January 2011
16 posts
MTA.ME →
At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram.
BBC - Podcasts - Secret History of Social... →
Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? « Read It Later... →
WatchTurbine-free wind power
Turbines are expensive to build, noisy, big, and they kill birds. Perhaps these pad panels would be better suited to generating electricity from the wind.
WatchKyle Cooper: The Film Inside the Film (lecture) | The Art of the Title Sequence
Why New York City is about average | Santa Fe... →
Luis Bettencourt of the Santa Fe Institute and his team have proposed a different way of looking at how exceptional cities are. The widely used per-capita is a linear measurement while cities’ attributes tend to scale nonlinearly (or superlinearly).
Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and... →
from 2007!
WatchNational Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling | The Gulf Spill
WatchThe trailer for Strongman, a documentary about the “The Strongest Man in the World at Bending Steel and Metal (by Zachary Levy)
The Educational Benefit of Ugly Fonts | Wired... →
Half-formed thought on Wikileaks & Global Action «... →
Clay Shirky is always an essential read.
Pogo Presents World Remix: Tibet by Nick Bertke —... →
