February 2010
29 posts
February 26, 2010 →
Mlurrrrgh…
Post-metaphor Las Vegas →
Reporting for Design Observer, Matt Lamster visits the new CityCenter complex in Las Vegas. There’s something dystopic about the place generally, and CityCenter is starting to feel like the…
Men Are From Mars... →
From Jeffrey Goldberg’s Q&A advice column in the Atlantic:
Sometimes when we’re driving somewhere and silent for a while, my
husband will turn to me and ask, “What are you thinking about?”…
AIGA symbol signs
foomandoonian:
The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.
For me, seeing this picture was just like finding... →
For me, seeing this picture was just like finding out there’s no Santa Claus.
Green screened →
I had no idea how many outdoor scenes on TV shows are shot on a green screen. Here’s a reel with several before and after examples. (via that’s how it happened) Tags: TV video
“I hope we end the oil age not because we run out of oil, but because we find...”
– Takanobu Ito, Honda CEO
via Dustin Curtis
Design Evolution of 40 Famous Corporate Company... →
Do you know the reason why there is small cut in the Apple logo? Or did you ever wonder what the Microsoft logo looked 20 years back? Or perhaps you may have wondered the actual meaning behind…
“Maurice Ralph Hilleman […] was an American microbiologist who specialized in...”
– Maurice Hilleman - Wikipedia
Wired calls him “the most brilliant vaccine maker of the 20th century” and “a notoriously foulmouthed genius”.
“I’m starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because...”
– Questions for Douglas Coupland - Dreaming of a White Olympics - Interview - NYTimes.com
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
– It gets better every time I read it: Ernest Hemingway’s 6-word story.
Flash fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Want to get someone off IE6? Put these 11... →
Want to get someone off IE6? Put these 11 characters into the address bar and hit enter: ms-its:%F0:. The browser will instantly crash. Better yet, set it as their homepage.
Math for non-experts →
Mathematician Steven Strogatz is doing what sounds like a fascinating series of posts on mathematics for adults. From the initial post: I’ll be writing about the elements of mathematics, from…
