- Alma telescope opens its eyes – Awesome. In the original sense of the word.
- Mercury’s Explosive Volcanic History – Both beautiful and fascinating.
- Round Ireland with a Fridge – The Movie based on Tony Hawks bestseller – Full movie for a limited time only…
Tag: Film
- Nov. 10, 1999: Metric Math Mistake Muffed Mars Meteorology Mission – Sometimes the simplest of mistakes have the most dramatic consequences.
- Linotype: The Film – The revolution in printing before DTP… soon in documentary form.
- Urbanized – After Helvetica and Objectified, Gary Hustwit’s next documentary is about the design of cities. “Urbanized looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design, featuring some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.” Can’t wait.
- 8-Bit Cities – This is awesome: maps of cities in the style of 1980’s video games.
- iPhone 4 – Case Program – I’ve not had any reception problems with mine but I’m not one to pass up free stuff…
- March 30, 1848: Niagara Falls Runs Dry – Bizarre.
- Twitter fixes oAuth for desktop and mobile with xAuth – Just as I add Twitter support to Yummy, they change something. Typical.
- Famous Movie Quotes – Movie quotes visualised. (via @kottke)
- Objectified – New documentary from the people that gave you Helvetica. Looks interesting.
- Georgia recalls Soviet crackdown – I visited ten years after this. It’s a really beautiful country and such a shame that it keeps descending into civil war or getting into a scuffle with its northern neighbour.
- Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack – “You are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.” Maybe the government should start protecting us from the police instead? (via Kottke.org)
- Polly Toynbee and David Walker: an extract from their new book on the widening gap between rich and poor | Money | The Guardian – “Most dismaying was their lack of empathy and their unwillingness to contemplate other, less luxurious lives. They could not see that the pleasure they derived from possessions, prospects and doing well by their children is universal and that others deserve a share of that, too.”
- Hands on: Delicious 2 cleans up social bookmarking – In case you were wondering why a lot of my old posts suddenly reappeared in the RSS feed… First impression: looks nice.
- Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit – New film from the people that brought you the documentary “Helvetica.” Looks intriguing.
- Wall-E: One giant beep for mankind – “Pixar’s films have always outstripped those of Dreamworks – maker of the Shrek series, among others – because they contain universal truths rather than a series of swiftly dated cultural in-jokes.”
- How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand – Is evolution not the natural way forward? An alternate take would be: how do the French think that they can mandate changes in language?
- Big Oil’s Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history – “Iraq is being forced to sell 75% of its national patrimony to pay the bills for its own illegal invasion and occupation.”
- Review: Charming Wall-E Sweeps Up Trash, Hearts – Seems that being bought by Disney has not cramped Pixars style. Definitely one that I’ll see at the cinema.
- Labour fifth as Tories win Henley – When Labour get fewer votes than the BNP in a by-election there is a big problem…
- Legal, British P2P ‘by end of year’ – Is the music industry finally ready to embrace new distribution models?
- The Dumbing Of America – “The toxic brew of anti-rationalism and ignorance hurts discussions of U.S. public policy on topics from health care to taxation.” The article is about the US but it’s also increasingly true here. Depressing.
- New Indiana Jones movie is dreadful – Oh dear. Like many people I’ll probably still go see it anyway…
- SMS costs more than using Hubble Space Telescope – “Text messaging [is] anywhere from four to 42 times as expensive as talking to the Hubble.”