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Workers’ Own Cellphones and iPads Find a Role at the Office
maybe someday this trend will come north.
tech  apple  business 
september 2011
Scientists Reconstruct Brains' Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
This is strange and confusing. "Our natural visual experience is like watching a movie," says the lead researcher, but what they tested with was trailers. (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)
brain  science  tech  ideas 
september 2011
10 things to remember about Netflix while scratching your head about Qwikster
business  film  futuremedia 
september 2011
Toronto News: Council rebellion could halt Ford revolution
Ford's plummeting popularity means he could lose the supporters on council he has relied on so far. Let's hope.
toronto  politics  cities 
september 2011
Conservative group: Fake eviction notices were 'meant to startle people'
the Koch brothers have gotten involved in the bridge issue in Detroit/Windsor, coming out in support of the privately owned Ambassador Bridge (because they oppose all public infrastructure projects). They expressed this support by terrifying Detroit residents with fake eviction notices.
windsor  detroit  politics  usa  canada 
september 2011
ifttt / Put the internet to work for you.
web service for building custom triggers based on common actions (<a href="http://smarterware.org">via</a>)
productivity  web 
september 2011
CAKFA.11: Reflect on Here
incredible new project by Broken City Lab
art  canada  bcl 
september 2011
From $350 million surplus to $774 million deficit in one Ford year
on Ford scare-math. In 2010, Toronto was facing an $821-million deficit, but finished with a $310-million surplus.
toronto  cities 
september 2011
Ghosts With Shit Jobs
film  ideas  future 
september 2011
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?
This was stuck in my Instapaper list for ages. You've probably already read it.
culture  facebook  futuremedia 
september 2011
Apple Puts Legacy Final Cut Studio Back on Sale
good move
apple 
september 2011
Crimson: Steam Pirates
"An iPad-only steampunk adventure game published by Bungie and developed by Harebrained Schemes, a games company founded by Jordan Weisman, whose past work game players might be familiar with—BattleTech, Shadowrun, and Crimson Skies." Wow, I really haven't been paying enough attention to Bungie news these days. Must get this. (<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)
bungie  games  ipad  apple 
september 2011
Steve Jobs: American Genius
Newsweek cover article
apple  tech  business 
september 2011
George Lucas Speaks Out Against Altering Films in 1988
yet he added "NOOOOOOO!" to Jedi for the Blu-Ray release
film  history  starwars  scifi 
september 2011
The Technium: Theological Chatbots
brief interview with the creators of the chatbots-arguing video
video  ai  tech 
august 2011
The Great Tournament of Hip-Hop Beverage Commercials
thanks Beau
music  comedy  ads 
august 2011
Full text of Stephen Lewis’s stirring eulogy for Jack Layton
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.”
canada  politics 
august 2011
New Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm Thinking Printers'
onion insta-gold
comedy 
august 2011
Web Surfing Makes You Work Better, Study Says
bookmark this page for your next yearly review.
work  productivity  web 
august 2011
Found this in a Chinese dollar store. Behold, Batman's true beginnings
comedy  comics 
august 2011
Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance
rare is something people don't access, as opposed to can't access (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)
ideas  web  culture 
august 2011
Opposition Leader Jack Layton dead at 61
oh no. so sad.
canada  politics 
august 2011
Stewart Butterfield on the Pressure of High Expectations
leading up to the launch of Glitch
games  web 
august 2011
Split Family Faces
amazing (<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)
photography 
august 2011
'Breaking Bad' coming to end: Are end dates good for a TV series?
tv  writing 
august 2011
What is the post-cinematic?
film  ideas  culture 
august 2011
Gordon Graff Demonstrates That Vertical Farms Can Actually Work
cool image: a skyscraper that is half covered in plants
environment  ideas  cities 
august 2011
The Blackberry Shift: From the executives to the urban poor
fascinating
phone  tech 
august 2011
Mario Shunning IPhones Leads to Growing Discontent by Nintendo’s Investors
how the mighty are falling. Nintendo's stock price spiked up on rumours there was going to be a Pokemon for iOS, and went back down when they denied it. Did I mention the 3DS price drop after only a few months on the market?
