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'The Satellite Collection' Clips Out Google Maps, State of iPad Magazines

by Thomas Houston on October 29, 2010 at 06:15 PM

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Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • Jenny Odell's 'The Satellite Collection' prints are created by cutting out shapes like ships, parking lots and highways from Google Maps. [From: SpaceInvading, via: BLDGBLOG]
  • Earlier this week, Khoi Vinh took on the current crop of digital magazines on the iPad: "They're bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern of mass media brands trying vainly to establish beachheads on new platforms without really understanding the platforms at all." Don't miss yesterday's followup. [From: Subtraction]
  • On October 29, 1969, the first computer-to-computer message was sent from the University of California in Los Angeles to Stanford. Charley Kline attempted to send "log," but the connection crashed after "lo." [From: BoingBoing]
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