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35 Cooless Depth Of Field Photos to chase those Monday Blues - http://www.onextrapixel.com/2009...

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#sex #men #women #excite Rank how good it would feel to touch or be touched by a lover in different points of the body. http://fleshmap.com/touch...

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Fwd: Where the Wild Things are / Maurice Sendak. http://www.youtube.com/watch... http://www.youtube.com/results... http://www.apple.com/trailer... or http://wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com/#... (http://friendfeed.com/juliegi... üzerinden)

Fwd: Where the Wild Things are / Maurice Sendak. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkHA6IjrlY http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=where+the+wild+things+are&search_type=&aq=f http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/wherethewildthingsare/ or http://wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com/#/Splash (http://ff.im/dvWxb üzerinden)

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For Those of You Who Want to Make a Living Making Music: THIS IS THE FUTURE - http://ericwhitacre.wordpress.com/2009...

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"My great friend (and fellow BCM International founder) Jim Bonney just turned me on to Jack Conte, a brilliant singer/songwriter who is currently tearing up YouTube. I am smitten with Jack’s music, lyrics, production skills, voice – he’s the complete package, a major talent with a profoundly unique voice. And he’s incredibly hip with his fanbase, actively engaging them at the end of every video and directing them to his web store, all while remaining genuine and charming." - Alexander Kruel from Bookmarklet

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Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London | http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...

April 27, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"It's not elegant and it's not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell's Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait. Signalling the end, says Blackwell, to the frustration of being told by a bookseller that a title is out of print, or not in stock, the Espresso offers access to almost half a million books, from a facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland to Mrs Beeton's Book of Needlework. [...]" - ianf ⌘ from Bookmarklet

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Right now these machines cost a bundle, but, with economies of scale, can "One Hour Bookstores" be far behind? Goodbye print-on-demand, welcome print-on-a-whimsy cottage industry! - ianf ⌘

The great question is why order from Amazon, when you could pop in and have it made up for you, whilst you wait. - zeroinfluencer

Perhaps. It rather depends on the range (breadth) of genres and back-order titles in each venue. Traditional publishing is in many senses a license to print money, and so the industry isn't too keen on giving it up. If "Expressoed" copies turn out to be as costly as traditional ones, prospective buyers may opt for better "offline" quality from the big A. Then again, they may not... book... more... - ianf ⌘

Amazon has been using print-on-demand at their processing centers for a while to handle low-volume titles, the logical next step is for it to move out even closer to the end users. Its very similar to the fax machine actually: initially FedEx installed fax machines at their local offices and offered fax as a premium service, sending the fax across the country to the nearest FedEx office... more... - DGentry

Denton, indeed. Thus on-demand is not a product; imagine the use case: I'm about to take a journey. book a flight, it's long haul, so I order a book (profile & recommendations); the book stand at the airport prints it up for me ready for collection on the way through to departure lounge (or collect at departure as business service). - zeroinfluencer

moo cards are another example. - zeroinfluencer

Yes, Denton, but there always will be that £175.000 threshold such a machine costs, which will limit frequency of their occurrence. Amazon may yet end up the winner, because of the economies of scale in distrubution, esp. if/ when beleaguered traditionals elect to lower their prices to stay afloat. It's tricky business really. - ianf ⌘

Think of the remix capabilities too. Selection of chapters from different books. Pick and Mix editorial in a book format, lovely. Just in time + bespoke = everyone's happy. - zeroinfluencer

You can dream, David, but this won't be happening for a long time yet. Simple reason, copyrights. As with daily newspapers where you have to buy it all, but nobody expects you to read it cover to cover, so books are largely made up of parts you will read, those that you might, and those you'll perhaps browse through (all too often, I am afraid). Publishers will not permit selling of just some topical chapters of interest to you, you'll have to buy all the "superfluous" ones as well. Alas. - ianf ⌘

Think of it as Tivo for Books. - zeroinfluencer

Bad analogy, also American-parochial one I'm afraid. You do not "subscribe" to chapters of books floating by, you buy a book whether you only intend to read the tasty bits on pages 92-101. - ianf ⌘

