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Journal 5
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on June 06, 2008
Shared by Martin Gordon re: last panel - If only I'd had such a warning.
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Hydra 1.5.3 (beta) for Aperture
via Download Squad by Joey Celis on June 17, 2008
Filed under: Photo, Macintosh, CommercialAttempting to capture the different ranges you see with your eyes on camera is quite difficult. For the most part, digital cameras attempt to accurately capture an image but sometimes details are lost in the shadows or in the highlights. In high dynamic range (HDR) photography multiple photographs of varying exposures are taken of the same subject and...
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Serious Play 2008: John Maeda Rocks!
via core77.com's design blog by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
John Maeda! John Maeda! hit the stage this morning wearing a super snazzy crumpled silver jacket (or maybe the iron didn't work in his hotel, but no matter: he wears it well). "I'm getting kinda tired of talking about simplicity, actually," he says, "So I'm going to do complexity." I feel a major Maeda crush coming on. Maeda grew up working in his father's tofu factory and like...
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Solve Puzzles for Science: Fold It!
via Medgadget by Michael on May 08, 2008
This new online game, a protein folding puzzler, is a product of a collaboration between scientists at University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The game is designed to entertain and advance science at the same time. In other words, this is a distributed computing project with built-in fun....Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at the University of Washington...
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Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on June 06, 2008
by Vu Tran and Min TranNowadays we can see icons everywhere, from a game console to web applications. Icons are getting more and more popular and play an important role, maybe the most important role in user interfaces. However, the resources about icon design are not that popular which is why when we have done our first steps in icon design, it was really hard to find a good starting point.There...
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We Will Beam Advertisements Directly Into Your Brain [Mad Science]
via io9 by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared by Yossi we're goign to have to start respectign old creepy men who hear voices... You're walking down the street and suddenly a voice starts whispering seductively in your ear. "It's a surplus of style . . . Don't you want to chill in the Gap's surplus shorts?" Have you finally lost it and started hallucinating bad ad campaigns speaking inside your head? Nope,...
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If we just start calling it “foosnoozle”, then we can declare there’s no
via pandagon.net by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
... Katie Couric last week on the CBS Evening News…Every time I hear this whine, I want to ask, what form of victimizing do wingnuts think is legitimate? Is rape the right thing to do? Is beating your wife A-OK? Because those are the primary forms of violence against women that feminists agitate against, “creating” victims that apparently wouldn’t be victims if they shut up about it.
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A Wedding in Sichuan
via Shoot The Blog by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared by Mark Whiting This is incredible. How auspicious.Speaking of China, and explosions-- here are some images from a Chinese wedding that took place during last week's terrible earthquake in Sichuan Province. Unbelievable how the scene changes so quickly, and how the photographer keeps documenting. Terrifying.thanks, meg.
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Weird and wonderful invention patents
via core77.com's design blog by (author unknown) on June 05, 2008
Like fish in a barrel. Noticed in one of the freebie papers this morning, Totally Absurd Inventions is a website that features same, and for those in need of some inspiration (or a good laugh), the sky's kinda the limit here.Trans folks will love Be The Bike, but for our money, Human Car Wash takes the prize. (Also noticed in that paper this morning, Swingtown's debut tonight. Hmm, human...
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What do our mobiles reveal about us?
via core77.com's design blog by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
100,000 mobile phone users were anonymously tracked over a period of 6 months in Europe to gain a better understanding of human movement and behavior. Their physical location was recorded each time they made or received a call or text message and to ensure privacy, the phone number was encrypted with a 26 digit security code."The vast majority of people move around over a very short distance -...
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