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Weekly Link Round Up

Bryant — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:07:08 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for February 25th through March 8th:

Trying new things for 30 days: Matt Cutt’s TED2011 presentation –
What To Watch When Everything’s Available? – "What you need to bring to this party, as choice multiplies upon choice, is discretion. You become not what you own but how you choose: You …
How Michigan’s Film Incentives Have Translated Into Money – "Last year, 58 movies and TV shows filmed in Michigan, up from 52 in 2009. The state awarded $115 million in tax breaks to these projects. B…
Brickless laptop chargers ahoy – Transphorm, a startup backed by Google (among others) has a cool-sounding gallium nitride technology to improve AC/DC transformers. They say…
McDonald’s "oatmeal" has 11 weird ingredients, more sugar than a Snickers – Writing on the New York Times blog, Mark Bittman reviews McDonald's nightmarish attempt at making oatmeal (a foodstuff with one ingredient):…

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Bryant — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:24:41 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for December 20th through January 2nd:

Americans Watched Even More TV In 2010 – "Americans watched more television than ever in 2010, according to the Nielsen Company. Total viewing of broadcast networks and basic cable …
The Incredible Shrinking Soundbite – "New research suggests that the specter of the shrinking sound bite is anything but new. In fact, quotations from politicians have been gett…
"American Psycho" As A Musical? One Shudders – "Literature and theatre have long enjoyed a far from symbiotic relationship. Literature has given theatre some of its most successful musica…
The End Of Music History? – "There are few great compositional figures who aren't already vastly aged, from Steve Reich to Elliott Carter, from Philip Glass to Pierre B…
Creativity Versus Language – A Battle In Our Brains? – "Originality – or the ability to think up novel ideas that don't occur to many other people – is a key aspect of creativity. But researchers…

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Bryant — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:49:06 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for December 15th through December 16th:

Europe Rules Dan Flavin, Bill Viola Work Is "Not Art" – "In an astonishing move, the European Commission (EC) has reversed a decision made in a UK tax tribunal, and refused to classify works by …
Feel Chills When You Hear Music? The Study Says… – "Why might people high in openness to experience report feeling chills more often? Surprisingly, people high in openness didn't have chills …
Radio Deal For Six-Second-Long Movie Reviews – "Russ Leatherman, better known as Mr. Moviefone, has struck a deal with the Elvis Duran Group to turn his online "6 Second Reviews" into a r…
Are Liner Notes Getting To Be A Thing Of The Past? – "Now with record companies pinched for cash and doing fewer re-issues (boxed sets are a natural home for enhanced liner notes), and mor…
Typewriter art from Keira Rathbone – Keira Rathbone produces lavish ASCII art with typewriters, going places a VT100 dare not tread, thanks to a typewriter's capacity for overt…

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Bryant — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:08:00 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for October 18th through November 11th:

The Future Of TV – Owned By Tech Companies? – "Over five billion people watch TV which is more than the number of people who use mobile phones or computers. Some in the business believe …
A Writer Chronicles His Loss of All Language – "For art critic Tom Lubbock, language has been his life and his livelihood. But in 2008, he developed a lethal brain tumour and was told he …
The Keyboard for a new generation – Peculiar object of the week. Via…
Telefuture: ’80s NBC news segment on future of TV technologies – [Video Link] Start your tape machines! An NBC news report from the eighties that explores "Telefuture," the predicted world of future televi…
Ambient noise affects food taste – Noise can make foods seem crunchier and taste blander, a new study suggests. Andy Woods who is a researcher at the University of Manchester …
TrustoCorp exhibition in LA, Oct. 23-24, 2010 – TrustoCorp (known for making signs and bolting them to urban signposts — see here and here) has a show at 1988 Gallery in Los Angeles on …

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Bryant — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:19:01 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for September 20th through October 14th:

"Diminished reality" software removes objects from video in real time – Via the BB Submitterator, Boing Boing reader "galoot" says:
Researchers at Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany have developed "dimi…
US copyright net-censorship bill is dead — for now – It's a good day for American copyfighters — COICA, the fast-track Leahy bill that would have established a China-style "Great Firewall of A…
Daily cycling is secret to 96-year-old gentleman’s health and happiness – "I'm strictly a recreational cyclist," he says. "I've never been one of those guys who gets on a bike and sees how fast I can go. I just tru…
Obsessive ingredient photos for cookbook – Look at these entrancing photos by Carl Kleiner's for Ikea's new cookbook, Hembakat är Bäst (Homemade Is Best). Carl Kleiner's photography…
Meet the Cellphone that drinks Coke – Chinese designer Daizi Zheng created a conceptual mobile phone for Nokia that could be powered by cola. The idea is the phone could run on a…
Guggenheim Curates First YouTube Biennial – ''YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,'' is the first curated search for videos of a higher brow on the popular Google Inc.-owned web…

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Bryant — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:29:04 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for August 27th through September 17th:

