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All around the world - Franny Wentzel - Thursday, May 6th, 2010 : goo In the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an 'Archive of the Planet'. Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography www.albert-kahn.fr/english/
Early 1900s in Colour - All around the world : citynoise.org
This morning’s New York Times features a story on a group of NYU undergraduates working on a would-be Facebook killer called Diaspora* , the software for which “will let users set up their own personal servers, called seeds, create their own hubs and fully control the information they share.” The article is a neat read both for the specifics of the proposal and the anti-Facebook sentiment it highlights amongst young’uns in the tech community; it also marks what may be the first time a dirty UNIX joke has managed to sneak into the hallowed pages of the Times . A tipster draws our attention to the writing on the left side of the chalkboard behind the students: “TOUCH GREP UNZIP MOUNT FSCK FSCK FSCK UMOUNT.” Wait a second: That’s not intelligible code!
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You Couldn't Make This Up Dept: "Why is Mars' Moon Phobos Hollow
Mars' Moon Phobos has been analyzed as being one-third hollow according to European Space Agency reports, which has triggered some wild and utterly fascinating rumors and speculation that we've featured below. We report independent results from two subgroups of the Mars Express Radio Science (MaRS) team who independently analyzed Mars Express (MEX) radio tracking data for the purpose of determining consistently the gravitational attraction of the moon Phobos on the MEX spacecraft, and hence the mass of Phobos. We conclude that the interior of Phobos likely contains large voids. When applied to various hypotheses bearing on the origin of Phobos, these results are inconsistent with the proposition that Phobos is a captured asteroid.
Introducing Loremify / Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin
Loremify is a one-click tool to copy Lorem Ipsum . It lets you wrap in html, specify the amount of text, and copy it to your clipboard—all in one click. It runs as a Dashboard Widget in Mac OS X, and is a mere 209kb download .
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Une des solutions possible est bien évidemment de tenir à jour vos logiciels de navigation. Aujourd’hui seules les dernieres béta de Firefox et la dernière version de Google Chrome permettent de se prémunir de cette attaque. Mais également votre mémoire, posez-vous la question est-ce que j’ai ouvert se site récemment ? Surtout que maintenant la plupart des navigateurs retiennent les mots de passe de vos sites préférés donc a priori vous n’aurez plus besoin de les renseigner à nouveau. Puis pour terminer ouvrer la page en tapant l’adresse vous même et ainsi vous serez sûr de la véracité du site sur lequel vous vous trouvez.Surfin’ ain’t easy, and right now, you’re lost at sea. But don’t worry; simply pick an option from the list below, and you’ll be back out riding the waves of the Internet in no time.
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The News Diamond reimagined as ‘The Digital News Lifecycle’ | On
Here’s a wonderful reimagining of the News Diamond from the first part of my Model for a 21st Century Newsroom . Gaurav Mishra’s diagram (shown above) takes my rhombus (shown below) and plots it against two axes. It’s rather lovely. “1.
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Format for values that denote the speed of drives such as CD and DVD drives. Example: The DVD-RW drive boasts write, rewrite, and read speeds of 16x, 8x, and 16x, respectively.
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The Myth of Music Ownership - O'Reilly Broadcast
Now, on the surface, that's a fairly provocative statement, seemingly designed to inflame music industry lawyers, and encourage outraged comments from audiophile readers. But it is actually intended to demonstrate/debunk an illogical yet widely-held belief, illustrate a precipitating technology trend, and put the idea of "my music" into historical perspective. The ability to record and playback music is really quite a recent occurence, when you consider the span of human existence on planet Earth.
I had so many other questions to ask: What did he do for a living? Did he have other children? Was he married?
R.I.P. Chatroulette, 2009-2010 - Internet Culture - Salon.com
Carlos, Rhode Island While he was in federal custody for non-violent drug charges, Carlos was sexually assaulted by inmates at two different facilities. As an openly gay man with a history of sexual abuse as a child, Carlos was at high risk for being targeted by predators. Read Carlos's story »
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Thoughts on Creativity and Design Process | Abduzeedo | Graphic
I will start this post off by saying that everybody is creative and for some that might come as a surprise, but I believe in the idea of creativity as a means of solving problems; the easiest and most efficient way possible. When I say easy I'm referring to the timeframe that it takes to complete the task, and efficient to how well received the work is from the target audience. But the question is what to do when we cannot come up with any good idea or the so terrified creative block.Apple