British actor/Twitter hero Stephen Fry releases his memoirs today, titled "The Fry Chronicles". myFry is an innovative iPhone app for interactively exploring Stephen Fry's memoirs.
The entirety of the book is represented by a circular wheel of 'spines', each of which represents a section of text. The arcs around the outside of the wheel connect sections that are tagged with the same theme. By spinning the 112 self-contained sections around, viewing their opening words and following their tags, one can explore the book in a personalized, non-linear structure. Categories are distinguished by color: People, Subjects, Feelings and Fryisms.via infosthetics.com
How does our output of digital (and decidedly less tasty) tomatoes compare with our worldwide production of real tomatoes? And perhaps most importantly, who are these casual croppers, and are they anything like their plow-toting counterparts?
mashable.com broke it down by the numbers and put some of these FarmVille trends in perspective for you.via mashable.comTypographic Wedding Invitation by Rudi de Wet, Melbourne, Australia on the Behance Network.
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A study by Pew Internet was recently released, which focused on mobile phone behaviour among American adults. In this study, it was determined that 72% of American adult cell phone users send and receive text messages on a regular basis. A number of other interesting findings were included in this study, the most interesting of which are illustrated below:
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The French spend longer in retirement than almost anybody else. French women enjoy 28 years as pensioners and French men 24 years, six years more than the OECD average. Americans, by contrast, have among the shortest spells in retirement: just 18 years for men, and 21 years for women.
via www.economist.com
Jude Buffum created this fun infographic for a IEEE Spectrum (October 2010 Edition) story about the rise of wind power around the world.
Evergreen solar: More electricity.
Did you take a vacation this summer? If you did, it was because your company generously allowed you a few paid vacation days. Unlike businesses in these other countries, U.S. companies are not required to give employees time off. Despite working some of the longest hours in the world, we take very little vacation. No wonder you're feeling burnt out.
via www.good.is
Terrorism is politically motivated violence committed against the civilian population. September 11 is the biggest of all.
via en.rian.ru