I was honored on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, to give the Singapore Press Holdings Foundation’s third annual Media Lecture, before an audience of 400 people in the Drama Centre of the National Library of Singapore. Here is Razor TV’s news coverage of the speech.
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Bookmakers’ odd are out for the 2010 World Cup. Most favor Spain. In fact, bookmakers StanJames.com will refund new client’s betting registration fee if Spain wins. The firm currently gives these odds on the favorite teams:
I’m pleased that my aerial photo above will be in the Museum of Modern Art’s ‘Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront‘ exhibit, March 24-October 11th, 2010.
I’ve been amazed by the past 20 years of progress in racing bicycle technology due to advance materials. The first reasonably affordable titanium-frame racing bicycles starting appearing in 1990 and shortly after 2000 the first reasonably affordable carbon-fiber-framed appeared. We now have the first new advancement: carbon fiber bicycle frames that aren’t entirely solid.
Above is a photo of the $10,000 (US) Delta 7 road bike. The junctions in its frame are made of regular carbon fiber but the main tubes of the frame consist of an open latticework of carbon fiber/Kevlar strings woven into a network of isosceles triangles. That latticework is up to 12 times stronger than steel but weighs ten times less.
From Charlie Brooker of BBC4 in London.
Emma hadn’t before been camping, and had some apprehension about sleeping in a tent. Pity us having to sleep in this one. July 20-21, 2009. Shamwari Game Reserve, near Sidbury, Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa.
A few years ago, I posted an item here about American marketers retouching actresses’ photos to make their bosoms more buxom. Newsweek magazine recently published a photo story about the decade’s most egregious retouching scandals. I particularly like ‘the many shades of Beyoncé’.
TripAdvisor.com has released its 2010 list of the world’s best hotels and its list of the dirtiest, as selected by travelers themselves.
I couldn’t resist posting this, simply because it’s so sad: An innocent person picks the wrong lover. Absolutely, the wrong lover—a charismatic client of the photography studio where she works as a secretary. But even though she doesn’t know or understand his true character until almost the very end, she stick with him until the end.
My niece Meredith pointed me towards David Newton‘s animation of the Bayeux Tapestry. Even without animation, people in the Medieval Period must of thought of it telling its story that way. I remember seeing the 70-meter long original in Bayeux during 1972.
The city of Stockholm revamped Odenplan subway station’s stairs to provide a wonderful alternative to the escalator. If an American city had done this, some citizens (mostly conservative Republicans) would call it a frivolous waste of public, funds.
However, Volkswagen subsidize the construction of these piano stairs. It’s all part of a project that believes the easiest way to change people’s public behavior for the better is by making it fun to do. See http://www.thefuntheory.com for more examples (I particularly like the World’s Deepest Trash Bin).
I am pleased to report that Dr. Emma Rodríguez Suárez has moved in with me.