There was a debate last wednesday between Obama and Clinton. It was really liked by the press:
” Will Bunch (Philadelphia Daily News) - “By so badly botching arguably the most critical debate of such an important election, in a time of both war and economic misery, [ABC] disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself.”
More quotes here.

…an open letter from more than 40 journalists lamenting the petty, nearly substance-free debate ABC hosted on Wednesday night in Philadelphia.: “The questions asked by Mr. Stephanopoulos and Mr. Gibson were a disgrace, and the subsequent attempts to justify them by claiming that they reflect citizens’ interest are an insult to the intelligence of those citizens and ABC’s viewers. Many thousands of those viewers have already written to ABC to express their outrage.”

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A digital photography project has started in which a snapshot of London is taken every five seconds from the banks of the River Thames.

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Star wars - Empire Strikes back sweded and a list of sweded movies

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Flogos makes logos in the sky, like, clouds, but it’s logos. I’m wondering, since the site’s so 90ies (and the slogan so cheezy…), if it’s true or not …

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The BBC launched Thread, a magazine/site for the eco-conscious. I like the navigation.

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The Droste effect is a Dutch term for a specific kind of recursive picture[1], one that in heraldry is termed mise en abyme. An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on. Only in theory could this go on forever, practically it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows, which is relatively short, since each iteration exponentially reduces the picture’s size. It is a visual example of a strange loop, a self-referential system.

More examples

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