Trevor Horn plays FGOTH’s Two Tribes live
This video of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Two Tribes being played by the men who originally produced, engineered and played on it was uploaded to Holy Moly’s YouTube page today. It’s quite wonderful. CS
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Marieke van der Velden heeft de PANL fotoprijs gewonnen met haar serie foto’s uit Bagdad. Ze fotografeerde de gewone Irakees in de stad die wij alleen kennen van bloed en bommen. En dat leverde verrassend mooie beelden op.
Coming soon: Awesome Dutch Tumblr Users - a short series
Within the next few days, we will post five great videos here as part of a series featuring Dutch Tumblr users. Inspiring thoughts and insights on how some creative minds in the Netherlands use Tumblr: Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Jeanique, simurai, Imaginenanana and Gaby.
Before you meet them at the Dutch Launch on May 31st, meet them in these videos! Stay tuned…
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Abraham Lincoln Filed a Patent for Facebook in 1845
Nate St. Pierre writes:
Lincoln was requesting a patent for “The Gazette,” a system to “keep People aware of Others in the Town.” He laid out a plan where every town would have its own Gazette, named after the town itself. He listed the Springfield Gazette as his Visual Appendix, an example of the system he was talking about. Lincoln was proposing that each town build a centrally located collection of documents where “every Man may have his own page, where he might discuss his Family, his Work, and his Various Endeavors.”
He went on to propose that “each Man may decide if he shall make his page Available to the entire Town, or only to those with whom he has established Family or Friendship.” Evidently there was to be someone overseeing this collection of documents, and he would somehow know which pages anyone could look at, and which ones only certain people could see (it wasn’t quite clear in the application). Lincoln stated that these documents could be updated “at any time deemed Fit or Necessary,” so that anyone in town could know what was going on in their friends’ lives “without being Present in Body.”
A patent request for Facebook, filed by Abraham Lincoln in 1845.
I’ve long argued Facebook is working towards natural or timeless (for lack of better words) human interaction. That their central idea is relevant in any age should not be surprising.
(Though it is astounding Lincoln was imagining a nearly identical privacy system.)
(Via The Next Web)
FJP: Color me fascinated — Michael.
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"The Internet commandeered the services that newspapers once championed and delivered each of these services on an a la carte basis. In an earlier era, it made sense to bundle these services in a single package - the newspaper - and deliver it fully assembled. Today, the Web itself is the package, and each of the services now competes against other similar services in separate, often healthy, markets. And this is as it should be - this is not somehow wrong."
Moddervette soul.
Denk aan Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin en Otis Redding in één persoon verenigd, begeleid door een rockband, en je hebt de Alabama Shakes. Je hebt het vast allemaal al een keer eerder gehoord, maar dit is zo eenvoudig en goed. Moet je echt horen.
Eerder deze week waren ze te gast bij Later with Jools op de BBC. Voor wie geen kaarten voor Tivoli heeft raad ik deze video aan. Het debuutalbum staat hieronder. Pas op, het is verslavend.
