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2012-05-08 14:08:50 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-03-28 11:17:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online

2012-03-28 10:43:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Boston Dynamics Sand Flea Jumping Robot (10 meters !!!) http://goo.gl/x1xHK (thanks +Laston Kirkland )

2012-03-28 10:06:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

First peek at video from James Cameron's descent to the Mariana Trench

Oooh!

2012-03-28 09:14:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-03-28 09:06:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-03-28 08:59:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-03-28 08:55:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-03-28 08:20:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-03-27 07:48:59 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-03-26 08:08:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

An instant classic!

2012-03-26 08:07:15 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Essential JavaScript Design Patterns 1.5 Released (Free Book)

Over the past year or so I've been actively trying to encourage more developers to invest time in learning about the benefits of design patterns and how they can be applied to JavaScript. To help with this, I wrote a book on the topic which I released for free. Today a new version of it is available to read online and includes lots of updates and a few new sections

The book: http://addyosmani.com/essential-design-patterns

I'll be trying to get out ePub/PDF/Kindle versions of the book out next week for anyone interested in those, but in the mean time, if you could help spread the word about the book I would appreciate it greatly :)

2012-03-23 17:44:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

'Nuf said:

2012-03-23 10:30:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-03-23 09:30:39 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-03-21 08:42:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Jane Jacobs remained a radical until her death - here's a brief video interview with her on the economy of cities

2012-03-21 08:38:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-03-21 08:37:58 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-03-20 21:19:29 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm half way through reading Georger Rmartin's 'Feast of Crows', and I'm really really stuggling with it. I thoroughly enjoyed 'Game of Thrones', was disappointed with 'A Clash of Kings', and thought 'A Storm Of Swords' was the best so far. But, ye gods, 'Feast of Crows' is a bloated boar of a thing that's lost the run of itself - it's the Robert Baratheon of the series so far.

2012-03-19 19:51:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags

Every day, at least fifty thousand men—a full house at Yankee Stadium—wake in solitary confinement, often in “supermax” prisons or prison wings, in which men are locked in small cells, where they see no one, cannot freely read and write, and are allowed out just once a day for an hour’s solo “exercise.” (Lock yourself in your bathroom and then imagine you have to stay there for the next ten years, and you will have some sense of the experience.) Prison rape is so endemic—more than seventy thousand prisoners are raped each year—that it is routinely held out as a threat, part of the punishment to be expected. "

2012-03-15 19:12:13 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Driving West From Times Square To Paris. In winter, across the frozen Bering Straits and through Siberia - which no one had done before. In 1908. Brilliant.

2012-03-15 09:49:14 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Most compelling thing I've read about education in a long time "Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong"

http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/everything-you-know-about-curriculum-may-be-wrong-really/

2012-03-15 09:47:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Updated my Tumblr blog with a few images for my Coastland project - I spent my spare time in 2007/2008 photographing the County Dublin coastline from Killiney to Balbriggan. These latest few are from Portrane. Hoping to have my own website up and running soon, with largererer images. Photos are taken with a 5D MK1 - I have my eye on a Mk III, some day.

2012-03-14 15:44:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

From The Ultimate Bigot's Calendar of Europe 2012
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Mapping-Stereotypes/355732

2012-03-14 10:44:55 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Is good design vital to business success, or is design just another thing that needs to get done and ticked off the big list of everyday stuff that has to be got through.

Mostly, I think, people like talking about good design for their business because good design is just very cool and it makes them feel good to mention their brand in the same sentence as CNN or Marvel or BMW. Everyone wants something to look as good as an Apple product, have a store as popular as amazon, with enough fresh content to rival the BBC, and all the buzz of a new Batman or Hobbit movie.

To achieve this they put Rodney, (21, with a certificate in how to use a search engine) and Wanda, (18, who cn txt 141 cariktrs pr minit) in charge of a design and marketing budget that's saving itself up to be legal tender when it grows up.

But when it comes down to it the average spend on design for SMEs is... more »

2012-03-14 08:47:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

History Porn: Gorgeous video flythrough of ancient Rome

The Rome Reborn project is recreating aspects of ancient Rome in incredible, digital detail. This video short takes you through what Rome would have looked like around 320 CE, when it was at the height of its power and size.

I visited Rome about three years ago and fell in love with both the current city and its history. I've always known bits and pieces of Rome's rise and fall, but when you walk its streets you get a far more personal connection.

