Lapham’s Quarterly recognizes and promotes Cicero’s notion that to know our history is to know ourselves; that, indeed, we have nothing else with which to build the future except the lumber of the past.
Month: August 2010
How big really?
Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.
a simple idea, beautifully executed: the moon is about as big as australia.
Greatest of All Time
the greatest athlete of all time earned 15B. he was a charioteer in 146.
Russia in color in 1909
the invention of color was 100 years ago???
Earth and Moon from 1 AU
China 2nd largest economy
China and India were the biggest economies in the world for almost all of the past 2000 years.
Living out of a hard drive
that article is totally linkbait for me: replacing physical stuff with digital things, and singularity talk. me like!
Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some to get rid of nearly all of their physical possessions – from photographs to furniture to homes altogether.
Oracle v Google
best analysis yet
If you’re an Android developer…don’t lose sleep over this. Even if things go the way of the “Nuclear Option”, you’ve still got a lot of time to build and sell apps and improve yourself as a developer. For a bit of novelty, start considering what a migration path might look like and turn that into a nice Android-agnostic application layer, something that’s largely lacking in the current Android APIs. Or explore Android development in languages like JRuby, which are based on off-platform ecosystems that will survive regardless of Android’s fate. Whatever you do, don’t panic and run for the hills, and don’t tell your friends to panic.
Mont Ventoux
Average : 7.1 % Length: 22.7 km Height start: 290 m Height top: 1912 m Gradient: 1622 m Maximum: 11 %
TODO
Population by Lat/Lon
very neat. not unexpected, but still very cool.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 