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This month’s offender for biggest misuse of teal and orange goes to that great romantic comedy that everyone no one is talking about,The Switch. I guess if you fail at making an original, funny, and memorable movie, at least you can make it look original. Oh wait… You guys gotta stop making this so easy for me. I mean really. Into The Abyss: Teal and Orange offender of the [ continue reading Teal and Orange offender of the month ] I made a graphic that shows how I think information moves through our society today. At the top is the discovery, on its way to becoming common knowledge at the bottom it has to move through several phases. Each phase is an ecological niche that is occupied by a different species. Each creature on the list feeds off of information and uses it for energy to do work. Without information it dies. Take any topic and you can trace its path through the information ecosystem. Global Climate Change, Health Care, Peak Oil, Asbestos concerns, Water on the moon, [ continue reading How information moves in today’s society ] Wonder why I am having a Hollywood/Reality crossover … 1 September 2010
 | tagged as: books, humans |  | category: film, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in  | comment  “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds me of the clarity of the Peter Principle, which says that a person in an organization will be promoted to the level of their incompetence. At which point their past achievements will prevent them from being fired, but their incompetence at this new level will prevent them from being promoted again, so they stagnate in their incompetence. The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions (like a company, or an industry) can become [ continue reading The Shirky Principle; ‘Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution’. ] 31 August 2010
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90% of everything we write and say comes from only 7000 words – try to increase the words in use by adopting and using a dying word. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Save The Words: .)
(CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» competition winner: .) Still trending on Twitter and now (for a while) number 3 in IMDb list of films!. Last Sunday, the deadline ran out on our Inception Infographic Contest, wherein we tasked you guys with designing an infographic that illustrated the film’s complex twists, and its plots within plots. We got some tremendous entries. Among the best were Luis Buenaventura’s epic attempt to represent exactly how much time passed in each layer of the movie–by creating a chart where each pixel represented one week of time; and Daniel Wang’s flowchart illustrating everything that happens to each individual character. But the contest ultimately came down [ continue reading #Inception: runner-up graphic of the movie plotlines – winner to follow ] followed on from a Kottke.org post (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» kottke.org Cinema of Attractions: .) The Ross sisters came from Texas – why does Texas endlessly surprise me? Then we get Dickie Henderson and Gunnersbury cemetery – what are the chances of that? Google has reached a pivotal moment in its history. What can it do to expand beyond its incredible core business, which is now reaching a more mature phase? For insight on how it can develop, let’s look to Pixar. Pixar is as close to a constant learning organization as there is, with a proven ability to reinvent and a genuine cultural humility. Google’s founders could learn from Pixar’s founder and president Ed Catmull’s prolonged [ continue reading What Google Could Learn From Pixar ]
Waxy’s got a reprint from John Hodgman’s Twitter feed yesterday, a 140-char-at-a-time masterful rip into the most odious of Internet jargon: “Meh.” hodgman: Did I ever tell you people how much I hate the word “meh“? Nothing announces “I have missed the point” more than that word. hodgman: It is the essence of blinkered Internet malcontentism. And a rejection of joy. Also: 12 hive mehs in the replies SO FAR hodgman: By definition, it may mean disinterest (although simple silence would be a more damning and sincere response, in that case) hodgman: But in use, it almost [ continue reading John Hodgman explains what’s wrong with “Meh” – Boing Boing ] [via dehahs and Angela Gunn] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» bookofjoe “Inception” Timeline: .) Inception is the word on the tip of everyone’s tongues these days. If you haven’t seen Inception yet then you can’t wait until you do, and if you have seen it then you probably can’t wait to head to the theater and see it again. But while you are waiting to see Inception on the big screen you can experience it on the web, in trailer parody form, again and again and again. We aren’t sure exactly what it is about this trailer that inspired so many people to create parodies—maybe the fact that it was one of the [ continue reading inception – the ‘top 10′ mashups ] from Pleated Jeans via I love charts ‘Inception’ explained – chart. … old Scottish saying. Flocking behavior is the behavior exhibited when a group of birds, called a flock, are foraging or in flight. There are parallels with the shoalingbehavior of fish, the swarming behavior of insects, and herd behavior of land animals. Computer simulations and mathematical models which have been developed to emulate the flocking behaviors of birds can generally be applied also to the “flocking” behavior of other species. As a result, the term “flocking” is sometimes applied, in computer science, [ continue reading Flocking (behavior) ] 21 July 2010
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Infographic: 120 fake sci-fi events on a real-world timeline | Blastr.
John Cooper Clarke showed up as (usually unannounced) support at practically all the gigs I attended… you know… back then. Or at least that’s how I remember it. Everything about his ‘angry coathanger’ on-stage persona led me to believe that he’d be a pretty prickly guest on Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday show a couple of weeks ago but when it came to it he was happy and open-minded, full of praise for younger artists and obviously still learning, still working. Really inspiring. Here’s the interview: John Cooper Clarke talks to Jarvis Cocker And here’s the haiku [ continue reading John Cooper Clarke ]
From the website: "Here's a bunch of words that, by themselves, have a handful of meanings. Because of this flexibility, they can be instrumental in titles for… songs/poems/stories/etc. The most flexible words are at the top of the list." [via Milena] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» bookofjoe Ambiguous Words: .) This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. BLIMEY! via List of British words not widely used in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I’d love to see a coastal library set up a permanent book exchange like this. Has it been done? [pic from baddogwhiskas] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Walking Paper Beach IKEA Ad Evokes Library Vibe: .) YouTube – Lebron James Nike Commercial – Swimming Pool. 24 June 2010
| | category: blue wobbly stuff, film, swimming, tank life | one comment - (comments are closed) This video is part of the Mammoths and Mastadons exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago, and was the Long Short for our Seminar with Nils Gilman. It’s a reverse time lapse put together by Greg Mercer and Emily Ward (editing), and David Quednau (animation). Unwinding 20,000 years of a modern American city and frontier outposts, Native American settlements and the last ice age, we arrive in their world and resurrect them in film. Perhaps most interesting is that this film is not the only place mammoths can now come alive, but also as Stewart [ continue reading Mammoth Time Lapse ] 20 June 2010
| | category: film, location+, nothing new under the sun, one world | comments are closed After noticing the beauty behind xkcd‘s beautiful graphs depicting the Interactions of Movie Characters, Stanford student Vadim Ogievetsky decided to develop an online software tool that would allow him to generate visually similar looking versions. Accordingly, PlotWeaver [stanford.edu] presents an efficient and effective layout algorithm that, with the users help, generates visual results similar to these hand-crafted posters. Ultimately, his aim is to even automate the whole process from movie script or IMDB quote page to a beautiful representative visual depiction. According to his resulting student paper, the software allows to clone the “Star Wars” [ continue reading PlotWeaver: Automating xkcd’s Movie Character Interaction Graphs ] YouTube – A Few Good Man “You Can’t Handle the Truth”. you sleep under the security that my silence provides “Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” † ‘I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.’ Harry Truman (1884-1972) |
 
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