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Antihydrogen is rare in our part of the Universe. Indeed, it was only last year that scientists at CERN’s Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) managed to trap a significant amount of the stuff for the first time, albeit only 38 antiatoms for just 172 milliseconds. Today, they announce a significant improvement. These guys now say [...]
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The judge’s three-page order, first reported on the legal humor Web site Lowering the Bar, is what lawyers call a “benchslap.” It opens ominously with the suggestion that the lawyers opposing the delay are the unhappy sort who “lose sight of their role as professionals, and personalize the dispute; converting the parties’ disagreement into a [...]
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Evening Standard, 12 January 1946. If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points. This is curious, not only [...]
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What could get an adman to walk away from $40 million in new business? Fear of the patent trolls. That’s the derogatory term for people who buy up the rights to patents to make money litigating violations. While they’ve long been a headache of tech companies, recently they’ve trained their crosshairs on another sector: marketers [...]
The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo. I spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years. Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east. Temperatures around -25 Celsius. Good fun. Visit my Facebook page http://www.tesophotography.com for more information. [...]
A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Gareth Lloyd on Vimeo. Many wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia’s view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are [...]
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Travel Time Tube Map Click on (or select, above) a station to see the London Underground map reorganise around the times of travel from that station. Shortest paths are used to place the other stations – radius is proportional to time to travel, and angle should be correct for as-the-crow-flies direction on a map. The [...]
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Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo. This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting. Posted via email from mattski’s [...]
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Kepler Exoplanet Candidates from blprnt on Vimeo. This is a visualization of the 1236 exoplanet candidates observed by Kepler. As you can see, the vast majority of these planets orbit their stars at a distance less than Earth. This is likely due to the relatively short observation period – it is highly probable that many [...]
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Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo. From http://bradblogspeed.com Check out this specific post at http://post.ly/1XOrk Please follow me at http://twitter.com/bradgoodspeed NOTE: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO DOES NOT REPRESENT THE ENTIRE NIGHT SKY, or at least it doesn’t anymore. I’ve updated the video to omit the foreground landscape in an effort to account for an error in [...]
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Get 5-6 large bramley apples, peel, quarter and core You’ll also need a 2 to 1 ratio of caster sugar to butter – for my pan I use 150gm butter and 300gm caster sugar, your amounts will depend on the size of your pan; also puff pastry sufficient to cover the pan Get a good [...]
250gm of Menier Patissier chocolate, 52%/54% cocoa, no more 150gm butter Melt them together in the microwave – they mustn’t get hot – doing the melting in the microwave makes the heating even, so do it gently Add 250gm caster sugar, 4 large egg yolks and mix well Mix in by sieving in 130gm flour, and make [...]
In a pyrex dish mix together: 16 tablespoons of sugar 2 tablespoons of flour 1 oz melted butter Then add: Finely grated rind of 2 large, juicy lemons 4 egg yolks All the juice of the 2 lemons 2 glasses of milk (about 1/3 of a litre) Beat the left over egg whites until firm, [...]
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But it turns out that cities and companies differ in a very fundamental regard: cities almost never die, while companies are extremely ephemeral. As West notes, Hurricane Katrina couldn’t wipe out New Orleans, and a nuclear bomb did not erase Hiroshima from the map. In contrast, where are Pan Am and Enron today? The modern [...]
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Virgin Atlantic plane livery time-lapse movie from johnson banks on Vimeo. This is a time lapse video of a Boeing 747 being repainted with its new livery, designed by johnson banks. It takes 13 days. This video was made for Virgin Atlantic by Vivid Photo Visual. Posted via email from mattski’s posterous
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Meet Buck from TeamCerf on Vimeo. Buck is an ordinary guy. Well, if you accept the “deer head” thing.Today, Buck is going to spend the afternoon with his girlfriend who’s so happy to see him (she’s pretty much happy always). But when Buck finds out that her father is not the tolerant and sympathetic guy [...]
