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The Impossible Project took its name from a quote by Edwin Land, the man credited with the invention of instant photography. "Don't undertake a project", Land once said, "unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible".
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Tilt-shift is MAGIC, isn't it?! But does it only 'work' if you actually already seen a model village or something similar in scale?
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Complete in-browser IDE for JavaScript-port of Processing, using Canvas.
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List of downloadable IMDb data in text file format.
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"There are still unresolved questions about the iPad for publishers. Vanity Fair knows the name and address of everyone who subscribes to its magazines, but it cannot get that data from Apple about iTunes buyers. That’s one reason the magazine industry is working on its own digital newsstand, so it can control the consumer relationship."
May at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web 2010 at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web
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Hi, I'm Paul Carvill and I'm a web developer. I am Head of Interface Development at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
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Archive for May, 2010
links for 2010-05-13
Friday, May 14th, 2010links for 2010-05-12
Thursday, May 13th, 2010-
Microserfs definitely gave me false nostalgia for a time and place I never really knew. Now it gives me an authentic layer of nostalgia on top of that — for the time when I first read Microserfs. This page, containing lots of the lists and PowerBook subconciousness from the novel made me LOL all the way home on the train today, as well as bringing back some of those sweetly sad feelings of time gone by.
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"What Schooloscope does is tell you how your school’s doing at a glance."
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This one's a great photo of Brown, his wife and kids in Downing Street. The boys are standing on a desk, and one of them is shouting. I'd love to know what he was saying!
links for 2010-05-10
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010-
"A gracious ConglomCo of indie developers have just kicked off the Humble Indie Bundle initiative, a pay-what-you-want campaign that gets you five award-winning games in exchange for a donation with proceeds to benefit both the Child's Play charity and the EFF."
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Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm in JavaScript.
links for 2010-05-07
Saturday, May 8th, 2010-
The [really] easy way to find beer within walking distance.
links for 2010-05-06
Friday, May 7th, 2010-
"We think far beyond the car as such, with a focus on mobility in general. We do this regularly in concept teams made up of specialists with a mission to look into the future and give up existing conventions." – Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg
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"As Rupert Murdoch's jaws closed around The Wall Street Journal, managing editor Marcus Brauchli became the latest in a long line of editors who thought they could win over the conquering mogul. Brauchli set about feverishly redesigning the paper while maneuvering to fend off Murdoch's designated publisher, Robert Thomson, and maintain the newsroom's independence. In an excerpt from her new book, the author—who covered the takeover while a reporter for the Journal—reveals how quickly and brutally the hope of the paper's old regime died."
links for 2010-05-05
Thursday, May 6th, 2010-
"There is a such a pleasing geometry to the architecture of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, Spitalfields, completed in 1729, that when you glance upon the satisfying order of the facade you might assume that the internal structure is equally apparent – but in fact it is a labyrinth inside. Like a theatre, the building presents a harmonious picture from the centre of the stalls, yet possesses innumerable unseen passages and rooms, backstage."
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"Clay Shirky, social media and economics consultant, has little doubt that Rupert Murdoch will fail when he puts up a paywall around Times Online in three months. To succeed, says Shirky, Murdoch would require "some special repeal of [the laws of] supply and demand"."
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"We post articles, past and present, that we think are too long and too interesting to be read on a web browser."
links for 2010-05-03
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010-
Saves a selection of the most recent Guardian news stories to your Instapaper account. Very useful.
Channel 4’s Spring Hindi film season
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010Following on from their Autumn Hindi film season, themed on ‘The Golden Age of Indian Cinema’, there is news on the Channel 4 website of their Spring season of Hindi films:
“…there is a brief season of Indian films celebrating the 50th anniversary of release in 1960. Jis Desh Main Ganga Behti Hai, Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Barsaat Ki Raat and Parakh show the wide variety of cinematic styles that the masters of Indian film Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt, PL Santoshi and Bimal Roy brought to the screen.”
The season starts late on Sunday May 2nd (actually Monday morning, 3rd May) at 00.30am, with Chaudhvin Ka Chand, followed on Tuesday 4th May at 00.45am by Jis Desh Main Ganga Behti Hai.
links for 2010-05-01
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010-
"Live Nation Entertainment…is a colossus unlike anything the industry has ever seen. Ticketmaster has roughly 70 percent of the concert ticket market in the United States and is known for the ever-rising cost of an assortment of tacked-on fees, now as much a part of concert experience as sticky floors and shoving."
links for 2010-04-30
Saturday, May 1st, 2010-
"During the month of April, starting tomorrow, I’ll be blogging about a small but important piece of the puzzle that is the future of news: the information architecture behind a good news website. Each of the four parts (and two addenda) will look at the current state of things, criticize what’s wrong with our websites and what should change, but I’ll also provide a first stab at a solution. We’ve had enough “journalism is in crisis but I don’t know how to get us out either”-type blogposts lately, so I’m not looking to add any verbiage to that pile."