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Imagine a World Without Hate
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Wealth Inequality in America
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Mapping Data-Dense Cities as if They Were Mountains
This gave Herwig another idea for how to visualize data points that essentially pile up on a given place. “Why don’t I treat them like elevation?” he says. Dense information has a topology in the same way that physical terrain does.
Making more sense of dense data visualizations.
-Source: Atlantic Cities
Deleuze and Guattari would be proud.
Gorgeous.
In the 1500s, illuminator Joris Hoefnagel rendered flowers and plants with a botanical precision unmatched in his day. It’s tempting to imagine each of Hoefnagel’s natural wonders growing in the gardens cultivated at the imperial court of Rudolf II, his patron.
Pages from Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, one of the Getty’s most precious (and, at 6 9/16 inches high, tiniest) manuscripts:
- Butterfly, Snakeshead, English Walnut, and Sweet Cherry
- Four-O’Clock, Brown Hairstreak, Herb Robert, and Chanterelle
- Martagon Lily and Tomato
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Facebook is just such a technology. It does things on our behalf when we’re not even there. It actively misrepresents us to our friends, and worse misrepresents those who have befriended us to still others.
Why I’m quitting Facebook - CNN.com
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This, more than the typical advertising/privacy concerns, is the thing that really bothers me about Facebook. Over the course of its existence, the way we interact with Facebook has become increasingly disconnected from the way our activities are presented to the network. I remember John Gruber saying that one of the reasons he instantly liked Twitter was how simple and obvious its mechanism was: he typed in the text box and everyone who followed him saw it; when people he followed typed, he saw it. By contrast, Facebook is an opaque algorithmic beast, and I’ve never felt at all in control of how it presents me to the world.
I used to say that Facebook gives you boxes in which to put your stuff, where Tumblr (and Twitter, for that matter) are your stuff. This became less visually true with the introduction of Facebook Timeline, but I think it’s still accurate in a more significant way.
When you add something to Facebook, you’re providing input; it’s largely up to Facebook to determine how, or whether, that input is then offered to other people. You put something in the box, Facebook decides what to do with it.
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God, I love Douglas Rushkoff. So on-point.
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A few years ago, three friends and I recorded an EP of instrumental music as Southern. The record didn’t do much in terms of exposure, but a couple of the songs have recently been used in various visual projects. Bicycling Magazine is responsible for the one above. We’re all very happy with how the song works with the content.