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Kimley-Horn, a large American engineering firm, takes a peer-to-peer approach. At this sprawling 60-office company, anybody at any time can award a colleague a $50 (£31) bonus. Instead of once-a-year acknowledgment from a boss who may not remember your heroic deeds, these modest bonuses allow colleagues to recognise good work instantly – and that, in [...]
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TimeScapes: Rapture from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo. This is production footage I shot over the summer for my debut film, “TimeScapes,” a modern portrait of the American Southwest. I used Canon and Red MX cameras. Follow the production of the film at: http://twitter.com/timescapes Also here: http://timescapes.org and here http://timescapes.org/blog A huge thank you [...]
The Marketing Agency world continues to change and evolve. Just the other week, news broke that ZenithOptimedia UK will be going through a restructuring. There are rumors that Starcom MediaVest Group may also look to change things up in the UK. With every passing week, we hear more stories about Marketing professionals coming and going, [...]
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This post is part of TNGG’s Career Week “I’ve been here for almost three years, so, you know – that’s a really long time,” one of Todd Defren’s Millennial employees told her boss. And three years is a long time considering that Millennials will hold an average of 10 jobs before we turn 38. This [...]
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Regular FT Alphaville readers will be familiar with Albert Edwards’ post bubble Ice Age thesis of Japanese style deflation writ large across the globe. In this week’s Strategy Weekly, Edwards looks at the end game for his theory and it’s pretty apocalyptic stuff (again). Think monetary debasement, competitive devaluation and a trade war. (And curiously [...]
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Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo. So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better. But the flights to get over took forever as expected (somewhat). 4 days after [...]
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I am trying to build a good human being here, someone who will make the world better for his presence. Because I don’t know any other way to do it, that means I’m building a little geek. So he can’t know, yet, that death doesn’t really mean anything in comics. I want him to think [...]
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American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress Americans hope lobbyist Jack Weldon will finally give them a voice in Washington. WASHINGTON—Citing a desire to gain influence in Washington, the American people confirmed Friday that they have hired high-powered D.C. lobbyist Jack Weldon of the firm Patton Boggs to help advance their agenda [...]
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words to strategize by September 21st, 2010 • posts i’ve written These are some strategic marketing principles that shape how I think. Most, if not all, of these principles are stolen. P.S. This is a list in progress, so do your part for the empire and jump in the comments. Think of the list as [...]
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F L U X from candas sisman on Vimeo. by the courtesy of Plato Art Space (Plato College of higher education) ilhan koman hulda festival, a journey into art and science exhibitionAyvansaray Caddesi No:33 Balat – İstanbul22 September – 31 october video and sound design by Candas Sisman commissioned by Plato Art Space http://www.csismn.comhttp://www.PlatoSanat.com http://www.huldafestival.orghttp://www.koman.org/ [...]
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Two years after the collapse of Lehman brothers marked the nadir of the financial crisis, the UK Banking Commission last Friday announced a surprisingly wide-ranging remit of options to reform of the financial system. Meanwhile, Ed Milliband, freshly crowned as leader of the opposition, got stuck straight in to the banking question in his first [...]
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An upcoming book by Steven Johnson will strive to answer the question ‘Where do good ideas come from?’, providing context to explain what inspires those ground-breaking ‘a-ha’ moments of innovation and brilliance. An understanding of what conditions or environment fosters the development of good ideas can help us generate more of those ideas that drive [...]
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Light Drive from Kim Pimmel on Vimeo. Stop motion form and colour, using light painting techniques. Lighting: Kim PimmelSound: Tron Legacy trailers I’ve been interested in taking my Light Study photo series and evolving them into motion pieces. I shot a lot of footage for a VJ gig for FITC San Francisco. So I edited [...]
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This one needs (naturally) lots of onions, but that number will always depend on the size of your dish (ideally a shallow quiche-type dish). Cut the onions in to small strips; melt the onion in butter and oil and when they’re nice and translucent, add a bit of flour, then add cream and grated gruyere; [...]
