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Jun
20th
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“Visualizing the commit history of the Python scripting language project.” lots more at http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/
Jun
8th
Sun
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“Legendary journalist Bill Moyers address the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, June 7, 2008. Presented by FreePress.net. For more speakers, press coverage, and info, visit: http://www.freepress.net/conference”
Jun
2nd
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Mark Pesce ‘Only Connect’
May
28th
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“Displacements is an immersive film installation. An archetypal Americana living room was installed in an exhibition space. Then two performers were filmed in the space using a 16mm motion picture camera on a slowly rotating turntable in the room’s center. After filming, the camera was replaced with a film loop projector and the entire contents of the room were spray-painted white. The reason was to make a projection screen the right shape for projecting everything back onto itself. The result was that everything appears strikingly 3D, except for the people, who of course weren’t spray-paint white, and consequently appeared very ghostlike and unreal.”

— Michael Naimark

May
27th
Tue
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Clay Shirky on his new book “Here Comes Everybody”.
May
24th
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Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
May
22nd
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
May
20th
Tue
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Multi-tasking is dead. It never worked and it never will. Intelligent people love to sing its praises because it gives them permission to avoid the much more challenging alternative: focusing on one thing.
— Timothy Ferriss
May
13th
Tue
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Awesome graffiti animation, by BLU
May
12th
Mon
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Net Neutrality documentary, via Melanie McBride