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+ History of the colour wheel
+ Just in case you were wondering, outer space smells like...
+ "The female ideal ... has become as smooth and lifeless as an iPhone"
+ Two-thirds of Australian 3G mobile phone users don't use 3G
+ New magazines booming in India
+ The Hindu gods Flickr pool
+ DoCoMo promo is 'loco'
+ Tombstones with QR barcodes
+ The one room hotel
+ Filipinos SMS most
The historic search for an information-visualisation to communicate the idea of 'colour': the history of the colour wheel.
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Just in case you were wondering, outer space smells like... Via BoingBoing.
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"The female ideal pushed by laddie magazines has become as smooth and lifeless as an iPhone."
"If you were mugged by any one of the women in the top (FHM) 10, you couldn't pick the perpetrator out of a lineup. They're all white. They all have long hair and they're almost all blonde. They all have the same high cheekbones. They all have the same nose. Each woman is allowed exactly one deviation from the norm, and the deviation is immediately remarked on – her tattoos or her extra-dark eye makeup or her curves. The girls of FHM are obviously products of a fundamentally icky consumerist objectification, but their engineered homogeneity also reveals an incredibly limited imagination."
Via Arts & Letters Daily.
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Two-thirds of Australian 3G mobile phone users don't use the 3G services on their phones.
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Here comes India's rapidly growing (and aspirational) middle class: new magazines are booming in India.
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The Hindu gods Flickr pool. Via Plep.
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DoCoMo promo is 'loco': a critique of the PR for the new DoCoMo logo (a Japanese telco).
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Tombstones with (QR) barcodes. "A gravestone manufacturer here [Japan] is helping bereaved families remember their loved ones with a touch of technology – mobile phone QR codes on tombstones that link to photographs and video clips of the deceased." Via BoingBoing.
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The one room hotel. Via Dark Roasted Blend.
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Filipinos SMS most. On Australia's Telstra network, each user averages 42 SMS messages a month. Each user on the Philippine's Smart network sends, on average, 1008 SMS messages per month. No stats on swollen, sore thumbs available at this point.
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