Digital clock: only figures, no case, only the necessary – only accurate time. Each figure has self-contained power supply and independent control, it can be fixed to any surface autonomously. A light sensor will switch the clock to an invert mode: the figures are white in the dark time of day and black at daytime.
- Melin Ozturk
from Bookmarklet
"Reproducing Wikipedia in a dysfunctional physical form helps to question it's use as an internet resource. Articles in the book: Wikipedia's featured articles."
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
It's only the feature articles - the ones that have been properly vetted, redacted, agreed on and quality controlled (no half finished sentences and "more details needed" stuff) - from the source: "At present, there are 2,529 featured articles, of a total of 2,903,080 articles on the English Wikipedia." The full wikipedia would be 1000 times this, but most of it would be 25 line standard templates with "this article is a stump"
- Iphigenie
Featured articles are disappointing: that there are so few of them, and that so many of them are on arcane narrow topics (one painting, one book etc.)
- Iphigenie
Alix- I was thinking the same thing. My childhood set of pedias in the 80s (that were from the 60s and 70s) stacked a lot higher than that. I'm more surprised that there are only 5,000 8.5 x 11 inch double sided pages of Wikipedia information. Seems low.
- Tony
Joelle- Now that seems more along the lines of what I was thinking.
- Tony
disappointed to see so many incomplete articles on wiki..:-(
- Özhan Yiğitler
But you can edit featured articles. Which makes the book out-of-date already :).
- Nikhil Dandekar
art indeed and good metaphor to save trees... go digital
- Yann Ropars
@Cee Bee: Yes, but if the quoted description is part of it, I don't see how it "helps to question [Wikipedia]'s use as an internet resource."
- S of 2C
Just after have printed this mega volume, this is already passed
- Roberto
from fftogo
wow that's huge... how outdated is it already now? hehe
- Marko Saric
Not huge at all, even if it is only featured articles. Alix noted it looks smaller than book set remembered a kid and I agree. Now, if they printed all the smaller, cross referenced articles each with a page, it would be huge.
- Michael W. May
wow, that's a fantastic visual on the size of wikipedia
- Susan Beebe
They could break it up into volumes like every other encyclopedia does.
- John Hardy
Hypertext is vital these days to make sense of all that.
- Mark Edmondson
this just strikes me a a pointless exercise (at best) - and the quote seems to suggest that printing it shows how it is less than valuable as a tool. Huh?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
"As campaigns to change people's eating habits go, it certainly captures the attention. For an enormous wall of ice containing items of fresh frozen food can be found on London's South Bank. As temperatures in the capital struggled to rise much above freezing today, it was the perfect time for the British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) to launch its initiative to encourage more use of frozen food. Both children and adults passing by were enthralled by the display, which had foodstuffs ranging from broccoli to fish, peaches to cherries, and carrots to potatoes. The wall of ice, which was placed outside the Royal Festival Hall, is to promote the launch of a new website from the federation. TheNewIceAge.com says it offers families advice on how to combat the economic downturn with the help of frozen food"
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
Never used it. Guess that says something.
- Derrick
Yep, but if Twitter doesn't learn how to monetize, they won't be around either in a few years - regardless of competition of there lack of.
- David Wilson
Simon, for my thoughts really best to read my thoughts in the post but frankly I'm sick of services that have had the time to at least get bugs fixed and highly requested features added...and never do and wonder why they're not doing well. Twitter is up there and *if* they continue the way there are - they'll get what they deserve.
- Zee.
Ok mainly a bugs thing then. I wrote a big rant here about Twitter, but then decided not to post it, as we dont wanna get off topic. ill save it for another time :)
- Simon Wicks
i'm sure there'll be plenty of appropriate occasions... :)
- Zee.
I don't think Pownce ever got the traction it needed.
- Paul W. Swansen
I subscribed to Pownce and never bought in. Why? With FriendFeed and Twitter. Plus, information overload, I focused my energy on FF and Twitter instead.
- ka3drr
Pownce was acquired for the talent. Personally, I never got Pownce, but I am sorry to see it go. People that were using it (and liked it) are left out in the cold all of a sudden.
- Ryan Twomey
I tried Pownce and didn't like the format. I'm very much into using SM platforms that work for me and it didn't so I bailed. More of us need to do that. We have to control it...not let it control us.
- Angela
I really enjoyed Pownce for a while. If they hadn't had all of their technical problems earlier this year I might not have made it here onto FF.
- iTad
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics • He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball • His name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili • His favourite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini • He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
He collects Spider-Man comics and is LEFT-HANDED?! I'm definitely going to vote for him now. He's basically me. Except black. And smart, and married, and uhm, soon to be president, so, not me. But still.
- Pete D
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