links for 2007-07-14

14Jul07

• Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

  Most suicide bombers are Muslim? The prospect of 72 virgins may not be so appealing to anyone who has even one mate on earth. However, the prospect is quite appealing to anyone who faces the bleak reality on earth of being a complete reproductive loser.

  (tags: neatorama 10 list psychology culture society sex nature anthropology polygyny monogamy reproduction suicidebomber muslim loser 72 virgin midlife crisis myth sexual harassment hostile-environment patriarchy)

• Ironic Sans: Terrorist organization logos

  Terrorist groups need brand identities, so they have logos. It recently occurred to me that someone had to actually design those logos. But how did they decide who gets to do it? Did the job go to whichever terrorist had a copy of Adobe Illustrator?

  (tags: ironicsans terrorism logo design politics culture graphics branding gallery middleeast star ak-47 crossbones)

• MidbrowArt

  The photography, digital imagery, and banal scribblings of Terry Donovan. “Very creative!” – The psychiatrist who interpreted my Rorschach test. (Veni. Vedi. Comaneci: I came. I saw. Romanian gymnast). A two packs smoker, asininely riot and perverted.

  (tags: sexoteric photography art sex nude erotica portfolio gallery toy doll alien skull bondage mask necrophilia bizarrerie)

• WikiMindMap

  An online mindmap to browse & explore Wiki content. links to other wiki pages in individual topics are depicted by node-edge connections. WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique.

  (tags: infosthetics wikipedia mindmap wiki visualization search reference data analysis informationvisualization scientificvisualization)

• kunst in de galerie van Sandy viktor Nys – Inleiding tot het werk van Sandy Viktor Nys

  Dark images from a paganistic past. The viewer gets submerged in a hyper realistic world . The nightmares from one person can be the sweet wishful dreams of another.From mythical times, they become speechless, recognizable in the unconscious.

  (tags: sexinart art sex photography portfolio gallery surreal hyperrealistic dark morbid paganistic religion angel demon gothic voodoo nude mythical belgium)

• kaneda99 nosurprises { | kaneda’s digital art experiment – illustration & graphic design | }

  Sexy illustration work by Italian creative Alessandro Pautasso.

  (tags: sexinart art portfolio photography illustration design inspiration graphics vector gallery surreal artwork)

• PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Transformable Architecture

  It moves! It transforms?! The Sphere is only one of many bizarrely transforming toys that New York-based Chuck Hoberman has developed in more than fifteen years. But he is also deeply into changing the shapes of responsive architecture.

  (tags: pingmag interview artistic responsive architecture design dyamic transformable kinetic sculpture adaptable sustainable technology folding origami parametric geometry video)

• Uber-Eco-Towers: The Top Ten Green Skyscrapers | EcoGeek | Tower, Building, Wind, Year, Green

  Green skyscrapers offer so much for the average EcoGeek to drool over. Each one can contain hundreds of innovations that make the world a cleaner place, they build up, rather than out, and many of them are frikkin gorgeous.

  (tags: ecogeek 10 list architecture building green environment design innovation skyscraper ecology sustainable urbanheatisland carbon-mitigation photosynthesis insulation rainwatercatchment helical wind turbine photovoltaic solar power geothermal heatsink ventilation)

• Swarm Behavior – National Geographic Magazine

  A single ant or bee isn’t smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots.

  (tags: nationalgeographic swarm intelligence science biology nature ant honeybee artificialintelligence ai pheromone theory research ant-foraging-rules transportation network self-organizing model coordination decentralization decision-making society)

• RealityPrime » How Google Earth [Really] Works

  Explain in reverse, from the instant the 3D Earth is drawn on your screen, and later trace back to the time the data is served. Technical read: Asynchronous Multilevel Texture Pipeline & Server for geospatially organized flat file data.

  (tags: realityprime google googleearth keyhole gis howto maps technology mapping earth intellectualproperty patentenglish painglish 3d rendering pixel aliasing mip-mapping tri-linear anisotropic filtering algorithm analysis code)

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