meanderings

These are my links for June 16th through June 25th:

• Flicked Off: ‘Transformers 2: The Revenge of Megan Fox’s Rack’ | The Awl - "despite all this awful noise and machinery, the real star of this movie is Megan Fox's rack, which is unparalleled in our modern time."

  Great review of the new transformers. All these 'ironic' reviews just make me want to see it more. Plus, you know, Megan Fox's rack.

• WALL·E end title sequence + Jim Capobianco & Alex Woo interview | The Art of the Title Sequence - 'A note on type: WALL-E is promoted with an interpunct as “WALL·E” which Wikipedia tells us “is a small dot used for interword separation in ancient Latin script, being perhaps the first consistent visual representation of word boundaries in written language.” More inherent, embedded greatness from Pixar…'

  Wow, that really is an incredibly attentive and clever thing.

• Retro Airstream Bar Hire – Perfect For Weddings, Events, Corporate Functions And Festivals - "Our Airstream bar is a 1974 Land Yacht Sovereign. At 33 ft in length she boasts a stylish onboard hospitality lounge that seats 10 and a 4 metre serving hatch for the public with ample outdoor seating. This Airstream has been refitted to the highest standard and is a stunning backdrop for any event."

These are my links for June 12th through June 14th:

• Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com) - "THAT NIGHT, AT THE BOOK STORE, I started working on the new visualization, thinking I could impress Kat with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype."

  Really great story about books & data-viz

• Pop Nihilism: Advertising Eats Itself | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters - "The industry’s public image was in tatters, and the adman’s ability to persuade had been significantly subverted. It seemed as if it was only going to get worse, but then, out of thin air, a stroke of luck; The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor thrust America into World War II. The downtrodden suits of Madison Avenue saw nothing but a silver lining to the dark clouds that surrounded the Hawaiian islands."
• Core77 Cartoon: Brand Diagram - Amercan Apparel - American Apparel brand values distilled into venn diagram.

These are my links for June 4th through June 8th:

• Rands In Repose - "It takes a little practice to make the correct move when you feel the spin coming. You are going to do three things:

  1. Acknowledge the Screw-Me.
  2. Admit “I don’t know.”
  3. Concretely explain the steps you’re going to take to find out and give yourself a deadline.

  You have completely defused Tim. See, Tim was pissed which is why he waited until precisely the wrong moment to throw down the Screw-Me. He wanted to see you spin and make a fool of yourself in front of your management team and what you did with the instant acknowledgement was crush emotion with structured sanity."

  Yes. That is all. This is such a big part of my meeting strategies.

• skytraq-datalogger - Google Code - "configuration and download tool for GPS data loggers based on Skytraq Venus 5 and 6 chipsets"

  My new data logger seemed to be just windows only, but this python script looks to solve that.

• Sensation, perception and computation « Alex McLean -

These are my links for May 23rd through May 28th:

• Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All - "Ah, confounding. The most difficult thing to explain to a programmer, yet the most elementary part of all scientific experimentation. It’s pretty simple: If you want to measure something, then don’t measure other shit. Wow, what a revelation."

  This looks like a great read. Queuing up for the train tomorrow!

• The Smithfield Nocturne - Folding Bike Race - "…using their skill and experience in the city to skid their wheel for as long as possible. Strictly no brakes allowed. Competitors will skid one by one, giving the crowd non-stop fixie action."

  Hahahha. Skill. hA!

• Nixie tube - "The first trochotrons were surrounded by a hollow cylindrical magnet, with poles at the ends. The field inside the magnet had essentially-parallel lines of force, parallel to the axis of the tube. It was a vacuum tube; inside were a center cathode, ten anodes, and ten "spade" electrodes. The magnetic field and voltages applied to the electrodes made the electrons form a thick sheet (as in a cavity magnetron) that went to only one anode. Applying a pulse with specfied width and voltages to the spades made the sheet advance to the next anode, where it stayed until the next advance pulse. Count direction was not reversible."

  Indulging my thing for nixie's and the ancillary bits.