved person. The resulting images captured people who were actually in love with the camera.
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at 9:14 PM on September 22, 2009
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Previously we saw
those who
make art out of the wax crayon. The crayon is the simplest of mediums, one that we’ve all used at one time or another and most likely have lying around the house. There are also those who make art
with the crayon:
Jeffrey Robert |
Don Marco |
Tiona Marco.
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at 10:16 AM on September 6, 2009
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The Revolving Floor
is a curated community of writers and artists, focused on finding creative ways to share diverse perspectives through creating content around shared topics. Every month, a new topic. Several times per week, a new post, each time by a different author. [via
mefi projects]
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at 5:06 PM on August 31, 2009
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How do you spread your genes around when you're stuck in one place? By tricking animals, including us, into falling in love.
Orchids — Love and Lies
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at 10:24 AM on August 30, 2009
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The
Warrior Writers Project brings together recent veterans and current service members to be in creative community and utilize art-making processes to express themselves. There is a deep necessity for veterans to create when so much has been shattered and stolen. A profound sense of hope comes from the ability to rebuild and transform.
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at 8:46 AM on August 29, 2009
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The Great Flu
— "Even at the lowest difficulty this game delivers a sense of just how hard it is to handle and contain the spread of a dangerous virus." (
via)
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at 9:16 PM on August 18, 2009
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There are few things a man needs in life: a sense of purpose and ambition, a clean bill of health, and a fully detailed hand-sewn puppet of himself.
Puppet Artists, Marnie & Bill Winn, create soft sculpted puppets that range from
real people (from their photographs), to
celebrities, to storybook and
fantasy characters. PA also makes similarly detailed sets of 4-inch-tall
finger puppets. (
via)
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at 10:38 AM on August 11, 2009
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All at once, they practically screamed,
“We’ve got ten minutes with the President on Monday…do you wanna do the shoot?!!”. Don’t let anyone tell ya
photographing the President ain’t all it’s cracked up to be!
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at 11:15 AM on August 8, 2009
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Detroit is one of the most visually interesting cities in the world, however it is also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented.
Detroit Book of Love is a group of photographs illustrating what contemporary Detroit artists have been doing in regards to developing an understanding and appreciation for this complex and diverse city; from street portraits of the survivors, to the landscapes of wild new growth, to the industrial leftovers. As a group they show Detroit as it is, not what it should be or what it once was.
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at 10:59 AM on August 7, 2009
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NYC Grid
is a photo blog dedicated to exploring and discovering The City of New York block by block and corner by corner. Updated every weekday, each post covers a new block with a focus on the mundane and ephemeral. An optimistic snapshot of New York as it is now.
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at 11:27 AM on August 1, 2009
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Peter Morville
is widely recognized as a father of the information architecture field, and he serves as an advocate for the critical roles that search and findability play in defining web user experience. His recent project titled
Search Patterns, is a sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns; for example
spime search, the ability to query objects in motion and find things in the real world. Morville is also on the editorial board of the new
Journal of Information Architecture.
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at 8:06 AM on July 31, 2009
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