“The Tramway” is a visually stunning short by Philip Bloom, filmed in New Mexico. This small embedded version doesn’t do it justice, though. You should watch it in HD on Vimeo.
Shows what you can do with modern digital equipment, DoF adapters and color grading. (Here’s more stuff from Philip.)
Neat love/hate review of the first edition of Wired from 1993. The content of the issue can be found here.
It’s amazing what we didn’t have in that year technology-wise - and how polished the magazine already was. Also, look at the masthead and the contributors. People like John Battelle, Bruce Sterling, Michael Wolff or John Markoff still matter to this day.
If I remember correctly, I started reading Wired in 1994.
Fantastic wild life shot by aussiegall I just saw on the Flickr front page.
Just another very physical reason why people hate this operating system.
The Windows XP package could at least be opened easily.
Ultra easy-to-use “bookmark now, read later” Web app. I’m only missing some open-all-links-in-tabs magic and a smallish sharing feature.
(But I’m sure creator Marco Arment, who’s Tumblr’s tech wizard by day, will implement that at some point.)
Entire episodes of the fantastic PBS public affairs show. The archive contains the years 2001 to 2008, with some older classics in the side bar.
The newer eps are encoded in Flash, older ones in Real and Windows Media format (hint for OS X newsbies: get yourself Flip4Mac WMV).
Update: There’s at least some Quicktime streams too.
The Comments means lots of interesting, “no known restrictions on publication” photographs from the Library of Congress now on Flickr.
Not sure if the crowd-sourced tagging approach will work, though.
