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blech: MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company: “What are the measures of a 20ft and 40ft container? “You can find references on the following link. In general, the containers of 20’ are used for weight shipments and 40’ containers for volume cargoes.”
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emergentfutures: “Slated for completion in 2015, PlanIT Valley won’t be a mere “smart city” — it will be a sentient city, with 100 million sensors embedded throughout, running on the same technology that’s in the Formula One cars, each sensor sending a stream of data through the city’s trademarked Urban Operating System (UOS), which will…
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heyoscarwilde: Vintage PONG console control board via orbitalchiller
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ransomcenter: Norman Bel Geddes: From the Nutshell Jockey Club to War Game to Futurama Weekly report of Yellow Army’s losses and gains. © Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation. Image courtesy the estate of Edith Lutyens Bel Geddes/Harry Ransom Center. …Szerlip reveals Bel Geddes’s meticulous creation of games, highlighting War Game and the Nutshell…
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blech: IKB 79 by Yves Klein from the Tate Collection. From their text summary: IKB 79 was one of nearly two hundred blue monochrome paintings Yves Klein made during his short life. Klein did not give titles to these works but after his death in 1962, his widow Rotraut Klein-Moquay numbered all the known blue monochromes…
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wilwheaton: “It’s awesome that Palmer’s Kickstarter has done so well — but look at what it’s entailed. It’s entailed time, effort, planning and work both backward and forward in time. That currently $439,000 isn’t a windfall for her; it’s a marker of what all that commitment to the work has earned. If you’re one of…
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blech: “I was shocked to read [Ted Nelson’s] justification for why Xanadu must be built from scratch, completely and perfectly: “Existing systems do not combine well; hooking them together creates something like the New York subway system.” The New York Subway system?! In my System Design class, we lauded this as one of the most…
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newyorker: Cartoon of the day. For more: http://nyr.kr/JWOmj9
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The Kardashian is a unit I proposed a few classes back as a measure of attention. Conceptually, the Kardashian is the amount of global attention Kim Kardashian commands across all media over the space of a day. In an ideal, frictionless universe, we’d determine a Kardashian by measuring the percentage of all broadcast media, conversations…
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Yet for gamers to just sweep that important first part [that most videogames are “incredibly silly”] under the rug over and over again in favor of brainless, high-octane enjoyment feels like a crime against the medium they love. To accept childish dreck without protest-or worse, to defend the dreck’s obvious dreckiness just because the other…