Faesthetic #13

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Stephane Daury

Collectable and affordable, Faesthetic #13 is a collection of art & oddities from around the world. Part comic book & part zine, Faesthetic is a great place to discover new art & ideas.

Our 10th anniversary issue showcases 130 pages of original “Luck” themed art from over 45 artists. Featuring high quality 4 color offset printing, original cover art by Mike Giant, punch out cards by Mark Mothersbaugh & thoughts on the past and upcoming decade by a selected panel of distinguished creatives.

Found via Club Mumble: Faesthetic #13! 10 years in the making….

W3C HTML5 Logo: Your Web, Your Logo

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Stephane Daury

It stands strong and true, resilient and universal as the markup you write. It shines as bright and as bold as the forward-thinking, dedicated web developers you are. It’s the standard’s standard, a pennant for progress. And it certainly doesn’t use tables for layout. We present an HTML5 logo.

Or as Zeldman so eloquently puts it:

http://twitter.com/#!/zeldman/status/27374450236194816

Dvorak on Facebook vs. WordPress

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Stephane Daury

Facebook is retro because, like AOL, it’s retro by its nature. It’s a closed system. Some people like a closed comfy system and others don’t. I, for one, don’t. If I want a personal webpage with all sorts of information about myself, I’ll go to WordPress.com and make one. By doing this, I don’t turn over any data, control, or information to an onerous third party to sell, use, or exploit. I can close down the site when I want. I can say what I want. I can pretty much do whatever.

Via Why I Don’t Use Facebook | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com (found via Zé).

Canada Explores New Frontiers in Astroinformatics

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Stephane Daury

The CANFAR platform will take advantage of CANARIE’s high-speed network and a number of open source and proprietary cloud and grid computing tools to allow the country’s astronomy researchers to better handle the vast datasets that are being generated by global observatories. It will also be propelled by the storage and compute capabilities from Compute Canada in addition to the expertise from the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics and the National Research Council of Canada.

Via HPC in the Cloud: Canada Explores New Frontiers in Astroinformatics (also via /.).

Tax money well spent, as far as I’m concerned.