5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

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  • Pabst Blue Ribbon is brewed by the Miller Brewing Company where »
  • Clockwork Orange was set in the far off future of 1995 where »
  • Almost all people suffer from change blindness where »
  • Elvis Presley had a father (although obvious, it never occurred to me). Also, Natalie Portman can make a mean salad where »

    • 5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  A brilliant little idea and the best use of animated gifs EVER http://bit.ly/bLvhH7

    2. Not quite as full-featured as my beloved blip.fm (http://blip.fm/rtsnance), but tiny song is a great way to easily point people to the music you want http://bit.ly/9AbC5U

    3. Time Lapse videos can be so cool, like this one of NYC http://bit.ly/agFmrc

    4. Blueprints for the Millennium Falcon FTW http://bit.ly/9Wi7gD

    5. A Life on Facebook is a clever idea, similar to History as Told on Facebook http://bit.ly/aKb7TC

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  There are a great many ways to make good design decisions when planning or designing a website, and most of them have to do with understanding the user. The UI Conference 15 (#UI15) and its great presenters showed that in spades http://bit.ly/dadYFk

    2. Want to keep track of your beard? Of course you do. There's an app for that http://bit.ly/cEf5fJ

    3. IKEA the book http://bit.ly/9j63sc

    4. A magazine that only exists in one place, for a limited time: a Pop-up Magazine http://bit.ly/chUAqF

    5. A comic book store employee makes one-panel comics out of his customers and they are awesome http://bit.ly/cCC013

     

    5 things I learned this week (and don't want to forget) Season 2 Weekly Episode 2

    1. Public art is an amazing enterprise, and when it is in one of my favorite Manhattan parks (I'll definitely get Madison Square Park and this installation as a backdrop in our next 5 things Travel Edition) and made by an electrical engineer, it is one of my favorite thingshttp://bit.ly/dqMsU5

    2. There is a scene in the Alexandria Quartet that this underwater sculpture garden invokes, most likely unintentionally http://bit.ly/cTy3aD

    3. Qwiki made a stir with its first public demo back in September, and now there are things we can look and play with http://bit.ly/901EcO

    4. An entire recipe captured in a single photographhttp://bit.ly/cf02N5

    5. Hyper-realistic paintings are hypercoolhttp://bit.ly/a53M5o

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  Like the famous Mole People of the Lower Eastside in Manhattan, there are people living in the storm tunnels under Las Vegas http://bit.ly/98oZPJ

    2. World maps made entirely out of typography http://bit.ly/dhLcjl

    3. One Hundred Portraits is 100 portraits http://bit.ly/dtWUTA

    4. It's called Type Case and it is lights and boxes and words and cool http://bit.ly/beT82H

    5. Women Running from Houses is a blog collecting and discussing the genre of book cover that involves women running from houses http://bit.ly/bGiyrW

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  Imagining Star Wars characters into places and scenes they don't belong http://aol.it/ac1jSk

    2. Looking through facebook statuses and relationship statuses in aggregate gives us: key breakup times http://bit.ly/c3mTo6

    3. Oooh! As a follow-up to my favorite camper bike (http://bit.ly/cp0Ox2), here is the bikamper http://bit.ly/c9fHYU

    4. I wish I had seen this Hamlet flowchart before it sold http://bit.ly/cVjCW8

    5. This imaginative animation called The Cathedral nearly won an Oscar http://bit.ly/cF8UOp

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. 2010-11-02_1022 Foursquare uses its locations based information for good (plus I got my "I Voted" badge!) http://bit.ly/dfUZYs

    2. It's called the Sliding House http://bit.ly/dbSdLs

    3. Timescapes. Fascinating and beautiful http://bit.ly/bLH9cy

    4. This artist goes on a helicopter ride over a city, then lands and draws the whole thing from memory http://bit.ly/d08YFL

    5. These personal challenges, like writing a poem every day for a month, or a picture every hour, or, in this case, "create something" everyday are inspiring and cool http://bit.ly/alQYSm

    5 things I learn this week (and don't want to forget) - Season 2 Weekly Episode 1

    1. These high school kids reciting Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry" (and his awesome explanation about sound and meaning after their recitation) do a super fantastic job with it http://bit.ly/8XaHzh


    2. An incredible project, How I explain it to my parents, wherein abstract artists try to explain to their parents what it is that they do http://bit.ly/baKgsc

    3. Young Me, Now Me is a great projecthttp://bit.ly/dhOmjp

    4. Process videos are fascinating to me, and this one, of a reverse glass sign gilder is no exceptionhttp://bit.ly/acgVT8

    5. Why you should shut down your computer at the end of a day of work http://bit.ly/bzmhyj

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  For every state, a movie http://bit.ly/dsJzn3 you can see the full-sized image here

