June 19, 2013
This image is a scaled-down version of a full-circle view which combined nearly 900 images taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. The Full-Res TIFF and Full-Res JPEG provided in the top right legend are smaller resolution versions of the 1.3 billion pixel version for easier browser viewing and downloading. Viewers can explore the full-circle image with pan and zoom controls at http://mars.nasa.gov/bp1/. The view is centered toward the south, with north at both ends. It shows Curiosity at the “Rocknest” site where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand. Curiosity used three cameras to take the component images on several different days between Oct. 5 and Nov. 16, 2012. This first NASA-produced gigapixel image from the surface of Mars is a mosaic using 850 frames from the telephoto camera of Curiosity’s Mast Camera instrument, supplemented with 21 frames from the Mastcam’s wider-angle camera and 25 black-and-white frames — mostly of the rover itself — from the Navigation Camera. It was produced by the Multiple-Mission Image Processing Laboratory (MIPL) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (via Space Images: Billion-Pixel View From Curiosity at Rock Nest, Raw Color - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

This image is a scaled-down version of a full-circle view which combined nearly 900 images taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. The Full-Res TIFF and Full-Res JPEG provided in the top right legend are smaller resolution versions of the 1.3 billion pixel version for easier browser viewing and downloading. Viewers can explore the full-circle image with pan and zoom controls at http://mars.nasa.gov/bp1/. The view is centered toward the south, with north at both ends. It shows Curiosity at the “Rocknest” site where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand. Curiosity used three cameras to take the component images on several different days between Oct. 5 and Nov. 16, 2012. This first NASA-produced gigapixel image from the surface of Mars is a mosaic using 850 frames from the telephoto camera of Curiosity’s Mast Camera instrument, supplemented with 21 frames from the Mastcam’s wider-angle camera and 25 black-and-white frames — mostly of the rover itself — from the Navigation Camera. It was produced by the Multiple-Mission Image Processing Laboratory (MIPL) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (via Space Images: Billion-Pixel View From Curiosity at Rock Nest, Raw Color - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

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American Library (via Dribbble -  Two Arms Inc.) This could be a great bookshelf, though not the most efficient….  still.

American Library (via Dribbble -  Two Arms Inc.)

This could be a great bookshelf, though not the most efficient….  still.

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Russell Brand on MSNBC Mocking Media (by OvergrowDaGovernment)

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June 18, 2013
A RETRO VHS GLITCH EFFECT —SCROLL TO ADJUST TRACKING (via VCR.JS —A RETRO VHS GLITCH EFFECT)

A RETRO VHS GLITCH EFFECT —SCROLL TO ADJUST TRACKING (via VCR.JS —A RETRO VHS GLITCH EFFECT)

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June 16, 2013
Help:Authority control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Authority control is a method of creating and maintaining index terms for bibliographic material in a library catalogue. It is used mainly to enable cataloguers to disambiguate items with similar or identical headings. It is commonly used where more than one person with the same name needs to be identified separately but it can be used for other subject material. When used, authority control data links can be found near the bottom of Wikipedia pages.

— just noticed wikipedia uses this

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June 15, 2013
(via Dribbble - Valentines Card by Luke Bott)

(via Dribbble - Valentines Card by Luke Bott)

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June 11, 2013
Musings: 10 Paradoxes of Creative People

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I was reading the article on this subject and decided to post the 10 paradoxes here along with my personal thoughts. Psychology Today: Psychology of Creative People

1. Creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but they’re also often quiet and at rest.

They work long…

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The analytical engine has arranged everyone neatly, picking out clusters of individuals and also showing both peripheral individuals and—more intriguingly—people who seem to bridge various groups in ways that might perhaps be relevant to national security. Look at that person right in the middle there. Zoom in if you wish. He seems to bridge several groups in an unusual (though perhaps not unique) way. His name is Paul Revere. … So, there you have it. From a table of membership in different groups we have gotten a picture of a kind of social network between individuals, a sense of the degree of connection between organizations, and some strong hints of who the key players are in this world. And all this—all of it!—from the merest sliver of metadata about a single modality of relationship between people. (via Using Metadata to find Paul Revere - Kieran Healy) A fun example of what a little metadata can do…

