July 2009
40 posts
July 31, 2009 →
Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, California, 2004 Photo © Emily Shur
Giant jellyfish invade Japan →
National Geographic posted a selection of photos related to the massive Nomura’s jellyfish that may inundate Japanese waters this summer. The magnificent photo above was taken off the cost…
The sad fate of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster →
Last night my friend Colin and I went to Meltdown Comics & Collectibles in Los Angeles to listen to comic book historian Craig Yoe’s (center) presentation on the weird, sad life of…
10 essential iPhone games of the summer →
Keith Stuart presents the 10 essential iPhone games of the summer
Giant linocut type-map of Paris →
Marilyn sez, “”Around eight months ago, Mark Webber began work on his latest project, which he is very nearly ready to print. It’s a typographic map of Paris. It’s in French (naturally) and,…
Capillary action colors calendar in real time →
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Brilliant
Artist Oscar Diez created this amazing calendar, made of different types of paper and special inks, which is carefully designed to slowly color in the days…
Giant linocut type-map of Paris →
Marilyn sez, “”Around eight months ago, Mark Webber began work on his latest project, which he is very nearly ready to print. It’s a typographic map of Paris. It’s in French (naturally) and,…
Apple dislikes jailbreaking for a number of... →
Apple doesn’t want people jailbreaking. Not even a little bit it. If you don’t mind reading through 45 pages of legalese, you’ll see why. It really boils down to these 13 reasons:
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Back to work for just the one day and already... →
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Brilliant
… the mad dreams have come back.
Last night I dreamt I was playing golf with Tiger Woods and John Daly. We were all square going on to the eighteenth - Tiger hadn’t…
Itty bitty Lego synths →
Like tiny pixel synths made real, Beem Music shares pics of these super cute Lego synthstruments inspired by the previous paper versions. More to enjoy in the Flickr photoset. …
Video: life-altering 3D projection gets splashed... →
It’s not often that we take time to highlight the creativity and innovation involved in an artistic projection, but this one excited a few too many nerve endings to pass up. The latest…
July 27, 2009 →
Route 531, Spencerport, New York, 2008 Photo © Jarrett Murphy
coventry | purple stain →
earthfromtheground has added a photo to the pool:
coventry | holy spiral →
earthfromtheground has added a photo to the pool:
Classic video games reimagined as backyard "off... →
Brian Crecente over at Kotaku has a terrific post up about backyard adaptations of classic video games. I can imagine playing them for lulz myself, but they’re particularly cool for…
Burk Uzzle's photos of Woodstock →
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, New York’s Laurence Miller Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Burk Uzzle’s magnificent photographs of…
Nature's Best →
Rich.Phillips. has added a photo to the pool:
Please. if your going to comment on my photos, write something and don’t just post the HTML codes.
Thankyou
NASA orbiter returns first shots of Apollo moon... →
Bigger, better pics to come
NASA’s lunar orbiter has returned its first pictures of the Apollo moon landing sites. The images — showing the missions’ lunar module descent stages accented by their…
Apple kills carrier exclusivity in the UK, opens... →
In a move that can only be described as “for the love of everything decent and holy, why not in the US?!?!”…Apple is opening up the iPhone to be used on Orange and Tmobile in the UK …
Official: YouTube to stop IE6 support →
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Web developers around the world cry allelujah. This may be the kick up the arse that the world needs to get people onto better more compliant browsers.
YouTube will no longer…
Ghostbusters Ecto-1 on eBay →
This 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance, converted by Universal Studios into the Ghostbusters’ Ecto-1, was up for auction on eBay. The listing does not imply that this was the one…
Photos of parkour →
Fine art and commercial photographers Alex and Cocco created a magnificent series of images documenting Parkour (l’art du déplacement). The photos, “as shot” with no retouching, are…
Photos of parkour →
Fine art and commercial photographers Alex and Cocco created a magnificent series of images documenting Parkour (l’art du déplacement). The photos, “as shot” with no retouching, are…
Ghostbusters Ecto-1 on eBay →
This 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance, converted by Universal Studios into the Ghostbusters’ Ecto-1, was up for auction on eBay. The listing does not imply that this was the one…
Tesco offers an API for its shopping. Now start... →
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How long until the iPhone shopping app? I give it ‘til the weekend
Tesco - you know, big shops, profits, that sort of thing - has unveiled an API for its shopping service….
Tim Berners-Lee and the Digital Revolution →
[Editor’s note: This is the video we promised you of Tim Berners-Lee. It’s from Friday’s event to launch a new collaborative TV documentary series on the web. We asked Dan Biddle from the …
Cloud Fanatic: Mammatus Clouds Over New York... →
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Awesome
cture it should take you direct to the original link.
Vadim Kibardin's killer clock concept - Core77 →
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Brilliant, reminds me of Starck’s watches for Fossil
Industrial Design content and community site - articles, discussions, interviews and resources.
Senior City-zens: The 10 Oldest Still-Inhabited... →
Urban society may seem a modern phenomenon but cities have been around for a lot longer than one might think. Indeed, once nomadic tribes began to settle in one location, they saw that it…
Published: LSD inventor's letter to Apple CEO... →
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Incredible
In an offbeat but somewhat fascinating article published by the Huffington Post this week, it’s revealed that LSD inventor Albert Hofmann penned a letter to Steve Jobs…
Vernon Kay cries at honorary degree presentation →
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1. I don’t care 2. Vernon Kay is the most vacuous dull man ever. 3. WHAT THE ** DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH COVENTRY?
TV presenter Vernon Kay wept as he was given an honorary degree…
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Phonecall, originally uploaded by Dave Gorman.
In September last year I received a text message from a stranger that said, “Oh my God! I can’t believe this is Dave Gorman’s phone…
Glow Technical Overview →
Hi, I’m Jake Archibald, a developer on Glow, the BBC’s recently open-sourced JavaScript library. As a follow-up to Stephen Elson’s introductory post, I’d like to go over some of the technical…
Abbey Road online marks 'death of traditional... →
If you fancy letting some of the UK’s leading music and sound engineers from London’s world famous Abbey Road Studios master your music then you just might be in luck.
Musicians and producers can…
Why students are not consumers →
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Interesting to see a take on higher education from the tutor’s point of view. I remember feeling agrieved at the lack of support I received for my Final Year Project at uni, still…
Google polishes Chrome into netbook OS →
The sound of Ballmer hurling a thousand chairs
Google is releasing an operating system for laptops and desktops, in a direct challenge to Microsoft’s money-making core business.…
The power of…
In Depth: How to encourage your site visitors to... →
Is it time to call time on Internet Explorer 6? Well, yes, but web designers shouldn’t dump support for it.
.net magazine’s Calling Time on IE6 piece got a massive response the community at…
Opinion: Sony eats netbook humble pie →
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Interesting point about Sony and their facistic attitude towards the marketplace. But the writer highlights Apple as a counter example - in fact Apple are just as bad. The only…
Hi guys... →
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Chris Evans… what a guy
…Here’s the drivers’ briefing for our Magnificent 7 run down to The New Forest. They will be taken through it tonight when they arrive at the radio…
Glastonbury 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com →
Stunning Glastonbury photos
