November 2010
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If you’re scientifically literate the world looks very different to you
– Neil Degrasse Tyson (via thelonelyastronaut)
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October 2010
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transiki →
open source public transit mapping project by some of the openstreetmap people
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Automatyperwriter - an Arduino-controlled typewriter that can play Zork
via Boing Boing
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…we have the tools to program. Yet we are content to seize only the capability...
– Douglas Rushkoff (via azspot)
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ecotone:
Everybody should watch The Secret of Kells (imdb).
Have a look on the process here.
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The Most Boring Places in the World, 2009 →
a Google Earth tour that pinpoints the location of bloggers, live journal-ers, and chat room commentators. These authors all claim that the city they live in or vacationed in is more boring than any other place they can imagine, at least during the time of their post. Most locations do not repeat (with the exception of North Carolina, Ohio, Zurich and Singapore). What these destinations share in...
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Ask a Hacker: Does The Girl Who Kicked the... →
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OK is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet,...
– Allan Metcalf, OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word (via Fritinancy)
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Galaxy Zoo shows how well crowdsourced citizen...
The Galaxy Zoo Web interface easily guides even a casual user through the process of characterizing a galaxy’s shape and properties; more sophisticated decision trees have been added in newer iterations of the effort, but the process remains simple from the user perspective. That’s critical, because most of the people who have contributed have only characterized somewhere between...
…information cartography is not yet capable of capturing
the “tacit, affective...
– J.J. King (via wnussbaum)
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