Centripetal Notion// archive

Make custom Google maps with your own annotations and scribbles.

Thursday 29 Jun, 2006 at 12:19 am
Interactive Design + Internet + Nation + Technology + World
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Some wicked hot dancing from the 1969 musical Sweet Charity, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. Submitted by Andrew Eglinton from Desperate Curiosity.

Wednesday 28 Jun, 2006 at 1:50 am
Art/Design + Clothing + Film/TV + Meta + Music + Performance
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An interview with Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, in which he argues that religion in the modern world does more harm than good.

Tuesday 27 Jun, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Philosophy + Politics + Religion + World
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Skidmore, Owings & Merril (SOM), the architectural firm behind Chicago’s Sears Tower and New York’s Lever House, currently have over 50 active projects in China, of which more than 15 are skyscrapers.

Thursday 22 Jun, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Architecture + Art/Design + Environment + Technology + World
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“Her voice (…) when fully unleashed, filled the room like a whisky-scented genie.”

Thursday 22 Jun, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Music + Performance
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A cool music video from Röyksopp made entirely of infographics.

Thursday 22 Jun, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Animation + Art/Design + Information Design + Motion Design + Music
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Happy Solstice hippies! For everyone else, today was Summer solstice, Solstitum, Xiazhi, Shakesepeare’s midsummer; or specifically, the day when the Sun reaches a celestial longitude of 90 degrees and the longest period of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere, thus marking the first day of summer.

Wednesday 21 Jun, 2006 at 9:23 pm
History + Universe + World
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Last week Centripetal Notion turned one year old. Somehow I missed this (yeah I’m a bad father), but in the end it’s probably for the best — that masturbatory, retrospective look-how-far-I’ve-come crap drives me crazy. Plus, as fate would have it, this is actually the 200th post.

Anyway it’s been a good trip around the sun. To celebrate, I decree that there shall be a contest!

Tuesday 20 Jun, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Meta
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Caught on film the 3rd of June in northern Idaho, the above phenomenon (not technically a “rainbow”) is caused by light passing through high-altitude cirrus clouds containing plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals facing parallel to the earth’s surface.

Tuesday 20 Jun, 2006 at 6:19 am
Environment + Photography + Physics + Science + World
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comic from Boy on a Stick and Slither

Monday 19 Jun, 2006 at 3:40 am
Comics + Humor + Meta
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