R.I.P. Ron Asheton (1)
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Stooges founding member/guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead at his Ann Arbor home this morning. There's no official cause of death yet, but Rolling Stone -- who rightfully listed him as one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time -- reports that it looks like he had a heart attack. He was 60. Read more at RS while you listen to The Stooges and Fun House.
While We Were Out (1)
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Header photo from I Can Has Cheezburger? At the end of every year, Pitchfork News takes a few weeks off to celebrate the holidays and remember what life is like away from the computer. Now, after a well-deserved break, we're back in full swing, ready to keep you up-to-date on the goings-on of all your favorite (and least favorite) artistsin 2009. Here's a brief run-down of a few notable things that happened during the break. ...
Shanghai recreated in dice and poker chips (16)
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Liu Jianhua recreated the Shanghai skyline from dice and poker-chips -- the gigantic piece was displayed at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Italy. The close-up detail view (shot by Flickr user cinghialino and licensed Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike) is spectacular. Liu Jianhua - Unreal Scene (2008), Liu Jianhua - Unreal Scene (2008) (detail view) (via Neatorama)
Al Franken vs. Ann Coulter (41)
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Senator Al Franken zings the everloving crap out of Ann Coulter in this sweet little clip. Funniest 1:22 I've seen all day. Ann Coulter and Al Franken at The Connecticut Forum (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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Jason said:
Alright, that's pretty damn funny.
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Wesley said:
Hehe, he's so calm while he's slamming her.
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Bruce said:
he's finally about to become a senator - http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/04/minnesota.senate.race/index.html
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cp said:
Wow it's easy to make people like Ann Coulter look stupid. I can't wait to hear Franken on the senate floor.
Could Steve Jobs Be Obama’s CTO? (6)
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This is the next (and hopefully last) nutty-MacWorld-rumor-with-a-morsel-of-plausibility floating around the Mac websites. The gist of it: the real reason why Steve Jobs cancelled his MacWorld apperance is because he landed the position of Federal Chief Technical Officer for the new Obama administration, and is preparing for the job. Read more over at Mac.Blorge. And Mac Soda. And Macenstein. My thoughts? Steve’s biggest strength would be as a public speaker, being able to translate complicated ...
Stuff I Liked in 2008 (1)
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Music: Well if you listened to hip hop in '08 or read anybody else's blogs you probably have a pretty good idea of what my favorite rap and pop art albums were. So rather than discuss if I preferred Man on the Moon to Mixtape About Nothing (MotM fyi), here are my other favorite ablums and also top songs all genres.Albumsin no orderSia- Some People Have Real ProblemsEstelle- ShineSantogold- SantogoldI bought all three of those ...
Warhol, Spielberg, Bianca Jagger on a hotel bed... (15)
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My friend Siege blogged this YouTube find and explained it like this: On a hotel bed, Steven Spielberg talks to Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger about TV static ghosts, picking up radio stations on his teeth, and swallowing the future. Spielberg confesses *swallowing* a transistor after his father presented it to him, and said "son, this is the future" -- it was the young boy's first hands-on experience with technology. Or, perhaps better stated, his ...
25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek (17)
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It's the 25th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh, but Steve Jobs' eyes are dry. At the company headquarters in Silicon Valley, where he was presenting a set of new laptops to the press last October, I mentioned the birthday to him. Jobs recoiled at any suggestion of nostalgia. "I don't think about that," he said. "When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old ...
Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface (79)
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Are you familiar with the uncanny valley? No, not that uncanny valley. Well, on second thought, yes, that uncanny valley. In 1978, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori noticed something interesting: The more humanlike his robots became, the more people were attracted to them, but only up to a point. If an android become too realistic and lifelike, suddenly people were repelled and disgusted. The problem, Mori realized, is in the nature of how we identify ...
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tayknight said:
pretty interesting if you can get past the cleavage.
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Isaac H said:
Important!
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ravidor said:
A must read and thought about for every web developer/designer/palnner/whatever
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Wilka said:
More things that want your credit card details
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Juan Pablo Ortiz Arechiga said:
Nunca había podido explicar porque las interfaces web que simulan el escritorio me repulsan.. esta es una teoría interesante.
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Moah said:
Interesting point of view regarding web applications. I have argued in my previous job that the web client of the product (WebEx Connect) should not look or behave exactly the same way as the desktop application (mainly baesd on the fact that consistency only for the sake of consistency is worthless). I guess this is another point to keep them distinct.
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Evgeni Vasilev said:
True, true
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Alex Klein said:
this was the most well done blog post i've seen in a month
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jharwig said:
Reminds me of my project. Good points about not mimicking desktop interfaces on the web.
