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Paul Miller, a tech journalist for The Verge, is leaving the Internet for a year. He?s an avid StarCraft II player, and writes about (and on) the web for a living. He?s going to continue to use a computer (offline) and continue to write for The Verge.
Miller is a great writer and I get the impression he lives online in the same way I do. I?m looking forward to living UN-vicariously through him as he documents his experience. His video introducing his project is also well done:
A designer asked his five-year-old daughter to comment on a series of corporate logos. The results are adorable and fascinating. It?s a powerful machine that can make a child look at a bright sunflower and say ?Gas.?
I don?t know much about tennis, but this match (tennis-word!) between Andy Murray and Michael Llodrais at the Australian Open is amazing:
Update: Still bummed about the 11-million-year commute to the planet Kepler B we discussed last month? Be sure to read BoingBoing?s article on the (im)practicality and cost of interstellar travel. While Kepler 22b might be a boring 11-million-year flight away, the nearest star, Alpha Centauri would only be a brisk 70,000 years or so.
From the delightful 99% Invisible podcast, I learned today that many televised sporting events use pre-recorded audio samples to fake a sense of realism. When you watch at least some sports on television, particularly those that cover large areas, the swoosh of a cross-country skier, the splash of a rower?s paddle, or the thundering stampede of horse racing, may be coming from a sound designer?s sampler rather than the atheletes you?re seeing on screen.
Like most episodes of 99% Invisible, this Sound of Sport episode is only 5 minutes long, well produced, and fascinating. Since learning about 99% Invisible from the also-delightful RadioLab podcast, I?ve almost caught up on all 44 (so far) episodes. Highly recommended.
While we?re enjoying podcasts, the Planet Money podcast somehow manages to make the world of economics interesting to those of us who are completely uninterested in economics.
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