The analytical engine has arranged everyone neatly, picking out clusters of individuals and also showing both peripheral individuals and—more intriguingly—people who seem to bridge various groups in ways that might perhaps be relevant to national security. Look at that person right in the middle there. Zoom in if you wish. He seems to bridge several groups in an unusual (though perhaps not unique) way. His name is Paul Revere.

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So, there you have it. From a table of membership in different groups we have gotten a picture of a kind of social network between individuals, a sense of the degree of connection between organizations, and some strong hints of who the key players are in this world. And all this—all of it!—from the merest sliver of metadata about a single modality of relationship between people. (via Using Metadata to find Paul Revere - Kieran Healy)

A fun example of what a little metadata can do…

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June 10, 2013
“ Je N’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

(Letter 16, 1657) ― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

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In contrast to the 3Doodler, Novikov and Jokić’s system is a software-controlled 3D printer. Carefully timing the arm’s movement with the thermoplastic’s setting time allows the apparatus to make self-supporting structures on the spot. The machine moves methodically to allow the material to set (the video is sped up 3X), but it can make strands of varying thickness by changing the speed. Users can produce strands in color by injecting dyes (in CMYK) throughout printing.

Why is this an improvement on current tech? Novikov and Jokić say, “This method gives us a flexibility to create truly natural objects by making 3D curves instead of 2D layers. Unlike 2D layers that are ignorant to the structure of the object, the 3D curves can follow exact stress lines of a custom shape. Finally, our new out of the box printing method can help manufacture structures of almost any size and shape.”

(via ‘Anti-Gravity’ 3D Printer Uses Strands to Sculpt Shapes on Any Surface | Singularity Hub)

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3D printers build objects by cross-section, one layer at a time from the ground up—gravity is a limiting factor. But what if it wasn’t? Using proprietary 3D printing materials, Petr Novikov and Saša Jokić say their Mataerial 3D printing system is gravity independent. The duo’s method allows a robotic arm to print objects on floors, walls, ceilings—smooth and uneven surfaces.

Novikov and Jokić invented their system (patent pending) in collaboration with theInstitute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. It uses a thermoplastic that cures on contact with the air, not unlike the 3Doodler, a Kickstarter project that places an extruder in human hands to draw 3D forms on the air. 

(via ‘Anti-Gravity’ 3D Printer Uses Strands to Sculpt Shapes on Any Surface | Singularity Hub)

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June 5, 2013
Microsoft Launches 'Chip In' Crowdfunding to Help Students Buy PCs

The tech giant’s new “Chip In” program lets friends and family crowdsource donations toward purchasing a Windows PC for a college student. The program works like this: A college student selects a new Windows PC device on the Chip In site, then creates a campaign page and shares it out to friends and family, asking for help funding the computer. Microsoft contributes 10% of the PC purchase as the first donation. When the new computer is funded, the student receives a promotional coupon code to buy the device from MicrosoftStore.com. Though anyone can set up a crowdfunding profile (parents, relatives or students themselves), only a student with a .edu college e-mail address or international student identity card (ISIC) can redeem the coupon to buy a computer. For the first 10,000 students, the purchase also comes with a four-year subscription to Office 365 University.

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“ I know this sounds weird but Stewie Griffin made me do karaoke all night.

An on-demand excuse to get you out of anything | myExcuse.is

Every great excuse comes from a formula.

We pull a lead in, a perpetrator and an incident from our handy list of phrases. They are randomly paired to get you excused from the most unwanted holiday parties, dentists visits, movie dates and more.

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June 4, 2013
(via Tetris Printer Algorithm)

(via Tetris Printer Algorithm)

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