The Economist on gerrymandering, or how to change district borders to make sure you can’t lose your seat in Congress. It amazes and disgusts me that these tactics are tolerated.
Archive for August, 2006
Cellphones are replacing watches as far as men are concerned. I still like having a nice analog watch… and would love one of these.
Door 54
A door in Barcelona, Christmas 2005. Distortion correction and sharpening. I need to figure out color-calibration on Photoshop, as my colors always get messed up when I save as jpeg. This time I had to undo all the corrections I made because it ended up looking too strong. Unedited version.
Did you know that Bose, the speaker company, was working on fascinating new suspension technology? Now you do. Bose has more information.
Air conditioners of Philadelphia is an awesome photo project.
This Boston Globe article compares the security measures at US Airports with those at Ben Gurion airport in Israel. Unfortunately, the author conflates behavioral profiling (good) with racial profiling (bad). This NYT article covers how the US is trying to adopt these methods.
There are a lot of nice looking cellphone designs around. I thought this Onyx phone prototype by Synaptics and Pilotfish was just another one of them, but the interaction model is actually really interesting. Everything is done with finger gestures, and the devices can among other things sense if you’re using one or two fingers.
The story of Han Van Meegeren, a fascinating tale of art forgery.
A great Nike Skateboard ad.
