Lapsuuden tylsien iltojen perheriidat geopoliittisesta näkökulmasta
[via:Frida]
17 February 2012
28 May 2011
Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago, 1949
“Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “Chicago City of Contrasts.”
– Chicago Tribune
[via: Library of Congress]
28 January 2011
The background of the 2011 Egyptian protests
…is that the country in question has been ruled by a US backed dictator for decades.
[via:Ville Hautakangas]
21 January 2011
New Beta Version of The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
There’s an FAQ for the new release on their blog.
[via:Hacker News]
12 January 2011
The Fascinating Story of Porn and Technology Adoption
Yes, Cracked.com publishes some fascinating stuff but I generally find it awkward to link to them.
Let’s take a moment to think about Cracked. Most everyone gets that their material and the research behind it doesn’t quite match the quality you find in Wired.
This meta comment on Cracked relates very closely to this story on the new web publishing industry I discussed little over a year ago. How every pun in a Cracked.com article actually is search engine optimization becomes laughably clear in this porn piece. The writer has slipped in just about every FCC safe adult entertainment related expression you could daydream up of in the story.
Improving content distribution with sex and porn is just that powerful. If you have a web site, you could try this yourself: just mention porn in some really obscure way and you’ll probably get at least some traffic through someone’s really fap happy search engine queries. If you mention child porn, you’ll be awarded search traffic so depraved you might feel a bit uncomfortable just storing your search referer data.
[via:Joonas Mäkinen]
16 July 2010
5 July 2010
“This baby picture, scanned in 1957 [by Russell Kirsch], was the first digital image. At 176 by 176 pixels, its size was limited by the memory capacity of the computer.”
From: Circling the square: Fifty years later, creator of the first digital image aims to smooth the pixel
[via:ScienceNews]
1 June 2010
14 May 2010
13 March 2010
A modern adaptation of world war II for the american teenager. Backup copy.
Related: I have eliminated all the juice.
[via:Joonas Mäkinen]
12 March 2010
8 February 2010
War is psychedelic: Dazzle camouflage
“Dazzle did not conceal the ship but made it difficult for the enemy to estimate its type, size, speed and heading. The idea was to disrupt the visual rangefinders used for naval artillery.”
[via:Waino]
9 January 2010
23 December 2009
9 December 2009
James Howard Kunstler sounds a bit shouty at times, but he delivers funny food of thought in his TED talk “The tragedy of suburbia” (#). Kunstler discusses crimes against humanity within urban planning in the USA after WWII as it occurs in both cities and suburban landscapes.
You often hear people get quite poetic and fuzzy about what’s wrong with suburbia and cities in the USA and what works in places with actual character (“omg Paris!1!”). Kunstler gets specific and manages to put a finger on things most thinking humans have noticed but only moan aimlessly about.
Link: Youtube.
[via:Trent Eady]