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North Korean Propaganda Posters
These North Korean Propaganda Posters are fascinating. I’ve always loved the design of propaganda posters and this book compiles a great selection from DPRK. Let’s extensively raise goats in all families! via Kottke
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Doctoring Photographs with Captions
The documentary filmmaker, Errol Morris, interviews Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor and an expert on digital photography, on using photography as a weapon. Of course, we all know that doctoring (photoshopping) photographs to make them dramatic, misleading, or politically controversial is a widespread issue (problem?), but what about using captions to influence? The photographs presented…
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Tim Ferriss Interview
This interview between Tim Ferriss and Derek Sivers—the entrepreneur who founded CD Baby—concentrates on The 4-Hour Workweek and provides a good recap and overview of the concepts. The following quote, however, feels more relevant to me now as it was when I originally read the book: To learn anything quickly, I approach people who did…
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Voting America, 1840–2008
Voting America consists of a series of animated and interactive maps (with commentary) visualising how Americans have used their votes since 1840. Voting America examines the evolution of presidential politics in the United States across the span of American history. The project offers a wide spectrum of cinematic visualizations of how Americans voted in the…
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Band Names That are Really Hard to Search For
This list of band names that make online searches nigh-on impossible reminds me of McSweeney’s list of inaudible email addresses (via Link Banana). !!! A The And The The The Music
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Visualising Four Dimensions
Need help in visualising four dimensions? Étienne Ghys has now created a series of videos for ‘teaching’ others how to visualise objects in the fourth dimension (the spatial, not temporal, fourth dimension). How on earth can we visualize such a thing? [The] challenge in visualizing four dimensions is very similar to the one that would…
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Computing and Neuroscience Links
At 24 I firmly believe that I’m still young enough to completely change my professional ‘direction’ and for it to have no discernible effect on my future earning power. As such I always have these fantastic ideas that one day soon I will go back to university and complement my CS degree with another degree…
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Ten Secrets to Giving a Good Scientific Talk
Browsing the MIT OpenCourseWare’s Laboratory in Cognitive Science entry, I came across a paper on giving effective scientific talks. Prepare your material carefully and logically Practice your talk Don’t put in too much material Avoid equations Have only a few conclusion points Talk to the audience not to the screen Avoid making distracting sounds Polish…
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Last Place and the Changing Olympic Spirit
The DFL blog rounds up the Beijing Olympics with some great data visualisations on last place finishes and some wise words on how the Olympic spirit has changed. It’s part of a larger problem: media coverage can be so overwhelmingly focused on the home team that the big picture is missed. Events in which your…
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Patient HM Online
I keep forgetting that audio recordings of Patient HM talking to scientists are online. Brain Connection has a good overview of HM, and NPR discusses him in HM’s Brain and the History of Memory. When twenty-seven year old Henry M. entered the hospital in 1953 for radical brain surgery that was supposed to cure his…