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From Andrew Heatherington’s blog, this is an interview with creative director Scott Dadich of Wired magazine, who recently produced the cover and featured article photos of Wired’s “New Rules” issue…in which Brad Pitt demonstrates several very modern faux pas. wired to the new rules (via whats the jackanory?)
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Wired has Inforporn, and now we have DataSmut. It’s rare that the media updates us on how the government is fixing New Orleans, so I’d like to thank CNN for this very un-abstracted visualization of post-Hurricane Katrina civil engineering projects: Charting New Orleans’ progress since Katrina (via CNN.com)
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Cool stuff! A movie proposed and possibly scripted but never ultimately made, Brotherman was the brainchild of a group of Chicago ad men turned would-be producers who never got their project off the ground. But they did get far enough to commission a soundtrack in 1974 Brotherman by The Final Solution (via The A.V. Club)
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An Internet kill-switch sounds like something Iran or China would use to prevent its people from learning about the “lavish” freedoms we have here in the USA. But what do we do, here in the USA, when politicians want “to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency”? [...]
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This is a pretty cool look at all the minutia that goes into creating a computer magazine cover… Photographer Peter Belanger did a soup-to-nuts video on the creation of a Macworld cover — from studio shoot (including lighting) to post production to final layout. Fast, but way cool. Peter Belanger’s Time-Lapse Macworld Cover (via Strobist)
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Presented by Link TV: In this clip, popular actor and comedian John Leguizamo portrays General Antonio Taguba, author of the U.S. Army report on prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, from journalist Seymour Hersh’s adaptation of “The General’s Report” John Leguizamo Performs “The General’s Report” by Link TV (via YouTube)
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Finally, sci-fi film effects creators have a scientific model to copy now: An award-winning visualization of the detonation of a type Ia supernovae, produced by scientists at the University of Chicago Simulation of Supernovae Explosion (via Wired)
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If the gigantic numbers on this website weren’t so abstract they’d be terrifying… U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
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How’s that for a provocative headline? It’s also the kind of thing that you hit your forehead for not realizing before: Iraq’s Shiite religious parties, most with ties to Iran, have reestablished a political bloc called the Iraqi National Alliance Of course they have! The only thing keeping Iraqi Shiite’s in check during the Hussein [...]
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