Get a good shoulder of lamb (so much of this is down to the quality of the meat), oil the lamb, chuck on garlic cloves, rosemary, salt pepper, wrap the lamb in tin foil , put it in a suitable dish, stick it in the oven, then leave it in the oven for 4-5 hours [...]
Get a veal shoulder to fit in the bottom of whatever size casserole you have; fry off the meat in butter, oil, salt and pepper; get a load of chicory, halve it, remove the hearts (since they’re bitter, but great in salad!) and cover the meat in with chicory leaves. Stick it in the oven [...]
Pork fat (“Saindoux”); pork (the cut is “chines” in French) Salt the pork a few hours/day before with coarse sea salt, wrapped it in its paper with some thyme. When you’re ready to cook, melt the pork fat, put pork in a dish that’s just a bit larger than the piece of pork itself, pour [...]
Onions, courgettes, basil, aubergine, tomatoes, oval baking dish, olive oil Layer of onions, salt pepper and drizzle oil; layer of courgettes, salt pepper and drizzle oil; layer of basil leaves, salt pepper and drizzle oil; layer of aubergine, salt pepper and drizzle oil; layer of tomato, salt pepper and drizzle oil. Cutting the onion, aubergines [...]
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Man As An Evolution Of The Machine Share September 14, 2010 When we think about the evolution of technology, many offer a dystopian, bleak projection, whereby humans are controlled by machines. However, how would that view change if we chart the appearance of man as beginning with technology? This is the very premise that anthropologist [...]
When we think about the evolution of technology, many offer a dystopian, bleak projection, whereby humans are controlled by machines. However, how would that view change if we chart the appearance of man as beginning with technology? This is the very premise that anthropologist and archaeologist Timothy Taylor explores in his book The Artificial Ape. [...]
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BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo. An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott’s legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982)This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels)It was made with 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’. 1>first step : the “picture” of the [...]
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Three and a Half Seconds About Life from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo. short animation created for a 5 day animation contest.make a movie with: ring, three and a half, winter.by yoav brill, shay yosef and myself.
How To Cook A Fucking Steak by Balk posted @1:13 PM Go to the goddamn grocery and get steak. Yes, the grocery. A little ammonia is not going to kill you, you pussy. You want to be all fancy and grass-fed and environmentally conscious, go ahead, I don’t give a shit, just get a [...]
floating point from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo. Went for something a bit more relaxed and atmospheric this time… late night edit. Shot in Tokyo on 5D and 5D mk2, same workflow as for the previous videos. Music: R-Gent by Sun Electric from the album “Kitchen” (R&S Records). Selected sequences are available for licensing on the [...]
Handy if you want to get hold of the URL encoded in the bitly link, but the original page has disappeared or redirected. This is for OS X, not sure about other platforms: Open Terminal and type: curl -I http://bit.ly/????? That’s an upper case “i”, replace the ??? with the bit.ly URL Posted via email [...]
I’ve been asked to write an entry for D&AD’s Copy Book. I just found this list of tips in my desk drawer. Avoid alliteration. Always. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. The adverb always follows the verb. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. Remember to never [...]
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Although I can’t really stand FourSqaure (or at least the myriad of checkin tweets it generated in my Twitter stream before I dumped all those people who though the world needed to know they’d arrived at the toilet), this map of London ad agencies ranked by number of checkins is quite fun:
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ENGLAND are heading home from the World Cup today after state-of-the-art video technology showed the ball crossing their goal line many, many times. As questions were raised over why the Uruguayan officials had spotted all four German goals, the specially positioned cameras around the Bloemfontein Stadium confirmed that England’s 2010 squad will forever be remembered [...]
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Entertaining rant from the much maligned Comic Sans (a font, in case you didn’t know): Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m [...]
This is a rather neat analogy for complexity theory as applied to business. This version of the video (constricted by the width of this blog) doesn’t do it justice so head over to Cognitive Edge for the original. What completely nailed it for me were the immortal words “Cross that you little bastards and you [...]
