Time for another (design) classic. This time, the very British red telephone box.
Design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
The beauty of fractals. Interactive and in real time.
Available for IOs based (mobile) machines.
A handy (and, also, the best possible) mnenmonic for remembering the CSS shorthand (pun!) for setting the margin/padding property:
it spells TRouBLe
This works well for remembering both the starting point (Top) and the remaining order (Right-Bottom-Left).
Great ad for match.com (attributed to Noah Phillips).
attributted to henry fordwhether you think you can
or you think you can't,
you're right
Ed Rondthaler (102 y/o at the time!) illustrates the "insanity" (inconsistencies) of the spelling of the English (written) word.
Blake Mills (plus Danielle Haim) in a (live) cover of Bob Dylan's Heart of Mine.
• The clash of opposites;
• War ending, spherical, time stopping (and, thus, travelling), stasis fields;
• The archetypical mind-machine interface/melding;
• Holograms of loves lost;
• Tiny video-cameras that are spread in the wilderness, clinging to any species that moves, allowing for unmatched surveillance capabilities;
• Progress "stopped" (an oxymoron?) by edict;
• An unlikely (as they are) anti-hero;
• War as peace and peace as war;
• Technology (and the lack of it) and ingenuity;
• Artificial intelligence;
• ...
Oh! And the genious of Vernor Vinge, of course!
Recounting the story of 'Keep Calm and Carry On':
Not a long time ago and not in a galaxy far, far away...
More like now, and in our own "backyard".
Cédric Delsaux "puts" the Star Wars universe right here, right now, in our planet, sharing our space/time.
AT-AT in fog, Dubai, 2009
(These seem to have a Blomkamp-ish feel about them)
Artist/sculptor Alexander Calder, when asked how he knew a piece was finished, returned:
When the dinner bell rings
Introduced by Bhutan (and inscripted in its constituiton, no less), provides a set of formal indicators, metrics and tools geared to assess/measure how their people (as a whole) fare in that elusive/subjective state of being known as Happiness.
The reason? Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay explains:
What makes people happy at the individual level, varies from individual to individual. But as a policy tool. As a policy tool of governance. To remind ourselves that mindless economic growth is not what the people want. Economic growth must be mindful of the true desires of people. To be included in economic growth. That economic growth must be mindful of the pressures of the environment. That we must value, continue to value, and nurture, in fact, our culture and our value system. That to achieve what our people truly want, good governance is extremely important. But basically it is about balancing. Balancing economic growth, spiritual development, emotional growth.
Shifting the focus from wealth to happiness, at state level: now, there's a(n) thought/idea ...
japanese proverbdarkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