2012-03-14 00:40:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-03-13 12:08:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

HistoryPin: Be careful. This site is cool. You might lose some of your own personal history, just exploring it: http://www.historypin.com/

2012-03-13 11:47:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Updating my portfolio over on Tumblr, going back over old photos and reprocessing them. Like design, and writing, it seems that looking at the way I did things more than a year ago is cringeworthy; hopefully this means I'm getting improving, and not just deluding myself.

2012-03-13 08:45:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The big push in cancer treatment these days is to sample a person's tumor, test it for mutations, and give the patient a drug tailored to a genetic weak spot in the tumor. A new study suggests one reason why this targeted drug strategy doesn't always work. A solid tumor, it turns out, is not a mass of identical cancerous cells but a mosaic of genetically different cells that aren't captured with a single biopsy. Some of these distinct cells may be resistant to the targeted drugs, allowing a tumor to persist or grow.

The classic view of how cancer develops is that a single, normal cell accumulates mutations that eventually allow or force it to divide uncontrollably. This "clone" then grows into a tumor of identical cells, which can also sow seed cells into the bloodstream that then take root somewhere else in the body, or metastasize. The assumption that tumors grow out from... more »

2012-03-13 08:44:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

When does 845 million not equal 845 million?

2012-03-13 08:37:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

REUTERS ALONE WITH NEWS THAT THE WTO BROADLY UPHELD A RULING THAT BOEING TOOK BILLIONS IN UNFAIR SUBSIDIES

Reuters reported exclusively on March 9 that the World Trade Organization broadly upheld a ruling that U.S. plane maker Boeing took billions of dollars in unfair subsidies. This is the latest dramatic development in the trade dispute between America and the European Union that involves mutual claims of unjustified government support for the globe’s dominant plane makers.

Reuters Tim Hepher tapped sources days before the ruling was due to be announced and gave Reuters readers unmatched insight into the dispute that has rumbled for years. As the dominance of Boeing and Airbus is increasingly being challenged by competitors in China, Russia and elsewhere, the case is being closely watched by the airline industry and trade officials alike.

2012-03-13 00:34:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Anyone remember Moviedrome on BBC back in the 80s/90s?
Loved it's oddball choices and it was a great introduction to films that didn't ever get much air time anywhere else.

http://www.kurtodrome.net/moviedrome.htm
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2012-03-13 00:14:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Interesting read on the psychology behind sharing 'awareness' on social media, Kony 2012 being the topical reference point.

"But why do people love being aware of things as much as they do? In a 2008 blog post, Stuff White People Like attempted to get to the core of the Western world’s codependent relationship with awareness. By raising awareness, wrote Christian Lander, ”you get all the benefits of helping (self satisfaction, telling other people), but no need for difficult decisions or the ensuing criticism (how do you criticize awareness?).”"

"Asked about the video’s glossing over major aspects of regional history and culture, IC co-founder, and the star of KONY 2012, Jason Russell told the New York Times, “No one wants a boring documentary on Africa. Maybe we have to make it pop, and we have to make it cool. We view ourself as the Pixar of humanrights st... more »

2012-03-12 21:12:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Didn't realise Joffrey - the wee shit - was played by an Irish actor.
Is Jack Gleeson is any relation to the other Gleesons?

2012-03-12 19:10:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is odd, and more than a bit disconcerting:

"Homeless Hotspots is “a charitable experiment” by BBH Labs, the skunkworks wing of marketing firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty. In Austin, BBH Labs is partnering with Front Steps Shelter to equip people from Front Steps’ case management system with 4G MiFi devices to serve as pay-per-use hotspots for attendees at SXSWi."
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2012-03-12 17:03:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

20,000 words done on this first draft. Only 80,000 to go. ;)

Chapter 22: Troublesome Times
“Did I ever tell you about how I met Louelle, Bill? Or that I was an orphan like you? Well, maybe not exactly like you, but you know what I mean. I don’t suppose it matters much whatever way you look at it. It never made no difference to me, never spent too much time trying to figure out how I turned out to be what I turned out to be. It aggravates you though, Bill, it always did. You hated not knowing who you were and where you came from. Never liked being a bastard, did you? Meanest bastard ever to crawl this earth too. That’s what you turned out to be at the end of it. Properly ruthless. No half measures or dawdling or doubts or small mercies. Cold like a corpse the way you deal with people. As if they’re not really there, just obstacles in the way of things that need to get done.Ain’t t... more »

2012-03-12 09:37:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Samuel L Jackson reading Chester Himes, that's got to be worth a listen.

2012-03-11 21:15:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-03-09 21:02:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)