Beauty

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The Beauty of ROE

The Beauty of ROE 05/12/2004 07:06 AM
It's a simple measure of management effectiveness... and one of Tom Gardner's tools for digging up Hidden Gems.

Beauty in print

Beauty in print 08/03/2004 04:35 PM
Browsing at my local library, I just came across a display of the winners of this year's Canadian Awards for Excellence in Book Design. I was blown away by the design and content of The Gryphons of Paris, a limited edition collection of black-and-white photos of surpassing beauty. This led me to the web page of the photographer, Ronald Hurwitz, his city vignettes and remarkable portraits. A good reminder that not everything of value can be found on the internet.

Beauty & the Geek

Beauty & the Geek 07/22/2004 07:38 AM
wins Miss Massachusetts .. Beauty & the Geek .. MIT Alumi Profile

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Brains and beauty, etc.

Brains and beauty, etc. 04/16/2004 06:27 PM
A brain study released today shows that the human ability to appreciate aesthetics is based in the prefontal cortex, part of the brain involved in decision making. The scientists at the Balearic Islands University in Spain came to this conclusion by imaging their subjects' brains while looking at art and photography. According to the study, quoted in Scientific American, "'a phylogenetic change in the prefontal cortex could give way to the decorative and artistic profusion' in humans."
Another study published today by Northwestern University suggests that "Eureka!" moments of insight activate "a distinct area in the right hemisphere of the brain's temporal cortex," a region where semantic connections occur.

"For thousands of years people have said that insight feels different from more straightforward problem solving," one of the researchers said. "We believe this is the first research showing that distinct computational and neural mechanisms lead to these breakthrough moments."

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American beauty

American beauty 06/10/2004 07:46 AM
Are all marriages destined for the doldrums?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 12/24/2004 12:21 PM
JewelEye. A jewel that is placed inside your eye. Ooch. [Webpage is slow because it contains two huge pictures.]

Beauty comes in threes

Beauty comes in threes 06/01/2004 09:47 PM
Computer Times Jun 2 2004 2:28AM GMT

Bookbinding beauty

Bookbinding beauty 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
David Pescovitz: Princeton University Library's special collection of antique handcrafted bookbindings is utterly amazing. It's a shame that more books today aren't published with such artistry. I'd definitely buy "special editions" of my favorite books. Pictured, a 15th century edition of De civitate Dei, Venetian binding, blind-tooled goatskin. Lin k (via MetaFilter)

Industrial beauty

Industrial beauty 01/17/2004 10:57 PM
These photoos of human-made toxic disasters -- mining tailings, tire-piles, oil refineries, etc -- capture the beauty of industrial horror. Link (via JWZ's Livejournal)

Beauty and the Breast

Beauty and the Breast 05/13/2004 10:57 AM

Manuel Schmettau says:

"An artwork (video) by my friend Amy Jenkins, featuring her daughter breastfeeding and falling asleep, has been called "distasteful" and removed from an exhibition at Salvatore Ferragamo's 5th Avenue store. (Ferragamo originally invited Amy to create the piece for their store's art gallery on the second floor.)

When asked to "create an artwork using inspiration from objects in their store," Amy was promised complete artistic freedom. Hesitant at first, she explored the store and fell in love with a little pair of red shoes, which turned out to be called the "Audrey" shoes (they were originally designed for Audrey Hepburn.) As her daughter is also named Audrey, she felt it was fate to accept the invitation. It was not a commercial commission, and she financed the production of the video herself.

Amy would love to show this piece elsewhere, unfortunately it was made specially for their 42" widescreen monitor (a costly item that she doesn't own!) Her hope is that "The Audrey Samsara" will soon be shown at a more open-minded venue."

The New York Daily News ran an item about the controversy. Lin k

pure bug beauty

pure bug beauty 03/25/2005 03:48 PM
Overheard in New York is one of my absolute favorite sites on The Internets, especially when they share things like...

He Drank in Their Beauty

He Drank in Their Beauty 04/10/2005 02:06 PM
Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson had another vice: thirteenth stepping new female members: "First you teach them the Twelve Steps, and then you take them to the bedroom and teach them the Thirteenth Step."

In Science, Beauty

In Science, Beauty 04/14/2005 02:33 AM

This is delightful: the UBC Botanical Garden’s Botany Photo of the Day, to which I’ve subscribed. My favorites are the first entry and, from this week, the Akebia (we have one at home).

