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sfhaps: The Geotaggers’ World Atlas: San Francisco by Eric...

Mon, 24 May 2010 16:49:49 -0700

The Geotaggers’ World Atlas: San Francisco by Eric Fischer

The different colors represent different modes of transportation: Black is walking (less than 7mph), Red is bicycling or equivalent speed (less than 19mph), Blue is motor vehicles on normal roads (less than 43mph); Green is freeways or rapid transit. Lines never looked so cool.
via http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/05/24/beauty-in-vectors/

Toyota backing Tesla, NUMMI in SF Bay to build Model...

Thu, 20 May 2010 21:17:00 -0700

Toyota backing Tesla, NUMMI in SF Bay to build Model S

“California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda held a joint press in Palo Alto, California to announce that the two companies would be collaborating on electric vehicle development and production, with Tesla will taking over the recently closed NUMMI factory in Fremont, CA to produce the Model S sedan.”

Awesome for Tesla, awesome for cars, awesome for the Bay Area.

More at Autoblog…

suicideblonde: intweetion: When They Build with LEGO, Never...

Wed, 19 May 2010 11:59:18 -0700

suicideblonde:

intweetion:

When They Build with LEGO, Never Ask Them What It Is…

nevver: Paramount’s Geographic Facsimile Map of 1927, The Map...

Wed, 19 May 2010 11:57:41 -0700

nevver:

Paramount’s Geographic Facsimile Map of 1927, The Map Room

Funding diaspora*

Wed, 12 May 2010 10:00:03 -0700

"ThinkProgress has obtained a PowerPoint document which reveals how the telecom industry is..."

Wed, 12 May 2010 09:10:00 -0700

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ThinkProgress has obtained a PowerPoint document which reveals how the telecom industry is orchestrating the latest campaign against Net Neutrality. Authored by representatives from the Atlas Network — a shell think tank used to coordinate corporate front group efforts worldwide — the document lays out the following strategy:

– Slides 7-8 calls for the campaign to target “libertarian minded internet users and video gamers” and “social conservative activists” with anti-government messages and a rebranding of net neutrality as “Net Brutality.”

– Slide 9 calls for a strategy of creating a Chinese blog to compare net neutrality to Chinese government censorship, outreach via social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

– Slides 10-11 detail how representatives met at Grover Norquist’s infamous “Wednesday morning meeting” to orchestrate the new campaign. Norquist is known to use his Wednesday meetings to plot strategy and conservative coalition building towards lobbying goals.

The PowerPoint was created on April 14th, shortly before the campaign website officially launched. The “Net Brutality” website relies heavily on Americans for Prosperity sources, as well as a website called NetCompetition.org — which is openly funded by the American Cable Association, At&T, Comcast, and the US Telecom Association.

”

- Think Progress » Telecoms’ Secret Plan To Attack Net Neutrality: Target Video Gamers And Stoke Fear Of Chinese Censorship (via rafer) (via mikehudack)

EDIT: The Powerpoint is here, if you are interested…

bohemea: Glee cast - Rolling Stone by Mark Seliger, April 15th...

Thu, 06 May 2010 14:14:53 -0700

bohemea:

Glee cast - Rolling Stone by Mark Seliger, April 15th 2010

So, I can’t really say I care too much about Glee, or its cast. I have seen an episode, and while I recognize it as somewhat interesting and well-done, I am far from the demographic.

So, why am I reblogging this? Because there is something seriously amiss with the foot of the blond woman on the left. Look at that red shoe. Nothing wrong with big feet, but I think there is some unchecked gigantism here, and if my reblogging is necessary to get the word out and get this poor woman some help, then so be it.

sharonov: Jaguar D-type

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:27:58 -0700

sharonov:

Jaguar D-type

Blowing up HTML5 video and mapping it into 3D space Whoa. by...

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:37:00 -0700

Blowing up HTML5 video and mapping it into 3D space

Whoa.

by craftymind, via Gruber

jayrobinson: 2105: joshualane: Pic: Earthquake Lifts Layer of...

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:42:14 -0700

jayrobinson:

2105:

joshualane:

Pic: Earthquake Lifts Layer of Dust Off a Mountain Range | NBC San Diego

Wow.

Whoa. The Popular Science app looks amazing. Great comparison of...

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:32:50 -0700

Whoa. The Popular Science app looks amazing. Great comparison of magazine art direction for iPad by Brad Colbow.

This Changes Everything, etc.

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:46:00 -0700

soupsoup:

winstonwolfe:

soupsoup:

Neighborhoodr looks amazing on the iPad, it is the perfect kind of website for this device.

