This month
Snapshots of Israel - FT.com
CALL FOR ACTION: THE OPEN WEB NEEDS YOU *NOW* - <Glazblog/>
Streaming held back — TNL.net
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve looked at availability of movies and TV shows that came out in the past year. But what about movies that came two years ago? Are those more available today than they were a year ago? Let’s look at the data.
January 2012
Soft Film 軟性電影
Exploring the ephemeral past of Chinese entertainment from Hong Kong, the U.S.A., and around the world: vaudeville pioneers, flappers, aviatrices, burlesque dancers, hula hoopers, movie queens, sex bombs, jade girls, tomboys, pin-ups, sour beauties, girl jocks, swordswomen, and go-go girls.
WordPress has left the building - KevinjohnGallagher.com
Kev, they released a BETA version that they didn’t even load on Windows. The MENU didn’t work. Not some advanced feature throwing a bug, the fucking MENU didn’t work. I can’t test our themes and software against that. Lets be honest mate, how did it get past their tester and release procedure? Oh, thats right, they dont have a Tester. They just load it on their MacBooks and presume it works for the other 95% of the world. It’s a fucking shambles, and clearly they’ve learnt nothing since the 3.0 fuck-up.
Tout est dit.
December 2011
Predicting the Future of Computing - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Pastmapper - San Francisco 1853
This is the alpha (prototype) launch of Pastmapper, a new platform for describing the world of the past.
November 2011
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz - Photographer
The Atlas of the conflict
Winter Quilts on Vimeo
Each quilt illustrates a different representation of winter and highlights some specific details about living and experiencing the natural environment in the coldest parts of the world. As seasons transform and climates change, these quilt might also one day become past souvenirs of the disappeared Montreal winters.
August 2011
Why Irene Is a Remarkable Storm - Brian Resnick - National - The Atlantic
The past two active cycles (1930 to 1960 and 1870 to 1900) each saw six or seven major mid-Atlantic events.
FOSS Patents: Samsung cites Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' movie as prior art against iPad design patent
amazing. Samsung cites a SF movie as prior art for patents. Gorgeous. The future is pastAttached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers. The clip can be downloaded online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo.
Create a cool wax seal with an engraved eagle — Tutorials — gimpusers.com
Mototaxi Junket | The Adventurists
rambo pour hipsters?Individuals who have taken part in past Adventurists' adventures have been permanently disfigured, permanently disabled or even lost their life. These adventures are not glorified holidays. They are unsupported adventures and so by their very nature extremely risky. You really are on your own.
Microdata + RDF | Jeni's Musings
Even having written an RDFa parser, having written code to mark up documents with RDFa, having taught it, I still cannot write RDFa past a trivial example and be 100% sure that it will produce what I was aiming to produce.
July 2011
E-Book Revolution Upends Columbia Publishing Course - NYTimes.com
effet nouveauté ?In the past year, e-books have skyrocketed in popularity, especially in genre fiction like romance and thrillers. For some new releases, the first week has brought more sales of electronic copies than of print copies.
Bricoleurbanism » Demolition of Tianjin’s old city
Mass demolition of old districts is something of a “normal” thing in China, but to people who imagine that the large-scale destruction of historic city centres is a thing of the relatively distant past, the fate of Tianjin’s old chinese city serves as a sobering case.
June 2011
mocoNews - Mobile
We started to look at HTML middle of last year when we realised how complicated it would be to develop applications for all these different platforms.
built successfully for the past couple of years, with 224,000 digital subscribers.
How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon
All advice is autobiographical.
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
May 2011
Doing it right: skipping the iPhone url bar
Steve Ballmer: Should He Stay, or Should He Go?
April 2011
Bruce Springsteen - Ramrod Lyrics
March 2011
7 days of earthquakes in Japan on Vimeo
visualize that feeling - a timelapse of 5+ earthquakes from the past 7 days.


