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Flickr – The Endpool

psymon1962: 163 Beach Huts, a photoset on Flickr.

The Ad Generator: “The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. ” (via)

Because Vandals Like Tetris, Too, originally uploaded by dailysnap.

• Everyone Forever / Photography / Flights
  “A great composite picture of flights leaving an airport.”
  (tags: photography flickr airport planes)

• Geotagging Amsterdam on Flickr, hybrid view on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  Worthless for any location outside the US.
  (tags: flickr geotagging yahoo maps amsterdam)
• Times Withholds Web Article in Britain – New York Times
  ““On advice of legal counsel, this article is unavailable to readers of nytimes.com in Britain””
  (tags: nyt uk legal web)

• Wired News: Flickr Cracks Down on Screenshots
  “Online worlds collide as Second Life fans and Flickr spar over how to handle screenshots on the popular photo-sharing site.”
  (tags: flickr screenshot)
• Football World Cup special contact lenses » Coolest Gadgets
  “These cool-looking contact lenses were manufactured by a German optician, Stephanie Berndt, to celebrate the forthcoming football World Cup.”
  (tags: football gadget contactlenses)
• Het Parool – Verzet tegen Fastfoodstrip
  “Iens Independent Index, uitgever van restaurantgidsen, is een protestactie begonnen tegen de aanleg van een ‘fastfoodstrip’ nabij een kantorenpark in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. Dat liet de uitgeverij woensdag weten. “
  (tags: amsterdam nl fastfood iens food)

• Harajuku Building – a photoset on Flickr
  “(…) here are a few shots of that new building in Harajuku that I’ve been so curious about.”
  (tags: photography)
• hackdiary: Alas, Second Life! Web 2.0 in a virtual world
  “My home in SL now sports a simple picture frame. Touch it and it looks up your avatar name to see what your favourite Flickr tag is, picks a random picture with that tag from Flickr and displays it on its surface.”
  (tags: secondlife flickr)
• Wired News: The Game Within the Game
  “Why not create a video game that’s playable inside Second Life?”
  (tags: secondlife game Tringo)
• SlimStat — A simple web stats analyser based on ShortStat – Wettone.com
  (tags: php statistics traffic)

• Hot markets cool off fast in Iceland – Business – International Herald Tribune
  “This tiny windswept island nation of 300,000 people has undergone one of the fastest, fizziest economic transformations in the world in recent years – one that is on par with the expansion enjoyed by many of the world’s fastest-growing emerging markets.”
  (tags: iceland economics)
• quicksilver:plug-ins:flickr_upload [docs]
  “The plug-in provides support for uploading images or directories of images to flickr.”
  (tags: flickr quicksilver)

• Schinkeleilanden – a photoset on Flickr
  De Schinkeleilanden met de Museumtramlijn
  (tags: amsterdam urban)

• Ironic Sans: Idea: Advertisements on the overhead bins
  “I admit that it’s ugly as sin. Every bit of empty space in our lives is slowly being taken over by ads, so why would I want even more? “
  (tags: advertising travel planes)
• It’s a great time to start a business – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
  “I say it’s never been a better time to start a business.”
  (tags: startup web business)
• The New Wisdom of the Web – Next Frontiers – MSNBC.com
  “Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time, it’s all about … you.”
  (tags: flickr web business)
• Isn’t it semantic? : Articles : Internet : BCS
  Interview with Tim Berners-Lee.
  (tags: web history Berners-Lee)
• Kinkless GTD .83: Enhances Quicksilver and iCal integration, much more
  “The wait is over, kids. Ethan Schoonover has just released his .83 version of Kinkless GTD, and, brother, does it ever bring it.”
  (tags: osx kinkless gtd)

