Links
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Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation - Quinn Norton - The Atlantic
Quinn’s account of the Federal prosecution. Tough.
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Implications
“Andreas Gursky allegedly makes ten pieces a year. Ansel Adams said twelve good photographs in a year was good production.”
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How We Built “Music Looks Awesome” & How You Can Join In - This Is My Jam
Brilliant stuff - automatically making big, interesting, background images from a smaller album/video image.
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Digital Pianos - Which Brand Should I Buy
Every few years I have a browse, and there’s so little comprehensive information around online. This site is a bit of a sprawling mess but has tons of stuff on it. It sounds nicely honest for a shop. [UPDATE: The owner also owns the Classenti brand, the brand of pianos he favours here… not so honest after all.]
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Scarfolk Council: Sex. Sex. Sex. 1978
I keep giggling about the text on this fake biology textbook. “The flummoxes, the reproductive doughnuts, are sex organs located outside the body near the garage where it is cooler. They loll in a sacrilegious pouch that skulks behind the pensive.”
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David E Davis on the 2002: The Best Review Ever? | BimmerFile
Apparently the best car review ever, about the 1968 BMW 2002 (PDF downloadable from down the page). Says very little about the details of the car. “To my way of thinking, the 2002 is one of modern civilization’s all-time best ways to get somewhere sitting down.” (via The Online Photographer)
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Anna Catherine Dr to Summer Rain Dr - Google Maps
Impressive: two houses in Florida that back on to each other, but to get from one to the other by road is a 7 mile journey. (via Paul Mison)
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D3 | TULP interactive
A few more d3 tutorials here.
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D3 Tutorials — Scott Murray — alignedleft
Closing some handy tabs and saving things for the future. Some of these tutorials were very useful.
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Ben Schott | Assembling a Film’s Billing Block - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Explanation of the blocks of credits at the bottom of movie posters. (via @benterrett)
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iWantHue
Another colour palette-generating thing. Looks nice, although I did seem to keep getting palettes containing two or more very similar shades. (via Migurski)
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Our Incredible Journey
I should have started this years ago - cataloging the time when start-ups are bought by a larger company and then delete all of their users’ content. Do send me more examples, old and new.
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NVD3.js :: re-usable charts for d3.js
“An attempt to build re-usable charts and chart components for d3.js without taking away the power that d3.js gives you.” So many of these things to choose from. (via @nickludlam)
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xCharts » Documentation
“A D3-based library for building custom charts and graphs.” (via @danjwilson)
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What Your Culture Really Says - Pretty Little State Machine
“’…the company is managed with no hierarchy.’ What your culture might actually be saying is… Management decisions are siloed at the very top layers of management, kept so close to the chest they appear not to exist at all.” Very good. (via @mala)
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Gamasutra: Mike Rose’s Blog - Using SimCity to diagnose my home town’s traffic problem
Replicating a real town’s traffic problems. I still can’t wait. (via Terra Nova)
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SimCity vs. The Suburban Sprawl - Tested
Different road layouts in the new SimCity. I can’t wait.
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Chromatophobia: My Fear of Color: Observatory: Design Observer
Michael Bierut on his cluelessness about how to choose colours. I’m glad it’s not just me. (via @cityofsound)
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Boiling Spacetime: How Time Works In The Graphic Novel
Warren Ellis: “You can make time run so fast that the reader thinks that your comic has been injected into their eyeball, or so slow and heavy that the reader feels like you’ve boiled a doorstop novel into some condensed informational substrate.”
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Mini vMac - early Macintosh emulator
Haven’t tried it, but looks good/handy/fun. (via One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age)
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Original Animation For Download
All the GIFs. (via One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age)
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Malcolm Bull reviews ‘On Global Justice’ by Mathias Risse · LRB 21 February 2013
I love reading things like this, here about Risse’s Rawls-influenced theories, but also I find them very, very hard to concentrate on. (Subscribers only)
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The Weekly Ansible, 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read (by China Mieville)
For when I’ve read all the other things. (via @warrenellis)
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Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven | Hacker News
I hoped this would be an interesting discussion on what it means to promise that an online service would be around “forever”, but it’s nearly all cynical, snarky people saying “people should host their own server!” and arguing about apostrophe usage. (via Tom Taylor)
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Justice with Michael Sandel - Online Harvard Course Exploring Justice, Equality, Democracy, and Citizenship
Sounds great, although it’s hard to tell if this is a simplified or different version of the actual Harvard course outlined at http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/about.html (via NYRB)
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New Residential Tower For City Road Approved
Blimey, that’s huge! The current half-built towers (on the left) already look oppressively tall for this spot.
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Scarfolk Council
“Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979.” Very nicely done tone and artefacts. Hauntology as fictional blog kind of thing. (via @harikunzru)
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A Tailor Made It: Shirt Rant
On how a shirt should fit. I’ve seen some horrible, figure-hugging shirts on men. Don’t do it!
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Hands On: SimCity | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The new SimCity can only be played if it can connect to EA’s servers. This review (towards the end), and many of the comments, worry about that. The original SimCity and SimCity 2000 can still be played, but when will the new one become unplayable, a never-to-be-seen-again experience? (via @D_Nye_Griffiths)