June 2010
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The Ulam Spiral of Primes →
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(via therealnihil)
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upon seeing a "knitted tops $10.95 - buy one get...
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A female colleague squeeels with genuine delight.
Me: What!? You ok? Her: Oh.My.Gawd! Those tops are so cheap! Me: Little Ms Bargain Shopper is actually squeeling over a knitted top bargain? Her: Listen! For this price I can wear them once and toss them out! Me: …
This is the kind of thing that makes me want to cry like baby Jesus when you tell a lie.
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And now it's in print.: Last chance to pre order! →
You can secure your copy of And Now It’s In Print in two ways: by attending the launch this Wednesday the 24th of June
Wednesday the 24th of June?
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@mikestuchbery made some comments on Twitter yesterday that, as an artist, made me pretty mad.
The State Library gave a guy 10k to fly paper airplanes in the Great Dome. -> http://is.gd/cUKfn
Seriously, 10k for f*cking paper planes? To ‘represent thought patterns”? THIS IS THROWING MONEY AWAY! Crapping on kids and the elderly.
I let Mike know what I thought about this...
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“It doesn’t even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
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“This is highly unethical behaviour in order to destroy the ethics trial,”...”
– Church accused of hijacking ethics classes debate - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Celestial history →
bobulate:
John F. Ptak investigates when stars began to appear as dots in celestial atlases:
The first star atlas published in 1482 after the work of the first century astronomer and philosopher Hyginius contains maps of the constellations composed of such beautiful light-encrusted bits. There wouldn’t be another work like this one, strangely, for another 75 years. Alessandro Piccolomini’s work...
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Who needs a unifying theme anyway?: Connections →
That Steve Jobs quote on creativity is making the rounds again, and I think in the past I may have commented on it. What I want to say about it now is that, for me at least, it’s true. For me, the process of creativity is not about discovering a previously hidden gem. It’s about seeing two or more…
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs [ via mikehudack youmightfindyourself texturism] (via hipsterdiet) (via fascinated) (via nedwin)
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All class, all the time.
I’d move that last reblog back to my non-MFA documentation tumblr, Anybody Want A Peanut, where I intended to post it…
But a post about a bookbinding, paper-folding tool is kind-of appropriate here. And I’m sure my supervisors enjoy the occasional dick joke.
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“About 50 newly digitised collection items are added to the Library’s digitised...”
– Plan or perish
May 2010
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Ephemera: destructible →
destructible:
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Anybody want a peanut?: A thing I miss about physical media.
(via indefensible)
The back of my old iPod is scuffed all to hell, but somehow aggregate wear just isn’t the same.
On the other hand, I have mp3s I ripped in 1998 which have suffered zero degradation in audio quality in the interim, which is more than I can say for all the tapes and CDs I played to death....
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