June 2011
Phantosmia →
bestofwikipedia:
Phantosmia, or olfactory hallucinations, involves smelling odors that are not derived from any physical stimulus. These phantom odors can range from rotting flesh to a spring meadow, though most cases report unpleasant aromas. In some cases phantosmia has even led to the afflicted individual to believe that both the odor and source in fact exist, a condition known as olfactory...
I’m Gonna Need You to Fight Me On This: How... →
a fascinating article by Mac McClelland. She also knows her hooks :
It was my research editor who told me it was completely nuts to willingly get fucked at gunpoint. That’s what she called me when I told her the story.
“Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile,
And cry, ‘Content,’ to that which...”
– William Shakespeare via.
“Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than...”
– Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
on Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
BBC - A History of the World in 100 objects →
Listening to this radio series is like taking a warm bath of academia. With a fresh beer.
The Great Camera Shootout 2011: SCCE ~ Episode One... →
In the most scientific camera comparison to date, “The Great Camera Shootout 2011: a documentary of the Single Chip Camera Evaluation (SCCE)” premieres with Episode 1: “The Tipping Point.” The first episode of the 3-part web series examines three SCCE Tests: The Dynamic Range Test, The Under Exposure Test and The Over Exposure Test.
The line-up : 35mm Kodak 5213 & 5219 Film, Arri...
Final Cut Pro X: What's Missing for Some Pros - →
The FCP X release is getting stabbed on twitter. Walter Biscardi goes over why that is.
OMF and XML export and import completely eliminated. There is no way to send projects to Apple’s own software from within Final Cut Pro.
Japan’s Depressing Racism |The Diplomat →
Hiroki Ogawa:
On the one hand, discrimination is generally not malicious. It simply reflects a widespread lack of experience and knowledge in dealing with people from different countries and backgrounds—something that is somewhat excusable due to the homogeneity and seclusion that has come with being an isolated island nation.
But on the other, don’t expect the Japanese to appreciate...
Five myths about incarceration - The Washington... →
3. Helping prisoners rejoin society will substantially reduce the prison population.
Ninety-five percent of American prisoners will return home someday. While reentry programs can aid reintegration into the community, they do little to reduce our reliance on incarceration. Prison appears to make inmates as likely to commit crime as not; about half of released inmates return to prison within...
“Let’s make living breathing, sprawling adventures filled with mind-blowing...”
– Grant Morrison
Information Architects – iA Writer: On Prices and... →
Oliver Reichenstein :
however smart you are—you will have a hard time overthrowing Jef Raskin’s definition of the user interface:
“The Interface is the way you accomplish tasks with a product; what you do and how it responds.”
What follows from this rule is that efficient user interfaces obey the basic rule of an interaction economy: Minimal input (“what you do”)...