17 Percent of Microsoft Employees Going Going Gone (7)
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Image via CrunchBaseIf nothing else says troubled economy, it is the rumor now semi-fact that Microsoft is going to lay off 17% of its work force on 15 January 2009. The nice part is that they did not do this before the holidays, like many other companies did. The backscatter on this is very large, featuring techmeme, search engine land, Fudzilla, and a host of other bloggers that can be tracked on Techmeme. This is ...
Billie Holiday Sings "Strange Fruit" (15)
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We often listen to Billie Holiday albums on slow-moving Sunday mornings. This version of "Strange Fruit" is remarkable and haunting to watch. (Shawn Connally and Bruce Stewart are guest bloggers)
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Amanda Clay Powers said:
I am also in the habit of listening to Lady Holiday on Sunday Mornings...and this is definitely one of her most powerful songs. How wonderful to watch her sing it.
The sad fate of the Columbia crew (5)
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On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia re-entered Earth’s atmosphere after an otherwise routine mission. When the Shuttle launched a few days earlier, a half-kilo piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank had broken off during launch and slammed into the port wing at 900 kilometers per hour. No damage was seen on video taken from the ground, and NASA assumed nothing had happened. However, what they couldn’t see was that the ...
Transparent Solar Windows (3)
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Solar PV developers have been spending more time on aesthetics recently. They've created solar roof tiles that blend in with a building's roof and now RSi Solar has announced that they've designed transparent solar windows. The photovoltaic windows generate 80 - 250 watts each, depending on the size. What is more impressive are the extra features the windows contain. Besides harnessing the sun's energy, they reduce heat, which reduces cooling costs and they provide a ...
My favourite Typefaces of 2008 (55)
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The Best of Type This year has been a great year for type, with many new releases. Some of them are exceptional. Following is a list of my personal favourites of the past year. This is by no means an exhaustive list; there are, in fact, many others deserving of accolades. Compendium Difficult to imagine a best-of list with no showing from Ale Paul. This one is no exception. Ale released several great faces in ...
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Daniel said:
Om du bara ska köpa några typsnitt i år (eller 2009) så se till så att de är dessa.
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Tushar said:
The coolest one is Museo and the guy who created it, Jos Buivenga (http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/), is really cool.
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theogeo said:
Hot damn, look at the ligatures in MEgalopolis!
Admiring Bill Gates (63)
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Dare I say this on O'Reilly Radar? I admire Bill Gates. If I had a vote for Person of the Year, Gates would get mine. Let me explain why. This year, Gates made an important and potentially difficult transition at age 52, leaving Microsoft as CEO and devoting more of his time and energy to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It's a shift in focus, moving from defining strategy for Microsoft to a broader ...
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"In a unanimous decision handed down just now, the state Supremes denied Coleman any relief in a lawsuit he was waging to deal with allegations of double-counted absentee ballots, which his campaign says have given an illegitimate edge to Al Franken. The Coleman campaign was seeking to switch 25 selected precincts back to their Election Night totals, which would undo all of Franken's recount gains in those areas and put Coleman back in the lead."
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Pat said:
I still remember Bill from the early 80's all I can say is Bravo Bill.
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Mike said:
Fair point. Was a bit predatory as an executive, but I also admire what he's doing.
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Joshua Heling said:
I had very similar thoughts after seeing Bill Gates on Fareed Zakaria's GPS podcast (generally worthwhile, IMO -- Zakaria is a smart guy). While I've spent a good deal of energy over the last 15 years avoiding Windows, it is clear to me that Gates himself is a good guy.
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Mahesh CR said:
A honest assessment of a post-Microsoft Bill Gates. Magical is it not, all the skills that made him reviled and universally hated are the same as ones working to save humanity from deadly diseases.
ACM wants computer science in on Obama's K-12 education plan (11)
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RareShare: A Community For People With Rare Medical Problems (20)
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Rareshare, a community site for people with rare medical conditions, has shared some of it most recent growth data with us and the results are impressive. Since launching over the summer, the site has grown each month by between 35%-50%, and now has over 700 communities associated with different disorders. Given the nature of the site, the numbers are bittersweet, but it’s nice to know that so many people are finding others they can connect ...
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Choosenick said:
What an interesting vertical social network
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Alex said:
There are many health data companies who have very high value which is predicated on the idea that the ownership of user data is in and of itself of great value. We've all learned many times before that the network-effect of data is much more valuable than the data itself. That is to say that in the long run, RareShare is more valuable than Emergis.
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