Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17apr2008
Sophomore’s Dream, neat integral.
Sada Abe is infamous in Japan for erotically asphyxiating her lover, Kichizo Ishida, on May 18, 1936, and then cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her handbag.
Bride of Cthulhu, print by KaosBeautyKlinik. NSFW.
Sky.doc, “Over on LiveScience we learn that a new company has started using “a mixture of soap-based foams and lighter-than-air gases such as helium” to create “floating ads and messages” in the sky.” Whee!
My chance
In the middle of the stadium in Paris, France
Can I finally tell you
Can I finally tell you
To be my man
April in Paris, can I see you
Can you please be my man
— Cat Power, Song To Bobby
Were I to seek examples of the subjunctive…, mmh, one of my favorites.
The decline of the web, Manuel wrote back in 2006: “For fun, I’ve applied Spengler’s cyclical civilization model to web technology.”
my creative environment, danah boyd often listens to Son Kite. Read why.
How I Make Chocolate, virtual but yummy pictures!
It’s time to take Kuro5hin back from the trolls, by psychologist. Too late?
Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies, history by Ben Shneiderman.
I feel like tonight I’m goin’ ride, ride
And if you feel you goin’ die, die
Now baby, baby, baby what the deal
Respect my mind I’m just telling you how I feel
— Cat Power, I Feel
IM2GPS, “Estimating geographic information from an image is an excellent, difficult high-level computer vision problem whose time has come. The emergence of vast amounts of geographically-calibrated image data is a great reason for computer vision to start looking globally – on the scale of the entire planet! In this paper, we propose a simple algorithm for estimating a distribution over geographic locations from a single image using a purely data-driven scene matching approach. For this task, we will leverage a dataset of over 6 million GPS-tagged images from the Internet.” Crazy.
Fancy meeting you here!, WJW: A German man survived a 25ft plunge down a lift shaft when he landed on a woman who had fallen down it a day before.