bopuc/links: Interesting Archives

Interesting Category Archive

Homer »»

# May 04, 2005 @ 11:55 | Interesting

Brought to life, as imitated by art.

Night shadows of the past »»

# March 18, 2005 @ 13:48 | Interesting

Reflective paint street "art". Inspiration for Roadsworth for next summer if he's still game, and not in jail?

The inevitable, uncontournable »»

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# March 12, 2005 @ 20:37 | Interesting

Besides growing demand in all sectors, food included, "If the Chinese use oil at the same rate as Americans now do, by 2031 China would need 99 million barrels of oil a day. The world currently produces 79 million barrels per day and may never produce much more than that."

Another dimension »»

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# March 12, 2005 @ 13:29 | Interesting

Second life, er, live-ers?... are moblogging from within the... um... game?

The Thought Project »»

# March 09, 2005 @ 01:47 | Interesting

Really nice photo project. The photographer stopped people on the street, took their close-up portrait and asked them to tell him what they were thinking of just as he stopped them...

Longitude/Latitude based news aggregation »»

# February 27, 2005 @ 14:41 | Interesting

Grabs news items from local sources, worldwide.

Yamanote line pics and jingles »»

# February 24, 2005 @ 00:08 | Interesting

*deep sigh*

How to cut »»

# February 20, 2005 @ 21:35 | Interesting

French kitchen cutting techniques. (thx Jim)

MyLifeBits »»

# February 15, 2005 @ 22:09 | Interesting

Heard about this before of course but Karl just sent me the URL at MS. I would love to know how this has affected the minds of the researchers.

Flickr color picker »»

# February 06, 2005 @ 09:34 | Interesting

Nice. Jim suggests real-time photomosaics next.

Japan Association for Working Holiday Makers »»

# January 23, 2005 @ 08:00 | Interesting

Iiiiinteresting...

Phuket tidal wave »»

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# December 27, 2004 @ 19:52 | Interesting

Gallery of photos of incoming tidal wave, taken from a hotel balcony. Hope the guy in the water managed to grab onto something. :\

Processing > Reas »»

# December 27, 2004 @ 19:16 | Interesting

Reas, the co-developper of Processing (Ben Fry is the other) produces beautiful stuff!!

Child consumer culture remix art »»

# December 25, 2004 @ 01:21 | Interesting

Ai Kijima. Fused, machine quilted. Recycled materials including curtain, pillow case, bed sheets, clothes, apron, handkerchief, tablecloth.

Collaborative sketchbook »»

# December 22, 2004 @ 13:04 | Interesting

Kinda neat. I wish I had better a better interface to it than a mouse or tablet.

Winter Music Sampler 2004 »»

# December 07, 2004 @ 15:40 | Interesting

Some more good trax.

The New York Review of Books: Passage to China »»

# December 05, 2004 @ 17:44 | Interesting

"The development of printing, had a powerful effect on the development of democracy, but even in the short run, it opened new possibilities for public communication and had enormous consequences for social and political life in China. Among other things, education achieved a new level of importance with the rise of learning, marked by the great spread of printing, literacy, and schooling."

A bit of history »»

# November 03, 2004 @ 15:34 | Interesting

One of many precedents.

Move to Canada? »»

# November 03, 2004 @ 15:25 | Interesting

Not so fast. Sorry...

Whatchoo' talkin'bout? »»

# October 28, 2004 @ 22:51 | Interesting

Maciej has put up a web-service "language guesser". Cool.

She does awesome stuff »»

# October 21, 2004 @ 02:55 | Interesting

Fernanda Viegas

The E-Commerce Petri Dish »»

# October 15, 2004 @ 12:25 | Interesting

"reputation management may trump brand management" "reputation can impact prices consumers are willing to pay online" Bingo.

The making of the terror myth »»

# October 15, 2004 @ 01:53 | Interesting

The Guardian weighs in about all this terror alert bullshit. What do you call it when so-called leaders use fear-mongering to influence the populace. And I thought a democracy is where the people are supposed to influence their selected leaders...

MattJones++ »»

# October 04, 2004 @ 02:28 | Interesting

The actual past is brittle, ever-dimming + ever more problematic to access + reconstruct: in contrast the virtual past is malleable, ever-brightening + ever more difficult to circumvent/expose as fraudulent.