games  business  phone  apple  iphone 
august 2011
London riots: the underclass lashes out
(<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)
World 
august 2011
Digital distribution, participatory culture, and the transmedia documentary by Chuck Tryon
film  futuremedia 
august 2011
Human Cloning in Japan
one of the implications of 3D printing tech is that you can make an action figure of yourself.
tech  japan  culture 
july 2011
Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War
"In Rohrer’s mind, his game would share many qualities with religion—a holy ark, a set of commandments, a sense of secrecy and mortality and mystical anticipation. This was the idea, anyway, before things started to get weird. Before Chain World, like religion itself, mutated out of control."
games  culture  religion 
july 2011
Why we’re betting everything on FCP X
CrumblePop on the new FCP. BTW I've spent about a half hour playing around with FCP X, and so far I think it's a good thing. The new timeline is a real timesaver. Much less fuss about codecs. Still getting my head around the new bin display though.
apple  editing  video  production 
july 2011
There's No Wrong Way to Play Monopoly
Waxy on the history of the board game
games  culture  history 
july 2011
The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress
can't remember where I found this.
games 
july 2011
Jack Layton steps aside as NDP Leader after second cancer diagnosis
canada  politics 
july 2011
How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy
(<a href="http://marco.org">via</a>)
apple 
july 2011
Oslo Terrorist Used Modern Warfare 2 as "Training-Simulation", World of Warcraft as Cover
games  world 
july 2011
Summer fun in Toronto, 1980s style
vids from @retrontario on BlogTO (<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/DJBomarc">via</a>)
toronto  retro  video  canada 
july 2011
Apple Updates MacBook Air Line With Sandy Bridge, Thunderbolt and Backlit Keyboards
and Lion's out.
apple  mac  hardware  software 
july 2011
Sean Hoare death: postmortem being held on hacking whistleblower
"unexplained but not thought to be suspicious"... nothing suspicious about a dead whistleblower.
news  uk  world 
july 2011
The Tree of Links: Terrence Malick Studies
a lot of good article about Malick films here. Saw The Tree of Life about a week ago and am still thinking about it.
film  theory 
july 2011
Jarvis bike lanes to be eliminated
the first year in Toronto's history to yield a net loss in bike lanes
bike  toronto  cities  canada  politics 
july 2011
George C Scott watches the Jack and Jill Trailer‬‏
youtube  comedy  film  mashup 
july 2011
The Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Paul Ford on fertility treatments (<a href="http://funkaoshi.com/">via</a>)
health  writing 
july 2011
In Situ
an interactive doc about urban artists (<a href="http://popupcity.net/">via</a>)
film  documentary  art  cities 
july 2011
Beyond the iPhone 5: The future of Apple's mobile devices
some inspired speculation features discussion of an iPod Touch 3G aka iPhone lite for prepaid markets, and the unlikeliness that an "iPad HD" will show up this year
apple  ipad  iphone  business 
july 2011
From Katamari Damacy to Glitch: Keita Takahashi Discusses His Newest Imaginings
I've just barely tried Glitch. I loved the Game Neverending, Butterfield's previous game, and who doesn't love Katamari?
games  web 
july 2011
Bungie's Classic Mac FPS 'Marathon' Launches for Free in the App Store
back in the day I was such a Marathon junkie.
games  apple  ipad  bungie 
july 2011
Toronto’s Bloor Cinema to reopen as documentary theatre
film  toronto  documentary 
july 2011
Louis C.K. Interview at the AV Club
"Learning to do really great work is one thing, that’s just fun, that’s just drinking cream. But learning to get in a train wreck and then walk away from it, that’s way more valuable, that will get you further."
comedy  writing 
july 2011
How Apple became a monopsonist
apple  business  tech 
july 2011
In Case You Missed the Crazy Future Camera That’s Refocusable in Post, Here It Is
yup, I missed it - but it sounds fascinating. Contains 90,000+ "microlenses".
camera  production  photo 
july 2011
What is wrong with this Bike Lane?
even motorists like the Jarvis bike lane. Except for one angry lady.
