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the Internet is about... // Duncan Alexander 2011
Correctly answers the age-old question, "what is the internet about?"
awesome  art  website 
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Mathematically Correct Breakfast -- Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel
"It is much more fun to put cream cheese on these bagels than on an ordinary bagel. In additional to the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area."
food  awesome  math 
december 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
The Block
drawn history of a block of Eldridge St on the LES from 1700s-present.
urban  history  drawing  visualization  animation  awesome 
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Cat and Girl » Archive » What’s Important
I want to bookmark nearly every cat and girl comic. This one's good enough the treatment.
comics  awesome  the_sadness 
july 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
The Color of Palo Alto
ca. 2001: Every house in Palo Alto photographed. Photographs are cross referenced by date, street name, season and averaged to give a color palette for Palo Alto.
art  california  awesome  photography  color  psychogeography 
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Klein Bottle Hats and Scarves
perfect gift for your favorite science nerd.
clothing  buy  math  awesome 
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
all streets | ben fry
compendium
map  visualization  awesome  via:kio 
april 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Michel de Broin - Shared Propulsion Car
86 Buick stripped and fitted with four sets of pedals. Driven on the streets on NYC & Toronto
awesome  bike  nyc  toronto  art  car  video 
december 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Les Untergunther
"sont un groupe d'explorateur-urbains basés à Paris dont l'activité consiste à restaurer clandestinement les parties non-visibles du patrimoine." See Also: Mexican Perforation
awesome  via:things  architecture  urban  france  paris  art 
november 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
A model of Scrooge McDuck's money bin - a photoset on Flickr
good gracious this is great.
money  flickr  comics  architecture  via:ian.crowther  awesome 
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
londons_kerning_detail.gif (GIF Image, 1600x1100 pixels)
Cities are language
map  london  language  awesome 
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
What single book is the best introduction to your field for laypeople? | Ask MetaFilter
book  awesome  list  archive  metafilter 
september 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
WNYC - New Sounds Archives
the reason to look forward to the last hour of the day.
radio  archive  music  nyc  awesome 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Fiboro Bridges - Newark Bay, Passaic and Hackensack River Bridges
bikes OK to cross the Lincoln Highway bridge over the Hackensack! although: "access from the Newark side is downright dangerous (it involves negotiating a high-speed interchange with the NJ Turnpike, with heavy truck traffic)." w'ever.
awesome  bike  new.jersey 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
META-MARKETS
"online stock market for trading socially networked creative products such as YouTube vids, Delicious bookmarks, blogs, or social network profiles. When product owners issue their shares in Meta-Markets, they raise capital – today play capital, but tomo
fictional_capital  awesome  viamahir  web  economics 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The Heritage of the Great War / First World War 1914 - 1918
Amazing/wrenching collection of photography (incl 250 color pix) from Word War I. Incl article on Churchill saying that American entry prolonged the war.
war  wwi  photography  awesome  memory  viamaciej 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Old Stone House
"Aug 18: Battle Week! Noon. Free." Revolutionary War reenactment in Brooklyn! Yes.
war  sim  fake  brooklyn  awesome 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
EO Newsroom: New Images - Lawn Surface Area in the United States
"The scientists who produced the map estimate that more surface area is devoted to lawns than to any other single irrigated crop in the country. ...More than 3x the acreage than irrigated corn."
landscape  environment  space  usa  map  awesome 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Ken Nordine's Word Jazz - Home
Free associative radio.
audio  radio  music  awesome 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
SimCity 2008
prepare beijing for the 2008 Olympics
awesome  china  sim  urban 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Ever Since
Running through permutations of the alphabet, starting with 'A' in 13 Billion BC. Currently up to JPFNIXNIPUTWB
art  webart  alphabet  time  awesome 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Really good. Way better than dojo or those other junk libraries out there.
ajax  awesome  javascript  programming 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Paste
"Whatever is in your clipboard - something that's on your mind or just a distraction--you Paste. Paste keeps track of everyone's ctrl-V, option-V or middle-button press - these routine actions combine into a single text stream."
computer  art  netart  awesome 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Prelinger Library
"an appropriation-friendly, browsable collection of ~40,000 books, periodicals, printed ephemera & government documents, located in SF... freedom to browse serendipitously is becoming rarer."
library  sf  landscape  awesome 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
gavin bryars: jesus' blood never failed me yet (full_strings) [mp3]
music  religion  awesome  ♫ 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Étienne de Silhouette - Wikipedia
The source for the word. 18th c. French Controller-General. His progressive taxation policies made the rich complain that they had been 'reduced to mere shadows'.
person  hidden_patterns  france  economics  awesome  wikipedia 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Allen Ginsberg reading Song of Myself from A Prairie Home Companion (streaming mp3)
amazing
poetry  audio  radio  awesome 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Solidarnosc, two versions of protest as the practice of everyday life
govTV blares on empty streets - thx k!
awesome  poland  activism  monopoly_on_violence  pasta  via:kio 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
YouTube - Solidarity Tv Solidarnosc 1985 r.