Beauty in Computing

Beauty in Computing 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

Beauty in Computing

A little random but I'm thinking over stuff as I ponder next features (and I also needed a post to verify my rss expiration function).  I'm always amazed by the prettiness that Linux is capable of when the right theme is developed.  A.Sleep's stuff is a good example.  [_Go_]< /A>

What made me think of this is Brent's rant on Windows XP and the playskool interface.  I wonder if he'd like A.Sleep's stuff better.  [_Go_]

The Beauty of REST

The Beauty of REST 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Through his LibraryLookup project, Jon Udell finds that you don't need to understand what REST is in order to benefit from its use in a system.

Beauty Counts - Even For Lobsters

Beauty Counts - Even For Lobsters 05/27/2004 08:00 AM
CBS News May 27 2004 12:29PM GMT

I Am Synced. The Beauty Of iSync

I Am Synced. The Beauty Of iSync 04/22/2004 12:01 PM
By Apple-X.net (via MyAppleMenu)

The Curse of Beauty for Serious
Musicians

The Curse of Beauty for Serious
Musicians 05/27/2004 03:26 PM
Classical music still seems to have trouble dealing with strong women. If you're attractive, it seems, you must also be cheesy and commercial.

Beauty is Navel Deep

Beauty is Navel Deep 01/06/2004 01:16 PM
The world's hottest female celebrities are suffering from heartburn, breathing problems, constipation, digestive disorders, and other maladies, according to Sri Kalima's analysis of their exposed belly buttons. (01-06)

Beauty is Only Screen Deep

Beauty is Only Screen Deep 10/17/2002 08:03 AM

Depression and The Beauty that Remains

Depression and The Beauty that Remains 01/23/2004 06:33 PM
Over the last several days, there has been an extraordinary bloom of sweet commentary pursuant to my last three posts regarding the departure of Spalding Gray. Your eloquence, humor, and, above all, your honesty are proof to me that he is alive and, indeed, becoming more so in your hearts. You are his witnesses. What you've said here is all the evidence one needs that Spalding planted something beautiful, if a little goofy, in this world that will continue to blossom even without his being here to tend it. I am particularly grateful to the many who've openly discussed their own battles with depression, the most insidious enemy there can be. Fighting clinical depression is an inevitably lonely struggle. What could be less conducive to compassion than a disease that make you whine? Laymen and loved ones tell you to get a grip. They make you feel ashamed to be sick. Even if they're more enlightened about the disease, they can't help but harbor a secret, naturally human, belief that you are suffering a failure of will rather than biochemistry. Meanwhile, the doctors consider little but the neuro-soup and turn you into a shambling medical experiment, testing pharmaceutical nostrums on you that are as blunt as the mind is subtle, though just as unpredictable. Meanwhile, your cold world trudges on. It remains, despite all visible signs of well-being - wonderful spouse, great kids, well-located house, whatever - a purgatory of uselessness, barren of joy and meaning. Love, incoming or out-going, becomes something you think, not feel. I am very grateful that this has provided a forum where some of you feel free to speak of this affliction, which is too often suffered in a terrible silence. I am also very grateful for the personal tales you've told about your encounters with him, real and virtual, and how he affected your lives. Your comments are ample evidence that he was a good teacher. I fear that his children, and in particular his marvelous young sons, Forrest and Theo, will remember little of who he really was and what he really did. Worse, I suspect that much of what will remain as the memory of their father will be shadowed by who he became after depression closed its ghostly fist around his light. To the goal that they might re-remember him for them through our tales, I want to make a little book of your comments following the last three posts and give it to them. If any of you object to being included, and I hope none of you will, please let me know. They are better than the flowers one might send otherwise....

New iMac's Beauty In The Eye Of The
Beholder

New iMac's Beauty In The Eye Of The
Beholder 09/20/2004 01:07 PM
By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News (via MyAppleMenu)

css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design

css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design 08/17/2004 03:40 PM
tool for navigating between CSS Zen entries .. css Zen Garden Easy Navigation

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Beauty is only skin deep

Beauty is only skin deep 02/12/2004 12:46 PM

Don Norman is speaking now at Etech.

He's one of my heros. I wish I could give you all the transcript of his speech - as he oftens clears my mind, wakes me up and reminds me of what's important.

He's just finished a new book on Beauty and Design.

