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“Hello, I’m a musical time machine. Go back in time to hear how popular music has changed from 1940 to today, as told by the Billboard Top 100.”
How cool. If you have a Rdio account it’ll play full songs.
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“My legs ache from all the steps they miss taking.”
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Wait until it’s almost gone (Taken with instagram)
“Hacking is disruptive, and whether you code software, write books, or film movies, I believe bringing anything new into the world is a disruptive act. By being novel and compelling, the new is likely to replace something else and that something else isn’t being replaced without a fight.” —
Rands In Repose: Hacking is Important
Required reading for anybody doing, um, anything.
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Using a digital camera, Mechanical Turk, and a thermal printer, Matt Richardson’s Descriptive Camera outputs descriptions of photos instead of the photos themselves.
Via Kottke. (Again!)
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“The Internet Archive is hosting a copy of the American Specimen Book of Type Styles put out by the American Type Founders Company in 1912. It’s a 1300-page book listing hundreds of typefaces and their possible use cases.” —
The book has been scanned and presented impeccably well.
Relevant: the Internet Archive accepts donations of any amount.