Failing the Turing Test
You are what you IM, I guess.
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It Could Be Very Fresh and Clean
It could be Frankie.
Tyger
Brazil's Guilherme Marcondes shows the big studios how to make animation interesting. <I>Tyger</I> mixes puppetry, illustration, photography, and CGI together to create something that Neil Gaiman describes as "like something I dreamed as a boy." When you start channelling Gaiman's dreams, you're in serious territory.
Memory Hacking
Ted Berger is working on wetware can reconstruct lost thoughts. Well, that's the eventual goal.
Only One
It's almost a shame. There's room for only one.
London Pedestrian Routemap
Because it has just been too long since I posted anything about Harry Beck's iconic <A HREF="http://www.clarksbury.com/cdl/maps/tube38.jpg">London Tube Map</A> and I gets all itchy when that happens.
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What If We Taught English Like We Teach Mathematics?
"Imagine that your only contact with 'English' as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing more than reading dictionaries, getting drilled in spelling and formal grammatical construction, and memorizing vast vocabulary lists—you <I>never</I> read a novel, nor a poem; never had contact with anything beyond the pedantic complexity of English spelling and formal grammar, and precise definitions for an endless array of words."
Finding His Voice
This 10-minute F. Lyle Goldman/Max Fleischer cartoon about how talking pictures work is full of interest for us audiophiles. Vintage technology, vacuum tubes, and Western Electric Research Project humor—what's not to love?
Rock'n'Roll Daily
Remember when <I>Rolling Stone</I> actually wrote about music? Me neither.
Tell Your College Students
I gotta say, if <i>I</i> had a summer to while away and found <a href="http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=55707806">this job opportunity</a>, I'd be all over it, too.