 

A thing of beauty is (now) a joy forever

A thing of beauty is (now) a joy forever 04/19/2005 04:22 AM
You may have to watch a brief ad to read the story. “My new heroes are the Brigham Young researchers whose scanners have unveiled ancient fragments of Sophocles, Euripides and the earliest Gospels.” “When I was a high school student studying Latin, my teacher, an owlish woman named Mrs. Hodges, would often ask us to translate on the fly as we were plodding our way through Virgil’s “Aeneid” or Caesar’s “Gallic Commentaries.” Normally, we…

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Apple Delivers Hyperbole And Beauty

Apple Delivers Hyperbole And Beauty 07/02/2004 11:16 PM
The new iMac is, indeed, a huge idea. And if this idea shakes up the world of design the way that the original iMac did, then the Apple hype will have been justified. By David Pogue, New York Times (via MyAppleMenu)

Althouse: Rituals of the beauty culture.

Althouse: Rituals of the beauty culture. 01/05/2005 10:43 PM
Ann Althouse finds this curious: .. A fantastic post by Ann Althouse

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Beauty? It's linked to good or bad
traits

Beauty? It's linked to good or bad
traits 07/08/2004 08:26 PM
Straits Times Jul 9 2004 0:40AM GMT

Beauty queen sues 59 over net sex romp

Beauty queen sues 59 over net sex romp 03/23/2005 09:51 AM
Websites punting fake porn vid

Beauty pageant planned for over 55s
(Reuters)

Beauty pageant planned for over 55s
(Reuters) 07/26/2004 03:42 AM
Reuters - China is taking the Confucian value of respect for the elderly to a new level -- with a beauty pageant for "gray heads".

Version 5.1: A DragThing of Beauty
(08-Apr-2004; .9K)

Version 5.1: A DragThing of Beauty
(08-Apr-2004; .9K) 04/09/2004 04:01 PM

Version 5.1: A DragThing of Beauty
(12-Apr-2004; 1.5K)

Version 5.1: A DragThing of Beauty
(12-Apr-2004; 1.5K) 04/12/2004 08:39 PM

Emerging Technology: Beauty and the
Beastly PC

Emerging Technology: Beauty and the
Beastly PC 04/15/2004 11:48 AM
Researchers and developers at Microsoft are mixing form with function through software asthetics. Studies have shown that visual stimuli can affect mood, attention and memory. Through graphics and other visual effects, the company is tapping into emotional responses that can help the brain positively process information. Tools in development for managing and displaying digital photos are just one example of how Microsoft is fusing cognitive science and software design.

Thai Lady-Man beauty contest

Thai Lady-Man beauty contest 04/15/2004 01:10 PM
I'm no expert in Thai society, but I'm fascinated by the role of transvestites and transsexuals in Thai movies and popular culture. The relative cultural acceptance of "lady boys" seems to be rooted in part in Buddhist tradition, but modern manifestations owe as much to Holllywood dreams as anything else. For instance: the "Greatest Lady-man Pageant in the World," which took place last Friday in Pattaya, promising lady-men "more beautiful than you have ever seen anywhere before."
Link to Lady-Man Pageant website, Link to Flash-based movie preview website for Beautiful Boxer ("He fights like a man so he can become a woman").

Discovering a New World of Beauty in
Lowly Detail

Discovering a New World of Beauty in
Lowly Detail 05/27/2004 08:05 PM
In the Metropolitan Museum's show of Italian art, the viceral joy will likely come from happening on artists you might not know.

Apple's New iMac: Skin-Deep Beauty

Apple's New iMac: Skin-Deep Beauty 09/01/2004 04:13 AM
The updated desktop is easy on the eyes, but if you want sweeping innovation, or even adequate memory, it falls short. By Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek (via MyAppleMenu)

Fraud Claims Mar Beauty Contest
(Reuters)

Fraud Claims Mar Beauty Contest
(Reuters) 09/14/2004 11:00 AM
Reuters - Not even Venezuela's famed beauty queen pageants can escape cries of fraud these days -- especially when they are judged by the country's electoral authority.

Macworld Boston 2004: Brains Over Beauty

Macworld Boston 2004: Brains Over Beauty 07/14/2004 06:41 PM
Since you don't have the magnificent mother ship on the trade show floor attracting minions from all over the world, you have to go with what's in your control. And that's content. By Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Deer Breaks Into Conn. Beauty Salon (AP)

Deer Breaks Into Conn. Beauty Salon (AP) 06/25/2004 05:24 PM
AP - An intruder at a local business turned out to be as destructive as a bull in a china shop because it was a deer in a beauty salon.
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