technology
Library in the New Age and the Pedigree of Information
Robert Darnton’s piece in the New York Review of Books, The Library in the New Age, is a fascinating look, seasoned by experience, of the life of information. This was not the main thrust, but it’s my favorite part -
I used to be a newspaper reporter myself. I got my basic training as a […]
Fontstruct brings DIY fontography to the unwashed masses
Jason Fagone’s oddly intimate revelation of font-nerdery in Slate’s YouType: The strange allure of making your own fonts highlights Fontstruct, “YouTube of typography” which allows you to… well, make your own fonts. It lead Fagone to wax nostaligic for his bootleg Fontographer days:
I was a minuscule part of the great grunge-font craze of the late […]
The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care)
Overlooking for a moment the agonizing journalistic gambit of writing an article on sarcasm… sarcastically, the research in The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) is fascinating:
There was nothing very interesting in Katherine P. Rankin’s study of sarcasm — at least, nothing worth your important time. All she did was use an M.R.I. […]
Google’s Android Unboxed and Looks Awesome
Slashgear’s Android touchscreen prototype: Live pictures & video demo! drops some video of Google’s new phone software. Apple’s about to get Microsoft-ed all over again.
It also has built-in compassing. That may sound a little boy-scoutish but you really just have to see it to understand how cool it is.
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Radiohead’s Nude, Remixed
The Radiohead version, on Youtube.
A remix made, through the influence of some dark conjurer’s sorcery no doubt, from antiquated computer hardware.
Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
via Engadget, and all the more amazing if you have some experience with the “instruments” - who knew a hard drive could sing?
Video by James Houston
jim@1030.co.uk
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The Last iPod Supper
Clearly this says something about our society but I just don’t want to know anymore. (The Last iPod Supper, via jstn.cc).
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Battle at Kruger, Battle for Views
Brian Stelter at the New York Times featured this video by an American tourist in You’ve Seen the YouTube Video; Now Try the Documentary, noting that he later sold it to National Geographic Channel after racking up an impressive number of views on YouTube. I think we can look forward to the Internet as something […]
Economic Theory and Grand Theft Auto IV (or How I Got a Great Idea for a Graduate Thesis)
Sudhir Venkatesh is the is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He is also the kind of guy that writes articles entitled Unjustifiable Carnage, Uneasy Alliances, and Lots of Self-Doubt: What Grand Theft Auto IV gets right about gangland and illegal economies and that is why I like him.
This may sound strange, […]
Toogle Search: Image to Text
Very cool, Test it out in Toogle Search: Houston Cougars
Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search. Currently it creates images out of the very term that was used to fetch those images, later we will endeavour to create images out of the search terms entered by users past and present.
via Digital Inspiration: Six […]
Etymology of Nerd
Overlooking the potential for irony for a second - did you know the word nerd was first coined in Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo? Not that that’s…um… cool or anything…