video  toronto  bike 
july 2011
REVISED: Finding your way through City Hall | Mez Dispenser
in short, a City Hall committee disregarded a staff report that essentially said the Jarvis bike lanes are working well, and recommended to remove said lanes without any public consultation or even consulting that ward's councillor, at a projected cost of $68,000. Begun this Bike War has.
bike  toronto  canada  politics 
june 2011
Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final Cut Pro X
Pogue essentially has a FAQ for common 'pro' gripes about FCP X, with answers given by Apple reps.
film  production 
june 2011
The Pitchfork Movie
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews about a movie pitch that butts up against the Duplass bros "Pitchfork" movie. Also, "First Dog".
movies  writing 
june 2011
Sofia’s Monument Of Modern Icons
statue of Red Army soldiers transformed into Santa, Superman etc.
art  graffiti 
june 2011
OECD Report Ranks Canada Among Most Expensive Broadband Countries
canada  tech 
june 2011
Scientists Create First Memory Expansion for Brain
memory  science 
june 2011
Don't Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design
too bad there's no video, only slides, but this is a great presentation about (among other things) the problems with gamification.
games  design  ideas 
june 2011
First Look: Final Cut Pro X
it's out now! Compressor and Motion are separate apps, also available now, for $49 each.
apple  software  apps  video  production 
june 2011
Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
an essay on the post-physical future of books presented beautifully on the web (and also available for the Kindle)
books  futuremedia  ebooks 
june 2011
The Clock in the Mountain
about The Long Now Foundation's 10,000 Year Clock
ideas  tech  art 
june 2011
Download Elzhi’s Elmatic Mixtape
Nas Illmatic tribute. (<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)
music 
june 2011
FCPX 1.0 "It will not be ready for professional use" says Larry Jordan
strictly for the cutterz out there
film  production 
june 2011
Vancouver kiss couple 'were knocked down by riot police'
photo  news  sports 
june 2011
Photos of Vancouver rioting
the first photo is stunning
sports  photography 
june 2011
Kill Screen - Review: L.A. Noire
much better review than mine!
games 
june 2011
Ret'd. CIA Official Alleges Bush White House Used Agency to "Get" Cole
Juan Cole on how Bush et al tried to blacklist him via CIA spying. Yeah, the CIA isn't supposed to do that.
usa  politics  spy 
june 2011
gleeBox
ooooh... browser plugin for command-line style web navigation. (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)
web 
june 2011
Prolost - Blog - What I Do With My iPad Part 1: Storyboarding
featuring the quote of the day, "Expensive things are expensive". For reals tho I totally want a stylus now.
ipad  film  production 
june 2011
Go to Wikipedia and click “random article.” This is the name of your genitals.
(<a href="http://kungfugrippe.com">via</a>)
comedy 
june 2011
Spend an Hour with the Coen Brothers as They Explain the Opening Scenes of Their Films
Interviewed by Noah Baumbach. They almost never do interviews.
film 
june 2011
The Technium: A Different Beauty For Space
"Streamlining makes no sense in space, nor does compact packing. Instead, ease of assembly, modularity, and maximum surface area count."
space  science  future 
june 2011
internet k-hole
Bottomless well of awesome photos from the 70s and 80s
Photo  blog 
june 2011
Duplass brothers look to put a 'Pitchfork' in it - latimes.com
"it's a dramatic thriller about the middle-aged mother of an indie rocker who, after her son is killed in a car accident, seeks vengeance on an online blogger who had peddled snark about her son (on the music site Pitchfork...) Things take a turn, though, when she finds out the snarker is just a teenager"
film 
june 2011
Apple - Apple Events - Apple Special Event June 2011
Keynote is online. Interesting stuff. Some great and necessary improvements to iOS incl. wireless syncing, great price for Lion ($30), and of course iCloud. Which seems to be what everyone wanted, although the details are a little confusing.
apple  video 
june 2011
Hollywood Starts to Worry as 3-D Fizzles in U.S.
(NYT) plus assorted other woes including industry down 10% from last year, and an astounding 36% drop in video store rentals
film  business 
june 2011
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