Links for 05/30/2008
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Paulin’s CM 141 desk to be reissued
I like the style of this desk (and most other things Bauhaus).
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Links for 05/29/2008
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Subterranean robot train to beat the jams
Cargo Cap’s genius lies in its simplicity. Beneath city streets would run a series of tunnels. An electric monorail system would be built to run sealed capsules guided by computers and sensors, each carrying up to 600kg in weight. The plan is for them to run, in tens of thousands, 24 hours a day, gliding silently direct to delivery points.
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Tower Bridge, London, is an example of a twitterject.
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Chris Harrison - Web Trigrams Visualization
Visualizations of three word search terms (trigrams).
Links for 05/23/2008
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French connection to America’s pastime
“A village mayor had a vision: build a field and spark interest in baseball. It did, just barely. But what a ballpark.”
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With a good discography, for the completists like myself.
Links for 05/21/2008
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When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like cuttlefish squirting out ink. —George Orwell.
Links for 05/20/2008
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Vampire Slayer Buffy Saves Iraq Reporter’s Soul
Jamie Tarabay, on how Buffy helped get her through a stint in Iraq.
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Reader Submitted Tips for Aperture
Using the RGB Channels along with the monochrome mixer can create much more dynamic black and white images in Aperture than just using the luminance channel.
Links for 05/19/2008
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Described as “stiff and naive” and “wonderfully stupid.”
Links for 05/14/2008
Links 04/26/2008
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From Wikipedia. Includes links to some WIFI maps.
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Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point?
As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips.
Links 04/25/2008
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Twitter slang for “cool”.
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An interview with Morris about his new film, Standard Operating Procedure.
Links 04/18/2008
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cityofsound: Transport informatics
“…a quick survey of new informational approaches to transport, hinging on individual behaviour and engagement via public data.”
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Iraqi Unit Flees Post, Despite American’s Plea - Annotated
“Every house in Sadr City probably has one of their sons in the Mahdi Army,” he observed when American soldiers visited his position on Monday. “So it is hard to convince people to believe in the Iraqi Army.”
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Put broadband in sewers to cope with burgeoning demand - Annotated
Ofcom’s sample survey will look at sewers, telecoms ducts, water and energy systems and the existing telecoms infrastructure system throughout the country.
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Frequently asked questions about poetry. - Annotated
Why don’t modern poems rhyme? Why don’t modern American poets deal with pollitical issues? etc.