Today's archidose #238 (3)
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Here's three buildings in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (the city of last week's dose), all photographed by z.z..SGAE (General Society of Authors and Publishers) Central Office by Antón García Abril (Ensamble Studio).Musical Studies Centre at the University of Santiago de Compostela, also by Antón García Abril (Ensamble Studio).Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela by Álvaro Siza
updating.me just got interesting (2)
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Tweet Crunch (44)
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I’ve been following updating.me for a short while now, and was thinking about trying it out after it came out of beta, until today. The site is along the same lines as ping.fm and updates all your social services in one go such as Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk, Identi.ca, Rejaw and also supports less mainstream platforms such as Leo Laports Twit Army and Koornk. The thing that makes updating.me stand out from the rest of the ...
Scrippets are go (1)
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Thanks to the hard work of Nima Yousefi, Will Carlough and Andy Maloney, we have a Scrippets plugin that seems to be working pretty reliably. It’s installed at this site now, and we’ll be seeding it out to a few other screenwriting-oriented websites over the next few days to make sure it plays well with others. Like most programming projects, getting to 90% was easy. Within hours after my original call to coders, there were ...
SweetCron Released (1)
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Yes thats right, SweetCron has now been released, and for those people who don’t know what the hell i’m talking about SweetCron is an open source Life Streaming blog a bit like Wordpress meets Tumblr. I had already posted the first preview video, here is the second; You can go and download the software from here, and the user instructions are here. If you have already downloaded and installed this post your links so we ...
How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity (2)
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Great article on helping & supporting creative organizations by Ed Catmull, one of Pixar’s founders: How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity. Here’s something from the introduction: I don’t think our success is largely luck. Rather, I believe our adherence to a set of principles and practices for managing creative talent and risk is responsible. Pixar is a community in the true sense of the word. We think that lasting relationships matter, and we share some basic ...
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ramyon said:
매니저의 역할은 위험요인을 막는 것이 아니라 실패했을 때 회복할 수 있도록 만드는 것이다.
Photo of the Week (1)
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michael pollan hq (1)
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I’ve become familiar with Michael Pollan through books like The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food. Tonight I ran across the images above, which are pictures of his writing house. He built it himself (which is documented in an earlier book called A Place of My Own). Larger pictures are available on his website. I think he’s got Creativityist HQ pretty well beat. a michael pollan hq
Black Back Comics: Chinese Manga for the QQ Generation (1)
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Sinosplice: Life (20)
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Recently at a Family Mart convenience store I encountered 黑背 (”Black Back”) comics, the creations of Zhang Yuanying (张元英). I’ve been a fan of independent comics for a while, but I’ve had trouble finding much I like in China. The main thing that has turned me off of mainland Chinese comics is their highly derivative nature. They all seem like copies of Japanese manga! Not 黑背, though. While it does borrow some elements from Japanese ...
TwittAd Launches, Expect more to follow (2)
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For a while now the blogosphere have been telling Twitter how they should make money, but a new website called TwittAd has claimed it will make money for you the twitter user, by placing ads on your Twitter page. TwittAd was formed to give Twitter users and advertisers the opportunity to meet for product placement & website promotion on a Twitter user profile. Our goal is to not fill Twitter with ugly & obnoxious advertisements. ...
Different kinds of software complexity (1)
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It has always seemed odd to me that computer science refers to the number of operations necessary to execute an algorithm as the “complexity” of the algorithm. For example, an algorithm that takes O(N3) operations is more complex than an algorithm that takes O(N2) operations. The big-O analysis of algorithms is important, but “complexity” is the wrong name for it. Software engineering is primarily concerned with mental complexity, the stress on your brain when working ...
Writer of Basic Instinct and Showgirls Converts! (1)
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Verum Serum (26)
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This one is a bit of a shock. Joe Eszterhas is the screenwriter best known for his sleazy, violent films like Basic Instinct, Sliver and Showgirls. In fact, the main character in Showgirls was named after his second wife. But now, unbelievably, Eszterhas has changed his tune: He and his second wife, Naomi, had just moved from Malibu to a suburb of Cleveland - where he had grown up; she was from nearby Mansfield. They ...
A Beauty Contest for Nuns (3)
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Hot or not? An Italian priest invites readers to decide: An Italian priest says he is organising the world’s first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour. Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September. “Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God,” he told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper. Link via This+That
Christmas banjo from Bela and the Flecktones (1)
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Renowned banjo master Béla Fleck has recorded a Christmas project in collaboration with his touring band, The Flecktones. Jingle All The Way contains their arrangements of familiar Christmas and holiday music, and is expected for release on Rounder Records September 30. The selections pay homage to all-time Christmas favorites (Jingle Bells, O Come All Ye Faithful), [...]
1.4 million Firefox MajorUpdates in 6 hours?!? (1)
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Its been exactly 6 hours since we made FF2.0.0.16 -> FF3.0.1 Major Update live. In those 6 hours, we’ve now served major updates to 1,416,982 users. Thats impressive when you think that we pushed the updates live exactly 6 hours ago. (7.15pm PST), and we initially had throtting enabled. Now, with throttling off for the last 3 hours, we’re picking up the pace, doing 7095 major updates *per minute*. Thats 118 major updates *per second*. ...
Today's archidose #236 (1)
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rammed 7, originally uploaded by Modified Enzyme. NK'MIP Desert Cultural Centre in Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada by Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden architects + urbanistes, 2007.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose
Today's archidose #235 (3)
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Vigo, Campus Universitário. Alfonso Penela, originally uploaded by z.z. Rector's Building at Vigo University Campus in Vigo, Galicia, Spain by Alfonso Penela, 2003. See also Today's archidose #217 for EMBT's contribution to the same campus.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose
AE8: Angled Bays (5)
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It seems like New York firms have a thing for bay windows, but not the usual symmetrical bays prevalent in residential architecture. I'm talking about angled bays that project from facades asymmetrically to orient views and jazz up building exteriors.The most well known recent example of this architectural element is the Switch Building in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The design by nARCHITECTS alternates these angled bays to give the building its name. A small building ...
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Brett L. said:
Nice collection of bay windows, shared via Jamie. I like it, too, but still wish that bay windows weren't such a requisite in new SF buildings.
Bird Drinking Styles (2)
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Most birds drink by filling their mouth with water and then tilting their heads back to swallow. This common grackle, for example, tilts its head back.Mourning dove is one of the few species with the ability to swallow without tilting back.Posted on A DC Birding Blog. Readers may quote text with attribution, but not republish entire posts.
