December 2009
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“The perfect case in point is that of metadata. There’s a word you hear a lot on...”
– Ben Hammersley from his musings on e-books
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Ann Trubek: "What we want from writing is... →
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A super-list on the future curated by... →
(First presented in his lecture at the “Where do we go from here?” symposium at the Louisiana Museum during the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.)
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Joseph Shoer, a Ph.D. candidate in aerospace... →
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A Timeline of Timelines →
From Cabinet Magazine (so glad I still have the printed version of this timeline at home): The problems presented by 20th-century versions of the timeline arise from different sources. In most important respects, the conceptual issues were already on the table in the 18th century. But the 20th century brought developments in time reckoning that gave timelines new poignancy. In 1945, it became...
Dec 23rd
Reading Highlights from 2009  →
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Photographer Richard Mosse discusses his work with Geoff Manaugh over at BLDGBLOG. Here’s an excerpt that explains the video above: I met an extraordinary Dutchman out in Thailand who is known in wreck-chasing circles as the Dakota Hunter. He very generously let me gatecrash his shoot of a Thai-organized project sinking Dakota aircraft into the waves off Phuket. These aircraft were vintage...
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52 Books in 52 Weeks: One man's personal quest to... →
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The Lost Formats Preservation Society: The society... →
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New York Times World Traffic Data — Mobile and Web The data used to create these maps come from roughly 15 Web servers. Some of the mobile bursts on the maps are a result of compressing the data.
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Concept Video for Digital Magazine by BERG This is quite well done. One thing I’d miss with an interface like this is the serendipity of connecting the left page layout and images with the right page. Sometimes those connections spark my interest in reading an article, or inspire me aesthetically. That said, BERG has created a mood with this video that is truly lifelike and an interface for...
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Two general strategies for deflecting asteroids... →
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The Outer Limits: In a new paper, engineers Lev... →
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“The sudden onset of web culture is really a dramatic turn in the timeless...”
– Lee Siegel, Against the Machine
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The DIYist is really at the heart of all things... →
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Interview with Nathan Shedroff on the difference... →
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“As the Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said, ‘The world...”
– Lee Siegel, Against the Machine
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Will we have to defend our civilisation against... →
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Exhibition of radical proposals to make the world... →
n 1938, the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller wrote Nine Chains to the Moon,his radical proposal for improving the quality of life for all humankind via progressive design and maximizationof the world’s finite resources. The title was a metaphor for cooperation – if all of humankind stood on each other’s shoulders we could complete nine chains to the moon. Today, the population of the...
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