Poland 1985: Radio astronomers overlay Solidatory slogans over TV broadcasts.
tv  poland  politics  activism  awesome  viamaciej 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The Real Deal - Saving the clock tower
The clock tower to lose its shroud by July 4. Also, you can still pick up a penthouse right under the clock for only $4.5m [Says it's known as 'the Willie'? wtf?]
brooklyn  icon  awesome 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Monolithic Dome Institute
"Monolithic Dome walls are not only [green], [safe] & [cheap], they're easy & fun to decorate. Yes, curved walls are finally coming into their own. ... Interior designers have discovered the secret of dome decorating: Optical Illusion."
awesome  for_real  institute  architecture  environment  housing 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Ancient lights - Wikipedia
"the owner of a building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more is entitled to forbid any construction or other obstruction that would deprive him of that illumination."
wikipedia  law  urban  hidden_patterns  awesome 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
BLDGBLOG: The Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Walter Murch
Kopernik recapitulates knowledge encoded in the Pantheon.
via:kio  hidden_patterns  awesome  architecture  rome  space  interview 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Real Estate Roller Coaster - Google Video
ride the roller coaster of us home prices (1890-pres)
economics  game  video  awesome  viakottke  visualization  housing 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Abolish the death penalty | Chicago Tribune
Surprised, glad to see the Trib come out with this.
prison  monopoly_on_violence  chicago  news  awesome 
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Geofroy Tory, ideal letterform
'The painter & designer Geofroy Tory believed that the proportions of the alphabet should reflect the human form. He wrote, “the cross-stroke covers the man’s organ of generation, to signify that Modesty and Chastity are required, before all else, in
awesome  alphabet  typography 
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
NOSO
'real-world platform for temporary disengagement from social networking environments. create NO connections by scheduling NO events with other NO friends. NOSOs take place in designated public spaces. Participants remain unknown...'
awesome  mobile  humor  art  space 
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Core77 Design Blog
response "to the difficult and often costly heritage protection laws": "superimpos [a] 1:1 scale photo of the original dwelling onto a glass facade"
australia  architecture  awesome  sim 
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Douglas Hofstadter - Person Paper on Purity in Language
Hofstadter -> amazing
english  language  gender  writing  racism  sarcasm  awesome 
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Tunnel - Marjolijn Dijkman
"built a tunnel through the space that made the non-public space of the gallery into a public space" 24 hrs a day.
art  netherlands  awesome  space  viaioio 
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
la  edu  magazine  netart  awesome 
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Steve Reich's "Different Trains" (1988)
masterpiece (note llb: music about trains) "Train whistles tell the story: the American trains in the first and last movements have a soft, benign sound; the European ones in the central movement shriek fiercely."
music  awesome  trains  wwii  twentieth_century 
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The New Yorker : Lewis Mumford : The Skyway's the Limit
"[W]e will wake up one morning to discover that our city has become as helpless and useless as a stranded whale, unable either to swim back to the sea or crawl forward on land." (it feels awful to tag end_of_rome on something nearly 50 yrs old)
awesome  mustread  end_of_rome  nyc  urban  via:things  transport  planning 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
folksongs for the fivepoints :: soundmaps client
Interactive sound maps of the five points/LES
awesome  audio  music  nyc  urban  history  mapping 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
chris jordan photography
art  photography  consumption  awesome  viakottke  person 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Michael Rakowitz
Installations, performances, and sculpture on architecture/modernism/personal history/politics. 'dull roar' is key, 'para-site' is good but should be renamed.
art  architecture  awesome  urban  installation 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Institute of Contemporary Arts : Catalogues : A Forgotten Kingdom Mike Nelson
Takes frontispiece from The Plague, epigraph from Philip Dick, preface from Borges, then excerpts from Lovecraft, books about pirates, Lem, Kafka, Conrad & Hakim Bey. Solid motherfucking Gold
book  art  awesome 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Benford's law - Wikipedia
"In lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is 1 almost one-third of the time, & larger numbers occur as the leading digit with less & less frequency ... Based on the plausible assumption that people who make up figures ten
math  wikipedia  hidden_patterns  awesome 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Turku Power Station, Finland
Fibonacci '1-55' by Mario Merzi (thx kio)
awesome  math  art  finland  via:kio 
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
PIA08329_fig2.jpg (JPEG Image, 2766x1364 pixels) - Scaled (45%)
Cassini photo of Saturn eclipsing the Sun.
