2007 April

The Noisettes

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Friday 13 April, 2007 at 3:42 pm. It's been filed in the Music + Performance category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Formed in 2003, the band consists of English blues-born guitarist Dan Smith, Zimbabwe-bred singer/bassist (and latent aspiring circus performer) Shingai Shoniwa and veteran rock drummer Jamie Morrison.

Singled Out

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Friday 13 April, 2007 at 2:53 pm. It's been filed in the Information Design + Life + Nation + Psychology + Sex category. {Share Your Thoughts}

A National Geographic study reveals the distribution of single men and women around the country. Blue and red represent an excess of single men and women respectively. It’s middle school all over again — the boys grouping up on one side of the continent and the girls on the other.

Animusic

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Friday 13 April, 2007 at 2:28 am. It's been filed in the Animation + Music + Technology category. {3 Comments}

This is the kind of thing that, in several years given more advanced animation, more interesting music, and a more generous budget, could become mind-blowingly cool. Not that it isn’t already cool but I’m thinking more along the scale of Fantasia 2010.

Flight 4

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Tuesday 10 April, 2007 at 9:12 am. It's been filed in the Art/Design + Comics + Illustration category. {Share Your Thoughts}

The fourth volume of the collaborative Flight comic book is scheduled for release on July 10th. In the meantime, check out this recently published 57-page preview and interview with Kazu Kibuishi, Flight editor and artist behind Copper.

Stacey Whaley: Intergalactic Art

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Sunday 08 April, 2007 at 5:03 pm. It's been filed in the Art/Design + Geometry + Math category. {1 Comment}

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Seeing Red

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Friday 06 April, 2007 at 1:44 pm. It's been filed in the Biology + Life + Philosophy + Psychology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

“We travel through life as in a ‘time ship,’ which ‘has a prow and stern and room inside for us to move around.’ The problem is that the notion of the ‘extended present’ is fundamentally incoherent to the commonsense mind.”

Latest Shot of Saturn

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Thursday 05 April, 2007 at 1:35 pm. It's been filed in the Astronomy + Photography + Universe category. {2 Comments}

You know I can’t let a shot like this go w/o posting.

Cut Spotlight

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Wednesday 04 April, 2007 at 9:56 pm. It's been filed in the Internet + Technology category. {4 Comments}

If you’re like me — that is, for the purpose of this post, you use a Mac and either Gmail or Google Apps for email — you’ll be happy to learn (or are already happy in knowing) about today’s launch of Google Desktop for OS X. One search box to rule them all: applications, files, emails, browsing history, internet search, etc.

Ask Jimmy Wales

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Tuesday 03 April, 2007 at 10:25 pm. It's been filed in the Information Design + Internet + Technology + World category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Waxxi, an up-and-coming “presenter and producer of live and archived interactive podcasts” is hosting a Q&A session with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, this Thursday at 1:30 PM et.

Universcale

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Sunday 01 April, 2007 at 11:41 pm. It's been filed in the Art/Design + Information Design + Interactive Design + Life + Science + Technology + Universe category. {1 Comment}

“an interactive & quite extensive size comparison of the perception of our universe, starting from a proton (1 femtometer) over to a hydrogen atom (100 picometers), a protein nanometer (10 nanometer), & a red blood cell (7-8 micrometer), to the moon (3,764km), a nebula (30 light years), & the outer limits of our universe (13,7 billion light years).”