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- Noted: Why less than 5% Germans tweet; drawing the line at data-driven emotional manipulation; ethical algorithms; geofencing the Barbican; and guess who’s a jerk? Why Germans shun Twitter, The Economist ( audio edition ). ‘ Facebook’s [timeline] experiment reveals a much deeper problem with the inte...
- The Archigram Archival Project Archigram was a seminal British architectural practice (1961–1974). The six main members of the group are acknowlegded still today for ...
- Where Does My Money Go? Where Does My Money Go? uses open government data to show where UK taxes get spent. ( Here is a written summary of today's UK Budget...
- The history of aspect ratios Simple but informative history lesson on the discreet art of framing screen action . (via BoingBoing )
- The Situationists: A short documentary (1989) Introduction to the activities of agit-art movement Situationist International . Watch Part I (above), Part II and Part III .
- Actor Ernest Borgnine was no Johnny-come-philately, a 1978 30-second TV PSA on collecting stamps Best public service announcement ever. Beefy actor Ernest Borgnine — known for villainous roles — clobbers a punter in a bar-room brawl sce...
- Paul Sharits’ hypnotic ‘flicker’ films Image from Razor Blades , 1965-1968 ( … ) Ground-breaking abstract light, image, text and colour play by avant-garde filmmaker Paul Shari...
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- Book: 10 PRINT (a story about the culture of software) 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (to give the book its full title) takes a single line of code and uses it as “a lens through which ...
- Table Boat Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla used a table — turned upside down and made into a boat — as a metaphor for mobilizing discussi...
- Listen to artist Grayson Perry’s fascinating talks from Playing to the Gallery: BBC Reith Lectures 2013 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry as his female alter ego Claire Grayson Perry , winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, delivers the annual BB...
- Deductive approach to explanation I stumbled across the flow chart above in the opening chapter of Elementary Statistics for Geographers (1996, Guilford Press). The diagram...
- UK Radioplayer — UX/Design Guidelines Radioplayer is a partnership between the BBC and UK commercial radio , to provide radio audiences with easy online listening and to impro...
- New music: The Man Who Died In His Boat by Liz Harris’s Grouper Grouper (Liz Harris), Brisbane, October 2012. (via Flickr ) Liz Harris has a knack of creating stripped-down, unpretentious music that i...
- Music video: CFCF’s ‘Beyond Light’ CFCF, Beyond Light , 2013. Video directed by Derrick Belcham and Ruby Kato Attwood. Creative director Derrick Belcham and artist Ruby K...