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Faceless 'aliens' spotted in crowd at Wimbledon: Theories include the possibilities that they are limelight-seeking pranksters, performance artists or that they are at the centre of a viral marketing campaign for an as-yet unknown product of forthcoming horror film.
Speculation has even arisen that the masks hide a pair of well-know faces, fed up with being harrassed by the … [Link]
What we did last night with about a million other people. [Link]
"If the mundane details of my life were to be transmuted into fiction, I wanted straw spun into gold. What I got was straw spun into more straw…" Randy Cohen is a Field Tester. Read his and lots more reviews online or in the book. [Link]
Posted in the past, but never on such a fitting occasion, so it seemed appropriate: Doktor Kosmos' Holiday. [Link]
Cela fait à peine un mois que mon blog dédié aux médias sociaux est lancé et il fait déjà peau neuve (grâce à Olivier qui nous a réalisé un très beau thème). En tout cas l’actualité des médias sociaux est toujours aussi chaude, en témoignent les nombreux billets :
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Pour toutes celles et ceux qui s’intéressent à la gestion de l’identité numérique et à la gestion de la réputation en ligne, je vous recommande vivement de prendre connaissance de ce référentiel publié par Yahoo! : Reputation Management Patterns. Ce référentiel dresse une liste des différents outils pour mesurer et représenter le statut social d’un individu au sein d’une communauté. …
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Each month, National Geographic features a photograph from our archives in Flashback. Browse through the galleries of historical images for a view into our past. [Link]
Channel 4 recreates The Shining to promote its Kubrick season. Something about this feels sort of creepy. Creepy but good. Thanks LBD. [Link]
Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters & Fox News distorts photos of New York Times reporters: The Times' Culture Editor Sam Sifton said, "It wasn't a hit piece. It was straight news. This was a hit piece by Fox News. It is beneath comment." Asked if the paper planned to respond to Fox's actions, he … [Link]
Celebrate America's independence with made-in-the-U.S.A. FIELD NOTES. Buy four 3-packs and one is free! [Link]
Pacheco Pereira: o jornalismo deve ser “em primeiro lugar um relato do que acontece”, lamenta que se tenha perdido “a noção do que é jornalismo” e que os telejornais sejam hoje um “acrescento de espectáculo”. Entende que hoje há uma falta de “mediação histórica nos jornais”, de investigação, e que a pouca especialização também se reflecte no trabalho dos jornalistas. … [Link]
Starting with the Old Testament, in seven months without interruption, all 66 books of the Bible are written in calligraphy by a robot. Check the video. [Link]
"There was no tone of thankfulness for having been spared to answer to their names, but rather a toll, and an unvoiced wish that they, too, had been among the missing." 145 years ago today. [Link]
Boba Fett's Flashdance Audition. Via Cynical-C. [Link]
The Han Solo in Carbonite Desk. Maybe a good place to sit and enjoy your Han Solo in Carbonite Chocolate Bar. [Link]
Apropos of nothing. Doug and Tyler play Cripple Creek. Via Lonely Sandwich. [Link]
"Some have called it a brilliant satire of Soviet totalitarianism. To me, it was a dependable companion on cold winter nights." Eric Spitznagel is a Field-Tester. Enjoy tons of other personal reviews online and please consider buying the book. [Link]
Yellow Owl Workshop handmade stamp sets. Cha-ching. Via Ship Fever. [Link]
Related to the last. Everything Vermeer, all in one place, including the complete catalogue. [Link]
Paper Cuts on a new book about Han van Meegeren, "a mediocre Dutch painter but a brilliant forger who, in the 1930s and early 1940s, painted six 'Vermeers.'" [Link]
Excellent, I was just wondering this the other day. How Californians see America. [Link]
Michael DiTullo, design director at Converse, sketches a new sneaker in 4:39. [Link]
Field Notes in action. And in Good Magazine too, sort of. [Link]
There's an old joke that if you can remember the 60's you weren't there. Truth is, there's an awful lot about our own history that we barely know, and one example is the iconic posters made in Paris during May-June 1968. Finally, some real research is available - see Gene Marie Tempest's essay here. [Link]
New Oceans of Data: A transoceanic building boom is fueling Internet growth.
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J’ai comme l’impression que le marché est chaud bouillant en ce moment avec la consécration de Habbo, le retour de Cyworld ou encore la montée en puissance d’acteurs jusque là plutôt discrets (Meez, IMVU) :
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Are you suffering from hidden talents? [Link]
Scrap chairs. [Link]
Uno and only: 19-year-old inventor Ben J. Poss Gulak demonstrates the Uno, his battery-powered, gyroscope stabilized "motorcycle." [Link]
Immune Attack, an educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students. [Link]
A Richard Britt home in Scottsdale is up for sale. Sweet. [Link]
Blik's Super Mario Bros. Wall Graphics. [Link]
"It's my goal to wow my clients, not just meet their expectations." David at PixelatedImage lays out the benefits of our Jewelboxing system. [Link]
Stamps by land or by sea. Via d*s. [Link]
Christoph Niemann's boys and the subway. [Link]
The rookie and the veteran. [Link]
Announcing our biggest, best edition of Field-Tested Books yet. We looked over the shoulders of lots of smart people while they read lots of interesting books in lots of familiar and unfamiliar places and now you can too. All the Field Tests from this new collection and previous years are online. Plus, we've created a sweet, new, limited-edition poster with … [Link]
So you know. How to create, cut and print from your own woodblocks. Via Glass. [Link]
A head start on the weekend from the MoOM. Light fuse and get away. A firework label art gallery and the explosive Crackerpacks. [Link]
Auto-Rickshaw Mud Flap Customization. [Link]
"I've spent years cultivating the art of writing the way I talk, and you can't really 'speak' a semicolon out loud. (Maybe John Gielgud could, but I can't.)" Terry Teachout responds to Paul Collin's Death of the Semicolon piece. [Link]
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"I just read your intro—great stuff, really. I just have a few minor changes/corrections. No big thing." [Link]
Highlights from our Field-Tested Books Book, three words at a time. Spectacular childhood angst. Beneath the skyscrapers. With encyclopedic precision. And also olives. [Link]
A pair of books, reviewed in the NYRB, attempt to figure out how jokes work. And, more importantly, how one joke works. [Link]
"It has reconsecrated the painting after Dan Brown deconsecrated it." Peter Greenaway presented a show of lights, music and sound in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie Monday night. Reinventing The Last Supper. [Link]
"We own a newfoundland named Gigi. We like to think of her as an explorer of the Alaskan tundra. We sent a photoshopped version of her to a portrait artist in Omaha to be painted by hand. Just got an image back the other night." Kevin’s dog goes exploring. [Link]
A photo-filled visit to Obama, Japan. Via Cynical-C. [Link]