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NEW RULE: If we must sit through a 30-second ad to see your Web site, you have to take down all of those banner ads, which no one has clicked on since 1997. Please — I’m trying to watch a video of a nipple slip from last night’s episode of “Real Housewives of Atlanta.” Let’s not cheapen it.

Bill Maher: New Rules for the New Year (via nedhepburn)

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01/4/13

cavetocanvas:

Gordon Parks, Untitled, 1968

From the Cleveland Museum of Art:

Regarded as a major photojournalist, Gordon Parks has also earned considerable distinction as a writer, poet, novelist, composer, and filmmaker. In 1949, he was appointed a staff photographer for Life magazine. and produced remarkable photo-essays on a wide range of personalities, events, and topics, including Winston Churchill, Paris fashions, Harlem street gangs, the civil-rights movement, and South Africa. Photographed at an odd angle and through the bars of a bedframe, this poignant image depicts a young boy working on his homework in bed.

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01/4/13

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12/24/12

Places as copyright holders

Argleton, the phantom settlement that mysteriously appeared and disappeared on Google maps four years ago, may have eradicated it’s digital footprint but it’s legacy remains.

First spotted by a professor at the local university, Edge Hill, the town is thought to have been a paper town; a place that is added to a map, but doesn’t exist, in order to keep other mapmakers from crossing copyright laws.

Although the fictitious village saw stardom via a minor media sensation in 2009, and was subsequently removed from Google maps, does inventing a place to catch copyright infringement negate our offline and online experience of place?

Positioned between Aughton and Town Green, the sprawling fields and various A roads which make up the village are non places, topographically speaking, but as various other sites struggle to keep up with Google’s errors, its legacy includes a fictitious bike ride, real encounters of walking the territory to redraw the map and being made the subject of a Radio 4 segment.

My next voyage on the Virgin Pendilino might have to include a trip to Argleton.

12/23/12

shortformblog:

To answer your question, here’s what a 3D-printed vinyl record sounds like. (More details as to how it was made over this way.)

12/23/12

fotojournalismus:

Burqa repair shop in Kabul, May 2002.

[Credit : Thomas Dworzak]

12/23/12

newsweek:

Here’s the cover of this week’s Newsweek, the last print issue before we go all-digital in 2013. Yup, it’s a hashtag. Use it!

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12/23/12

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12/23/12

unravelingsanity:

J. Kleyn

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12/23/12

urbnist:

sunfoundation:

Sitegeist - Ground Yourself with Data

Sitegeist is a mobile application that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Drawing on publicly available information, the app presents solid data in a simple at-a-glance format to help you tap into the pulse of your location. From demographics about people and housing to the latest popular spots or weather, Sitegeist presents localized information visually so you can get back to enjoying the neighborhood. The application draws on free APIs such as the U.S. Census, Yelp! and others to showcase what’s possible with access to data.

The age of big data (and instant data) is upon us!

12/14/12

laughingsquid:

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Enshrines the East Village Struggle

12/9/12

There has never been a worse time to remind me I’m skint.

dontwalkfashion:

DW is getting psyched about Maison Martin Margiela’s collaboration with H&M.
The collection will be available online and in selected stores on November 15.

11/13/12

Culture Dog's Body

Places as copyright holders

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