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Day: 1 February 2019

  • Image representing post: Ideal City Proposal by King C. Gillette

    Ideal City Proposal by King C. Gillette

    GILLETTE, IDEAL CITY PROPOSAL (urbanplanning.library.cornell.edu) ...

    Here we have a city every building of which is a perfect work of art, and whose setting is nature's loveliest handiwork, made perfect by the intelligence of man.

    How can we believe for a moment that we are now securing the best results of our highest intelligence, when we have …

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    • posted 1 February, 2019
  • Lena, then and now

    Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs




    Every morning, Lena Forsen wakes up beneath a brass-trimmed wooden mantel clock dedicated to “The First Lady of the Internet.”


    It was presented to her more than two decades ago by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, in recognition of the pivotal—and altogether unexpected—role she played in shaping the digital world as we …

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    • posted 1 February, 2019
  • Microsoft exec riles Firefox faithful by telling Mozilla to embrace Chrome - CNET

    Microsoft staffer pokes finger into Twitter beehive by saying Firefox should join Chrome, not fight it (CNET) Debate: Does Mozilla have more influence as a Chrome rival or ally? ...

    "Thought: It's time for @mozilla to get down from their philosophical ivory tower. The web is dominated by Chromium, if they really *cared* about the web …

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