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Weekly Link Round Up

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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Bryant — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:12:51 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for April 29th through May 26th:

First man infected with computer virus – Click here to view the embedded video.
Doctor gets chip. Chip gets virus. Virus infects other devices… Dalek shoots doctor?
Dr. Mark Gasson …
Is The Art Of Photography Over? – "What is over is the narrow view of photography – the idea that the camera is a recording device, not a creative tool, and that its product …
Is The Time Between Generations Getting Shorter? – "A generation used to last 25 years or so. It was defined by shared experiences, including wars, presidents, music, movies, or various inven…
Roger Ebert Trashes 3D – "Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoyi…
The coming melt-down in higher education (as seen by a marketer) – For 400 years, higher education in the US has been on a roll. From Harvard asking Galileo to be a guest professor in the 1600s to millions t…

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Bryant — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:03:37 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for April 20th through April 28th:

Has The Internet Been A Force For Good? (Maybe Not.) – Evgeny Morozov: "Well, the Internet as we know it has now been around for two decades, and it has certainly been transformative. But ju…
The paralysis of unlimited opportunity – There aren't just a few options open to you, there are thousands (or more).You can spend your marketing money in more ways than ever, live i…
How Long Can Humans Go Without Sleep? – "Nobody knows for sure, but we do know that sleep deprivation is eventually fatal. Rats that are kept awake die after two weeks, less time t…
If The Volcano Never Stopped: Imagining The World Without Air Travel – Alain de Botton envisions elders recounting how "passengers, who had only paid the price of a few books for the privilege, would impati…
Invention Fail – Shared by Bryant
ridiculous
Watch iPhone videos using the most ridiculous hat ever.
Submitted by: LPwtr via Fail Uploader

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Bryant — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:37 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for April 13th through April 19th:

Winscape Turns Your HDTV into a Window [Downloads] – Mac: You know the movie version of the future where instead of real windows, we've got virtual ones that offer beautiful views of anyt…
US Judge Rules Gene Patents Invalid ‎because they are Natural – Did you know that about 20 percent of your body isn’t really yours? It has been patented by some corporation you probably never heard of. Y…
Library of Congress to keep all tweets – Shared by Bryant
really? and i wonder what the cost is?
Every 140-character snippet of info you've ever shared publicly on Twitter will soo…
Peter Brown – Peter Brown's West of Last Chance shows the landscape and small towns of the Great Plains.
….end_gr_to_omninogg.end_gr_to_omninoggin.
Will Culture Be Just A Game In The Future? – Shared by Bryant
"In the future everything will be a game."Interesting and scary thoughts in this video…
"If the idea of grown men and wo…

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Bryant — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:03:30 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for April 1st through April 12th:

At The Movies – Premature Sequelization – Developing a sequel months before a movie comes out sends a questionable, if not hubristic, message to audiences: "We're thinking about cram…
When in doubt, disaggregate – The typical American buys precisely one book a year.Ouch.Of course, this isn't true, because when it comes to books, there is no typical Ame…
Breaking news – I don't know if you've noticed, but there seems to be a lot more breaking news than there used to be.The thing is, there's no more news, jus…
Is Retrofitting 2-D Movies As 3-D Even A Good Idea? – "Among movies previously envisioned as 2-D productions, Sony is planning a 3-D reworking of its 2011 vampire story 'Priest,' while Warners h…
Bacon Fail Or Win? – View This Pollonline surveys Want more awesome bacon fails? Click here!
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Bryant — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:50:31 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for March 29th through March 31st:

eBay TV (2008) – Steve Or Steven Read – Ongoing series of collected photographs from eBay.com depicting televisions for sale. To market the sets, the eBay sellers also used foun…
If The Postal Service Contracts, Does Netflix Follow? – "The elimination of Saturday delivery would mean that Netflix subscribers will have to endure two consecutive days of no service–nothing to…
From the series “eBay TV”, 2008 Steven Read. Ongoing series of – From the series “eBay TV”, 2008 Steven Read. Ongoing series of found photographs from eBay.com depicting televisions for sale..end_gr_to_om…
Movie And TV Piracy Is Entrenched, And Legal, In Spain – "A cavalier attitude toward piracy has made it mainstream behavior in Spain. … It's no surprise why average Spaniards think it's not a big…
To Save Money, College Switches To "Cheaper" Font – "The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font on its e-mail system from Arial to Century Gothic. It says that while t…

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Bryant — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:13:17 +0000

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for March 23rd through March 29th:

Fatty Foods May Have a Drug-Like Effect on Your Brain [Psychology] – Telling your friends that you're "addicted" to, say, waffle fries may feel a bit less funny after reading the latest research on high-c…
Mission: Obsess Over Continuity, Post Gotchas Online – "All movie sets have nitpickers. They were 'script girls,' early on. Now they're 'script supervisors.' They ward off wobbles that make movie…
Roger Ebert On What Killed At The Movies – "It isn't only 'At the Movies' that died Wednesday. It was [a] whole genre of television. We thought of it as a movie review program. The te…
Cough in your cellphone, not your sleeve – Coughing into your cell phone could soon save you a trip to the doctor’s office. Thanks to software currently being developed by Star Analy…
Va. localities seek Google network test site – Associated Press – March 23, 2010 10:55 AM ET RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Richmond and several other Virginia localities are vying for an ultra-fas…

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