Hopefully this is strictly taken as constructive criticism, but I don’t agree that the current layout of Neighborhoodr looks amazing. It looks good, sure, yet most sites will on the iPad. From this pic it seems as if there’s a whole lot of room for you to take advantage of. Obviously you want to avoid a cluttered look and keep it a clean read, so I wonder how it would look if you guys experimented with a horizontal scroll? That way the content would read in a similar fashion to how local weeklies do used to.

The roll out of a new device like the iPad seems like the perfect time to unveil a re-design of a site.

That is what I am kind of struggling with. The idea was to try and keep it as simple, clean and uncluttered as possible, and have the focus be on the content. People seem to have really been negative about the horizontal style navigation in my experience, so I think I want to avoid that. I do want to make it a bit wider and allow the images to fill up more of the screen.

I’d love to hear what kind of things would you like to see added, since we are actually in the midst of coming up with a concept for the next iteration of the design.

You know, when I first read this, the notion of horizontal scroll made me immediately wince, as 10 years of considering such things has conditioned me to do. But thinking more about it, on a device like the iPad, it *seems* like horizontal scroll may be more convenient than vertical scroll. I don’t yet own an iPad, and haven’t even seen one in person. But if I imagine using one, it seems that holding it in either orientation, the motion of swiping side-to-side rather than down-to-up would be easier and more natural. You know, like a magazine. Vertical scroll on an iPad seems like it would only be a bit less unnatural than reading a magazine bound at the top. The things that made horizontal scrolling a pain on traditional computers were the mouse or trackpad, especially for those that actually use the scrollbars. But things are different now, aren’t they?

Of course, the laying out of content would be a bit trickier (or at least you’d have to consider things you haven’t had to before) with columns for long blocks of text, etc. But still. It seems like the optimal form for such content on an iPad would be horizontal scroll.

Wow, look at that.

1. I love when something makes long-standing rules obsolete.

2. Somebody by me a fucking iPad already.

our internet connection is called "big yellow joint"

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:26:39 -0700

morninggloria:

I hope that our neighbors know that the name is 80% because we love Arrested Development and only 20% because Goggles loves weed.

Nice. Ours is ‘Gobias Industries’. You know, like ‘Gobias some coffee’.

Wait, What - Islands are the Limit from The Notorious XX This...

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:28:00 -0700

Wait, What - Islands are the Limit from The Notorious XX

This may be my jam for the week.

Blah. AT&T service in SF is still of, or related to,...

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:20:00 -0700

Blah. AT&T service in SF is still of, or related to, feces.

(Regarding Marco’s post)

"When I get home before my wife, I can literally become PARALYZED trying to decide whether to..."

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:44:45 -0700

“When I get home before my wife, I can literally become PARALYZED trying to decide whether to masturbate or eat a whole pizza.”

- Rob Delaney on the Twitter

Three years, beeches. OG and what not. Time passes quickly when...

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:36:01 -0700

Three years, beeches. OG and what not. Time passes quickly when you rarely post. Back when I started with Tumblr, we had to make our own Zooey Deschanel pictures out of sticks and sewer water. Reblogging a post was a complex affair using postcards and a goat carcass. Uphill both ways, etc.

You fucking kids. You don’t know.

You can’t urinate on Tumblr today without hitting a post...

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:52:07 -0700

You can’t urinate on Tumblr today without hitting a post about HCR, and usually I try to avoid piling on to such things. Sure, the bill was watered-down, compromised, filled with GOP ‘ideas’, despite the lack of a single GOP vote, etc. It is also the largest piece of social legislation passed in 50 years. It does more to tackle health care costs than any piece of American legislation in history. It extends health insurance to 32 million more Americans. It is a win. A big one. For the President, for the American people, and for Nancy Pelosi.

After the Scott Brown debacle, she refused to step down and move to a small, incremental approach to fix the health care problem. She pressed through the embarrassing campaign of fear waged by the right, the epithets, the spitting, the cries of treason. Right up to the speeches before the vote, she put the entire year-long journey into clear relief, contrasting her calm, reasoned explanation of why this was good for America and good for the smoldering crater of greed our health care system has become with Boehner’s red-faced, screaming, salvia-spewing obstructionist bile.

She won. We won. She will become a speaker for the ages, and deservedly so. A role model for my daughters. A powerful, intelligent woman working for something bigger than herself.

This is what change feels like. I like this feeling. Let’s keep it going.

I must be a robot. These are getting harder and harder. And yes,...

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:34:55 -0700

I must be a robot. These are getting harder and harder. And yes, this guess was incorrect.

Jesus Walking on the Water - Violent Femmes Found and ripped my...

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:17:39 -0800

Jesus Walking on the Water - Violent Femmes

Found and ripped my old Permanent Record CD. Ahhh, simpler times…