2013-05-13
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World War II poster by Abram Games, of Finsbury Health Centre (via iamdanw)
100 Objects from the Century of the Child:
In this poster, the radiant entrance to the Finsbury Health Centre stands in front of a dark and blasted wartime landscape, where a sickly child plays in a puddle of muddy water amid total devastation. The center, radical in terms of its modernist architecture and medical philosophy, had delivered free medical care since 1935 in Finsbury, a working-class borough blighted by tuberculosis and slum housing.
Design Museum: Berthold Lubetkin:
Tecton was appointed to design a new Health Centre next to Sadler’s Wells theatre in the Clerkenwell area of London. It was the first time that a progressive architectural group had been awarded a municipal commission in Britain and offered an important opportunity for Lubetkin to publicly use architecture as a catalyst for progress to change people’s behaviour. He was determined that the design of the Health Centre would encourage the public to become healthier, from the “sunny and airy effect” of its glass brick façade, to the cheerful murals painted on the walls by Gordon Cullen which adjured visitors to “live out of doors as much as you can” and to benefit from “fresh air night and day”.
The centre is now Grade 1 listed and still in use.
2013-05-10
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Computers of NASA - 1960s (by luridplanet)
The vector graphics starting at 7’12” are yelling for an animated GIF treatment.
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natgeofound, via iamdanw:
Apprentice air traffic controllers train with model aircraft at Andrews Air Base in Maryland, March 1957.
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson and Donald McBain, National Geographic
Analogue!
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Ashlee Vance in Bloomberg Businessweek. via Tom Insam, who comments
This is presented to make the point that “Netflix use a lot of space”. But I see it more as “Facebook is already 50% the size of all of Hollywood’s output ever”.
(via tominsam)
2013-05-09
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jomc:
jwherrman: This is the actual cover page of the NSA’s internal Google guidebook pic.twitter.com/IIWER6qi34 (via Twitter / jwherrman: This is the actual cover page …)
2013-05-07
On Google Glass and Rooting
2020, via notational
Google Glass has been hacked and rooted:
Once the attacker has root on your Glass, they have much more power than if they had access to your phone or even your computer: they have control over a camera and a microphone that are attached to your head.
It’s worthing noting that this part of Jay Freeman’s post is more about a potential future exploit than the rooting he achieved, which requires physical access, a Debug Mode that the Glass staff were surprised was in a publicly* available build, knowledge of the adb Android debugger, and also repeated user interaction to execute various parts of the process.
Google aren’t always as open** as they could be, but generally their products are relatively friendly to hackers*** who want to extend and modify the way the things they own work. That said, Freeman is probably right to warn of the issues down the road, and note that a future root exploit would be troubling to say the least.
* where by “publicly” I mean “those who attended Google I/O 2012 or who were lucky in the #ifihadglass giveaway”.
** I know this is a problematic term, but it feels right.
*** to be read in the old MIT sense as “playful manipulators”.
2013-05-06
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Milord A. Keshishian: Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat’s Attorneys Sue Scribblenauts Videogame For Copyright and Trademark Infringement (via).
Presented without comment, because I have no words.
