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March 3, 2010

Links for 2010-03-03

Integrating translation into Google Goggles – Google Translate Blog
"Soon your phone will be able to translate signs, posters and other foreign text instantly into your language"
(tags:tech phone )
blissblog: the etymology of "post-rock"

(tags:music writing )

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Published on March 03, 2010 14:00

Skinput

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Published on March 03, 2010 08:42

March 2, 2010

Links for 2010-03-01

Radar Finds Ice Deposits at Moon's North Pole
Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it's estimated there could be at least 600 million metric tons of water ice.
(tags:space )
ben_templesmith: Friday & Saturday: Bergen Street, Midtown & Beer…
Templesmith's "Drink The World" tour continues
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Published on March 02, 2010 13:00

Twitter: A Filter For The Lumpy Bits That Fall Out Of Your Brain

For a while, I had a capture of my twitter feed running here. It ended up doing something weird to my API calls, stopping me from running my desktop client, so I killed it. Which is probably just as well, as I talk a lot of shit on Twitter. It's basically mental slurry, the wet lumpy bits from a day spent at the keyboard vented off into a trap so the buildup doesn't blow some crucial valve in my head. Look at these, from the last month or so:

* I have invented a cocktail called The Pint Of...

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Published on March 02, 2010 12:23

CHINESE WHISPERS UCHRONAL COVER REMODEL: Superman #1

So, on my message board, I run weeklyish art challenges for the amusement of the artistic community therein. This week, I decided to change things around, and posted the following:

You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for a comic called SUPERMAN. It is issue 1 of this book.

You have been told that Superman is a man who dresses predominantly in a shade of blue, and wears a red S symbol. You know nothing else about the character.

The cover must include a logo and the...

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Published on March 02, 2010 07:48

March 1, 2010

T-shirt Of The Week #013: DOCTOR WHISKY

TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I've said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.

Through this website...

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Published on March 01, 2010 08:00

Someone's Up To Something

Found this on Flickr this morning, with the message "5/1/10: remember the date." (Which, for those of us who don't do it American-style, is 1 May 2010, heh.) Whoever that is, she's holding a copy of my book CRECY.


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Published on March 01, 2010 07:37

Links for 2010-03-01

G-Speak will make the keyboard and mouse obsolete (w/ Video)
PhysOrg.com) — The mouse may soon become obsolete, with interfaces that interpret gestures rapidly approaching a stage at which they can be released for general consumers.
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Published on March 01, 2010 06:00

Cold As

Well. Not as cold as this. But it feels cold. I don't wanna get up.


But I must. For this is warren ellis dot com. Good morning.


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Image by Dave Walsh

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Published on March 01, 2010 04:46

February 28, 2010

No, Really

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Published on February 28, 2010 18:21

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