A long piece about the rise and fall of the arcade, by the Verge, which has quickly evolved into the finest technology news site that is complemented with occasional pieces of slow journalism.
Jan 172013
Jan 022013
Sep 242012
Helsingin sanomat has a nice article on changing face of the city.
Ancient postcards are complemented with an exact replica of the scene in 2012, and the border between the two can be dynamically slid to reveal how the features of the area have evolved.
This image is towards Katajanokka, showing one of the ugliest buildings known to man: Alvar Aalto’s Enso-Gutzeit HQ, a piece of white marble absolutely no-one needed.
Aug 032012
30 years of music industry change in a neatly animated infographic.
Jun 052012
Yes, The Verge is the New Black, as linked to many a time here.
This lengthy article on the death of Palm and WebOS further strengthens their position as the alpha dog of reporting technology news.
Jun 042012
Feb 022012
The Restart Page collects boot sequences of various operating systems.
Some of which are seriously nostalgia-inducing, others complete mysteries.
Jan 022012
Even if the Alan Rickman reference is a bit old, the presence of a “D. Rumsfeld” ought to have had warning bells ringing.
Aug 262011
May 022011
Groklaw, the geekiest lawsite on earth quits in mid-May.
May 012011
A couple of examples on the news throughout the history from a very slanted perspective.
Mar 242011
Historically hardcore, Smithsonian disagrees.
Feb 172011
A History of the World in 100 Objects is BBC’s 100 episode long podcast series. Available for free, with an impressive selection of objects with which the art and skill of man through thousands of years is told. At some fifteen minutes a pop, this is just the optimal length of the morning commute.
Jan 152011
Wikipedia turns 10 today. Sure, it’s occasionally mired in misinformation and controversy and has been publicly punked multiple times, but wikipedia’s nonetheless a good starting point for most kinds of deeper search.
(Recent topics checked: “witch house” as a musical genre, the names of guest stars on “NCIS: Los Angeles”, the chronology of eighties Macintosh computer releases. And many others.)
Jan 032011
A single post to cover most of the bases (and the first link will cover them all given enough time to browse):
- Fimoculous’ list of lists.
- Lake Superior University’s banned words.
- Guardian’s 20 things we learned.
- Bad Astronomy’s top
1014 pictures.
Dec 262010
Nov 022010
Disunion, blogging the united states civil war as it happened – with a 150 year lag.
Oct 132010
Seventies municipal traffic in Helsinki.
Pure nostalgia.
Sep 132010
On occasion the world seems to be a sane place.
Then something like this conference on geocentric world view rolls along and spoils it all.
Sep 132010
Sep 042010
Thomas Edison tried to hijack the movie industry at its inception. And failed. Awesome history lesson from Ars Technica.
Aug 292010
According to Eric Schmidt “mankind generates as much data in two days as we did from the dawn of history until 2003″.
The relevant big number is five exabytes. And user-generated content is to blame.
Earlier in the game: people will soon be changing their names to escape an embarrassing digital past.
Aug 292010
Tavastia-klubi, the rock’n'roll mecca of Helsinki, turns 40 years.
To celebrate the long history, the club is opening its archives.
Not in the form of recordings, unfortunately, but in showing who played when. The first ten years, the entire seventies, are now browsable.
Aug 222010
Artists’ concepts of space colony studies conducted by NASA in the seventies.
Sense of wonder and belief in technology abound.
Aug 142010
