This ten minute video explores questions of beauty in a Sheffield with local residents. In includes the best bits from our interviews and a set of a lively and informed opinions about what beauty means to people living in Sheffield. Beautiful Sheffield from CABE on Vimeo. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Beautiful Sheffield? | Videos | CABE: .) Many entrepreneurs idolize Steve Jobs. He’s such a perfectionist, they say. Nothing leaves the doors of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino without a polish and finish that makes geeks everywhere drool. No compromise! I like Apple for the opposite reason: they’re not afraid of getting a rudimentary 1.0 out into the world. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg: .) Hedy Lamarr 09 November 1913 – 19 January 2000 wisdom is only one possible destination. “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” – Tom Clancy Church and 30th St. San Francisco MUNI Construction from Ken Murphy on Vimeo. 14 October 2010  |  | category: can't make it up!, film, photography, rail, transport, travel, world of work  | comments are closed  Social networks, those loose, busy and self-absorbing communities of Facebookers and Twitterers, have always invited analogies from the insect world. If we are to accept the most common of them, then in the past week, Malcolm Gladwell, provocateur-in-chief at the New Yorker magazine, has poked a sharp stick into the online ants’ nest. The twitterers have responded to his provocation by swarming on to blogs and websites to protect their uniting belief: that the future belongs to them. Gladwell is a spirited contrarian. His argument in the New Yorker was an attack on the prevalent idea that online [ continue reading Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell ] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Anthony McNeill MANL Twitter Dissertation: .) 2 October 2010 | | category: learning, social media tools, the state we're in, twitter, writing | comments are closed I’ve posted previously about Dr. Seuss’s “School of Unorthodox Taxidermy,” a sculpture series that Theodore Seuss Geisel created in the 1930s. Reproductions are available, but an incredibly-rare original set is now on eBay. They are currently on exhibit at the Chateau de Belcastel monument in France, but they can be yours for just $1,000,000. From eBay: This collection would have been originally purchased in the late 1930’s. They were kept in a child’s room, and eventually retired to the storage barn next to a chicken coop in upstate New York. The set was acquired for a substantial sum in [ continue reading Original Dr. Seuss taxidermy on eBay – Boing Boing ] District line, Whitechapel-ish (11:30pm, front carriage) » The gentleman in the padded jacket stares into nothing. » The bloke in the ribbed top is plugged (via white headphones) into his iPhone. » The bloke in the grey jersey is plugged (via black headphones) into his iPhone. » The man in the sweatshirt has his phone lengthways, and is tap-tap-tapping a graphic entity around the screen. » The lawyer in the suit and unbuttoned white shirt checks his emails whilst listening to some piped music. » The youth in the stripy top and red neckerchief watches tumbling blocks fall into pixellated [ continue reading diamond geezer ] imago \ih-MAH-goh\, noun: 1. An idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life. 2. Entomology. An adult insect. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. MARCUS AURELIUS (121-180 AD) 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 month. [ 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, etc… [ 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 | comments are closed “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 so [ continue reading The Shirky Principle; ‘Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution’. ] 31 August 2010 | | category: advice, prognosticators, the state we're in, thinkers, writing | comments are closed 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 [ 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 and [ 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 universally [ 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 most [ 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, to [ continue reading Flocking (behavior) ] 21 July 2010 | | category: bloody quotations, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, writing | comments are closed Infographic: 120 fake sci-fi events on a real-world timeline | Blastr. |  
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