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Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent
An interesting article by The Independent that describes the ways in which the CIA covertly funded the American Modern Art movement as a propaganda tactic to espouse the artistic and intellectual freedoms of the US as opposed to the overt propagandizing of the art of the Soviet Union.
america  art  article  culture  government  history  interesting  politics  reference  russia  war  abstract  cia  coldwar  communism  propaganda  usa  from delicious
november 2010 by amdavidson
Noise and textures
noise and textures for buttons and other interface elements
art  design  graphic  howto  interface  photoshop  reference  tips  tutorial  tutorials  ui  webdesign  button  buttons  effects  noise  texture  textures  from delicious
august 2010 by amdavidson
TidBITS iPhone iPad iPod: Why the iPad Is a Blank Slate, and Why That's Important
an interesting review on the iPad and how the fact that it only presents a single app at a time is the true key to the "iPad experience"
apple  ipad  design  reference  tablet  analysis  technology  trends  review  from delicious
april 2010 by amdavidson
If Twitter Consisted of 100 People [Gorgeous Graphics]
Amusing article imagining the twitter community if it only had 100 people in it. Stats are pretty interesting.
web2.0  reference  twitter  graphics  visualization  internet  graphic  trends  statistics  socialmedia  stats  infographics  marketing  mashable  twitterstats  blog  graph  conceptualization  people  discussion 
august 2009 by amdavidson
WhoSampled - Discover and Discuss Music Samples and Cover Songs
Cool website that tries to archive all the sampled music it can find, and lets you play the music side by side to listen to the samples.
web2.0  video  reference  fun  music  search  internet  youtube  resource  samples  sampling  database  remix  sample  audio  history  record  year  recording  artist  musician 
july 2009 by amdavidson
map for hong kong,map of hong kong city,e map of hong kong,3D map for hong kong,public transportation map,public transportation map_Edushi
A very cool isometric-ish cartoony map of Hong Kong. Incredibly detailed, but almost seems SimCity-ish with the colors and textures.
design  reference  visualization  travel  google  art  fun  maps  hongkong  map  3d  architecture  interactive  illustration  isometric 
july 2009 by amdavidson
Simple Ruby on Rails Full Text Search Using Xapian - Locomotivation, the technology blog from Squeejee
good tutorial for integrating xapian search into your rails app, as I have on AMDavidson.com
search  amdavidson.com  development  rails  reference  programming  plugin  rubyonrails  xapian  ruby  fulltext  plugins 
april 2009 by amdavidson
8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs • Blog Archive • AisleOne
notes of things to check to ensure good typography design for my sites.
tutorial  tips  reference  web  html  css  typography  design 
april 2009 by amdavidson
Textile (markup language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
tools  webdev  development  textile  markup  reference  web  html  programming  text 
april 2009 by amdavidson

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