January 2012
3 posts
“During pregnancy, cells sneak across the placenta in both directions. The...”
– Our Selves, Other Cells - Boing Boing
“Auto-Tune…was actually designed as a seismic-analysis tool for Exxon, to...”
– BLDGBLOG: Spacesuit: An Interview with Nicholas de Monchaux
December 2011
8 posts
No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org →
Google Maps Street View Of Famous Album Covers →
I can’t tell if these are really cool or really disappointing. Beastie Boys - “Paul’s Boutique” Source: whudat.de Oasis - “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?” View Entire…
Where was I?
Has this ever happened to you? You close a tab after reading a satisfying series of links, and you don’t remember which social bookmarking service/RSS feed reader/Twitter/Tumblr account you started from?
I suppose this is why people look at my desktop and browser window and laugh when they see how many tabs I have open at once.
Longreads: Writer Steve Silberman: My Top 5... →
longreads:
Steve Silberman is a contributing editor for Wired magazine, one of Time’s selected science tweeters, and the author of the NeuroTribes blog at the Public Library of Science. He is currently working on a book about autism and neurodiversity for Avery/Penguin. (Read recent Longreads…
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/10-tips-for... →
Investigation and Amplification: On Clay Shirky's... →
With TVs, Microsoft Is Right and Apple Is Wrong |... →
November 2011
2 posts
A billion years in the blink of an eye →
When I was a kid, one of my favorite things on one of my favorite shows (3-2-1 Contact) was Al Jarnow’s Cosmic Clock, a short video animation showing a billion years of time passing in fewer than…
Blow-By-Blow Account of the Fukushima Accident →
September 2011
1 post
Story, interrupted: why we need new approaches to... →
June 2011
2 posts
Rough space →
Space photography and videography all looks pretty much the same: high contrast, lots of black backgrounds, smooth, and often sterile. Designer Chris Abbas took a bunch of photos from the Cassini…
May 2011
2 posts
The Future of User Interfaces: Data Visualization →
A new iPad app launched this month called Planetary. It visualizes your music collection using the solar system as a metaphor and it’s visually stunning. It also seems gimmicky, at first glance….
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A Hoth Realtor... →
April 2011
9 posts
Short Form Content...with Depth →
Have you ever heard of a title called The Best Business Books Ever? I recently downloaded the Kindle sample and started reading it. It offers a very short (2-3 page) summary of of more…
Asta Nielsen’s Hamlet →
I stumbled on this yesterday. A 1920s-era, trans-gender, silent film adaptation of Hamlet, staring Asta Nielsen.
Scenes from the 1920 silent film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s…
How to Keep Dropbox Employees' Hands Off Your Data →
Yesterday Dropbox, the popular file storage Web application that enables users to easily sync a folder from their local computer with the the cloud, made a small change to its terms of…
HTML5 Calendar Data Sharing Standard Released as... →
This morning, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published the first public draft of its Calendar API spec, the technical standard by which it recommends applications and calendars share event…
Congratulations to ProPublica on its Pulitzer →
Though executive branch officials have disappointed many with their investigations of the financial crisis, some journalists have done an outstanding job. Over the past year, I’ve frequently linked…
[from migurski] jQuery's popularity means that... →
“Rebecca Murphey’s excellent JSConf presentation on how Javascript is a lot like Perl these days, with new developers learning terrible habits from jQuery that keep them from getting past beta. 1….
[from migurski] Richard Scarry and our diminished... →
“I return to a favourite topic: books for children and what they tell them (and us) about society, and especially about work. I continue to operate on the basis of an anecdotal hunch, not yet…
The iPad App That Went Too Far: Media Says Cease... →
Aggregation and curation are seductive arts - they feel like they’re within anyone’s reach, they seem limited only by imagination and discerning taste and they can create a magical experience for…
[from khoiv] How to Screen Grab Menus and Windows →
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March 2011
4 posts
CSS Pivot →
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John Resig - Dictionary Lookups in JavaScript →
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Real-Time Japan News Resources →
Part of covering the culture of technology is covering technology’s use by the culture at large. At a certain point, however, I have had to acknowledge that we are not a general news…
February 2011
9 posts
This Library E-Book Will Self-Destruct After 26... →
There’s a certain amount of wear-and-tear on library books. You can only check out Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince so many times, for example, before a well-loved book becomes a little…
Screen Publishing →
We are becoming people of the screen instead of people of the book. I have been a person of the book, but I am becoming a person of the screen. It is not an easy transition. I write in…
The Atavist Reader & Authoring Tools →
I’ve been banging the drum a lot lately for short-form content. We’ve all got way too much to read and I believe concise content will become even more important in the mobile/tablet world…
A Surgical Assistant with Hands Blessed by God:... →
This article is posted in honor of Black History Month: From ScienceHeroes: The bank crash of 1930 wiped out a young man’s entire savings, destroying his dream of going to medical…
Cartoonist Pulls Switcheroo On Homophobes →
When an anti-gay marriage group called the National Organization for Marriage linked directly to a comic by Zach Weinersmith , he pulled a fast one on them by switching out the image for…
Google Unveils Delicious Bookmark Importer →
Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by graubart to delicious google bookmarking socialmedia yahoo socialnetworks importer import …
The Chance for Democracy in Egypt is Lost →
Robert Springborg in Foreign Policy: The threat to the military’s control of the Egyptian political system is passing. Millions of demonstrators in the street have not broken the…
How to spot a republican. (joke) →
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him…
Infringing anime downloads increase DVD sales →
A thoroughgoing report from the Japanese Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry on the effect of piracy on anime DVD sales concludes that while some channels (rentals) are harmed by…
January 2011
6 posts
Ayn Rand took government assistance while decrying... →
Noted speed freak, serial-killer fangirl, and Tea Party hero Ayn Rand was also a kleptoparasite, sneakily gobbling up taxpayer funds under an assumed name to pay for her medical treatments…
Javascript in Ten Minutes →
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Ted Talks, Remixed →
by Jacob Goldstein Finally: Somebody put some beats behind Ted talks. Asen Alex Tabarrok VS Jimmy Smith by asenasen Alex Tabarrok is an econ…
Snow geometry →
“Linkage” is a technical/mechanical name for a relatively simple concept that’s played a big role in daily life since the Industrial Revolution. Imagine four rigid bars of different…
Stephen Colbert on Limbaugh's ching-chong moment →
Just when you thought that everything that could be said about Rush Limbaugh’s ching-chong-chop-suey impersonation of Chinese Premier Hu Jintao had been said, here comes Stephen Colbert…
Jon Stewart on Toxic Political Discourse →
He is still the most incisive thinker on the American media machine:
I do think that its important for us to watch our rhetoric, I do think that its a worthwhile goal not to conflate our…
December 2010
11 posts
Boardgame Remix Kit makes inspired new games out... →
The most insanely clever Christmas gift idea of the year must be Hide&Seek’s inspired Boardgame Remix Kit. Having observed that the four most common household boardgames — Monopoly, Cluedo…
How Learning to Read Changes the Cortical Networks... →
100 Exceedingly Useful CSS Tips and Tricks →
Pure CSS3 box-shadow page curl effect →