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Rupert Murdoch has it backwards

You don’t charge the search engines to send people to articles on your site, you pay them.

If you can’t make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. Charging money for attention gets you neither money nor attention

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Michael Jackson - Thriller (Saitone 8bit tribute)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:47:49 +0000

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The Cyclic Theory of Evolution

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:12:52 +0000

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I don’t think you can define a consistent arrow of time here, but clearly more investigation is warranted.

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From 3.5 billion years ago until now - told in 10 minutes.

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:56:15 +0000

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One of the most enjoyable vids I’ve seen on YouTube for a while.

Some top bloke has edited a single storyline together using clips from CERN, Hubble/ESA, NOVA Origins, Catastrophe and Walking with Dinosaurs.

I’ve been trying to find something like this for ages. And in case you’re wondering about the title of the video. It had me too.

One Wikipedia later, and I know a Rube Goldberg machine is a “deliberately overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction”.

Who says science don’t have a sense of humour.

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Statler & Waldorf - "That was wonderful!"

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:47:57 +0000

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My all time favourite. Take it away lads…

That was wonderful!
Bravo!
I loved it!
Ah, it was great!
Well, it was pretty good.
Well, it wasn’t bad…
Uh, there were parts of it that weren’t very good though.
It could have been a lot better.
I didn’t really like it.
It was pretty terrible.
It was bad.
It was awful!
It was terrible!
Take ‘em away!
Bah, boo!
Boo!

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Amazing... London 80 years ago. The Open Road London (1927)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:24:38 +0000

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London is the last stop in an epic trip across Britain filmed in remarkable early colour.

London was the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. Pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene brought these picture-postcard scenes to life with a specially-devised colour film process.

Great find by glue creative James Leigh.

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Nike Trainer. Sculpture by Gabriel Dishaw

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:16:52 +0000

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Sculptural assemblage constructed from discarded materials, as glass, scrap metal, plastic, and wood.

Gabriel Dishaw specializes in high end junk sculptures ranging from as small as a figurine to larger than six feet tall. With experience as early as mid 1990’s, Gabriel has designed and created many Junk Sculptures.

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Star Wars vs. Saul Bass

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:16:35 +0000

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If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it “might” look like this.

This was part of a school project. The song is “Machine” by the Buddy Rich Band off the album Big Swing Face (1967).

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The Mill - Showreel 2010

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:51:57 +0000

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London As It Might Have Been: Hexagonal London

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:02:40 +0000

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It takes aspiring London cabbies two to four years to acquire ‘The Knowledge’. Only if they know their way around the 25,000 streets in a 6-mile radius from Charing Cross (and along 320 main roads within Greater London) will they be licensed to drive one of London’s iconic black cabs. The London Taxicab Examination System is reputed to be the hardest of its kind in the world, and this speaks to the complexity of the British capital’s road grid.

That complexity, and the cabbies’ Knowledge, put passengers at the risk of being overcharged, the Victorians feared. Mid-19th century, even before the current Examination System was instituted (in 1865), a Mr John Leighton devised a system to prevent passengers from being taken for a proverbial as well as a literal ride. Leighton, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, published a scheme to divide London in a number of hexagonals, specifically aimed at preventing overcharging by cab drivers.

“John Leighton suggested that the old borough boundaries should be altered to conform to a honeycomb pattern. Within a 5-mile radius of the General Post Office all the sprawling, differently sized boroughs were to become hexagonal-shaped areas, 2 miles across. There were 19 altogether with the City in the centre of the honeycomb. Each hexagonal borough would be identified by a letter, and the letter as well as a number would be painted or cut out of tin-plate to be visible by day and night on lampposts at every street corner.”

The proposal for a hexagonal London is described in London As It Might Have Been, a book by Felix Barber and Ralph Hyde, also detailing plans for a giant pyramid to house the remains five million dead Londoners, and a scheme to erect a structure in Wembley to dwarf the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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Berna - a 1950s electronic music studio simulation

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:03:12 +0000

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Ever wondered what those wizards at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop were doing will all those mad tape machines and huge dials. This helps.

Meet the grandfather of the synthesizer.

Berna vintage electronic studio.

Berna is a software simulation of a 1950s elctronic music studio. Explore serial, concrete and tape music or create strange new soundscapes with vintage technology.

At that time there wasn’t any electronic musical instruments market, as a matter of fact, most of the equipment was adapted from scientific tools belonging to radio engineering departments.

Sometimes the equipment was built from scratch cannibalizing anything that had wires, tubes and pots, more rarely, the studios used the few commercial instruments available in those days, such as the Melchord, the Trautonium and the Theremin.

Contrarily to what happens today, electronic music then was everything but fast and easy to create. A few minutes of electronic composition could take more than one year of work.

More info - Gleetchplug.com

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New Guinness Worldwide Ad - Bring it to Life

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:13:58 +0000

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For the best part of ten years, Guinness ads bearing the slogan Good Things Come To Those Who Wait have worked wonders for the drinks brand, garnering fans of both the drink and its advertising around the world. However, tonight a new TV commercial - created by the brand’s long serving agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO - will air that sees a new campaign line, Bring It To Life, make its debut…

The ad, entitled World (still shown above), sees a group of men playing god and creating a world of their own: Canyons are carved, forests erected and waterfalls are, erm, encouraged - the idea being that this world-creation is a metaphor for the famous surge and settle motion of a pint of Guinness and the way it comes alive in front of your eyes when poured.

What do you think?

More at:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/november/a-new-guinness-campaign-is-brought-to-life

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Lord of the Rings parody (via @jasonzada)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:41:33 +0000

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Google Maps Trike View

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:51:03 +0000

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You’re all familiar with Google Street View and the camera-topped Google Car - but what about all of the interesting places inaccessible to cars?

Enter the Google Trike, which started as a project by Daniel Ratner, a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the Street View team:

“I began thinking about building a bicycle-based Street View system after realizing how many interesting places around the world - ranging from historic landmarks to beautiful trails to shopping districts - aren’t accessible by car,” says Dan. “When I’m riding the trike, so many people come up to me and ask where it’s off to next or how they can get imagery of their favorite spot, so I can’t wait to see what our users come up with.”

Google’s Street View trike lets us take pictures of places that are not accessible by car. Tell us where to send the trike next at http://www.google.com/trike

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