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merlin:

And, shall we say…one of my favorite shots in the movie?

The Florida rainy season is back again. That means there’s going to be more days where I look like this biker.

(via Dahab Underwater Ride « Cairo Cyclists Club)

The Dark Side of the Lens.

I have a good looking kid.

(via Gabi’s Wall Photos)

Be a little bit of both.

(via Cheryl Ann MacDonald- Google+)

A man needs, not six feet of land, not a farm, but the whole earth, all Nature, where in full liberty he can display all the properties and qualities of the free spirit.

— Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries, 1898

I can bike anywhere.

explore-blog:

I Was a Teenage Minotaur

Should I check email? No, probably not.

(via Managing Distraction: How and Why to Ignore Your Inbox - Forbes)

xkcd: Correlation

Confessions of a recovering lifehacker

Cyclicality: Missions and Metrics

Airport security needs to pay attention to some details.

Gabi and I watched Meet Joe Black last night–her for the first time, me for the second (or third). The first song in the closing credits is Israel Kamakawiwoʻole’s ukulele version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. The song reminded me of the version of the song in the video below that Gabi and I performed for the Franciscan University talent show back in college before we were married, circa Fall 2005.

It’s quite a bit different than Kamakawiwoʻole’s version and far cry from Judy Garland’s original. There’s one weird jump in the recording about half way thorough, but still, it’s worth watching for Gabi’s vocal acrobatics.

Darth Vader and Son – Book Trailer (by ChronicleBooks)

What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other—except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith. Celebrated artist Jeffrey Brown’s delightful illustrations give classic Star Wars® moments a fresh twist, presenting the trials and joys of parenting through the lens of a galaxy far, far away.

AI is not about replicating human intelligence

This collection of images by freelance design artist Viktor Hertz gives a whole new meaning to truth in advertising.

Here is my favorite:

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I’m really getting excited for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus movie after seeing this second promo video.

The first one I saw was great too. It’s set to look like a TED talk from 2023.

I always find sci-fi prequels strange though since everything looks so much more futuristic than the movies that follow them in cronology but proceed them in release date (e.g. Star Wars).

How to be an explorer of the world

via JasonTheodor.com

“ If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases,__there’s something wrong with your argument.” — Maurice Saatchi

(via Maurice Saatchi on Effective Communication « Brand Autopsy)

Here is a list of the last 100 things I’ve read (courtesy of Instapaper). This list has items that consists of things I’ve read since March 30, 2012. A few of these things I’ve already linked to or blogged about but most are just things that grabbed my attention long enough to read from beginning to end (which is saying a lot for links on the Internet).

Let me know if this is of any interest, and I’ll keep posting lists of what I’m reading. Maybe I’ll include some comments about items that struck my fancy.

1940 vs 2010 Census: Key Comparisons Between the Years

Try the Quite Place Project. It’s nice.

Robot Love

Why Xanax is the Most Popular Anti-Anxiety Drug in America

ZOMBIES, RUN!

Text From Dog

Show this chart to the next person that says the Internet killed reading books

Hammerforum.com

Stupid games

The Book of the Future

Baseball Is Life

Rear Window Timelapse

Bad Opinion Generator

Give people time to act honestly

The Girl Who Loves to Levitate

For the rest of these see Part 1 and Part 2.

Seeing the world through “The Collective Snapshot”

This gives you a good idea of just how many pixels are in the new iPad screen. (by Matt Gemmell)

The Birth Of Silicon Valley

Take The Stairs

Could Wikipedia write itself?

What does it take to come up with a really great idea? This drawing from Christoph Niemann’s latest book called Abstract City tries to answer that question.

(via swissmiss)

Quantify: Creativity

iwdrm:

“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”

Fight Club (1999)

You can make your own.

User Experience vs. User Interface

Money Pieces.

International Currency Sculptures by Kristi Malakoff

Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet & PC (by openculturevideo)

In 1974 Arthur C. Clarke told the ABC that every household in 2001 will have a computer and be connected all over the world. Courtesy of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Type Connection

The HTML5 Gendered Advertising Video Remixer

LG begins mass production of first flexible, plastic e-ink displays. This is incredible. I hope Amazon picks up this technology for the next edition of the Kindle. Then I’d be able to keep my Kindle in my back pocket.

At world’s end: Artists reveal stunning post-apocalyptic images of the world’s major cities via Mail Online

Artists Lucie and Simon have taken the world’s most familiar and populous cities and removed all but one or two people to create the illusion of a lonely world.

Comic Sans for famous brands

Animals as the alphabet

Pentametron

Newspaper April Fools’ hoaxes

The History of April Fools Day (by jeremiahjw)

They’re going to win.

