2012-02-02
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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.
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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)
2012-02-01
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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)
2012-01-31
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Printed plate left folded through digitization.
From p.539 of Elements of Technology by Jacob Bigelow (1831).
Glitchy steam engines.
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Map left folded through digitization.
From the front matter of Chicago and the Great Conflagration, by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (1871). [Here]
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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).
2012-01-25
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2012-01-24
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Todd Serencha, via perpetua.
I think this might be a more forceful statement of what I was nudging towards. (I’ve seen all three - but none of the Transformers films - and enjoyed them all, but I still take his point. They just happen to be catering to my tastes.)
Also, I have to remember “Oscarbatory” for next year.



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Map left folded through digitization.
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