I've been playing around with FriendFeed and this http://www.tabbloid.com/, to get nice productions as PDFs. The source of 'content' will depend on the open licence of creative commons BY-SA, and artists are getting to understand that. Stephen Fry on Twitter for example. - zeroinfluencer

Consumption/use habits are based upon what the technology of the time allows/affords. DRM tried to play havoc with the watching experience. - zeroinfluencer

Good concept but, unless you can freely mix-and-match, and you'll never be able to provide just that to general public, a niche product. Even if well executed one, as this seems to me. That said, I dislike PDFs just for the reason that they make potentially dynamic information static, and kowtow to absolute page extent aesthetics even on a screen. - ianf ⌘

kowtow = good word ;-) - zeroinfluencer

Here's an example of what I'm thinking about, or as from the comments "The internet made better by the paper, and now the paper made better by the internet." http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design... - zeroinfluencer

I've read about these "Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008" which is a niche product with an enormous production cost-to-distribution ratio. Author never says what they charged for the 1000 numbered copies, but I bet it was a bundle, £39.95? Only when there are fully automated tools to do that (perhaps a suitable application for Wolfram/Alpha?) could this become of use for the public @large... - ianf ⌘

They never charged for the paper - it was an experiment / proof of concept - I've got a copy - it's lovely. Yes, nice inclusion for Alpha. - zeroinfluencer

Nice (badly hidden envy), but it makes it even more of a vanity project. Tried to look it up on ebay (0 items found), and google for a copy for sale, without much success <http://google.com/search...> - ianf ⌘

I live VERY CLOSE to this store. If I try it out, I'll take pictures and post! - Zach Landes

Here's a movie of the EBM 2.0 in action <http://www.youtube.com/watch...>. Perhaps, for a change, you should just walk in, cup in hand, and ask for an "Espresso"? (refill optional). Then curse them loudly for misinforming the public (and photograph that instead!) - ianf ⌘

I am actually seriously considering doing that. Good idea, ian - Zach Landes

What would make this a real bonus is when they can come out with the color edition. Ok, so I am thinking comic books here, but what an awesome way for a small comic artist to do on demand comics. - Dan owns Comicsforge.com

Dan, all dandy, except it won't be happening, not in this iteration of EBM. It's strictly publisher-controlled selective-backlist only, no option to come in from the street with print-ready manuscript in hand and do a small print run. Or, should that eventually be on offer, it will be prohibitively expensive. - ianf ⌘

Hold on, I need to amend the above. In the video at around 50 secs mark, it is claimed that the client CAN upload own file, either electronically or from a CD. That information hasn't been mentioned in any press report about it that I've read - so the EBM can be made to accept non-list matter, but perhaps it is up to the actual machine's owner (in this case either Blackwell's or some... more... - ianf ⌘

Meanwhile, there's a better quality (same as above promotional) video here <http://www.boston.com/video...> and a Boston Globe report of a local Espresso installation says this: »[the bookstore] wanted the new machine to connect the store’s customers to millions of book titles. That part of the business has developed slowly,... more... - ianf ⌘

[^*] an euphemism for "the publishers are demanding extraordinary sums for us making it possible for them to make money off their back catalogs. In effect they want us, the franchiser of the EBM, to commit to sell a minimum # copies/year of each title @ current in-print prices (or some such)." - ianf ⌘

ianf ⌘ - http://blog.newspaperclub.co.uk/ (as mentioned above, it's now in development) - zeroinfluencer

David, thanks for keeping me posted. It's not a light read though, so, before I embark on it later in the week (alas), could you please express it in High-Concept terms, e.g. what [physical size/ quality] "newspapers" you have in mind; and what this your "service to help people make their own newspapers" will be servicing: a single-point electronic drop-off box perhaps for client material - out comes a pack of 20-or-so 16-page tabloid papers prewrapped for dropping off a van at a stand? - ianf ⌘

