Design Tumble Log

Peter von Stackelberg’s correlated timeline of social,...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:47:59 -0500

Peter von Stackelberg’s correlated timeline of social, technological, economic and political events and trends from 1750 to 2100. Each time series shows graphs, events and categories on a common scale. Peter says:

It is important to emphasize that the timeline is intended to provoke thought and speculation about the future. Information about the future that is charted on the timeline is intended not as an absolute prediction of what the future will hold, but rather a representation of possibilities that need to be further examined using other futures research methods.

via roomthily, Eric Blue, The Gallery of Data Visualization

Magical Tattoos of Thailand’s Mahouts: Elephant Trainers of...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:49:02 -0500

Magical Tattoos of Thailand’s Mahouts: Elephant Trainers of Ayuthaya by Lars Krutak:

Generally speaking, there are three classes of tattoos that can be received at Wat Bang Phra: those that act on others, causing them to like or fear the bearer; those that act on the bearer, increasing his skill with words causing the listener to do as he asks and instilling him with courage; and tattoos that create a protective barrier around the person that prevent animals of all sorts from biting, knives from cutting, bullets from entering the body, and fire from burning the body. Magical tattoos, whether for these or other purposes (e.g., for eternal health), are in a sense like preventive medicine and can be thought of as kinds of vaccinations against various diseases and misfortunes.

via plsj

How to Survive an Atom Bomb, a Cold War ad courtesy of Mutual of...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:31:24 -0500

How to Survive an Atom Bomb, a Cold War ad courtesy of Mutual of Omaha

via propagandery, my-ear-trumpet. atompunk, dengedenge

Ingredients via freshphotons, renzgarcia, patricianpbautista,...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:16:43 -0500

Ingredients

via freshphotons, renzgarcia, patricianpbautista, robcham, Geekologie

I’m thinking… by ~traumator via samsaramotel

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:05:00 -0500

I’m thinking… by ~traumator

via samsaramotel

Raw Color No.3 Photoseries on the visual quality of the...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:31:41 -0500

Raw Color No.3

Photoseries on the visual quality of the vegetables by Christoph Brach and Daniera ter Haar

Also: Raw Color No.1 Raw Color No.2

via robingoodfellow

Walter Vasconcelos, for a book review of “Googled: The End...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:26:00 -0500

Walter Vasconcelos, for a book review of “Googled: The End of the World as We Know it” by Ken Auletta

via Los Angeles Times

Artificial by Abstruse Goose invaderxan, aeroplaned

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:35:47 -0500

Artificial by Abstruse Goose

invaderxan, aeroplaned

Loquacious Llama Captioned Critters Note Cards by papervictory...

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:42:00 -0500

Loquacious Llama Captioned Critters Note Cards by papervictory @Etsy

via PJLS Field Notes

Dymaxion Map, Michael Faukner the Wikipedia...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:05:27 -0500

Dymaxion Map, Michael Faukner

the Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map_of_the_Earth):

More unusually, the Dymaxion map does not have any “right way up”. [Buckminster] Fuller argued frequently that in the universe there is no “up” and “down”, or “north” and “south”: only “in” and “out”. Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created “in”, meaning ‘towards the gravitational center’, and “out”, meaning “away from the gravitational center”. He attributed the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias.

Prime Number Circle, Michael Paukner Julian Havil (2003) ...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:57:20 -0500

Prime Number Circle, Michael Paukner

Julian Havil (2003)

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the mind will never penetrate.

Map of the Future (we will be here), Superstruct (Superstruct...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:43:15 -0500

Map of the Future (we will be here), Superstruct (Superstruct ‘vt 1.To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation), visual findings of Superstruct, an MMORPG used by the Institute of the Future to identify the superstructures of our future.

via fuckyeahinfo, Behance Network

things happen Wendy MacNaughton via fuckyeahinfo, mikearauz,...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:15:22 -0500

things happen

Wendy MacNaughton

via fuckyeahinfo, mikearauz, oliveisgreen.blogspot.com

you = 1 pixel everyone else (as of 2006) = 65 million...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:54:33 -0500

you = 1 pixel everyone else (as of 2006) = 65 million pixels

via fuckyeahinfo, roomthily

Self promotion T-shirt for Roland Semprie, Personal Trainer via...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:50:00 -0500

Self promotion T-shirt for Roland Semprie, Personal Trainer

via fuckyeahinfo, roomthily, flickflickflicker

What is the total? via electronicalrattlebag, pilllpat (agence...

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:26:07 -0500

What is the total?

via electronicalrattlebag, pilllpat (agence eureka)

"If civilization were to invent higher education today, rather than centuries ago, would we create..."

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:37:28 -0500

“If civilization were to invent higher education today, rather than centuries ago, would we create campuses as they now exist, dominated by lecture rooms, libraries, and labs, with learning centered in fixed time blocks?”

- Chris Dede, 2005, Planning for Neomillennial Learning Styles, Educause Quarterly)

No. But we never really get to start over again. We can only build on what exists.

"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:20:33 -0500

“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”

- Albert Einstein

via Dallas Mcpheeters, who explains that educators exist for learners, and that requires a decision of purpose:

we inherently figure out that we exist for others. Spouses exist for one another. Parents exist for children. Children exist for parents. And as educators, we exist for learners. Since our existence for others is a given fact that should be concluded by reasonable folks, the only variable becomes the nature of our relationship to those others for whom we are existing. Do we exist to control, manipulate, dominate, or rule over others? Or do we exist to share, serve, and sacrifice for others? It seems to me the aftertaste of one’s education depends upon whether they were shepherded or merely herded; nurtured or merely driven to market.

Dallas McPheeters’ personal learning network, which I like...

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:08:14 -0500

Dallas McPheeters’ personal learning network, which I like because it emphasizes care and feeding of a PLN rather than the technology that runs it.

via infoneernet, loichay, edtechpost.wikispaces.com

Bringing books to life, a short film for the New Zealand Book...

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:27:10 -0500

Bringing books to life, a short film for the New Zealand Book Council

via zwinnick