PM Martin Scolds UN »»

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# September 23, 2004 @ 22:30 | Interesting

Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin scolds UN for failure to act on Sudan and crimes against humanity, uses "unusually strong and blunt language"...

A million monkeys at a million keyboards for only three years... »»

# September 20, 2004 @ 01:29 | Interesting

See what they can accomplish? ;)

Hunter S. Thomson quotes »»

# September 10, 2004 @ 02:51 | Interesting

Some real gems in here.

Shame on you Zell »»

# September 08, 2004 @ 15:56 | Interesting

The text of a letter former President Carter sent to Zell Miller.

Prescient Onion »»

# September 08, 2004 @ 15:45 | Interesting

A spoof written in January 2001 turns eerily real... "Bush: Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over."

Shidtigal »»

# September 04, 2004 @ 23:15 | Interesting

Good friend Ken muses on digital photography.

Force feedback in Marketing »»

# August 29, 2004 @ 21:39 | Interesting

Still evil, but right on the money. *Cough*

I want more »»

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# August 29, 2004 @ 20:57 | Interesting

Dance music video for Faithless' "I want more" totally made up of footage from a documentary on North Korea. Quite amazing.

3D Display Cube v3 »»

# August 26, 2004 @ 01:12 | Interesting

Super cool 3D LED cube (and other stuff)!

Mirror Shibuya »»

# August 22, 2004 @ 22:40 | Interesting

Nice shot.

Holograms! »»

# August 17, 2004 @ 16:01 | Interesting

Not super duper hitech, from what I can tell, but close enough to Star Wars style holograms!

Mathew Good blog »»

# August 15, 2004 @ 13:31 | Interesting

Never got into his music, but it's a damn fine blog.

Metal Rubber »»

# August 13, 2004 @ 14:30 | Interesting

"NanoSonic is busy meeting the demand for its 12-inch-by-12-inch samples, which take custom-built robots up to three days to create. That's speedy, if you consider that Metal Rubber, a product of nanotechnology, must be fabricated molecule by molecule."

Let the games begin »»

# August 09, 2004 @ 19:29 | Interesting

Article about sex in the Olympic Villages

PhotoChopped "art" »»

# August 03, 2004 @ 17:46 | Interesting

If famous painters had done portraits of current Hollywood celebrities. Hate the celebrities part, but appreciate some of the very well done work of some of these.

ACNE genome popped »»

# July 30, 2004 @ 15:54 | Interesting

I never thought one of the early results of sequencing the human genome would result in the furthering of anti-acne treatments. Amen.

Lather, rinse, repeat »»

# July 30, 2004 @ 15:35 | Interesting

Cheney waxes metaphysical... dumbed down for the masses of course and repeated enough times to sink it in: "You see! Eisenhower MEANT me to be here!"

Objective rhetoric »»

# July 28, 2004 @ 20:49 | Interesting

David, as so often, puts it best. Words are not truth.

Burnquist Organics »»

# July 27, 2004 @ 21:28 | Interesting

Pro Skater Bob Burnquist started his own organic food company, and reportedly refuses all junk food endorsements. The marketing is very "skatestyle"; in-your-face, lifestyle based. Very cool.

Liberty Hooded »»

# July 27, 2004 @ 12:36 | Interesting

Anti-Rumsfelf MoveOn TV Commercial.

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms »»

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# November 21, 2003 @ 00:59 | Interesting

LED watches , Directly from Tokyo Japan »»

# November 02, 2003 @ 01:07 | Interesting

The Food Section »»

# October 13, 2003 @ 12:42 | Interesting

Digital Democracy »»

# October 07, 2003 @ 16:00 | Interesting

3's Weblog »»

# October 06, 2003 @ 17:31 | Interesting

Bob Frankston »»

# October 06, 2003 @ 16:50 | Interesting

Archaeologists & the web »»

# October 03, 2003 @ 16:55 | Interesting

Employment Insurance »»

# September 29, 2003 @ 15:00 | Interesting

addyourown: Manhattan restaurants and reviews (Wiki) »»

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# September 27, 2003 @ 12:40 | Interesting

The goal of the site is to provide a fast, easy, free way for people to find New York restaurants. The unique feature of Addyourown is that all the restaurant listings and reviews are user-generated. You can add to, or edit, almost anything on the site.