David Kidd (davidkidd)

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Google Plus doesn’t have to accept anonyms, mononyms or pseudonyms. The service is evidently not for everyone, it’s…

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“It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe.” Isaac Asimov on the opening of a n…

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Statistical distribution… pillows! (via @5310)

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US versus the world

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The Internet of 1901. Via Maria Popova

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Tanks are mighty fine things. Go!

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Soviet infographics from the 1960s. Also, some London Underground promo posters from the 1920s .

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IiB’s SnakeOil chart has been updated. Some interesting usage stats: • most popular filter (by a long way): se…

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I’ve been thinking a lot about provenance. In fact we all think about provenance to some degree - it’s why we’ll …

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Minimalist game posters. More here, some are very good.

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Controversial, historical, political, philosophical. That’s what you’d say if you didn’t know it came from a computer game.

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Matt Gemmell’s conclusion regarding the comments on/comments off debate isn’t surprising: where you stand is (or sh…

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Truckload of Virgil Finlay art over at Monster Brains. Via @houseinrlyeh.

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Computer vision camoflage. Fascinating stuff. Two interesting points: this doesn’t just hide your identity from face…

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Apollo 11 landing, as seen through data. Fantastic.

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Girl sneaks into Russian rocket testing facility and takes incredible photos.

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Art deco bookplates from Confessions of Bookplate Junkie. Via @brainpicker.

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GK Chesterton, Heretics (1905) Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a la…

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I have a bunch of code lying around that can be used to create maps for games and, apparently, some nice looking gr…