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Internet is coming

Added on May 1, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

Via Erik Diehn on LinkedIn:

Found

Added on March 28, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

From National Geographic Found.

Geometric patterns enliven a wall of an auditorium in Caracas, Venezuela, March 1963.PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS J. ABERCROMBIE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC — Geometric patterns enliven a wall of an auditorium in Caracas, Venezuela, March 1963.
PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS J. ABERCROMBIE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Generic

Added on March 26, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

"In today's high speed environment, stop motion footage of a city at night with cars turning quickly makes you think about doing things efficiently."

This Is a Generic Brand Video is a generic brand video of “This Is a Generic Brand Video,” written by Kendra Eash for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. No surprise, it’s made entirely with stock footage. All video clips used are from dissolve.com. See and license them here: http://www.dissolve.com/generic The original piece is published on McSweeney’s: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-a-generic-brand-video Narrated by Dallas McClain. Music: “Piano Work 02” by rysktchkw Available under Creative Commons License from SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/rysktchkw/piano-work-02

Kevin Shea Adams

Added on March 15, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

From Kevin Shea Adams.

Brand minimalism

Added on February 19, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

This is so cool. Via Kottke.

Found

Added on February 18, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

via National Geographic Found.

During a motorcycle race, speedsters careen into a turn in Sweden, August 1973.PHOTOGRAPH BY ALBERT MOLDVAY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Found

Added on February 7, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

From National Geographic Found.

A pipe emits poisonous gases in a flame produced by oil production, April 1948.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC — A pipe emits poisonous gases in a flame produced by oil production, April 1948.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

I very much like this calendar

Added on February 1, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

Seen at Gin Lane; designed by Jonas Wyssen.

I've had similar thoughts about the circular display of time (which I described in part in a post last June), though I never fleshed them out fully. This is a very good treatment.

This was published in the New York Times Today.

Added on January 26, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

Yes.

Here's the original story. Full disclosure, I did *not* read the whole thing.

Cropdusters

Added on January 14, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

GPS patterns created by cropdusters from OpenStreetMap. Via Edible Geography.

My new cellphone

Added on January 13, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

via this Silicon Labs Si47xx datasheet :p

This is actually pretty interesting, but I think the fake Windows 98 background is awesome.

Radiodifuziunea Romina

Added on January 10, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

Via Gary Stevens/Flickr and Alexis Madrigal.

It's worth reading the wikipedia entry on QSL cards - it's an interesting and bizarre idea.

Symbols

Added on January 7, 2014 by Spencer Wright.

via everythingradio.com.

Crane

Added on December 25, 2013 by Spencer Wright.

Taken from a crane almost a half-mile above Shanghai. Via twentytwowords.

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Exploded

Added on December 15, 2013 by Spencer Wright.

via FFFFOUND!

Homopolar motor

Added on December 12, 2013 by Spencer Wright.

via Sparkfun.

Alan Shepard

Added on December 9, 2013 by Spencer Wright.

From National Geographic Found.

Alan Shepard waits to become the first American in space, Cape Canaveral, 1961.PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA

Then there is something

Added on November 23, 2013 by Spencer Wright.

via FFFound!

The Illinois

Added on November 21, 2013 by Spencer Wright.

Frank Lloyd Wright in 1956 with his design for The Illinois, a skyscraper that would have been by far the tallest in the world. via A Conversation on Cool.

Seeing What's Next

Added on November 19, 2013 by Spencer Wright.

This chart got around a few days back when Horace Dediu posted a screenshot on twitter. The full-res version, below, is pretty awesome. From the Asymco blog.