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artforadults: the Bird and the Girl by begoberlin watch de...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:04:08 -0500

artforadults:

the Bird and the Girl

by begoberlin

watch de videp

fantomas-en-cavale: Hugo Pratt- Portfolio Cordoba, aquarelle et...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 07:07:33 -0500

fantomas-en-cavale:

Hugo Pratt- Portfolio Cordoba, aquarelle et encre de chine, 1989

¡El Piola y el Jaiba!

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 06:58:20 -0500

¡El Piola y el Jaiba!

efeortega: Chile de noche fotografiado por la NASA

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:34:47 -0500

efeortega:

Chile de noche fotografiado por la NASA

lunatictoons: These were supposed to be full size, but they...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:19:12 -0500

lunatictoons:

These were supposed to be full size, but they turned out to be too hot to handle: 1 2 3 4

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century

Psychofor Universal / Mondo24x36” 7 color screenprintedition...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:52:11 -0500

Psycho
for Universal / Mondo
24x36” 7 color screenprint
edition of 375 red, edition of 220 silver
2012

mferrada: carmenduarte: womenwhokickass: Ada Lovelace (10...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:06:20 -0500

mferrada:

carmenduarte:

womenwhokickass:

Ada Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852)

Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, also known as the “Enchantress of Numbers.”

Why She Kicks Ass:

She produced a design for a flying machine in 1828 – when she was only 13.

She was a kickass mathematician in a time when it was considered literally dangerous to a woman’s health to know too much about math.

She published a translation of an article on the Analytical Engine by Luigi Menabrea, adding extensive notes of her own while doing so.

She is considered by many to be the world’s first computer programmer, thanks to her work assisting Charles Babbage. If Charles Babbage is the father of computers, Ada Lovelace is the mother of them.

She speculated on the possibilities of computers for general purpose uses, beyond acting as simply fancy calculators, which ol’ Chuck Babbage did not.

Oh, and she just happened to be the daugher of Lord Byron, who called her his “princess of parallelograms.”

Ada Lovelace, máxima

Idola.
Y pensar que Byron no le dio pelota jamás en la vida.

futurejournalismproject: I Don’t Usually Post Advertisements,...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:01:21 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

I Don’t Usually Post Advertisements, But When I Do…

DuckDuckGo, the privacy aware search engine, takes on Google over “search personalization” and the effect this has on the results we see when seeking information.

The ad is spot on. As we increasingly drive our technologies to produce information “just for us”, and get just the information we’ll “like”, we each become constrained in information silos of our making, oblivious to the serendipity and challenge of stumbling across ideas that differ from our own.

Eli Pariser, Upworthy co-founder and author, calls this the filter bubble.

DuckDuckGo’s ad puts the concept to the test as it summarizes the search results of 131 volunteers.

Via Talking Points Memo:

The users, who weren’t signed into Google, did Google searches for the three chosen politically-themed terms — “abortion,” “gun control,” and “Obama” — and send in screenshots of their search activity to Weinberg and the DuckDuckGo programming team…

…The result was a wide variance in the resulting links that Google displayed, according to DuckDuckGo’s experiment. For example, in the case of searches for “abortion,” some users received information on Obama’s public stance on abortion, while others did not. Some users also received information on pro-life activist Gianna Jessen while others did not.

“I think we had a big enough sample to show pretty definitively that the ‘filter bubble’ is real,” [DuckDuckGo’s founder Gabriel] Weinberg said.

As TPM points out, Google’s own documentation on personalized search indicates that even “if you turn off personal results and sign out of your Google Account, you may still see personalized results and results based on the context of your search.”

As in, even when you don’t want it, Google (and legions of others trying customize information to taste) give it to you. — Michael

livercake: Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, Bohr, Heisenberg… y el...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:09:41 -0400

livercake:

Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, Bohr, Heisenberg… y el resto de los bacanes. Now in FULL COLOUR.

efeortega: Flecha del Sur, la edad de oro de los ferrocarriles...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:54:02 -0500

efeortega:

Flecha del Sur, la edad de oro de los ferrocarriles chilenos. Uno de los primeros trenes de alta velocidad del mundo

livercake: Serpiente o sombrero?

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:05:06 -0500

livercake:

Serpiente o sombrero?

futurejournalismproject: Check out this great round up of data...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:18:02 -0500

futurejournalismproject:

Check out this great round up of data driven stories put together by the Guardian.co.uk

futurejournalismproject: Basil Al-Sayed, Who Chronicled The...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:59:30 -0500

futurejournalismproject:

Basil Al-Sayed, Who Chronicled The Syrian Uprising, Is Dead.

