March 2012
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What News Sites People are Reading, by State
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Jon Bruner of Forbes, in collaboration with Hilary Mason and Anna Smith of Bitly, maps the most popular news source by state.
Bitly’s dataset, wrangled by data scientists Hilary Mason and Anna Smith, consists of every click on every Bitly link on the Web. Bitly makes its data available publicly—just add ‘+’ to the end of any Bitly...
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Perpetual Ocean
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Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (ECCO2), the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio (I think NASA has a thing for long names.) visualizes surface currents around the world. This is beautiful science here. Make sure you turn on high-def and go full screen.
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graffiti artists are not going to be under THAT...
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March 28th, 2012: Surprise! I’ll be at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle this weekend! It actually goes from Friday to Sunday so that is plenty of time to MEET and HIGH FIVE and maybe FACILITATE TRANSACTIONS FOR AWESOME THINGS.
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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Hotel / Mecanoo
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Courtesy of Mecanoo
Hilton Worldwide and Schiphol Real Estate, Schiphol Group’s real estate subsidiary, have today signed an agreement to introduce a new landmark 433 guest room Hilton Hotels & Resorts hotel to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, to be designed by prominent Dutch architects, Mecanoo. The new cube-shaped building, which will feature rounded...
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WatchMade by Hand / No 3 The Beekeeper
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3 recent links tangentially related to The Wire
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We likes The Wire. We likes reading about The Wire.
1. Aaron Bady, of The New Inquiry, earns a ‘tie-today’s-story-to-The-Wire’ badge by thoughtfully comparing the recent revelations about Mike Daisey’s one man show to Jimmy McNulty serial killer creation in Season 5. People as a whole don’t end up looking too hot when Bady...
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Surge in tech hubs give African startups a place...
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When Startup Garage Nairobi opened its doors last month in the Kenyan capital, it became the latest such facility to launch in Africa. According to the crowdsourced BongoHive’s “Hubs in Africa” map, there are 45 tech hubs, tech labs, business incubators and hacker spaces on the continent.
Although the...
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Redefining NBA Basketball Positions
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For the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference a few weeks ago, Stanford biomechanical engineering student and Ayasdi analyst Muthu Alagappan presented his work on redefining basketball positions.
After studying players like LeBron James and Blake Griffin, many analysts are now suggesting that there are new positions, which are simply hybrids of the...
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a word is worth 0.001 of a picture
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March 21st, 2012: Are you aware you can purchase THE VERY BEST WORDS FROM DINOSAUR COMICS and put them all over your fridge, poetry style? Look I know you probably had other uses in mind for your money but sometimes there are EMERGENCIES.
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Pill
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HONDURAS ILLUSTRATIONS
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I just finished a series of illustrations for a small project the office is working on in Honduras. The project is a memorial, therefore we wanted the illustrations to take on a meditative and quiet atmosphere. Two renderings were created of the same view to explain the different lighting scenarios a visitor would experience both during the day and the...
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Murder Sandwich
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CLICK TO EMBIGGEN
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WatchBlack Dynamite 100 - Pilot
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Dutch Mountain / denieuwegeneratie
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© John Lewis Marshall
Architect: denieuwegeneratie
Location: Huizen, The Netherlands
Surface area: 709 sqm BVO / GFA
Completion: 2011
Team: Sanne Oomen, Thomas Dieben, Oscar Vos
Photographs: Jaap Vliegenthart & John Lewis Marshall
© Jaap Vliegenthart
The house is located on a historical agricultural plot amidst hayfields and woods...
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Photo shoot of Lady Gaga before she was Gaga
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When Stefani Germanotta was working as a waitress in the West Village in the summer of 2005 (anyone know where?), her coworker Malgorzata Saniewska shot a series of photos of her at Germanotta’s parents’ apartment.
A year or two later, Germanotta became Lady Gaga. Tags: Lady Gaga Malgorzata Saniewska photography
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Joey what happened Joey
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Big K.R.I.T. - Yesterday
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hit me with a flower
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MY STUPID MUSCLES
I just came back from my first run after totally breaking myself at weightlifting class. For almost two full days I made oofing noises when going down the stairs or lifting my arms, and even had to do that thing where you freefall the last few inches to the toilet seat because the quadriceps say NOPE, WE’RE DONE. You can think...
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Keeping track of yourself
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The quantified self movement continues:
This may sound creepy, but tens of thousands of patients around the world are already sharing information about symptoms and treatments for hundreds of conditions on websites such as PatientsLikeMe and CureTogether. This has yielded valuable results, such as the finding that patients who suffered from vertigo...
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all of the above are below
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1. I am the one who takes down all the cutesy passive-aggressive bathroom notes at work and throws them away. I’m sorry, but when I am washing my hands I do not need to read “Please Pick Up Your Dishes, This Is NOT A Hotel! [smiley face]” or “Ladies: If You Sprinkle When You Tinkle, Please Be Neat And Wipe The Seat [more smiley faces].” I don’t...
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Guys I think you should all join formspring. This... →
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