    2. Anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer sharing... a little like techno-geocaching http://bit.ly/dg4Bio

    3. Typewriters disassembled and remade into humanoids, animals and insects http://bit.ly/bc5KXC

    4. From the Rally to Restore America, a collection of the 100 best signs http://bit.ly/cu8xq2

    5. Words of the World tells the story and history of many of the worlds' interesting words http://bit.ly/asQG0T

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  MLB is putting up super high res images of the full stadiums from the playoffs and World Series. If you are one of the lucky to be there, you can tag yourself and let your friends and family how great your seat was http://bit.ly/chQ7fH

    2. Virtual globe trotting, GO! http://bit.ly/adalfL

    3. Amazing photos of pigeons and those city dwellers who love them http://bit.ly/bHE8NX

    4. Britta meet Sigg http://bit.ly/9LpEKM

    5. Lots of crazy concept cars http://bit.ly/cGHPtn

     

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  Even though I am not much of a baseball fan, I can't help but be stunned and moved by these iconic World Series Photos http://bit.ly/cWWdQg

    2. A fun illustrated collection of 20 iconic male music stylemakers http://bit.ly/aoFHb1

    3. "How to Be a Douche". Read on http://bit.ly/b1suIE

    4. One Frame of Fame is your chance (I did it!) to be in a shot-by-shot crowd-sourced music video http://bit.ly/bbnSqH

    5. Clever beats high-tech in a lot of cases. Like this one: Coffee grounds + balloon = robot "hand" WIN http://bit.ly/cOruLA

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. Hyper-realistic paintings are hypercool http://bit.ly/a53M5o

    2. Qwiki made a stir with its first public demo back in September, and now there are things we can look and play with http://bit.ly/901EcO

    3. Asking a physics to explain why cartoon physics don't actually work is pretty funny. You can here this taut wire of frustration in his responses http://aol.it/9hL58a

    4. Nokia has brought together some future interface ideas for mobile computing. Amazing and yet they do really seem like they are just around the corner http://bit.ly/bTOzq8

    5. Kanye West's 35-min experimental film is honestly quite good, albeit pretentious, humorless and over-the-top http://bit.ly/cdip7s 

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  Public art is an amazing enterprise, and when it is in one of my favorite Manhattan parks (I'll definitely get Madison Square Park and this installation as a backdrop in our next 5 things Travel Edition) and made by an electrical engineer, it is one of my favorite things http://bit.ly/dqMsU5

    2. Fascinating chalk murals of animal constellations http://bit.ly/b82WLx

    3. The Indonesian volcano, Merapi, is apparently erupting right now. And there are google maps and webcams http://bit.ly/bX5a19

    4. One hundred and sixty videos of Andy Kaufman, go! http://bit.ly/btKf0x

    5. "Hand Pause: What hands do whilst waiting for devices to catch up with their intent." And other such awesome concepts http://bit.ly/aROEHt

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  The New York Times has charted and mapped the most recent data from Wikileaks http://bit.ly/bje6i5

    2. The Guggenheim has released its collection of YouTube videos http://bit.ly/cnpiDd

    3. It's called a sleepbox, but it sure seems like a portable pod hotel (if you've ever been lucky enough to stay in a pod hotel, imagine one in an airline terminal) http://bit.ly/c1OVKv

    4. Chris Bangle, the former director of design for BMW Group talks a little about leading design efforts http://bit.ly/dsPEc1

    5. Yay! Travel photos => video. This time Spain & Morocco http://bit.ly/ctv1hl

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  An entire recipe captured in a single photograph http://bit.ly/cf02N5

    2. A downloadable book called Emotional Mapping: the Technology of the Self http://bit.ly/dbugQb

    3. A sketch comic around the idea of "how to have an idea" http://bit.ly/aaq3ZO

    4. An experiment to test the mind-boggling proposition that the 3D universe in which we appear to live is no more than a hologram http://bit.ly/c8f8Wu

    5. Macroshots of microscopic subjects http://bit.ly/cP4gTH

     

    5 things I learn this week (and don't want to forget) - episode 10 - Season Finale

    1. If you haven't watched Ze Frank's (http://bit.ly/bj1xWt) Ted Talk (http://bit.ly/a4S6u2), this project is the beautiful one he ended with http://bit.ly/ccvQ4O

    2. Human billboard on the side of a bus sounds like a twisted horror movie plot, but is actually a friendly guy trying to selling banking products http://bit.ly/blTt4e

    3. Vanity Fair has an awesome collection of photography from the making of The Empire Strikes Back http://bit.ly/cG6bXJ

    4. A collection of stunning buildings and villages in Spain built on the edges of big drops http://bit.ly/biMw4z

    5. A shortlist from PhotoRadar of the Digital Camera Photographer of the year http://bit.ly/9I0x6x