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March 4, 2011
Jael Segura
Illustrator Jael Segura. Lots more wondrousness at her website.
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"Denton acknowledged that his numbers have in fact suffered due to the makeover, which abandoned the standard reverse-chronological scroll of blogs for a more traditional layout in which a single story dominates the homepage."
(tags:blogs web design )
Sneak peek: What's new in the New York Times Magazine – Yahoo! News
"I just think it needed a little bit more of an improvisational, we-just-did-it-this-week kind of feeling,"
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March 3, 2011
KinecTelefactor
A Kinect-controlled robot arm. In times past, this was called telefactoring – a motion (or motion command) by the human operator at home base being mirrored by the robot in a remote location. Matt Jones of BERG surfaced this video. Oddly enough, only the other week I was recommending to Matt Webb of BERG a sf collection featuring a story about a murderous telefactor. Look at that grabber go.
Jamie McKelvie for Art Brut
Jamie McKelvie's illustration for the new Art Brut record.
If you buy the album, you'll get two more pieces that tie in with this one. Out on May 23rd.
Jamie's actually working on something of mine right now which is Sekrit and not to be spoken of yet.
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Note to self. Stop reading about magazines. It just mak...
Note to self. Stop reading about magazines. It just makes you want to edit a magazine.
Eye blog » Port of entry. Two art directors and an editor launch a brand new men's magazine.
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"Every Beijing mobile phone user will be tracked through the use of the latest global positioning technology, the municipal government announced on Tuesday."
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How to Get Downsized – Susannah Breslin – Pink Slipped – Forbes
Susannah now writing regularly for Forbes. This one will resonate for any freelancer.
(tags:writing peopleIknow )
New camera makes seeing the 'invisible' possible
"The science similar to the type used in airport body scanners could soon be used to detect everything from defects in aerospace vehicles or concrete bridges to skin cancer, thanks to researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology."
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Primitive scavenger fish eats using its skin – Technology & science – Science – LiveScience – msnbc.com
"…a new study has shown that hagfish can absorb nutrients through their skin and gills. And once inside a carcass, the hagfish is surrounded by a high concentration of dissolved nutrients…"
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Low Day
Didn't get anywhere near my page quota yesterday, so today's going to be rough. This means that there won't be proper blog entries here, just fired-off tumble-posts that doubtless incense anyone reading through RSS.
In the meantime, the best thing on the net today is Mer Yayanos talking about The Dune Activity Books. Which have to be seen to be believed. Seriously. You'll thank me.
March 2, 2011
Lede Of The Day
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"An original occult thriller webseries being independently produced in Colchester Essex. Created by Will Wright and written by Tobias Bowman. To be cast and crewed locally, soundtrack by local artists. This blog will be a diary of the the production."
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Astronaut scientists for hire open new research frontier in space | KurzweilAI
"At a joint press conference with Virgin Galactic at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference on Monday, Astronauts for Hire Inc. announced the selection of its third class of commercial scientist-astronaut candidates to conduct experiments on suborbital flights."
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Money as Big Data: Mapping the History of Filthy Lucre
"…allowing for the custom visualization of numismatic data might lead to intuitive leaps in the understanding of history by economists, art historians, classicists and others that both the coins themselves and the data itself would not."
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Dating Anglesey's birth as an island and formation of the Menai Strait
"His research, just published in an academic journal, reveals that the Strait became a permanent feature between 5,800 and 4,600 years ago around the time when hunter-gatherers were replaced by the first farmers in North Wales…"
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Digital Language Analysis Uncovers Truth of Irish Rebellion
"Using LanguageWare as a basis, the team created a set of digital language analysis tools, including one they called Wordsmith, and used them to understand the creation of propaganda in the aftermath of the 1641 Irish Rebellion…"
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BLDGBLOG: UNSOLVING THE CITY: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHINA MIÉVILLE
"Novelists have an endless drive to aestheticize and to complicate. I know there's a very strong tradition—a tradition in which I write, myself—about the decoding of the city. Thomas de Quincey, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Iain Sinclair—that type-thing. The idea that, if you draw the right lines across the city, you'll find its Kabbalistic heart and so on. The thing about that is that it's intoxicating — but it's also bullshit. It's bullshit and it's paranoia…"
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Phoenix Rises From The Ashes Of DFC Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
"At a party this afternoon, here in my native Oxford, the next incarnation of kid-friendly comic The DFC was announced. With the continued collaboration of Phillip Pullman, Tony Lee, Dan Boultwood, Paul Duffield, Emma Vicelli and other creators from the comic's first iteration…"
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Study reveals mercury levels in downtown Toronto
"Buildings are not only an intrinsic part of Toronto's landscape, they are also adding mercury to the city's air. As suggested by the findings of a Ryerson University study, it can lead to a negative long-term impact on our health…"
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