Thursday the Twenty-Third of May, 2013

Beaverton couple brings board game museum to public
"Featuring a collection of more than 1,600 games, ongoing exhibits related to gaming culture and history — and a play area where members can try an old favorite or previously unexplored game." (filed under: games board museums) (via: rachel)
Dictionary of Numbers, Putting numbers in human terms.
"Dictionary of Numbers searches through the page for numbers it can understand, and when it finds one, adds an inline explanation for that number in human terms." (filed under: maths language) (via: danielle)
Tim Harford — Article — The antisocial network?
"The control group was given no specific instructions; the treatment group was asked to post more status updates “than they usually post per week”. Some ignored the instruction – but those who did not said they felt less lonely. [...] We may simply feel satisfied with the illusion that someone is paying attention." (filed under: facebook psychology delusions)

Russell Square | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Stationery Library | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Plague Doctors - 091 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Optical Ripple: A New Geometric Print from Simon C. Page | ColossalI live hereThis Incredible Full Scale Lego X-Wing Is the Largest Model In HistorySign Malfunction, Turnham Green | Shit LondonXbox 360s Kinect causes trouble for users during next-gen livestream reveal | PolygonPolling when public attention is limited: Different questions, different results | Pew Research Center
Recently listened to:
Glam Bucket Underworld
Whistle, Scream Concretism
Everything That Happens Brian Eno & David Byrne
Pigeon The Durutti Column
You're A Star Colin Macintyre
Scandinavian Love Efterklang
To You I Am Kloot
These Things Take Time The Smiths
Normal Service will Resume Shortly Concretism
The Man With The Black Moustache The Monochrome Set

Wednesday the Twenty-Second

Greek Tax Avoidance 101: Cover Your Swimming Pool With A Tarp, Fool A Satellite | Zero Hedge
"[The] Greek finance ministry is using Google Earth software to track down the owners of the pools, which tax inspectors consider an indicator of wealth, and which have often been built illegally." [...] "All you need is a green-coloured cover and then the pool cannot be spotted from above." (filed under: maps secrets surveillance water)

Options | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Steal This Bike & I'll Peck Your Eyes Out | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Sweets | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Central mosque as seen from the Federal Ministry of Finance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Daniel Solis: Four States of Play: Hone, Learn, Watch, FlowMore People Have Cell Phones Than Toilets, U.N. Study Shows | TIME.comStatus Flight and the Gendering of Google Glass >> CyborgologyNo joke: Guy cant walk into Seattle bar wearing Google Glasses | Fox NewsSomeone you know ill? Watch what you say, and to whom - latimes.comU-Turning Cabbie on Pennsylvania Avenue Gets Busted - YouTubeseven reasons to maybe feel slightly better about thingsWhy do these Tories think they can rule on marriage? | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The GuardianGates Foundation : Daily MTG : Magic: The GatheringGoogle+'s Best New Unadvertised Feature: Photo Search With Visual Recognition - Try It On Your Own Pictures And Be AmazedModel-Rival Training TechniqueThe Daily Dot - Why Flickr's free terabyte is even cooler than it soundsBBC News - Left Lion in Nottingham is 'yarn bombed'L-O-L-A, LOLA Universe

Tuesday the Twenty-First

MAPfrappe - Move Outlines
"This page allows you to see an outline of one part of the world overlayed on another part of the world." (filed under: maps) (via: blech)
meltingice/flickr-store - GitHub
"Store arbitrary data with your 1TB Flickr cloud drive by encoding any file as a PNG. This is mostly a proof of concept right now." (filed under: hacking secrets)

Men | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Men | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Coventry Cathedral Swedish Windows | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Buildings | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Gay marriage bill may lead to 'lesbian queen and artificially inseminated heir' | Society | guardian.co.ukBBC News - Twitter 'knocked off bike' cyclist 'lucky to be alive'MAPfrappe - Iso-LonLatnotes.husk.org. Left: the Golden Gate Bridge in London, a scale....Royal Moments in BroadcastingA better, brighter Flickr << Flickr BlogFrom Reddit: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?russell davies: homesense bikemapChris Heathcote: anti-mega: kindleframeWe Asked the Lunatic Fringe of UK Politics About Their Ideal Britain | VICE United KingdomBBC News - US tornado: Householders emerge amid devastationUsers editing OSM worldwide with iD | MapBoxBritish Rail Corporate IdentityIn the Junkyard of Wrecked Fictions | MuteGIF Creator, Steve Wilhite, Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award - NYTimes.com

Saturday the Eighteenth

CUBESMITH - Rubik's Cube Twisty Puzzle Replacement Stickers - Home
"We now offer over 45 different colors of vinyl and over a dozen different colors of Lexan tiles to customize more than 30 different twisty puzzles, as well as many sets to replicate original color schemes." (filed under: puzzles hacking)

Glanced at: One Visible Future This is a photograph of Marilyn Monroe, thenMrs...

