Electrons composing signals representing bits abstracted into data presented as visual and aural stimuli intended to convey meaning
How to split up the U.S. according to Facebook profiles
Pete Warden analyzed 210 million Facebook profiles and identified 7 distinct geographic clusters.
Some of these clusters are intuitive, like the old south, but there’s some surprises too, like Missouri, Louisiana and Arkansas having closer ties to Texas than Georgia.
International Year of Astronomy posters
Riffing off another of Jason Kottke’s linkages, these minimalist posters are at once timeless and retro looking.
Initially designed as self-promotional pieces, the posters eventually caught the eye of the IYA 09 organisation which approached him a few months ago to see if they could use them in their own promotional work.
Nobody fucks with the Captain No
This is another MoMA-related bragging post, which I hope doesn’t turn into a regular feature here. Out of the dozens of questions we fielded that night I contributed (correct!) answers to exactly two, neither of which had to do with art history. Best team name goes to Glenn Lowry’s Apt (no official affiliation).