notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

courtenaybird:

Fifty years ago, the four most valuable U.S. companies employed an average of 430,000 people with an average market cap of $180 billion. This year, the four largest U.S. companies employ an average 120,000 people with an average market cap of $334 billion. The titans of 2011 have twice the the value of their 1964 counterparts with a quarter of the employees.

(via The Atlantic)

I’m not sure why people think the tech industry is a panacea for job creation. Wealth creation? Perhaps. Jobs? Not so much.

yearoftheglitch:

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From a prepared Kodak DC215 1 megapixel digital camera.

’56. What makes good glitch art good is that, amidst a seemingly endless flood of images, it maintains a sense of the wilderness within the computer.’ — Hugh S. Manon and Daniel Temkin, Notes on Glitch (via)

wreckandsalvage:

This will tell you something about my day job.  I now recognize “ums” in waveform.  I don’t need to hear it, I only need to see this shape.  This is the shape of an “um” or an “uh”.

I want to remove it from every ones speech patterns, including mine.

(via notational)

theartofgooglebooks:

Printed plate left folded through digitization.

From p.539 of Elements of Technology by Jacob Bigelow (1831).

Glitchy steam engines.

theartofgooglebooks:

Map left folded through digitization.

From the front matter of Chicago and the Great Conflagration, by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (1871). [Here]

theartofgooglebooks:

Card folder reads “Do not remove or mutilate card.” Card removed (and potentially mutilated).

From the back matter of The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (1921). 

hammerandcode:

Self-portrait by photographer Paolo Roversi.

Everybody loves an SX-70.

(via visivo)

new-aesthetic:

Is this the structure of New York City? (by Eric Fischer)

Tendrils.