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Behind the DirecTV ads: "The concept is that you're never too rich for a deal."
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"These questions are known as “context-free questions” and are designed “to encourage agents to look at a challenge from many different angles."
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The origin of the high five.
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Adam Harvey has concepted CV Dazzle, a camouflage from computer vision (CV). It is a form of expressive interference that combines makeup and hair styling (or other modifications) with face-detection thwarting designs.
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Looking for icons? Search here.
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Nice anecdote from Pixar's John Lasseter
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The world consumes 1 million plastic shopping bags every minute – and the industry is fighting hard to keep it that way.
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A desire path (also known as a desire line or social trail) is a path developed by erosion caused by footfall. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. The width and amount of erosion of the line represents the amount of demand.
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Petter Forsberg built a DIY Segway for a mere 300$ in material. Pretty cool.
Archives for Juli 2011
Space Tourists
Here is a film recommendation: Space Tourists, a documentation by Christian Frei ran on Phoenix tonight.
Space Tourists follows multi-millionaire and X-Prize sponsor Anousheh Ansari on her 2006 journey to the ISS and Charles Simonyi through his training in preparation for his flight. You get a really interesting view of the ISS and the Russian space program which feels like it’s stuck somewhere in the 70s.
But it gets really interesting when Frei contrasts the super-rich and high-tech with scrap metal chasers that find and tear apart the Sojus boosters falling back on the grass plains of Kazakhstan, farmers in the Altai mountains that make tools out of rocket scrap metal. We also see a failed attempt of the Romanian ARCA team to launch a rocket in to the stratosphere, which is an entirely different thing than the Sojus technology. (Good news is, in October 2010 they launched their rocket successfully.) These not-so high-tech touchpoints of people with space are really the new and interesting thing.
I wholly recommend watching it. I stumbled across it while zapping and was riveted.
The official movie site is here.