16 things tagged “history”
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Tuesday September 13, 2011
An Interview with Flickr’s Eric Costello - Adaptive Path
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Monday June 27, 2011
Steven Pinker on the myth of violence | Video on TED.com
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Monday June 20, 2011
Scott and Scurvy
How the cure for Scurvy was found and then lost. -
Saturday April 9, 2011
San Francisco Cable Car Museum
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Sunday March 13, 2011
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
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Friday March 4, 2011
History API - Dive Into HTML5
Succinct summary of the new history API. Lovely stuff -
Wednesday January 5, 2011
This time last year - Flickr reminiscence
Pulling a photo from a year ago today. I'd love to see more of this, particularly for music, bookmarks, tweets, events. It's interesting from two perspectives, the immediate one off comparison, "what was the exact photo/song/etc i consumed 365 days ago" vs the hazy aggregate "what was i into for a week either side". There's scope for both, but I think I prefer the later. -
Thursday December 30, 2010
The Ghosts of Old London | Spitalfields Life
Historical photos of London -
Sunday December 5, 2010
L0pht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"L0pht Heavy Industries (pronounced "loft") was a hacker collective active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area." -
Saturday November 13, 2010
Shoreditch High St, London E1, United Kingdom - Google Maps
Two Napoleonic cannons from the Battle of Trafalgar, set into the pavement of Boundry Passage, serving as bollards. Each has a cannon ball welded into the top and these trophies became the model when more bollards were required. Replicas were cast in different sizes and proportions, and today they are to be seen everywhere in London, yet among all the hundreds that line our city streets, these two are special because they are the real thing, though I wonder if anyone who walks through Boundary Passage today is aware that these are spoils of war. -
Adam Dant’s Map of Shoreditch | Spitalfields Life
Stories of Shoreditch, old and new. Told and shown through the ages in honour of and to celebrate the centenary of Anorld Circus bandstand. -
Wednesday November 3, 2010
"The Secret History of Silicon Valley: How Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today"
"How much does an average engineer know about the history of the place he/she works in—Silicon Valley? Come and test your knowledge. Silicon Valley entrepreneur and professor Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises" -
Friday October 15, 2010
dsingleton.co.uk rendered in Mosaic
David Singleton posted a photo:
Not bad at all. The only broken bit is the Google Analytics tracker.
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Sunday January 17, 2010
Designing the Unthinkable: Observatory
The design story behind the Doomsday Clock. Originally published as a background image for "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists". Iconic design. -
Friday December 11, 2009
Browser market share
A slightly weird visualisation of browser market share, from 2002 - 2009. I'm curious where the data came from. Browser share is notoriously hard to sample. -
Friday July 31, 2009
New Last.fm Office 23rd Feb 2006 - YouTube
First visit to the potentially new Last.fm office (moving from essentially a studio flat in Aldegate East to Old Street).