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Month: November, 2009

decline of western Europe

A visualization of the decline of western European empires. Things get interesting around the 1960s. Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.

college hunting

what were you thinking wearing white? didn’t you know that you might look like a deer’s throat? nevermind that you walk upright and study chemistry. That afternoon, Jason D. Cloutier, 31, a son of country folk with deep roots in the area, set off into the same woods. He donned blaze orange to comply with [...]

more PowerBook display problems

Last August (meaning 2008),  my PowerBook’s screen started to flicker. It usually did this when the laptop was booting up or when waking up from sleep mode. I associated the flicker with the sudden change in temperature: asleep, the all aluminum body is quite cool to the touch, and it heats up rather quickly once [...]

No digital billboards in Durham

Not everyplace needs to look like Times Square. Let New York be New York and Durham be Durham. This is it. The billboard industry has submitted their proposal requesting to change Durham’s current billboard ordinance. Most significantly, the proposal would allow up to 25% of existing billboard space to be converted to those annoying, distracting [...]