Early 1900s in Colour - All around the world. All around the world - Franny Wentzel - Thursday, May 6th, 2010 : goo [previous] :: [next] 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/ Autochrome was the first industrial process for true colour photography. Www.albertkahn.co.uk A few photos from the collection. Portraits Algeria Dahomey - now Benin Bosnia Brasil Bulgaria Cambodia Canada China Croatia Dijbouti Egypt England France Germany Greece Holland India Iran Iraq Ireland Italy King Faisal Lebenon Macedonia Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Norway Palestine Serbia Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Syria Turkey United States of America Vietnam This article has been viewed 3310964 times in the last 4 years dglenn: Fantastic!!
Dirty UNIX Joke - NYT Facebook Rivals. 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! It’s almost as if it has another meaning. Pretty much every command on the blackboard is missing the argument(s) that makes it useful (e.g. filenames for ‘unzip’ and ‘touch’).
Update2: Yup: it did. Micromobs | real time messaging for your groups. 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. From "The Phobos Blog" -- published on March 25th: General , Science 25 March, 2010 17:21 Radio science result from 2008 Phobos Flyby now accepted for publication: 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. The concurrence of all three of these independent Mars Express experiments -- "imaging" ... Introducing Loremify / Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin. Apple Story | Apple's HTML5 and Standards Gallery Not Standard. TabJacking le phishing qui va piquer !
Le Tabjacking, nouvelle technique destiné à usurper les informations privées des utilisateurs du cyber espace. Oublier les faux mails, les fausses demandes de la part de votre banque, ou toute autres techniques oldschool de phishing. Avec le tabjacking ( qui n’est qu’a l’état de Proof Of Concept) l’internaute ouvre une page qu’il croit saine, puis continu sa navigation en switchant sur différents onglets, ouvrant d’autres sites.
Puis lorsque l’internaute retournera sur le premier onglet sans qu’il s’en aperçoive le site aura totalement changé de look ( titre, contenu, image) pour se faire passer pour un service légitime (google,paypal,etc…) Cette technique est d’autant plus dangereuse que l’internaute ne voit absolument rien et ne voit pas venir le piège, il va donc croire que sa session a expirée et va s’identifier de nouveau mais sur le faux site. La technologie qui pemet de réaliser une telle prouesse technique est le Javascript. Everything You Needed To Know About The Iphone 4 infographic. Ud.com namecheck - Check Availability of Social Usernames, Domai. Upcoming Trends of Web Design in 2010.
In 2010 we are seeing the continued mainstreaming of everyday goods and services onto the internet. As everything becomes virtual, the internet becomes the first port of call when a person needs a new good or requires a new service. More and more people, from all walks of life, are becoming familiar with the internet. Particularly in the last year, as smart-phones introduce the concept of web-services to people who would not normally have exposure to an internet connected computer. This changes typical user expectations and influences how clients want to market on the web. Websites need to be even clearer, better structured and more eye-catching.
We are seeing JavaScript pushing out its boundaries, new design philosophies like grid systems becoming commonplace, bigger bolder headings and banners and more and more iconification of websites. JavaScript – Light boxes, carousel, tabs and more! Design style can be practical. Presenting many options to a user can make a design cluttered.
Java 4 ever! - nischal's posterous. 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. Helpfully, however, Mishra takes the concept forward a little. As he explains: “my “news lifecycle” is different from Paul Bradshaw’s “news diamond” in two ways - “1. It’s fair to say that my diamond does take the perspective of a news organisation – that’s who it was aimed at. Anyway, Mishra poses some questions: How do we increase the number and variety of sources in the process of creating, curating and consuming news?
I’d be very interested in any responses. In the meantime, here’s those original diagrams for your conceptual enjoyment… As it happens, the diamond was just another way of showing the following flow diagram from the same post, so now I have 3 diagrams to refer to… Like this: Like Loading... The Yahoo! Word List | Yahoo! Style Guide.
Vintage Ad Browser. The Myth of Music Ownership. 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. Up until 1888, the only way to hear music was to experience the vibrating air molecules produced by musicians, up close and personal, live and in real time.
People have been making music for hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of years! Producing music has always been a thing that *everybody* does, young and old, male and female, professional and layman, commoner and king. Until Edison, music was not something you could own, only something you could make. Until Edison ... Why? The Myth - pdx. R.I.P. Chatroulette, 2009-2010 - Internet Culture. It always seems the stars that burn the brightest are the ones to flame out the fastest.
So it was as unsurprising as it was sad when the news broke early Tuesday that Chatroulette’s cultural relevance had expired overnight. Cause of death: penises. The world was a different place when the site launched in November of 2009. A simpler one. Those were heady days that followed. But the warning signs were all there, grim indications that such great heights were unsustainable. The world is full of big fans of the penis — God knows I’m one of the most devoted.
