while reading enlisting madison avenue: the marketing approach to earning popular support in theaters of operation (a handbook for ‘shaping’ the opinion of ‘indigenous’ populations in US-occupied countries) via chris c, i came across many failures and few successes. one of the biggest problems in US propaganda efforts is that many ‘shaping’ attempts find their […]
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war weave
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apartment hunting
hbo’s voyeur is an on-line interactive that lets you spy on an apartment building, unit by unit, as strange things seem to happen involving the residents. it’s beautifully filmed, short and intriguing – probably because it seamlessly combines entertainment with the thrill of on-line research. as you try to piece together the events in a […]
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gratuitous kittens
ever since chris c showed me lolcats (now icanhascheezburger) i have been fascinated with the syntax and hilarity, especially during boring meetings. now true genius: lol:digg, a machup of flickr kitten pictures and digg article headlines. along with news arcade games i’m starting to think that information is going to have to piggyback on entertainment […]
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product anatomy
now that the craft of technical drawing has been replaced by computer-aided drafting, there’s something uniquely human about painstaking hand-drawn illustration, elevating it to an almost-art and imbuing the drawings with personality and worth they didn’t have before. these painstakingly rendered anatomical drawings of a furby are part of kelly heaton‘s work which culminated in […]
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rad viz
there are a lot of things we can’t see, and many of them we wouldn’t be able to understand even if we could ‘see’ them – especially when you need to see through something to understand densities, temperatures, radiation,or anything that varies along three (or more) dimensions. valery hronusov posted a series of add-ons to […]
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public sedations
these days truth seems to be at a disadvantage. of course, people who are concerned with reality are generally less convincing than spin doctors unafraid to lie openly for personal gain. but persuasion is always tricky: if you load down your audience with too many facts, they may get bored, and if you appeal to […]
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tracing roots
national geographic has created a somewhat interactive map tracing mitochondrial and y-chromosome lineages across human history and the globe. mapping time and space is difficult enough; additionally each genetic marker is traced, dated and explained in this elegant mashup. when this many things are contained in a relatively small and intuitive document, it seems like […]
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seeing size
screen-based interfaces are very poor at conveying size, weight, and spatial arrangements. one effort is to make interfaces that are tangible – using real-world objects and spaces. another is to endlessly refine the screen-based stuff so that it gives a better illusion of what it represents. sizeasy is part of a growing number of web […]
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