• niemsz’ portaal
  “De hond zit al te lang in zijn hok. “
  (tags: hond dogs)
• FlickrBlog – Eyes of the World
  “a plainly understandable articulation of Flickr’s vision”
  (tags: flickr photography)
• Column Jaap van Till: Internet is de Wilde Allesverbindende Zee
  “Laten we een tele-VOC starten die talent gaat koppelen en bundelen hier en vanuit de wijde wereld. Hiermee bieden we toptalenten meer kans dan jarenlang bestuurlijk touwtrekken over Europese top instituten zoals MIT.”
  (tags: nl education internet)
• 15 Best Skylines in the World
  “The downtown core of big cities across the Americas, Europe and Asia are the cultural pulse and economic engines of urban regions where millions of people live. “
  (tags: cities urban skyline architecture)

• ABN AMRO Press Room: Economen ABN AMRO: wereldeconomie gebaat bij Italië als wereldkampioen voetbal
  “Hoewel de directe effecten op de economie – denk aan extra consumptie in de horeca – klein zijn, kunnen goede prestaties op het veld indirect wel degelijk een economie stimuleren.”
  (tags: economics football worldcup)
• Het Parool – Gestolen fiets onvindbaar
  “Van alle Amsterdamse fietsen die worden gestolen, wordt na intensieve controles 0,68 procent teruggevonden. Preventie tegen diefstal helpt echter wel.”
  (tags: amsterdam bikes theft)
• BBC NEWS | Entertainment | South Park gets revenge on Chef
  “In the new show, Chef is brainwashed by the “Super Adventure Club” – thought to be a veiled reference to Scientology.”
  (tags: southpark scientology isaachayes)
• sunkencity.org
  “Flickr Backup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore.”
  (tags: flickr backup)
• Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study : News Releases: UMNnews: U of M.
  “American’s increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesn’t extend to those who don’t believe in a god, according to a national survey by researchers in the University of Minnesota’s department of sociology.”
  (tags: US atheism religion)
• Hypersonic jet ready for launch
  “A new jet engine design able to fly seven times the speed of sound is to be test fired over Australia on Friday.”
  (tags: aviation space engineering)
• Jonathon Keats – 100-year-long exposure photo
  “So this will be around for a few years. What happens if YOU die?”
  (tags: photography art exposure)
• Dancing rubbish
  “Sir, you dropped something! is one of the entries of Positive Alarm, an open call to designers to send statements, products and projects that turn something negative into a positive message or solution.”
  (tags: art garbage)
• Save a Snowflake for Decades – Popular Science
  “It is a recent shot of a snowflake that’s been sitting in chemist Tryggvi Emilsson’s desk for 27 years, locked in a drop of that miracle of modern chemistry we call superglue. “
  (tags: snow superglue)
• New Statesman – Maximum cities
  “London, Paris and New York are dying – the 21st century belongs to the fertile chaos of the third-world metropolis. Rana Dasgupta heralds the arrival of an alternative vision of modernity”
  (tags: cities urban)
• Essays: ‘If torture works…’ by Michael Ignatieff | Prospect Magazine April 2006 issue 121
  “It is difficult to think about torture honestly.”
  (tags: torture ethics)
• Feature: The Gamer’s Rough Guide to Pwning Second Life – Kotaku
  Howto: second life
  (tags: secondlife howto)

• The Last Minute Blog » Right Click Upload to Flickr
  “The Last Minute Blog has posted a tutorial for using an Automator action to upload images from your desktop to Flickr via the right click context menu.”
  (tags: flickr mac osx automator)
• Mac Geekery – Remote Destruction of Data
  “Can you set up a Mac so that if it is stolen, you can easily erase the contents of its hard drive from a remote location if the stolen Mac is connected to the internet?”
  (tags: apple osx security)
• Stir-Fried Wild Mushrooms with Snap Peas in Oyster Sauce
  (tags: food recipes)
• Free Learning | MetaFilter
  “If you’re looking for a one-stop-shop for free learning links, this thread is a good place to start. They’ve listed journals, papers, textbooks, podcasts, videos and more on a wide variety of topics. And, via the comments, the list keeps growing.”
  (tags: web learning)

Evolutie wordt vaak verward met vooruitgang. (Originally uploaded by anachronism unltd.)