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I did what I suspect a lot of people did. I saw this beautiful Facebook visualisation and went “oooh”. My oooh contained just a couple of things:

1. Isn’t that pretty
2. Facebook is big and global

But I just read this account by Paul Butler, the intern who made the thing. And all of a sudden it took on a whole new dimension. It gets a little technical in places, but you should read it, you’ll view the whole thing as more than just a pretty picture once you have. Go on read it.

All of a sudden you realise that there isn’t a background map here. Everything you see, including the recognisable shapes of countries is created by connections between people.

And once you’ve read Paul’s piece, click and view the high-resolution version of the map and drink it up.

From the always stunning: If we don’t, rembember me.

Why wasn’t I told?

Have you been conspiring to keep this stuff secret from me?

How much pain would this have saved me over the years?

Probably at least a bit.

Spotted here: http://www.flight001.com/

Not quite as kick-ass as the japanese t-shirt folding stuff from a while back. But useful and practical if you’re a jacket-packer.

Limited edition prints signed by Susan Kare the original designer. Graphical geek history from $89 – $499 depending on size. Get em here: http://www.kareprints.com/

I just liked it, OK.

From this illustrator here.

It’s the start of a new year. If I can make anything else this important in the next 12 months I’ll be happy.

Happy New Year everyone :-)

All the shots are done as Polaroids. I’m not a massive fan of the over-use of Polaroids. But for some reason I really liked the art direction of this shoot for Details magazine. I think it’s because they muck around with perspective and have a bit of fun with it.

Via photojojo’s tumblr.

If you want to explore an exquisitely curated world of electronic music all you need to do is hang out over here: http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/. So many great mixes. So much great stuff. Lots of it fresh and exclusive to the site.

Currently listening to a mix by Ancient Methods – tracklist here. It’s very.

Their description is much better than mine:

AM is powerful and brutal, without ever getting too aggressive or banging. this is techno music for warrior gods, it’s what i imagine you would hear at a rave at valhalla…

They do a really nice thing where they post up the mixes for a week or so before they release the tracklist. So it stops people from being judgmental based on what they think something is going to sound like. A little touch that I love a lot.

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/ thank you for this and all the other music.