Thursday the Sixteenth

A Cloudless Atlas — How MapBox Aims to Make the World's 'Most Beautiful Map' | Wired Design | Wired.com
"The goal for the map is to capture roughly what the naked eye can see from space, but for an idealized cloudless planet trapped in eternal summer." (filed under: maps weather) (via: blech)

The Walrus' Annual Clean | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Bike parking lesson | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Who paid more tax in the UK than Facebook, Google and Amazon combined? | ImpalaDid the eyes really stare down bicycle crime in Newcastle? << Mind Hacks4,000 years of oaths, curses, and obscenity - Ideas - The Boston GlobeThe Scientific 7-Minute Workout - NYTimes.comAngry mob trap Ukip leader Nigel Farage in Edinburgh pub | UK | News | Daily ExpressDance the flip-flopMP on Google tax avoidance scheme: 'I think that you do evil' | Technology | The GuardianAmazon.co.uk: Profile For Hamilton Richardson: ReviewsDont Be a Stranger The New InquiryLos Angeles Review of Books - To Understand The World Is To Be Destroyed By It: On H.P. LovecraftGoogle Play Books enables user uploads of e-books, documents | Internet & Media - CNET NewsPlease Press 1 | Customer Service Call Centre Menus FREE Directory

Friday the Tenth

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
"Look at the [random Google street view] and figure out where you are. Click the map to place your guess marker." (filed under: maps games) (via: sarah)

Reflection | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Way Out Man! | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: The Sublime Cluelessness of Throwing Lavish Great Gatsby Parties - Zachary M. Seward - The AtlanticInternational Space Station power system radiator leaking | Science | guardian.co.ukDisunion - The guillotine simulator on VimeoThe Man With Uncrossed Eyes : NeuroskepticM. Night SchoolMiddle class wine drinkers 'think they know better than health experts' - TelegraphFirearms Philosophy of Ivan ChesnokovanomaliesCivilization 5 - Brave New World: Are culture players finally getting the endgame they deserve? Previews PC Eurogamer.netBBC News - Fungus network 'plays role in plant communication'

Wednesday the Eighth

Wikipedia page views could predict stock market changes (Wired UK)
"The research suggests that Wikipedia pages [are] part of the information-gathering process for financial transactions -- potentially useful knowledge for people wanting to play the system." (filed under: wikis money)

Mosaic | Flickr - Photo Sharing!British Waterways | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Bitu men | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: The New Aesthetic The halfcat, attracting newly revived interest on...What if Radical Jihadis Get Hold of Syrian Chemical Weapons? | TIME.comShame on you, Sylvia Browne, for telling Amanda Berrys mother her daughter was dead. Bad ScienceMeet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun | FP PassportTrue Crime: How a Mysterious Beaumont, Texas, Murder Was Solved | Vanity FairNancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield Hold Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot - Dashiell Bennett and Philip Bump - The Atlantic WireWithout Space + Light | HOMEWISECan Drones Make Us Laugh? | MotherboardDrone Used in San Francisco Wedding Proposal - US News and World ReportThe anti-drone hoodieUse These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency | Threat Level | Wired.comMorrissey Replaces Bowie With Rick Astley on "Last of the International Playboys" Reissue Cover | News | PitchforkThomas Dolby: The Invisible Lighthouse | Kings Place

Sunday the Fifth

Stranger Visions: DNA Collected from Found Objects Used to Create 3D Portraits | Colossal
"So I extract the DNA in the lab and then I amplify certain regions of it using a technique called PCR – Polymerase Chain Reaction. [...] Then I feed this information into a custom computer program I wrote which takes all these values which code for physical genetic traits and parameterizes a 3d model of a face to represent them." (filed under: genetics art litter)

Glanced at: 3D Modeling with Silhouettesmanonwethly on InstagramPierre Carreau Fine art PhotographyDELTA lamp 2 - thibautmaletPlastic Republic - UCL iGEM 2012Design for the New Normal (Revisited) | superflux'Nudge unit' to become profit-making | Society | The GuardianThe Next Bubble | Harper's Magazine

Thursday the Second

Google Is Alive, It Has Eyes, and This Is What It Sees | Raw File | Wired.com
"Goggles is the image search feature in the Google mobile app, and by layering the app’s best attempts to match his photos, Bland has created an artistic view of the world as seen through Google’s eyes." (filed under: photography illusions)

Glanced at: From the BBC: how not to eat healthily for 1 a day | Aethelread the Unread - Patriotic road markings | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - ditto TV | Campfire - Protecting our brand from a global spyware provider | The Mozilla Blog - How to Automatically Mute Ads on Spotify - Where is the King? Live Crowd Visualization of Amsterdam - information aesthetics - 606 - A Cucumber Map of Europe | Strange Maps | Big Think - GTA 5 preview to live and die in Los Santos | Technology | guardian.co.uk - Once Upon a Time: Wil Wheaton, Amy Berg, Mike Phirman, and Chris "Doc" Wyatt on TableTop SE2E03 - YouTube - A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie - YouTube - Bridge! | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Warren Ellis >> EDC: What I Carry Every Day - Alas Vegas tarot cardsa first look | Cope - HERE IS TODAY -
This is As Above, and I'm Kevan Davis. You're reading an automatically reformatted view of my Pinboard bookmarks, with tiny contrails of pages I've glanced at, my Flickr photos, my Last FM recent tracks, my Twitter feed and my five most recently-played Xbox 360 games.