The Hiroshima Bombing, Visualized
Even viewed as abstractions the data have a forceful impact. By Kelsey D. Atherton from popularscience.com: Hiroshima Mushroom: Mathew Lucas In the whole of human history thus far, nuclear weapons have been used in anger exactly twice. Sixty-eight years ago today an American B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped Little Boy, the first atomic bomb […]
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (original report)
[Ed. Note: After this post, Mr. Kriesel had a follow-up call with Rick Dastin, Corporate Vice President Office and Solutions, and Francis Tse, Imaging System Architect at Xerox Corporation. His post about it is here. My previous post, Confused photocopiers randomly rewriting scanned documents, concerns an article by Peter Bright from arstechnica.com about Mr. Kriesel’s […]
Confused photocopiers randomly rewriting scanned documents (short version)
Scans can’t be trusted as Xerox machines switch numbers around. By Peter Bright from arstechnica.com: Photocopiers exist to produce close enough replicas of original documents. Traditionally, they just spit out the result onto paper. Most copiers these days can operate as (generally rather large) scanners, generating PDFs, TIFFs, or other electronic representations. But some Xerox […]
93 Photos of Brilliant Packaging Design
Jam Matchsticks Condoms Condoms Muffin or something obeestus from Reddit: (afro dude) is ‘black melon pan’, tastes nothing like melon though. Butter Cutlery Gum Earphones Teabags Meat freshness sticker Cigarettes Honey Hand lotion CD Detergent Detergent Pills Yarn Coconut Water Bread Energy drink Many many more!
Exhibition showcases artist’s highly intricate, hand-drawn maps
Incredible maps take on subterranean London, Thomas More’s 1516 book Utopia. By Olivia Solon from wired.co.uk: Artist Stephen Walter has a solo exhibition [in London] showcasing his intricate hand-drawn maps, including two of London and one that revisits Thomas More’s fictional island state of Utopia. In addition to cartography, Walker has created a series of […]
A Second Life in a Second Language: A Change of Language for a Writer Is a Dangerous Thing
![Illustration: "Later that day, just when everything had [undecipherable text] into a giant ball of flames."](https://www.nicolaginzler.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/second-language-writers.jpg)
By Costica Bradatan from newyorktimes.com: In her exploration of the Catholic religion, “Letter to a Priest,” written the year before her death in 1943, Simone Weil noticed at some point that “for any man a change of religion is as dangerous a thing as a change of language is for a writer. It may turn […]