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The Year of Dryer Lint
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Beats the hell out of Living Dangerously, I guess. Seriously though, via The Tubes of You , Rick Valentin and Rose Marshack talk about their artwork "A Year of Dryer Lint: Normal Family of Four", which displays a year's worth of their family's dryer lint needle felted onto a 26-foot canvas banner. Because, "DNA Analysis". Also, why not?
Exploring selfies!
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For fun and profit? Well, definitely for fun! SelfieCity has put together quite the remarkable study of Selfies, using "a mix of theoretical, artistic, and quantitive" methodologies. Its actually quite nifty ( go check it out! ) but for my money, the best part is the " Exploratory ", where you can muck around with the selfies to your heart's content, filtering them based on Pose , Features , Mood , and Demographics . Seriously cool - go check it out!!! Mind you, this all assumes that you don't find the whole concept sublimely ridiculous :-)
Yup, the squirrel just tried to hide a nut *here*. Go figure...
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Do you know where it is snowing? Now you can see in real-time!
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New York, India
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Hunana Doddi , a small village in the Mandya district near Bangalore From The Hindu A day after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, U.S., some youngsters held a condolence meeting in the village. Later, they renamed the village as āNew Yorkā, according to the residents. Mind you, its not a bed of roses over there The village, which has nearly 1,000 residents, however, lacks infrastructure. Roads, drinking water, toilets, power supply, streetlights, drainage system, anganwadi centre and a community hall are among the demands of the residents.
Mexican-origin and the USA - a (somewhat depressing) #Visualization
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From The Economist , On February 2nd 1848 [...] An area covering most of present-day Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, plus parts of several other states, was handed over to gringolandia . The rebellious state of Tejas, which had declared its independence from Mexico in 1836, was recognised as American soil too. But a century and a half later, communities have proved more durable than borders. The counties with the highest concentration of Mexicans (as defined by ethnicity, rather than citizenship) overlap closely with the area that belonged to Mexico before the great gringo land-grab of 1848. Some are recent arrivals; others trace their roots to long before the map was redrawn. They didnāt jump the borderāit jumped them. For a history of the Mexican (as part of the wider Hispanic) experience in America, I can't recommend Felipe FernĆ”ndez-Armesto's book Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States highly enough. He is a Spanish historian at Th...
Ski-Lift Accidents - a #Visualization
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via IllicitSnowboarding - a peek at ski-lift accidents above. Mind you, when you look at the full numbers, it really isn't bad at all, not unlike flying... After spending the length of time I just have concentrating on lift accidents you start to get a skewed view of the dangers. To give all these events some context hereās some stats from the US in the average year: 350,000,000 - Ski lift rides 12,000,000 - Skiers/snowboarders 38 - Skiing/snowboarding fatalities 0.33 - Ski lift fatalities Iāll take those odds.