Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=?view=XXX_09NNN/

Currency Conversion

The pound has climbed past the symbolic two US dollar barrier ...

http://www.xe.com/

Intel's MID UMPCs: So long XP/Vista, hello Linux

Big news on the UMPC front this morning folks. Looks like Intel is shedding the Origami gorilla (read: Microsoft) as they prep a Linux-based platform to compete with Vista and XP-based UMPCs.

http://eee.engadget.com/2007/04/16/intels-mid-umpcs-so-long-xp-vista-hello-linux/

Pontings

A pic of Pontings in 1959 (on the corner of Ken High Street & Wright's Lane) as mentioned in the intro to the Gnu. There were 3 stores in the block, Barkers (which became Biba for a time) with its famous roof garden, Derry & Toms and Pontings. Though all 3 were owned by Barkers, they retained their individual identities.
Pontings itself closed in 1971.

http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gallery/barkers/buildings/hf051-8-1-1-3%5Bph30%5D.html

Clocky

The alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don't wake up. Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off of your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide. Clocky is kind of like a misbehaving pet, only he will get up at the right time.

http://www.nandahome.com/products.clocky.html

traineo

traineo’s idea is simple: join traineo for free and pick up to 4 friends or members of your family (who will become your 'traineo motivators') to receive weekly email updates on your progress towards your weight loss and fitness goals. Our easy-to-use software allows you to choose what you’d like traineo to report to your motivators so they can give you the motivation, support and accountability you need to achieve your goals.

http://www.traineo.com/