space  photography  awesome 
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Dun.AV * Danube Panorama Project * Introduction
via fpo.
awesome  river  europe  art  geography  viaslavin 
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Benjamin Edwards
"I began to see the built environment ... as less than real and more like stage sets" Photographer/painter, saw speak @ Cleve Museum in 2002. Site is a dense archive of visual detritus, incl wordless logos
art  landscape  urban  archive  architecture  awesome  good_site_w_frontpage  person 
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Tom Phillips: 20 Sites n Years
20 years of photographs in 16 London spots. Too bad all photos aren't online.
art  london  time  photography  awesome 
september 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
from Oak Ridge. FAQ is a highlight. Data aplenty. Programs exposing trees to higher lvls of CO2.
science  environment  archive  reference  awesome 
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Voronoi diagram - Wikipedia
In 2D; the polygon of points closer to x than any other point. "John Snow used a Voronoi diagram in [uberfamous] 1854 [map] to illustrate how ... the Soho cholera epidemic [clusted around] the infected Broad Street pump"
geometry  math  mapping  history  awesome  intensely_nerdy  wikipedia 
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
U.S. County Formation from 1643-1983
animated map. 285 frames! 240 years!
awesome  map  usa  history 
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
blog  to_rss  information  awesome  graph 
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Invincible Cities
Fucking amazing. 20 years of photos of Camden & Richmond CA, w/ maps. via javierarbona.
architecture  photography  awesome  urban  geography  new.jersey  map  via:javierarbona 
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Marjetica Potrc
Absolutely amazing. For:everyone. (I'm still embarrassed I fell asleep at her lecture in 2001)
art  architecture  urban  slovenia  awesome  person 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Permatopia Patterns: Local, Bioregional, Global Solutions
awesome charts... love it.
awesome  insane  energy  end_of_rome  oil  environment 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
2006Information | Yayoi Kusama
love it.
art  japan  awesome 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
walking in place
art proj exploring the cultural & historical landscape of IL/ the USA. Focus on Amer. Indian histories & appropriation of. rilly great.
art  the_everyday  space  psychogeography  landscape  awesome  illinois  race 
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
The Lawn Chair Pilot
Amazing lawn chair pilot (1982( floated to 16000 feet via 35 helium-filled weather balloons. Landed safely.
la  transport  awesome 
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943 (Library of Congress Exhibition)
"color images taken by Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photogs"
1-color images of this era=>valley of the unreal 2- What's w/ the title?
archive  photography  usa  history  awesome  the_everyday 
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet - Boxes and Arrows
"Otlet imagined users accessing the database from great distances via an 'electric telescope' connected through a telephone line, retrieving a facsimile image then projected on a flat screen."
information  intensely_nerdy  belgium  history  awesome 
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Pound's GPK FAQs
Art Speigelman co-created the Garbage Pail Kids (!!!). Many drawings done by James Warhola (Andy Warhol's nephew).
art  awesome  design  gross 
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Radio 1710 Antioch OTR
old school radio - drama & etc
history  radio  awesome 
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Strindberg + helium
aay showed this to me a long time ago & now it is here again.
flash  awesome  cute  humor 
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Pantalaine
Provisioners of America's Finest Plural Clothing
clothing  buy  catalog  brooklyn  known  awesome 
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Cory's Web LOG: Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" compressed over and over as an mp3 666 times
the title sez it all
art  music  awesome  dirtstyle  humor 
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Chicago White Sox - Wikipedia
if they win.... man. rioting. awesome.
awesome  chicago  sport  wikipedia 
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
textz.com
heart.
archive  copyright  awesome  book 
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
CVS Camcorder Rocket Project
"When we realized no one had yet launched one in a rocket, we set out to be the first."
cvs  video  awesome 
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Cat and Girl
cat and girl pun the fuck out of your favorite left coast lit rag & chart depository.
comics  awesome  brooklyn 
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
CommonCensus Map Project
mapping affinity zones in usa based on voluntary responses
map  mapping  usa  awesome  geography  urban 
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Montparnasse, Saint Paul
the Montparnesse inscribed on an unprepossing section of St Paul
psychogeography  minnesota  mapping  paris  photography  awesome 
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
New York Songlines - Virtual Walking Tours of Manhattan Streets
Terrific site with history and marginalia about NYC
nyc  psychogeography  awesome 
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
MathWorld
math  reference  awesome 
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
FOUND Magazine
"We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. Anything goes..."
magazine  awesome 
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Mejor Vida Corp.®
M.V.C. creates, promotes and distributes world wide products and services for free, M.V.C. doesn't discriminates any person for its gender, race, religion, sexual preferences or economic status.
art  mexico  awesome  song_of_the_corporates 
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
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