2009 Aug 11, 6:22Good luck with that. "Forget WAV, MP3 and M4A – major labels have something new in mind, and it's called CMX. Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI are reportedly preparing a new digital album format that
will include songs, lyrics, videos, liner notes and artwork."
music cmx mp3 audio apple itunes 2009 Aug 11, 5:21"Michael Niggel took a look at Journey Under the Sea, and mapped out all possible paths. It turns out that death and unfavorable endings are in fact much more likely than the rest."
visualization via:ethan_t_hein literature fiction if interactive flowchart infographics chooseyourownadventure 2009 Aug 7, 7:03Starting with an English phrase, Translation Party converts back and forth between English and Japanese until the result no longer changes.
humor language google javascript english japanese translation via:waxy 2009 Aug 6, 8:06"Man shaves head, walks across China for a year, grows beard & crazy hair, and takes daily photos and short videos of himself along the way". Like the hair and the ska!
via:kottke hair photo video timelapse china travel ska 2009 Aug 6, 3:01Tutorial on using the google maps api on android
android tutorial google java map maps programming mobile technical 2009 Aug 5, 2:18"Mythbuster Adam Savage attended this year's Con ... he roamed the convention floor in his own costume and egged his Twitter followers to sniff him out." He dressed as The Joker from the opening
scene of The Dark Knight.
comic-con humor adam-savage myth-busters tv 2009 Aug 5, 7:57"Ten times smaller than barcodes, Bokodes’ low-cost optical design can be read from as far as 4 meters away, much farther than barcodes, by taking an out-of-focus photo with any off-the-shelf
camera." Love for stuff like this to catch on, however compared to QR codes, these are much more difficult to produce than barcodes in that you can't just print them out and they require changes to
the photography technique (must be out of focus) rather than just analyzing any photograph of a barcode. They seem to be solving slightly different problems.
qrcode qr barcode camera information design bokode augmented-reality technical 2009 Aug 4, 7:19"Witnesses said that Sgt. Crowley, failing to recognize Gates on their flight to Logan Airport, arrested the tenured professor in midair, once again at the baggage claim, and twice during their
shared cab ride back to Cambridge"
humor onion politics 2009 Aug 3, 8:30"The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day." I enjoy the graph animation when switching between different groups.
via:swannman graph visualization information graphic nytimes infographics demographics statistics 2009 Jul 31, 6:09An interactive touchable table to help you browse and select fonts.
art visualization design font typography surface table touchscreen video 2009 Jul 31, 5:57"Is it worth the sensationalism and scaremongering? The endlessly inaccurate and dangerous science reporting? The pointless and news-free lifestyle articles? Do newspapers that prioritise stories
based on celebrities and spectacle rather than importance to the world deserve to exist?"
via:sambrook internet news journalism media 2009 Jul 29, 11:00"Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it."
humor journalism health via:bengoldacre news science 2009 Jul 29, 10:58Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine promotes and discusses the concepts in his book "Free" on the Charlie Rose show.
charlie-rose chris-anderson wired free internet web economics video interview via:bengoldacre 2009 Jul 29, 5:48The new draft IRI spec to replace RFC 3987. "To accomodate widespread current practice, additional derivative protocol elements are defined, and current practice for resolving IRI-based hypertext
references in HTML are outlined."
iri uri rfc html reference technical 2009 Jul 28, 5:07Suggests that local news must provide the raw facts and only in particular cases do a 'story' on top of that -- not everything needs to be a story.
news via:sambrook journalism 2009 Jul 28, 4:27Timelapse construction of Disneyland.
timelapse disney disneyland history video via:waxy 2009 Jul 27, 5:34"This specification provides an API used to prompt the user with a file selection dialogue and obtain the data contained in files on the user's file system."
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