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Wednesday the First of February, 2012

"A common refrain I've heard is that without Joel and the Bots, the movie is 'unwatchable,' but I suspect a big part of that is the bad visual presentation that the movie has always had. [...] Though it's doubtful I will change anyone's mind about Manos, I would like to send a message that every film, regardless of the place it holds in movie history, deserves a fair shot to be maintained and presented in the best way possible." (filed under: films history) (via: zarba)

Glanced at: BBC Newsbeat and use of dodgy statistics - szlwzl's posterous • Giorgio loves Sonic. - YouTube • Blue balls mystery close to being solved | UK news | The Guardian • Gold Rush Alaska Supercut (Season 2 Recap) - YouTube • Londons Oddest Shop Names: A Few Additions | Londonist • David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve | Video on TED.com • Curious dice | plus.maths.org

Recently listened to:
On Some Faraway Beach Brian Eno
Refrigerator Patrick Duff
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (live) Talking Heads
Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess Half Man Half Biscuit
I Am Catweazle Luke Haines
Don't Be Afraid Salako
Ordinary to Enschede Half Man Half Biscuit
Reno Dakota The Magnetic Fields
Let Me Tell You Something The Durutti Column
Giant David Devant & His Spirit Wife

Tuesday the Thirty-First of January

How Far Can You Walk From Trafalgar Square Without Crossing A Road? | Londonist

"A couple of years ago, as a test of the walkability of London, I set out from Trafalgar Square — the official centre of the town — one Sunday morning to see how far I could get without crossing a road or going over the same place twice. It was almost 17 miles before I ended up going round in a circle." (filed under: walking london)

Glanced at: PulseSensor - Pulse Sensor [5 Volt] • Bookshelf Porn, Slanted Bookshelf in the library of PROGRAMs... • Ronald Searle Pop Up Exhibition At Science Museum - ArtLyst • London | Get Ahead of the Games • 1,000 reasons we Instagrammers Now. Here. This. Time Out London • Bellbot - Play a sound when you have new users • Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old) - YouTube • MURK AVENUE, I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' • Janet Howell, Virginia State Senator, Attaches Rectal Exam Amendment To Anti-Abortion Bill • Cage Match : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering • A Basic Mistake That Trashed a JSTARS | Defense Tech • The Front Line • Yosemite Firefall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Mike Oldfield - Sailor's Hornpipe Full Version - YouTube

Monday the Thirtieth

Pirate Bay Hosts Physical Objects - And Is Accused Of Infringing Games Workshop Copyright?

"The model, an official version of which costs £28 from Games Workshop, has been previously listed on a 3D printing community website, but the plans were reportedly pulled after a takedown notice was issued." (filed under: plastic crime future)

Beware of Malicious QR Codes | PCWorld

"Cyber criminals have taken advantage of the proliferation of quick response (QR) codes on posters and marketing material by putting their own malicious stickers over the top of legitimate ones." I did wonder how long this would take. (filed under: barcodes crime lies) (via: zarba)

Glanced at: Mick Mountz: The hidden world of box-packing | Video on TED.com • All our Web casts - royalsociety.tv | Royal Society • R.Science podcast | Royal Society • What Am I Doing Here? | Athene Donald's Blog • BBC News - The world's biggest cities: How do you measure them? • British news outlets fabricated quotes to support anti-gaming story [UPDATED] << BeefJack - The Gamer's Sauce • Islamic science has come to this pitiful end | Pharyngula • City braced for rubbish news - Citywire Money

Friday the Twenty-Seventh

Statistics and Scrabble, Together At Last - A.C. Thomas, Scientist

"One goal of this was to figure out how much of the variance in score comes from the tile order and how much comes from the board, given that a tile order would be expected. It turns out to be about half-bag, half-board. [...] The blank is worth about 30 points to a good player. [...] The Q is a burden to whichever player receives it, effectively serving as a 5 point penalty." (filed under: games scrabble maths) (via: mattgreen)

Glanced at: Twitter able to censor tweets in individual countries | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Dont Be That Guy ad campaign cuts Vancouver sex assaults by 10 per cent in 2011 - The Globe and Mail • Largest Container Ship In The World - YouTube • Yarnstormed bike in Adelaide on Twitpic • Why did Psychic Sally lose her powers in September 2011? - slsingh's posterous • Google's Broken Promise: The End of "Don't Be Evil" • Kermode & Mayo's Photo | Lockerz • Terminator vs Robocop vs Predator - YouTube • Letters of Note: To the next Burglar • David McKie: Why I ate the Haitch mob | Comment is free | The Guardian • Pac-Man Proved NP-Hard By Computational Complexity Theory - Technology Review • Michael Rosen: The Politics (and lies) of the Apostrophe • Twitter / @SkyrimMom: "Before every quest I chan ...