Hey Ian, It's not my project, I just know the guys behind it. (Sorry for the confusion - I mentioned it above as an example of what I was talking about - the process is dissimilar from Purefold). No idea how it's going to roll out - but it's a fine experiment to follow via their blog. - zeroinfluencer

[December 2] Following up on a post from 27th of April—the Expresso Book Machine [aka #EBM] is prominently featured in this week's BBC World Click programme, a video of which is available for international online viewing, all 11m40s of it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... “[Click: 27 November] How printing on demand services and the internet have enabled anyone to publish their books. Plus, a look at the latest eBook readers.” - ianf ⌘

Thanks! Weirdly, I was thinking about this thread last night. How are you Ian? - zeroinfluencer

David, thinking is overrated. I hear doing's all the rage nowadays. Also see: http://friendfeed.com/the-fut... - ianf ⌘

I had a night off. - zeroinfluencer

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November 25, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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ROFL WHY? - Anika

And the mice and cockroaches danced around the tree, giving praise. - Spidra Webster

Spidra - that would be an awesome Pixar short. :) - Roberto Bonini

lo, I can't imagine baby Jesus as a mouse. :/ - Ac0n (former Franc)

+++Spidra ROFLMAO - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

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November 26, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » yellena james + schoolhouse electric - http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009...

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çok güzelmiş bu. kırmızı duvarın üzerine de pek yakışırdı - o:zge gurer

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November 15, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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"Animals are "in." This might well be called the decade of the animal. Research on animal behavior has never been more vibrant and more revealing of the amazing cognitive, emotional, and moral capacities of a broad range of animals. That is particularly true of research into social behavior—how groups of animals form, how and why individuals live harmoniously together, and the underlying emotional bases for social living. It's becoming clear that animals have both emotional and moral intelligences. Philosophical and scientific convention, of course, has pulled toward a more conservative account of morality: Morality is a capacity unique to human beings. But the more we study the behavior of animals, the more we find that different groups of animals have their own moral codes. That raises both scientific and philosophic questions." - Wildcat from Bookmarklet

Unique to humans. Let hope there are no intelligent aliens then. - Alexander Kruel

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Explaining Déjà Vu - TIME - http://www.time.com/time...

October 19, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"It's an eerie experience that just about everyone has had more than once: you walk into a room or find yourself in a conversation, and suddenly you have the overwhelming sense--even though you know it's impossible--that you've been here before. Psychologists call it déjà vu--"already seen," in French--but despite the phenomenon's universal familiarity, no one has offered a convincing explanation for why it happens. But the mystery may have been solved, by a team of neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Researcher Thomas McHugh and several colleagues have uncovered a specific memory circuit in the brains of mice that is probably the cause of this weird sensation, which turns out to be a sort of memory-based analogue of an optical illusion. Although neuroscientists have realized for some time that memory is made up of many different components--long and short term, episodic (that is to say, memories of events) and fact based, and that it takes place in... more... - vijay from Bookmarklet

Philosophy Now: Wildcat

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October 17, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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*drools* - vicster

I was looking for something simple and easy to handle like the Olympus Trip 35 for Ilia... came across this. It has a 40mm/1.7 lens. They go dirt cheap on ebay just like the Trip. The Trip however has... get this... a solar powered meter. Which means it works without ANY battery and could very well be the single best thing to pack with you for the Zombie Apocalypse. o.O - Adrian

Meters are for losers. Gimme my Holga or Rollei 35 any day. ;) - Don't feed the Steve

Yeah, fixed-lens rangefinder. She gets the idea of the focus ring with the SLR, but that has real time focus feedback from the lens itself... you have a good point. - Adrian

Rangefinder focusing is more abstract. I suppose I could sell it conceptually as a game to her. No? - Adrian

Steve... this would be a for a 6 year old. So yeah a meter with auto-exposure (aperture priority here) would be a necessity. She is not a Jedi yet. - Adrian

