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“RT @timfendley: http://twitpic.com/1v2diy We think it’s Univers 57 at 1,422,638pt” — espiekermann
“3D mapping like you’ve never seen before: http://bit.ly/bAmU6j #PoweredByFlash (H/T Jerome)” — sjespers
A Brief History Of Social Games via radoff.com
Nike’s new Air Superfly Woven…
Nike Sportswear have taken two popular models Superfly and Air Woven to produce a hybrid Air Superfly Woven just in time for the Spring climate. Brightly colored and featuring the best elements from both sneakers the light weight sneaker is characterized by the multi colored woven upper that is not only introduced for its aesthetics but for its ability to allow supreme breathability. (via)
Tonight, Earth Hour
I like this.
salz:
「かあうぃい～」
と寄って来るレディに対し、鉛の玉でお出迎え。何か「今週のびっくりどっきりメカ」にでも出てきそうな勢いでござる。Sukima Windows Plus: 【skm5th】クルックー、クルックー
2009-02-03
“The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger. I hate it.” — Tim Bray, the architect behind XML… via Engadget
Hallstatt
Coins of Ancient Rome.
extremely direct cursor
It came as a surprise to me after over 20 years of seeing “normal” world maps to come across an upside down one. The most surprising thing was that I found it surprising. It is completely artificial that we have North at the top of a map. The convention came a few centuries ago when Northern hemisphere, European navigators started using the North star and the magnetic compass. Before that, the top of the map was to the East which is where the word orientation comes from.(via World Maps with South at the Top by way of robot-heart-politics)