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legoexpress: LEGO “The poetry of bees” (via d-higdon)

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0500

legoexpress:

LEGO “The poetry of bees” (via d-higdon)

mnmal: After seeing this picture you have to read this.

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:41:36 -0500

mnmal:

After seeing this picture you have to read this.

"However this mess ends up, my thoughts are that maybe it’s time to rethink all this museum, opera..."

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:41:08 -0500

“However this mess ends up, my thoughts are that maybe it’s time to rethink all this museum, opera and symphony funding — and I refer mainly to state funding. A bunch of LA museums just got a bailout from LA real estate king Eli Broad, and that’s great, but I suspect there will be county money involved there somewhere too. I think maybe it’s time to stop, or more reasonably, curtail somewhat, state investment in the past — in a bunch of dead guys (and they are mostly guys, and mostly dead, when we look at opera halls) — and invest in our future. Take that money, that $14 million from the city, for example, let some of those palaces, ring cycles and temples close — forgo some of those $32M operas — and fund music and art in our schools. Support ongoing creativity in the arts, and not the ongoing glorification and rehashing of the work of those dead guys. Not that works of the past aren’t inspirational, important and relevant to future creativity — plenty of dead people’s work is endlessly inspiring — but funding for arts in schools has been cut to zero in many places. Maybe the balance and perspective has to be redressed and restored just a little. Plus, there are plenty of CDs and DVDs of the dead guys out there already, should one be curious.”

- David Byrne’s Journal: 12.12.09: Art Funding or Arts Funding (link via http://mrs-random.blogspot.com) (via mrrandom) (via notational)

beeriety: New England Imperial Stout Trooper arrives next...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:40:23 -0500

beeriety:

New England Imperial Stout Trooper arrives next week

If you’re a beer geek in the New England area make sure you get your hands on some of this Imperial Stout by New England Brewing making it’s debut next week.

infoneernet: designtumblelog: Donald Clark’s matrix of values...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:03:42 -0500

infoneernet:

designtumblelog:

Donald Clark’s matrix of values and principles of agile design for learning:

These value and principles make Agile more adaptive rather than predictive; and people-oriented rather than process-oriented (Fowler, 2003).

via Donald Clark

traffic fatalities in the United Kingdom

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0500

traffic fatalities in the United Kingdom

Visualizar’09 - Public Data, Data in Public: Projects...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:32:18 -0500

Visualizar’09 - Public Data, Data in Public: Projects Overview - information aesthetics

Kulturometer - visualizations of the resources allocated to each cultural niche in Madrid

Kinetic Wave Sculptures | May Sun Days

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:28:43 -0500

Kinetic Wave Sculptures | May Sun Days

SUMMA BRANDING: Tipografías de fantasía boxwood type from new...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:23:16 -0500

SUMMA BRANDING: Tipografías de fantasía

boxwood type from new zealand

#uksnow - real-time snow reports from twitter. reports are...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:20:14 -0500

#uksnow - real-time snow reports from twitter. reports are indicated by a specific tag, a postcode component (not the new geotagged twitter info) and a set scale.

Darts for Geeks: Statistician Cracks the Game’s Secrets (via...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:15:36 -0500

Darts for Geeks: Statistician Cracks the Game’s Secrets (via Wired)

dart board heat map (from the left: amateur, above average, godlike)

create your own dart board heat map here: stat.stanford.edu/~ryantibs/darts

The Datablog advent calendar

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:12:58 -0500

The Datablog advent calendar:

from The Guardian

Case Study: Freescale Netbook Design at SCAD, by Dave Malouf -...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:20:39 -0500

Case Study: Freescale Netbook Design at SCAD, by Dave Malouf - Core77

points of pain in various netbook usage positions

unknownskywalker: The Dark Side of Carbon As interest in...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:41:59 -0500

unknownskywalker:

The Dark Side of Carbon
As interest in Earth’s changing climate heats up, a tiny dark particle is stepping into the limelight: black carbon. Commonly known as soot, black carbon enters the air when fossil fuels and biofuels, such as coal, wood, and diesel are burned. Black carbon is found worldwide, but its presence and impact are particularly strong in Asia.

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