(via The Meta Picture)

The Setup is a site I have followed for the past few months now. It is a series of interviews of people who make things with computers. Each interview follows the same format asking who they are, about what hardware and software they use to do what they do, and about their dream setup.

I wanted to examine my setup and write my answers to the interview questions. It turns out there is acommunity of people who have done the same.

Tangentially related. - Indexed

I really enjoyed reading the play Exiles last year, and the vintage cover is oddly fitting.

ideefixedujour:

Dain Fagerholm: Creature in Cube with Gem (stereographic drawing)

Movies as code

Wind Map

Alberto Seveso shared these stunning photos of ink in water, a due Colori, on the Behance Network.

Watch Marina Kanno and Giacomo Bevilaqua from Staatsballett Berlin perform jumps and other impressive ballet moves in super slow motion. The detail at 1000 frames per second is incredible.

Radiohead’s Everything in Its Right Place is a nice touch too…

via Kottke

Mass produced hits

Frustro: The Impossible Font

Facebook Threatens Legal Action Against Employers Asking for Your Password

This Is a Fingerpainting. Needless to say, it was not completed by a kindergartner.

Scott Adams thinks there should be a new kind of degree, a “certification that a student has completed a series of classes specified by a particular designer.”

The designer would not be limited to one college for specifying classes. For example, if Warrant Buffett designed the Warren Buffett Business Degree, he would specify the general type of classes that need to be completed, and the student would be free to find those classes across any number of institutions and sources, including online classes or work experience. A graduate who earns the Warren Buffett Business Degree might take a few classes at the local community college, spend a year in China learning Chinese, work for an Internet startup for a year, join Toastmasters International to practice public speaking, read a number of specific business books, and so on.

Everything Don Draper Said

How Do We Identify Good Ideas? » Wired Science

Screenshots of Despair

Here’s another reason for me to start learning Spanish again.

Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

The article gives neurological reasons why knowing two languages makes you smarted and keeps your brain healthy. However, the sustained mental effort necessary to learn a second language probably provides the biggest brain boost.

We need writers to seek out fresh metaphors and turn on our brains. Annie Murphy Paul explains why.

[A] team of researchers from Emory University reported in Brain & Language that when subjects in their laboratory read a metaphor involving texture, the sensory cortex, responsible for perceiving texture through touch, became active. Metaphors like “The singer had a velvet voice” and “He had leathery hands” roused the sensory cortex, while phrases matched for meaning, like “The singer had a pleasing voice” and “He had strong hands,” did not.

Jeff Atwood’s article, Welcome to the Post PC Era, shows how the age of the onesizefitsalldoeverythingPC era has come to an end because of its own success. Smaller devices are able to do much of what we once needed full desktops to accomplish.

When was the last time you saw a desktop or a home without a computer? 2001? 2005? We’re long since past the point where Microsoft’s original BHAG was met, and even exceeded. PCs are absolutely ubiquitous. When you wake up one day to discover that you’ve completely conquered the world … what comes next?

I’m glad we got the Kindle and iPad instead of this 1933 imagining of a futuristic book reader.

via Boing Boing

The girl with the camera and mirror

LEGO: The Simpsons via Laughing Squid

Don Draper just had brunch where I had brunch. I had the grilled veggie omelette. He had a scotch, a steak, and any woman he wants.

— lonelysandwich. January, 2008. Just so we always remember where it all started. Because, as far as I know? This is where it all started. (via merlin)

Good ideas write themselves

I’ll bet it’s more accurate than the nightly news.

nevver:

This infographic provides some scientific backing for what you already know: You need more sleep.

The internet delivers only one medical diagnosis. via

Universities will shrink to coffee shops

A violin from the inside (via the Behance Network)

The myth of the overnight success

New Star Wars Identities Posters Shows What Characters Are Made Of

John Gruber’s review of the new iPad is enough to make anyone start checking their credit limit to see if they can afford the latest toy from Apple.

Pixels pixels pixels. Battery battery battery. Speed speed speed.

That’s the new iPad, a.k.a. (for comparison’s sake) the iPad 3. The retina display, significantly faster graphics, and the potential for startlingly fast cellular networking — all with the same renowned battery life (and standby time) as the original iPad and iPad 2.

Flow

Stop Calling it Curation

How could we have missed this? The characters from Captain Planet are just the kids from The Magic School Bus as teenagers.

Posterous acquired by Twitter

Here’s hoping that they accepted his refusal of his denial

Maria Popova shared 10 tips on writing from advertizing legend David Ogilvy.

1. Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.

2. Write the way you talk. Naturally.

Cool Geometric Illustrations of Pop Culture Icons by Liam Brazier

Justice is blind. (via Matt Frederick - Portraits)