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January 30 2012
Phở tái noodle soup (by Blue moon in her eyes)
January 29 2012
Apologies.
Sometimes dance class doesn’t go so well…. A lot of teachers have students write apology letters when that’s the case. While I appreciate the gesture, I wonder about forced or obligatory apologies. Do they foster reflection and support ettiquette? Or do they encourage kids to be disingenuous? I guess like everything, it all depends on how the teacher frames it.
I usually receive a handful of these letters a year. Above are some samples.
Anonymous: We are legion.: Digital Sit-ins: DDOS is legitimate civil disobedience
Distributed denial of service (DDOS) is a favorite tactic of Anonymous. While the media likes to call DDOS a form of ‘hacking’, this is at best a technical misunderstanding. DDOS does no permanent damage and doesn’t involve breaking into servers or stealing data. Rather, it simply overwhelms a…
pho tai chin (by anonymistake)
January 28 2012
Plus-Size Model Editorial Says Runway Models ‘Meet the Physical Criteria for Anorexia’ – Fashionista: Fashion Industry News, Designers, Runway Shows, Style Advice
From Fashionista:
Models–their size, their age, even their gender–are provoking a lot of polarizing discussion lately. And plus-size model advocates (and their “real-woman” counterparts) are adding food for thought–or fuel to the fire, depending on your perspective. In its January issue, Plus Model Magazine just published an editorial lensed by Victoria Janashvili and featuring plus-size model Katya Zharkova. In it, Katya, who is totally naked, is surrounded by various facts and figures about size and models.
The spread also shows Katya embracing and laying on a much smaller model. We have some of the images below, but you can check out the spread here. The whole effect is pretty provocative, especially when taken in tandem with the following slogans, which are printed on the page with the images:
-Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23% less.
- Ten years ago plus-size models averaged between size 12 and 18. Today the need for size diversity within the plus-size modeling industry continues to be questioned. The majority of plus-size models on agency boards are between a size 6 and 14, while the customers continue to express their dissatisfaction.
- Most runway models meet the Body Mass Index physical criteria for Anorexia.
- 50% of women wear a size 14 or larger, but most standard clothing outlets cater to sizes 14 or smaller.
Commenters on Plus Model‘s blog ran the gamut–from pointing out that there’s an obesity epidemic to noting that anorexia is a mental health disorder, not just an issue of BMI. Many just wanted decent fashion options for all sizes. No matter what your take on it, the message is still that size matters.
Day 23 - Oh Pho! (by chrisjm)
January 27 2012
Beef Pho Noodle Soup (Pho bo) (by Tasty Yummies)
January 26 2012
Vietnamese Pho Soup in Austin (by foodphotog)
January 25 2012
Pho - vietnamese soup (by a.guzman)
January 24 2012
When I look at Eric Fisher’s twitter visualization, I’m thinking of the article Kenyatta forwarded on about random quantum walks at sub-atomic speeds in photosynthesis, olfactory processing, and human information processing:
“Art map master Eric Fischer is back to make cartographic sense of all that location data you’re giving away for free on Twitter. This is New York, with New Yorkers’ trips routed and their geotag density mapped out in “10000 points, 30000 vectors.”” From Animal New York
this is amazing.
YEAR of The DRAGON :D
Happy Year of the Dragon!
Dragon’s Breath (by Legohaulic)
YEAR of The DRAGON :D
pho (by woolloomooloo)
January 23 2012
Visualizing the Costs of Incarceration in the US
“It cost 17 million dollars to imprison 109 People from these 17 blocks in 2003. We call these million dollar blocks. On a financial scale prisons are becoming the predominant governing institution in the neighborhood.”
Laura Kurgan and Sarah Williams in Metropolis, Jan. 2012
From Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab: Million Dollar Blocks
“The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country’s biggest cities. In many places the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single city blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly forty percent do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.
Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these “million dollar blocks” and of the city-prison-city-prison migration flow for five of the nation’s cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure — education, housing, health, and family. Prisons and jails form the distant exostructure of many American cities today.
The project continues to present ongoing work on criminal justice statistics to make visible the geography of incarceration and return in New York, Phoenix, New Orleans, and Wichita, prompting new ways of understanding the spatial dimension of an area of public policy with profound implications for American cities.
Million Dollar Blocks is the first of a series of projects to be undertaken by SIDL, as part of a two year research and development project on Graphical Innovation in Justice Mapping. The project, generously supported by the JEHT Foundation and by the Open Society Institute activates a partnership between the Justice Mapping Center (JMC), the JFA Institute (JFA), and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (GSAPP).
This unique partnership enables the Justice Mapping Center to refine analytical and graphical techniques within the research and teaching environment of the Spatial Information Design Lab, which can then be applied to real life policy initiatives through work with the JFA Institute. Reciprocally, input from state and local leaders is then brought back to the Design Lab for further development. This feedback loop is a valuable tool resulting in new methods of spatial analyses and ways of visually presenting them that reveal previously unseen dimensions of criminal justice and related government policies in states across the United States.
The results of this collaboration have transformed the project into multiple formats and forums for exhibition.
Phở đặc biệt (by Charles Haynes)
January 22 2012
January 21 2012
phở gà at phởviet (by tallasiandude)
January 19 2012
a luxury version of the suggy: Betabrand Vagisoft blanket - softer than the anus of a silkworm.
i also want Betabrand to make a vagisoft scarf. I will buy a vagisoft in June 2013.
Video: Ben Hammersley's talk at Wired 2011 - Watch online (Wired UK)
The only excuse that Wired UK has for not making videos embeddable is that they are waiting for Ben’s speech next year where he will tap dance - then EVERYONE will be embedding the shit out of it.
Pho Tai Ve Don (Vietnamese noodle soup) (by norecipes)
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