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Thursday, 2nd July 2009 in Modern Life Is Rubbish

Things we don’t do often enough…

Over the next day, hug your spouse, kiss your child, call your relatives, watch the sunset, watch the sunrise, thank your God and relish your life.

›› New York Times’ David Rohde after his Afghan Taliban escape

 
Thursday, 2nd July 2009 in Typography

Words on the Dock.

 
Wednesday, 1st July 2009 in Science

Moiré is cool.

 
Friday, 26th June 2009 in Music

Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009).

From musical boy wonder to global pop superstar

 
Thursday, 25th June 2009 in Film

On Revenge of the Fallen…

I found it at once loud and boring, like watching paint dry while getting hit over the head with a frying pan.

›› Peter Bradshaw reviews the new Transformers movie

 
Tuesday, 23rd June 2009 in Design

The Around Clock.

Around Clock is a beautiful, minimal analogue clock designed by Anthony Dickens

The Around Clock is a round, beautiful, minimal analogue clock designed by Anthony Dickens.

 
Tuesday, 23rd June 2009 in Modern Life Is Rubbish, Science

Kodachrome fades to black.

Kodachrome is dead! Long live Kodachrome!

 
Thursday, 18th June 2009 in Photography

Abandoned.

Some truly hair-raising pictures of ghost towns from around the world; this picture is from Bodie State Park in California

 
Wednesday, 17th June 2009 in Geek Stuff, Mathematics

Formula for the volume of a pizza.

Let’s say we have a pizza. It has a radius of z and it has a height of a. That would mean it has a volume of

pi * z * z * a.

Thank you reddit. (And yeah, my computer science background makes me define this as a formula, not an algorithm.)

Damn, I’m hungry.

 
Tuesday, 16th June 2009 in Internet + Web

Boone Oakley’s Tubesite.

YouTube as your website — clever!

 
Monday, 15th June 2009 in Music

WARP20 Box Set.

A 192 page full-colour booklet of every sleeve design from WARP, two double CD albums (one of which is the user voted compilation disc), a mix CD, a triple and double vinyl box set for US$150 sounds like an unwise and guilty indulgence in troubled economic times. It sounds like great value but what a huge hole in the pocket this will burn…

I need more time to think.

 
Monday, 15th June 2009 in Music

On music, piracy and money…

I’ve downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records – why would I care if somebody downloads ours? That’s such a petty thing… I mean, how much money does one person need?

›› Robin Pecknold of the Fleet Foxes

 
Monday, 15th June 2009 in Music

Introducing… The Quarrymen.

Before The Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were part of The Quarrymen

Assorted collection of undated photos of The Quarrymen on some non-English forum.

 
Thursday, 11th June 2009 in Books, Design, Music

Found on Flickr: Covers of covers.

A nice adaptation of Richie Hawtin's Dimension Intrusion as a Pelican classic

Huw Gwilliam brilliantly re-imagines classic album covers as classic Pelican book covers.

Genius!

 
Thursday, 11th June 2009 in Art

X-Plantation, by Hubert Blanz.

Deconstructed manic urbanity

Twisting tarmac and roving runways in twisting, manic planes — wonderful collages from Hubert Blanz.

 
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