Yeah, just being silly over here, and I have used solar powered meters before and they are nifty. Serious question: why do you want to get your 6 year old a film camera? Or is it her idea? - Don't feed the Steve

She keeps wanting to use my SLR and I don't want her breaking it, as it's mint. I would buy a cheap beater on ebay probably. Also, she takes good photos and the digi P&S doesn't teach her anything. - Adrian

My OM-1 is what I'm trying to keep her off of as it's my only film camera. It's survived 35 years without a scratch, and my kids have a way of... scratching stuff. Ok here we go... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws... That price will probably rise, but it's scratched up already, so maybe not much higher? - Adrian

Hehe, I thought about that, but the problem is, the OM-1 does not have an auto-exposure mode, so it's probably asking a little too much of her. The Canon has auto-exposure (and manual when she's ready) but she has to deal with rangefinder focusing. Hmm... also Pentax Super ME SLR may fit the bill. It's even smaller than an OM-1 and has aperture priority. - Adrian

That Canonet, I linked earlier on Ebay, sold for $50.99. Too much if you ask me. I'm out of that game, but I'll follow a couple more. The Oly Trip 35's seem to go for less in the 20-40 range. Whoah... those Trips take really nice photos: http://www.flickr.com/search... - Adrian

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Next time I shoot panoramas I'm just gonna place them together like this. No more seamless nightmare! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

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Junk sculptures: Leo Sewell makes art out of scraps he collects from rubbish dumps http://bit.ly/4i6j2 #uk #art - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...

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"Leo Sewell's amazing Dog sculpture made entirely of scrap This gallery is a load of old rubbish. Junk artist Leo Sewell creates his artwork from scraps he collects from rubbish dumps round his native Philadelphia * Receive updates every time we produce a new picture gallery. Follow TelegraphPics on Twitter Picture: BARCROFT page: 2 Leo Sewell's amazing Dog sculpture made entirely of scrap Using discarded plastic, metal and wood, Leo selects his raw materials for their colour, shape and durability, and moulds them together with nuts, bolts and screws Picture: BARCROFT page: 3 Leo Sewell's amazing Dog sculpture made entirely of scrap He scours the city for any discarded junk he can use Picture: BARCROFT page: 4 Leo Sewell's amazing Dog sculpture made entirely of scrap The raw materials he chooses sometimes relate to the subject. For example, his artwork 'The Boxer' is joined together by several dog chews Picture: BARCROFT page: 5 Leo Sewell's amazing Bear sculpture made entirely of... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

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October 1, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Too cute! :) - Penny

those are adorable! - Tamara

I agree, Penny + Tamara! ---------> x_x - Live4Emma (L4S)

I want the fourth one and the ninth one for my 2 girls :) So sweet <3 - Penny

I just bought some of her prints :D Thanks for that L4E!! :D - Penny

Serious??? WAY COOL, Penny!!! :-D - Live4Emma (L4S)

The prints I ordered from this brilliant artist arrived today. They are just stunning! Thank you L4E for posting this, I will have to get some more I think :D - Penny

Oh really??? that's fabulous! How many did you order? those first 3 really look as if they would be quite stunning in a print! glad I could bring this artist to your attention and give her some business in the process! :-D - Live4Emma (L4S)

I got 3, including the 4th one you have posted here. I'm also looking at another artist you posted ... also on Etsy ... Sascalia http://www.etsy.com/shop... Her work will be fantastic for my eldest girl :D Thank you and I bet the artists will thank you too!! :D - Penny

WOW! that's so cool! and definitely thank the artists over me! they create the great work and deserve all the business they can get! :-D - Live4Emma (L4S)

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September 22, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Oh wow, this is awesome. Thanks! - Airam F.

WOW, amazing - Walter Alvarez

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"Reflecting on Basquiat" http://www.theblogofinnocence.com/2009...

October 3, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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"For my Creative Processes class I designed and made this paper dress purely out of phonebook paper! I pleated, stuck, sewed, and glued everything by hand.” - Anna Haro from Bookmarklet