July 2010
18 posts
“It’s no more alarming than finding the yellow pages in a brothel.”
– BBC News - Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published
Jul 29th
Jul 28th
“Live music performances now serve an increasingly important function for...”
– Ask the indie professor: Shoes, phones and other gig accessories | Music | guardian.co.uk
Jul 26th
Michael Koretzky: College Journalists Are Good at... →
Earlier this year, I judged a prestigious national contest that chose the best college newspaper website in the country. It was a tough decision. Usually, when a judge says he had trouble selecting a winner, all the entries were so damn good it was hard to tell the difference. But in this case, nearly all the entries were so damn boring it was hard to tell the difference.
Jul 22nd
WatchWatch
Bringing stop-animation to a new, gigantic scale. Amazing! BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU (by blu)
Jul 19th
How Disaster Relief 2.0 is saving lives in Haiti... →
My first story on the new look BBC website. Sexy pages for sexy writers.
Jul 16th
Jul 11th
Facebook censors nipples on $40K doll | World |... →
When Australian jewellery designer Victoria Buckley posted pictures to her Facebook page that showed a naked porcelain dolls modelling with her jewellery, Facebook told her take them down.
Jul 10th
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Jul 7th
Humungous bubbles blown from small black hole →
A relatively small black hole has been spotted blowing bubbles with diameters of more than 300-1500 light years. Robert Soria of the University College London and colleagues pored over images and data from the European Southern Observatory and Chandra X-ray Observatory, zeroing in on an unusually large remnant from a supernova explosion. Its host galaxy appears in the Sculptor constellation of...
Jul 7th
Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters | Reuters →
Interesting headline from Reuters.
Jul 7th
Google’s doodlers →
Really neat clip about the people draw those ace doodles on the Google homepage. It has so quickly become iconic, hasn’t it? You know you’ve gone down in world history when you’ve had your own Google-doodle. A man can dream. (via selinabryan)
Jul 7th
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Jul 5th
BBC Sport - Football - World Cup 2010: The drama... →
Epic montage making use of those incredible super slo-mos that we’ve been seeing in South Africa.
Jul 1st
Jul 1st