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Farmville

Was reading this and got thinking:

http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2009/11/farmville.php

Key Quotes

"FarmVille players outnumber actual farmers in the United States by more than 60 to 1"

"FarmVille Freak, a blog, has a simpler slogan: “I can’t stop watching my crops!”"

Now if only there was a way to create an addicting game where people could help farmers look after their REAL crops...as part of a a game.

Crowdsourcing can learn a thing or two from game design.

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COOLPIX Projection

This is just cool. Nikon and DDB Japan deserve mad cred for this one.

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How Safe is the HPV vaccine? | Information Is Beautiful

I've been thinking about the HPV Vaccine a lot lately, if I should take it or not. Been reading both sides of the story, how the vaccine hasn't had enough time for development and those that take this first patch are essentially going to be the trial users. On the other hand, the H1N1 flu is quite easy to transmit so any help in protecting against it would be welcome.

I have never willingly got a flu shot in my life before, and am still deciding if I should start now, but this infographic gives me pretty good perspective.

 

 

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The Long Tail - Wired Blogs

The audio book "Free" is now free on iTunes, US link is here
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAudiobook?id=322470568&s=143441

For those outside the US, download the MP3 at wired.com
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer

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Scenes from Antarctica - The Big Picture

This is one of the most remarkable pictures I have ever seen. The Big Picture never disappoints - see the rest here:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/scenes_from_antarctica.html

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100 Years of Design Manifestos

 

This is EPIC.

Core77 just blogged about a list of Design Manifestos dating back 100 Years posted by John Emerson of Backspace, a design consultancy focused on public interest.  Also check out his blog called Social Design Notes.

I noticed my favorite manifesto missing from here, so I want to post this one personally

Manifesto of Futurist Architecture by Antionio Sant'Elia

The rest of the list is here:

1909   Futurist Manifesto

1922   Taller de Grafica Popular Manifesto of the Painters’ Union

1923   Topology of Typography, El Lissitzky

1923   The New Typography, László Moholy-Nagy - a call for design against the bourgeois, in support of the proletariat.

1959   The journal "New Graphic Design," though not explicitly a manifesto, called for a radical rethinking of design along more scientific lines.

1964   First Things First

1971   La coscienza del designer, by Albe Steiner

1978   Atlante Secondo Lenin - not so much a design manifesto, as a designed manifesto. The innovative infographics visualize theories for gaining power.

1979   Ahmedabad Declaration on Industrial Design for Development

1983   The Free Software announcement, later clarified in 1985’s GNU Manifesto

1987   Design memorandum. Dall’etica del progetto al progetto dell’etica.

1989   Carta del progetto grafico

1991   The Social Role of Design, Pierre Bernard

1996   Viewer's Declaration of Independence

1998   Ne Pas Plier statement

1998   People's Communication Charter

2000   First Things First update - not just about advertising this time, but setting new values.

2000   Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth (though I thought Dean Allen did a tidy job ofdemolishing this.)

2001   AIAP, diseno etica e comunicazione

2001   Socialist Designer's Manifesto - a series of ideologically driven limitations along the lines of Dogme 95.

2002   First Declaration of the St. Moritz Design Summit

2004   The Free Culture Manifesto

2006   The Public Role of the Graphic Designer

2006   Owner’s Manifesto, The Maker’s Bill of Rights

2008   Metahaven, White Night Before A Manifesto

2009   The Repair Manifesto from Platform21

 

Original Link : http://backspace.com/notes/2009/07/design-manifestos.php


 

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Update - Eclipse of the Century

**UPDATE** Images are trickling in now.  Here's a compliation of Flickr ones
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/eclipsepics/


Hope you were able to watch the Eclipse that happened a couple hours ago online at least. If not, as (@waynelo) states, there will be some awesome HD videos coming out online for sure in the coming days and weeks.

Until then, The New York Times has a good collection of Eclipse related information and photographs online already.

Check it here it out here - http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/eclipse/?ref=global-home

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Behind the scenes with Dave Hill (Photography)

Check out the recently updated portfolio of Dave Hill. (http://www.davehillphoto.com/) You've probably already seen his work as he's well known for his creative, colorful, and surreal photographs.

The reason I wanted to post this was because I recently stumbled upon a video (Thanks abduzeedo.com) of some behind the scenes work showing the his picture taking process and it's pretty interesting, especially to aspiring photographers.

Take a look here

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Fast Food Mafia

This is a sick sketch.

Piece is called Fast Food Mafia by ~silentsketcher on DeviantART

Original artist link is here,
http://silentsketcher.deviantart.com/art/Fast-Food-Mafia-130006145

Be sure to leave HIM some comments :)

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Eclipse of the Century Live Online Tonight (UPDATE: IT HAS BEGUN!)

**UPDATE 2** It's Over

**UPDATE** ITS ON RIGHT NOW - http://sems1.cs.und.edu/~sems/index_Video.php

The VLC Link is http://semsb.cs.und.edu:80

via Wired Science

"The century’s most dramatic solar eclipse will be visible along a narrow swath of Asia and the Pacific Ocean later today. And, thanks to some University of North Dakota researchers, it’ll be visible on the internet, too. The live webcast begins at 5:15 p.m. Pacific time.

The eclipse will last six minutes and 39 seconds, which is near the theoretical maximum duration for a solar eclipse of seven minutes and 31 seconds. For everyone except Ray Kurzweil and the other singulatarians, this will be the longest eclipse of our lifetimes. The Earth won’t see an eclipse this long until June 13, 2132."

Read the rest here
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/eclipse/

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