“Newspapers are making progress with the internet, but most are still too timid, defensive or high-minded”
The Economist offers an excellent special report on newspapers and emerging media this week. Fortunately, most of it can be accessed for free online. It highlights many of the problems publishers are worried about, and suggests possible solutions, [...]
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Wikipedia on Parkour
Parkour (IPA: /paʁ.’kuʁ/, often abbreviated PK) is a physical discipline of French origin in which the participant — called a traceur (/tʁa.’sœʁ/) — attempts to pass obstacles in the fastest and most direct manner possible, using skills such as jumping, vaulting and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves. The obstacles can be [...]
Jim Emerson writes a fascinating blog documenting the opening shots of films.
Design Observer on library organization.
Questionable personal beliefs aside, I have never found the Dewey Decimal Classification system to be an accurate reflection of how books are organized in my own mind — or anybody else’s for that matter. Certainly I understand the DDC’s advantages when when it comes to large-scale collections, but if how we [...]
New Orleans: Then and Now
One year after Hurricane Katrina struck the United States’ Gulf Coast, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a patchwork of recovery and neglect, as seen in these pairs of then-and-now photographs.
from 3 Quarks Daily
I’ve primarily been using amazon for book purchases over the past few years. I tried out half.com, but wasn’t ever really impressed with the service or quality. In my search for textbooks, I just found out about the following sites which appear to link together thousands of independent bookstores. Excellent prices and an enormous selection.
http://www.abebooks.com/
http://www.bookfinder.com/
Substrate: “Lines likes crystals grow on a computational substrate. A simple perpendicular growth rule creates intricate city-like structures.” Make sure to [...]
News@Nature looks at the implications of the Internet on research:
This creativity machine is the Internet. It has already changed the way we do science, most importantly by enhancing collaboration between researchers. The present-day Internet provides convenient connections between computerized labs, simulations and research databases. It also represents an enormous financial investment that is driven by [...]
The Guardian looks at Babar:
In the 75 years that Jean de Brunhoff’s creation has been on the Celesteville throne, Babar has shown no inclination to relax the iron tusk in his velvet glove. Having returned from Paris to the African jungle in 1931, he promptly built a city modelled on western architecture and forced all [...]
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