Thursday the Twenty-Sixth

TrackMeNot

"TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines. [...] It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles." (filed under: web surveillance illusions) (via: zarba)

Glanced at: Youtube.com/SoufTuts - Imgur • Ah, that's where that is on Twitpic • Tiny Tower Rips Off a Flash Game—and SimTower • Copyright Monopoly Goes Insane: Non-Copy Judged As Infringing - Falkvinge on Infopolicy • Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination - The Architecture Space - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts • TV psychic Sally Morgan sues Daily Mail for defamation - Press Gazette • Scientists urge unis to axe alternative medicine courses • Mail Online goes top of the world | Media | guardian.co.uk • HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly • Dorkly Bits: Mario is Too Mainstream - Dorkly Video • notes.husk.org. The bath at theLes Cols pavilion, in Olot, Spain..... • Time Traveler From The Year 1998 Warns Nation Not To Elect Newt Gingrich | The Onion - America's Finest News Source • Gettysburg: Armored Warfare Cinemotions | Rock, Paper, Shotgun • ...::: FRIZION :::... • Gallery - Frizions: Making art from ice and polarised light - Image 1 - New Scientist • Behavior of Light in Minerals • NYPL Labs : Stereogranimator • Design Perfectionists at Home - NYTimes.com • JgKda.jpg (JPEG Image, 5471711 pixels)

Tuesday the Twenty-Fourth

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Magazine

"There is no law in France, it turns out, against the improvement of clocks." (filed under: secrets time paris hacking art) (via: mugla)

Glanced at: BKIxW.jpg (JPEG Image, 800533 pixels) • London Designer Has A New Take On Cycle Wayfinding | Londonist • 'Don't be evil' code exposes Google's Plus bias | ZDNet UK • BBC News - Soloist Lukas Kmit hits right note on phone intrusion • Mindsets online - Mini Light Datalogger (Data logger) - Mini Dataloggers • Shauna Myers - Google+ - Why was MegaUpload really shut down? In December of 2011, • Level With Me | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Making January HAPPEN • This Is My Jam - The Future Of Music Sharing Online? - NME Blogs - NME.COM - The world's fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and free stuff to win • Canadian resident sentenced to death for writing a computer program | Naked Security • Public library turkey | ksdk.com

Saturday the Fourteenth

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 on Vimeo

"search by image, recursively. starting with a transparent png (400×225px). 2951 images, 12fps." (filed under: videos images web) (via: waxy)

Ronald Searle | The Economist

"Ronald Searle, artist, limner of St Trinian’s and St Custard’s, died on December 30th, aged 91. Nigel Molesworth of St Custard’s writes." (filed under: art death)

Glanced at: A trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie, mirrored down the centre • Paleofuture - Paleofuture Blog - Your Own Wireless Telephone(1910) • Caisson lock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Letters From Schwarzville: Circle Rules Football and Citydash • Captain arrested amid growing anger after Italian cruise ship runs aground | World news | The Observer • The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com • rollsquarepaint.gif (GIF Image, 320320 pixels)

Friday the Thirteenth

Return of the super ants : Nature News & Comment

"By dabbing larvae with methoprene, a chemical that mimics juvenile hormone, Abouheif and his team could induce supersoldiers in species that normally lack them." (filed under: ants genetics evolution war) (via: ole)

Glanced at: BBC News - In pictures: Metropolis II sculpture by Chris Burden • It's Official: Stonehenge Stones Were Moved 160 Miles • notes.husk.org. Q. This is the much-talked-about photo, on Page.... • Why People Get the Wrong Number in Polls - The Numbers Guy - WSJ • Google, what were you thinking? Mocality Kenya • Illegal prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Computerised Board Games in Qbasic • Loper OS >> Why Hypercard Had to Die • DNA/Frank The Vandal • Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone? - Slashdot • The Thing | Board Game | BoardGameGeek • Infovore >> Raymond Chandler on the value of copying • Imagine Publishings Competition To Get Unpaid Writers - Botherer • By popular request, the automated numbering stamp: • How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker • Little People - a tiny street art project: Dead Leaves • BBC | BBC College of Journalism Blog - Should journalists want Google to get personal? • Twitter / @simontreanor: I win on the spam-follower ... • BBC News - Mitt Romney lambasted in attack ad for speaking French • Why is Homeopathy Successful? | The Quackometer • Twitter / @SkyrimMom: When my mom made this spoo ... • Skyrim Mom (skyrimmom) on Twitter • BoardGameDadaist • Global Warming May Trigger Winter Cooling - ScienceNOW

Thursday the Twelfth

Language Log >> The unbearable loss of words

"Since aphasics often produce nonsense words without realizing that they aren't real words, one of the goals of therapy is to give the patient feedback on which words are real. But West would often produce bona fide words that were unknown to the therapist." (filed under: language pestilence) (via: newsmary)

Parahawking | Frequently Asked Questions

"Parahawking is a fusion between Falconry and Paragliding. [Our] birds of prey are trained to fly with Paragliders and to guide them to the thermals." (filed under: birds sport) (via: mugla)

Glanced at: Tim Harford Article To tweet or not to tweet? - Seth's Blog: The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer - motesinajar | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Shop Window | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Blackwell Legacy - Twitter / @jamiecraven: Someone's probably getting ... - Caution: High Speed Balls Tom Scott - SEO is dead. Again. - Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas - Core77 - IndieGames.com - The Weblog Preview: Storyteller (Daniel Benmergui) - FlirtOff - SCRAPPBLE!!!!!!! - MST3K Shorts - Century 21 Calling - Mark Lancaster MP and his terrifying drug scare: the UK imports 200kg of khat per person per week. Bullshit. - bengoldacre - secondary blog - It's not really that blue... | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Look! Food Flags For The Sydney International Food Festival | The Kitchn - Spooling | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Green Dragon Activities >> Blog Archive >> 2012/01 MTB Chariot Race 14th January -

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.