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19 Cool Watches that require a PhD to tell the time.

Not so sure about that, but some of them are awesome. Includes a Nooka, naturally.

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• Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
  
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
  
• British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? 
  
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
  
• Burial - Untrue
  
• Estelle - Shine
  
• Adele - 19
  
• Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
• Rachel Unthank and the Winterset - The Bairns
• Neon Neon - Stainless Style
• Portico Quartet - Knee-deep in the North Sea
• The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
  

The rabbit comes out of its hole and, while it’s circling the stump, a 4-foot swell crashes into the bow. The rabbit pulls itself up and leaves the hole again, but now it’s rattled. Hours practicing on that piece of wood with two ropes last night while Dad was in the bar hitting on that tollbooth operator and still the rabbit freezes up when the pressure’s on. It’s like Little League all over again. The yelling doesn’t help, either. The rabbit sees the rocks, and, I assure you, the rabbit’s trying to take its head out of its ass. You know what? I’ll just hold it. Yeah. In my hands. For the rest of the trip. Whatever. The rabbit’s plenty mature. You’re just pissed you’ll have to mix your own drinks.

Barack Obama recently named Omar Little as his favourite character in his favourite show. “That’s not an endorsement,” the presidential hopeful added carefully. “He’s not my favourite person but he’s a fascinating character.” Barack was right. Of all the brilliantly drawn, authentically complex and relentlessly captivating characters in this show’s sprawling cast, he is surely the most engaging.

Irony is a difficult beast to control. Your intention as a cartoonist may be perfectly clear to you, but how some psycho in Toadsuck, Nebraska, is going to read your cartoon is anyone’s guess, and the psycho’s privilege, and you can never second guess a psycho, as was demonstrated in the Coen brothers’ film No Country for Old Men. Psychos tend to take things very literally and often carry around captive bolts powered by large canisters of compressed air, especially in the US

If you ever meet two folks who collaborate well, who can finish each other’s thoughts, chances are they share a pattern language. When one says “lightbox it”, the other knows exactly what he means. At some point, the two agreed on what a “lightbox” was and what applying that to something meant. It might have been a project in their past, or a conversation they had over drinks. Either way, some bit of history created a shared pattern between those individuals. An inside joke you’re not privy to.

Jack Shedd on the idea of a Pattern Language that we each have, and the importance of making sure that what you think something means is the same as what someone else thinks it means.

Interesting look at the process that went into the icons for the NYTimes iPhone app from the designer. I’m not sure a flower does work that well for Obituaries, but can understand why a gravestone or a coffin wouldn’t be wanted…

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No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

The video for Radiohead’s House of Cards, produced in conjunction with Google, is all kinds of awesome.

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1. Girl Talk 
2. Bloc Party 
3. Santogold 
4. Radiohead 
5. The Rapture 

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