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It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers.
This has been around for ages, but is pretty accurate when it comes to projects run in larger organisations encumbered by process.
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New photosets on flickrcovering some experiments with light, miscellaneous photos taken during May, and photos from our recent holiday.
Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan from Brad Kremer on Vimeo. Japan is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. This is my Japan. This is one of the many reasons why I love Japan. I shot this in many locations around Japan in the summer of 2009. Some of the location [...]
Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.
Inspiring, memorable and entertaining. Prof Barry Nalebuf’s (author of Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small) lecture from Yale Economics class is truly great. It’s focused on innovation, creativity and problem solving. Particular highlights for me are the segments on upside-down food, and the use of the “What Would Donald Trump [...]
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While we humans carry on with our daily lives down here on Earth, perhaps stuck in traffic or reading blogs, or just enjoying a Springtime stroll, a school-bus-sized spacecraft called Cassini continues to gather data and images for us – 1.4 billion kilometers (870 million miles) away. Over the past months, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has [...]
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Onions, leaks, carrots, turnip (no peas of beans), cabbage leaves. Sweat the veg gently in the pressure cooker (used as a pan). Add water to just cover the vegetable, salt and pepper, steam for 10 minutes. Don’t open until all the steam has gone! Blend. If it’s a carrot-oriented soup you can add a little orange [...]
Aluminium oval dish works best, but otherwise oval ovenware dish. Cut Bramley apples in big thick boat chunks until dish is overfilled with apple. In a mixing bowl 3 heaped table spoons of caster sugar, 3 heaped sifted tablespoons of selfraising flour, 2 eggs (yolks plus whites), 2 packets of vanilla sugar (small packets), good slug of [...]
ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo. ENVISION : Step into the sensory box. Sous ce nom se cache l’expérience immersive offerte par ALCATEL-LUCENT à ses clients lors du dernier Mobile World Congress. Une expérience à base de vidéo mapping conçue par l’agence SUPERBIEN et le département New Media de l’Agence [...]
How much do we really know about why we do what we do? We are usually quite ready to explain the reasons for our actions in some detail, but on closer examination such explanations often seem to be rationalizations. So how can we tell which of our explanations to believe? If we are not willing [...]
Do people have any grounds to complain about the latest changes to the rules of publicness of various elements of a Facebook profile? Or is the only legitimate response “love-it or leave-it?” Lately, Facebook has been pushing a dual strategy of “public-or-nothing” with some profile elements and “public-by-default and good-luck-figuring-out-the-settings” with others. Some influential industry [...]
Transportation Handoffs – Movement of product that does not add value. Inventory Requirements – Product Requirements Documents (PRD), Story Cards – more material information than the customer needs Completed code, but not checked-in Completed code, but not documented Untested codeCode in staging environment, but not in production environment Code with overwhelming amount of comments /*comments*/ [...]
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The world has been placed on a heightened security alert following reports that New Age terrorists have harnessed the power of homeopathy for evil. ‘Homeopathic weapons represent a major threat to world peace,’ said President Barack Obama, ‘they might not cause any actual damage but the placebo effect could be quite devastating.’ The H2O-bomb has [...]
Changing approaches to SETI are getting public attention these days, as witness a new article in The Economist that makes reference to the probable cause of the interest, the publication of Paul Davies’ The Eerie Silence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). Sub-titled ‘Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence,’ Davies’ book is making accessible to the general [...]
Passengers face further disruption after flight restrictions were extended until 1300 BST on Sunday as the danger from Icelandic volcanic ash continues. The National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) said forecasts showed the ash cloud progressively covering the whole of the UK after 1900 BST. British Airways has cancelled all long and short-haul flights in [...]
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America went into a frenzy last weekend with the iPad’s release. But even as hundreds of thousands here unwrap their iPads, another future entirely may be unfolding overseas on the cellphone. Forgotten in the American tumult is a global flowering of innovation on the simple cellphone. From Brazil to India to South Korea and even [...]
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