Paccarik Orue – Shared by Bryant
How come every time I see a shopping cart in a piece of fine art I think immediately of Doug Aitken?
"During one of my vi…
Jessa Gamble: Our natural sleep cycle – Jessa Gamble (2010) – In today's world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can only hope for the recommended eight hours of sleep. Examining the sc…
Will Universities Stop Assigning "Whole" Books? – "My own peculiar worry about Academe 2020, offered with less than 20/20 foresight, may seem less catastrophic: the death of the book as obje…
Next Oxford English Dictionary May Not See Paper – "Publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary have confirmed that the third edition may never appear in print. A team of 80 lexicographers be…
Blockbuster Filing Bankruptcy – "Just as video stores once failed to compete with Blockbuster's larger inventory, the retail chain now can't compete with Amazon, Netflix, o…
Hollywood Gives Godard an Honorary Oscar. He Shrugs. – "[A]fter two days of frantic effort, the Academy has failed to track down Godard to inform him of his good fortune. Letters, faxes and calls…

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Bryant — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:04:37 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for August 15th through August 25th:

Is Our Digital Addiction Diluting Our Creativity? – "Scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that …
Photographer Drops Claim in Shepard Fairey-AP Lawsuit – "Mannie Garcia, a former Associated Press freelancer, has settled with the news wire his claim of ownership of the image at the centre of a …
‘Nature’ words according to Google – Imagine you were an intelligent alien from outer space that just landed on Earth. Before you can mingle with the earthlings you’d need to l…
1962 Oil Company Advertisement boasts about ability to Melt Glaciers – If this gasoline advertisement would be submitted to our infotizement contest, we would probably dismiss it for being too cynical and far f…
iBookshelf: Simulation before Extinction – As technology progresses we constantly have to adapt ourselves to an ever changing media landscape. Designers try to smooth the changes wit…

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Bryant — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:55:59 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for July 26th through August 5th:

San Francisco Deals With Graffiti Artists by Co-Opting Them – This city has for years taken a tough stance on graffiti, doling out stiff fines and sometimes jail time" – with limited success. "Now city …
Who wants to Bike on Bamboo? – Carbon fiber and aluminum are so 2009. This year’s best bicycling model is made out of bamboo and hemp. A new generation of manufacturers a…
The End Of Phone Calls? – "We're moving toward a fascinating cultural transition: the death of the telephone call. This shift is particularly stark among the young. T…
YouTube Raises Video Limit To 15 Minutes – "The video website, owned by Google Inc., said in a blog post Thursday that the longer upload time was the single-most requested feature tha…
Technostalgia – In Next Nature, not only old nature is being idealized. Because of the rapidness of new emerging technologies, we have a tendency to dwell o…

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Bryant — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:10:05 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for June 20th through July 21st:

Reading images and text – Another great post over at No Caption Needed, about the above image and its use in/for a New York Times article. Notes Robert Hariman "the …
Uwe H. Martin – This photo looks like some sort of conceptual photo piece (think something coming out of Rietveld Academie). It isn't. It's not staged. It'…
Dog Modding in China – As a child, I already saw some great tiger potential in my cat and some shark-ish attitude in the behaviour of my goldfish. Personally, I t…
Another Happy Family – How could you ever be an anthropomorphobic after you’ve seen this peculiar image of the week. Thanks Maze…..end_gr_to_.end_gr_to_omninoggin.
An Audience Of One And A Cast Of Hundreds: You Me Bum Bum Train – In the Barbican's fastest-selling show of the year, "[e]ach person, or passenger, is taken on a 40-minute ride by wheelchair where …
Unlimited Urban Woods – What to do when you have a small city with limited space, and you rather turn available space into parking lots instead of parks? You turn …

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Bryant — Sun, 30 May 2010 09:06:34 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for May 28th through May 29th:

‘Easy Rider’ actor Dennis Hopper dies – Dennis Hopper, the one-time Hollywood enfant terrible who portrayed such indelible characters as "Easy Rider's" biker Billy, "Blue Velvet's"…
‘Easy Rider’ actor Dennis Hopper dies – Dennis Hopper, the one-time Hollywood enfant terrible who portrayed such indelible characters as "Easy Rider's" biker Billy, "Blue Velvet's"…
‘Easy Rider’ actor Dennis Hopper dies – Dennis Hopper, the one-time Hollywood enfant terrible who portrayed such indelible characters as "Easy Rider's" biker Billy, "Blue Velvet's"…
‘Easy Rider’ actor Dennis Hopper dies – Dennis Hopper, the one-time Hollywood enfant terrible who portrayed such indelible characters as "Easy Rider's" biker Billy, "Blue Velvet's"…
Ideas – We Need A Return To A Culture Of Stealing – "I and many other contemporary writers, musicians, visual artists, and copyleft lawyers are trying to think in new and different and (we bel…

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