NetNichols

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The...

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:58:00 +0100

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

Great. And no it’s not ironic at all that I’m waiting for the keynote before finalizing my new home storage strategy.

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:10:00 +0100

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES: Riveting short film by Michal Kosakowski with solo piano score performed live. A 21 minute retelling of 9/11 through hundreds of Hollywood clips. (via waxy.org)

bio-bak.nl

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:21:26 +0100

bio-bak.nl: Wow… I haven’t laughed so much while exploring a ‘website’ in a long time. (via waxy.org)

A message to my local bio shop...

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:30:06 +0100

You don’t need to cover something with dirt to convince me that it’s organic. It’s rosemary… I’ll take your word for it.

The House of Books has no Windows Jon Hicks found a great...

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:06:00 +0100

The House of Books has no Windows

Jon Hicks found a great installation in Oxford. Brings to mind so many of my personal habits… scanning bookstores for hours… obsessively arranging my own books so the bindings line up… building houses with Legos, Duplos or any other -os that happen to be arround…

Can the can | The Economist

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:37:19 +0100

Can the can | The Economist: The “Broken Windows” theory has been confirmed through proper experimentation with controls and variables. This was one of the relatively few theories from my sociology class that I thought made a lot of sense.

Paul Simon | One on One

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:17:00 +0100

Paul Simon | One on One: Nice, in-depth (70 minutes!) interview from Nov. 2008. Supposed to be about his new book Lyrics, but turned into essentially a monologue on his song writing process. Recommended for any fan of Paul Simon.

Chicken Head Tracking (via waxy.org) Can’t believe I grew...

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:00 +0100

Chicken Head Tracking (via waxy.org)

Can’t believe I grew up with chickens in the yard and I never tried this. Guess I was too busy cursing them for letting snakes eat their eggs.

2008 Election Maps Fantastic collection of red/blue election...

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:52:00 +0100

2008 Election Maps

Fantastic collection of red/blue election maps. The map above, from Mark Newman, is my favorite. I remember seeing his map from 2004 and being struck at what a simple and clear statement it makes: while US elections might be a determined by red states and blue states, we are in essence a purple nation.

As a side note, as someone who’s spent a lot of time recently in visual design for data representation, the New York Times is to be commended for having a superb design team. Their ‘Voting Shifts’ map is especially interesting.

Banksy’s Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill Awesomely bizarre....

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:02:00 +0100

Banksy’s Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill

Awesomely bizarre. I wish I were making a trip to NYC sometime soon. (via NOTCOT)

The Sun - The Big Picture - Boston.com I honestly try hard not...

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:39:17 +0100

The Sun - The Big Picture - Boston.com

I honestly try hard not to repost every post of The Big Picture, but this photo set is just too cool to pass up. Also takes me back to my research at Furman.

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
- Why Does the Sun Shine? by TMBG

Cute Overload! :)

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:35:42 +0200

Cute Overload! :)

Elbot - Artificial Intelligence? A while back I was theorizing...

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:58:00 +0200

Elbot - Artificial Intelligence?

A while back I was theorizing on the inevitability of Articial Intelligence. Elbot was the winner of a recent Turing Test, and the improvement in AI since I took a course in AI back in ‘99 or so is pretty astounding. Elbot actually had me laughing out loud a few times with his perceptive and witty comments. Granted, I could (without too much effort) get him to admit to not knowing what to say, but on the other hand I’m pretty sure I could have a more substantive conversation with Elbot than with a lot of humans that I know. Of course, I have at least once been classified as a ‘robot’ by an online personality quiz…

Google has recently (for a limited time) made available their...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:32:10 +0200

Google has recently (for a limited time) made available their index from 2001. A few of my standard reads mentioned how their very popular blogs had not even been brought yet into the world. Well, NetNichols was already 2 years old and going strong, albeit in a much, much different form.

The World, Justified

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:21:39 +0200

The World, Justified: Nice exploration of “Typography meets cartography”.

Fifty People, One Question (via Vimeo) Terrific sampling of...

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:05:46 +0200

Fifty People, One Question (via Vimeo)

Terrific sampling of human desires in New Orleans.

Brilliant (unintentional? nah… can’t be) spoof of...

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:25:53 +0200

Brilliant (unintentional? nah… can’t be) spoof of the plethora of Apple ‘unboxing’ videos.

2008 Summer Paralympic Games More from The Big Picture… an...

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:59:25 +0200

2008 Summer Paralympic Games

More from The Big Picture… an incredibly moving set of photos. I’m sorry that I didn’t catch any of the live action.

The 2008 political conventions of the United States Remarkable...

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:46:00 +0200

The 2008 political conventions of the United States

Remarkable photos from one of my favorite new blogs. Despite momentary lapses of true interest, I’m increasingly disillusioned with politics in the US. What can you expect from a system where the two political parties are treated like the infallible hometown football team by their respective supporters?

Great Olympic moments on YouTube

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:03:49 +0200

Great Olympic moments on YouTube: Nice collection of Olympic moments from 1936 to 1996.