From NPR:

This was the last thing Basil al-Sayed, a citizen journalist in Syria, filmed before he was shot in the head by security forces:

According to activist Rami Jarrah, yesterday, al-Sayed succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in the restive city of Homs. He was 24.

“We have thousands of citizen journalists,” Jarrah told NPR’s Deb Amos. “But Basil was one of those who stood out.”

Jarrah said al-Sayed filmed security forces opening fire directly at protesters, and that put him at serious risk.

“He was documenting stuff that no one could actually get hold of,” Jarrah said. “I don’t want to say this was expected, but he was always in those situations where you could expect something would happen to him.”….

Foreign journalists have been mostly banned from entering Syria since a popular uprising against the rule of President Bashar Assad began in the country 10 months ago. In many cases, the videos uploaded to YouTube by citizen journalists have been the only way for the outside world to see the clashes that have cost more than 5,000 people their lives in Syria.

Hoy, quienes dan a conocer la injusticia son acribillados, mientras quienes tienen en la ruina a la humanidad se regocijan cada día en sus fortunas bañadas en sangre.

futurejournalismproject: Friend Him: Isaac Newton is now...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:31:12 -0500

futurejournalismproject:

Friend Him: Isaac Newton is now Online

The University of Cambridge has begun the process of posting its Sir Isaac Newton collection online. The digital library includes his college notebooks to later sketches, musings and drawings from his work on gravity, mathematics and optics.

Via the University of Cambridge:

The project aims to make Cambridge a digital library for the world and will move on from Newton to some of the University Library’s other world-class collections in the realms of science and faith. These include the archive of the celebrated Board of Longitude and the papers of Charles Darwin…

…Launching the website with more than 4,000 pages of its most important Newton material, the University Library will upload thousands of further pages over the next few months until almost all of its Newton collection is available to view and download anywhere in the world…

…In opening up Newton’s papers to the eyes of the world, the newly digitised archive reveals that not all his peers would have approved of his output being shared quite so openly.

Several of the manuscripts in the collection contain the handwritten line ‘not fit to be printed’, scrawled by Thomas Pellet, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who had been asked to go through Newton’s papers after his death and decide which ones should be published.

Of course, if Newton and Pellet knew then what we know now, nothing created quite remains private.

Cambridge Digital Library | Flickr

Número de tweets por minuto relacionados con las elecciones en...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:44:53 -0500

Número de tweets por minuto relacionados con las elecciones en España. Hashtag principal: #20N (20 de Noviembre).

eustacethemonk: “What do we care about a stupid sugar cube...

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:27:34 -0500

eustacethemonk:

“What do we care about a stupid sugar cube sucking up some stupid coffee? Nothing… unless we are, for a moment, in our heroine’s world. She dips a sugar cube in her coffee and focuses on it to reject the offer that the man who loves her just made her. (This man was once her lover.) She wants to reject this offer, forget this man, and forget the music that doesn’t stop because this music reminds her of something she denies. And when you ask me if I think about the viewer, about the viewer’s point of view—-I go back to this stupid sugar cube—-I try always to keep this in mind. […]

The sugar cube has fallen, the coffee is spilled, and the heroine approaches the musician. There is dialogue in which she learns that different people in different places of the world, but at the same time, think about the same things. This theme is almost an obsession—people, in different places, and for various reasons, thinking about the same thing. I said that I was trying to talk about things that unite people. It’s the case for this feeling and this music. All these notes exist, scattered somewhere, waiting for the one who will assemble them, put them in order. The fact that different men, at different moments, at different places, with a different social status, can assemble these notes in the same way is, to me, a sign of what unites all men.”

—Krzysztof Kieslowski

Grande maestro. En Beauchef lo echamos de...

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:43:03 -0500

Grande maestro. En Beauchef lo echamos de menos.

untitl:

Nicanor Parra

chebec: hugo pratt

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:39:10 -0500

chebec:

hugo pratt

moonandlion: Ceiling of the Palau de la Musica Catalana,...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:36:21 -0500

moonandlion:

Ceiling of the Palau de la Musica Catalana, Barcelona, right now. Waiting for Mr Sakamoto to appear onstage and blow our heads off. #music #venue #japan #theatre #barcelona #concert #architecture (Taken with instagram)

tmseldon: Flores para Meli 2 by *tmseldon

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:53:19 -0500

tmseldon:

Flores para Meli 2 by *tmseldon