notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

blakegopnik (via fette):

DAILY PIC: These two iPhones are all there is to “The Distance of a Day”, an installation by the young Brooklyner David Horvitz that I just saw at the Art Basel fair, in the booth of Berlin’s Chert gallery. Last February, Horvitz got his mom to record a video of the sunset over the sea near Los Angeles, where he was born and grew up. At the same moment that she was taping, he was at a point almost opposite her on the globe, in the Maldives, taping the same sun as it rose. There was something  poignant for me in imagining our great sun as a tenuous link between mother and son. There was also a kind of almost scientific rigor in the piece, as it demonstrated a basic truth of heliocentric astronomy. And, of course, it was also about virtuality: A deeply physical project that involves two people and the places they’re in comes to us care of an ephemeral digital record – in fact presented on the very phones that recorded the scenes. And I still can’t wrap my mind around the idea of a single object being photographed at the same instant from opposite sides of the globe.

There are times of the year when the sun is visible from both San Francisco and London for hours, and (in December) times when it’s only visible from both for half an hour. This seems like a nice idea for the latter.

Distorted colors of Google StreetView photographs near electric power lines at Physics Stack Exchange (via jomc).

gwire:

Disclaimer added to Google Maps widgets on DFID’s Development Tracker.

Borders are a problem.

Solw (posted by plsj)

“Is it possible to make yourself unGoogleable?” by jocochrane.

The Welsh Space Campaign at we make money not art (via iamdanw)

Intel’s Perceptual Computing HIG (via timoarnall)