In the interest of journalistic integrity, I went on Chatroulette this morning to verify its obsolescence. On se fait un twunch ? Inspire me, now! Vitry, France. 2011 & Hackney, London. 2011 by Gaia. Just Detention International.
5 Reasons Pigs Are More Awesome Than You. 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. The creative process is something unique because it’s personal, we cannot teach someone how to come up with ideas but we can learn how to organize our thoughts in order to make our ideas easier to achieve in the form of a good design.
At least in my opinion and let me explain why. Overflow of Inspiration We are bombarded with information all day long and even when we are sleeping we might dream and have ideas and therefore inspiration. Create Constraints Try, try and try some more Delivering. Michael Zerang: Reviews. CHICAGO TRIBUNE Friday, February 24, 1995 Section: News Column: Arts Plus, TheaterPUPPETRY BRINGS WHALE TALE TO LIFE By Lawrence Bommer, Special to the Tribune Framed by an ornate proscenium arch and hidden by a supple plastic scrim, splendid sea creatures swim. (Actually, they are elaborate rod puppets manipulated by masked Kabuki-like figures.) Subtle lighting turns a sperm whale into a mysterious denizen floating freely in these strange plastic depths.
It's an early, awesome moment in Redmoon Theatre's "Moby-Dick," a co-production with Pegasus Players. The full-blooded fantasy pictorially explores Herman Melville's epic of the elementally self-destructive pursuit of a white whale by a crazed captain. Adapted in 1990 by Redmoon artistic director Blair Thomas and Chicago playwright Jeff Dorchen, and powerfully accompanied by Michael Zerang's relentless score, "Moby-Dick" (the title oddly hyphenated) both expands an already larger-than-life saga and subtly contracts it. © Chicago Tribune.
Feeding Greed - a major pastime. So this is Christmas! I haven't been on for a while and now, in the late evening of Christmas day, I have a strange feeling of forebodance which urges me to write. A feeling born, I'm certain, out of nothing in particular but more from something general and omni-present. 2009 has been a very tough year for many of us and the troubles are not over yet.
Our world is in a seriously sick state despite the wonderful things being achieved by some world leaders for care in this time of ill health. Unfortunately, greed is not only ever-present but growing stronger every day as per its nature and, here in the west at any rate, we are fueling its needs like never before! I'm not going to bang on about the commercialism of Christmas and how its real meaning has been forgotten because that's a very prickly thorn and grasping it without adequate protection could be very painful indeed.
Greed lives, greed grows, greed conquers all, greed rules! More, more, waste, waste, buy, buy, bye, bye. 10 Things I Think I Think About 2010. We all do this. With the year coming to a close we all think forward and prognosticate about what the future will hold. To call 2009 an amazing year for our industry would be an enormous understatement. We’re going to see even more progress in 2010. So with that, I want to share with you the 10 things I think I think about 2010: 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
25 Days In Federal Prison For Littering? Border Patrol Cracking. December 13, 2009 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. On Friday December 4th, an Arizona District Court judge told Walt Staton, a 28 year-old seminary student, that he might be facing 25 days in a federal prison. His crime was "knowingly littering" along the U.S. One day last December, Staton and a friend named Victor Ceballos, loaded 70 plastic water jugs into the back of a truck and drove from Tucson to outer stretches of Sonora desert. Staton and Ceballos are volunteers for a group called No More Deaths, which offers humanitarian aid to those trying to cross the Mexico-Arizona border. When it comes to the water bottles, volunteers are precise; they monitor each drop-off point to see if they've left too many or too few and they pick up any debris. "We hear stories from people about how they were literally crawling on the ground and thought they were going to die and came across gallon jugs of water and were able to live.
" Inspire me, now! LA ROUTE DE LA FAIM. 50 Cool Search Engines for Serious Readers | Online Colleges. The Internet has proven itself as a valuable resource for all types of readers, from collectors of rare books to tech-minded readers who shop, network and download books online. But if you’re having trouble finding exactly what you need, whether it’s a book review, a book by a certain author, or a digitized anthology for your class at an online college for creative writing, you’ll want to use sophisticated tools that direct you to high-quality resources. Here are 50 cool search engines for serious readers and students. For even more great search engines, read our updated list. eBooks When you want to read books online, use these search engines to find free versions, PDF files and .doc formats.
Books to Swap, Sell and Buy Use these search engines when you need to swap, sell or buy a book over the Internet. Rare Books Collectors of rare, signed, and out-of-print books can use these search engines to help them complete their libraries. Book Reviews and Community Libraries. A new approach to China.