Unlike a conventional camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro camera captures the entire light field, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space.
Which means you can focus after taking a picture. Some example images, which you can click to re-focus.
Sainsbury’s Own Label biscuit assortment, 1967. Lovely.
From Fuel’s history of Sainsbury’s design studio, Own Label. More at Creative Review.
Apparently, Delicious (née del.icio.us) was awfully popular with fandom types, especially the ones who enjoy slash fiction.
So, when the men who invented YouTube completely and utterly ruined the once-great service, breaking tags with a / in them in the process, the fandom people jumped ship–no pun intended–to Pinboard, a superior bookmarking service.
Next, the fandom people set up a Google Doc so they could collaborate on feature requests. Maciej, the bloke who made Pinboard, joined in, answering questions and offering tips.
Impressed, one of the fandom people wrote a piece of slash fiction about an anthropomorphised Pinboard lothario shagging an anthropomorphised fandom community, making an anthropomorphised Delicious jealous. Amazing.
This is such a perfect storm of arcane web culture, pervy strangeness and general nerdery that I almost don’t care that Pinboard’s ‘popular’ page is now completely swamped with links to cringeworthy short stories about, I dunno, Dumbledore inappropriately touching Wesley Crusher.
A new Oyster-style travel card from Merseytravel, coming to buses, trains and the ferry over the next couple of years.
Tenement Penthouse, 1941 by Weegee, filtered through Instagram. From Mastergram, a site devoted to ‘remarkable photos made better (or worse) using Instagram’. Horrifying.
More info here.
Taken while making Blade Runner.
From [D-block GB-328000-387000][1] of the [Domesday Project][2], now available online, after years languishing on LV-ROM discs that could only be read by a [BBC Master][3] and a bespoke laserdisc player.
Update: For the next few days, you can listen to Radio 4’s [history of the Domesday Project][4], and the digital archeology required to rescue it. [1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-328000-387000 [2]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/ [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master [4]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112913
Via MeFi. Album available at the Death Grips website.
One thing I will be doing from time to time this week is pulling down random books from my shelves and writing about them, under the belief that the internet is better when not all of it comes from the internet.