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A beautifully designed site takes a “through the years” look at a beautifully designed magazine.

An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott’s legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982). This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels). It was made with 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’.

Well, not exactly Farmville, but rather the makers of the game, Zynga. Together with a couple other developers, they created Membase, a NoSQL database to power the back-end of their game. The beauty of it is that it is available as an open source product. Powerful tools like this aren’t always cheap, but it’s great to see companies making excellent technology and sharing it with the rest of us.

calvetica is a sparse and beautiful iPhone calendar application. It oozes elegance and simplicity on the screen. The best feature – aside from Helvetica? Speed. calvetica integrates with the built-in calendar database, so any external links, such as Google Calendar, are maintained and synchronization happens immediately. The focus on typography makes it look like it belongs on Windows Phone 7. Interesting…

Virginia Heffernan ponders the value of Amazon Prime and considers differential pricing. A good read that left me wondering if I really need “free” two day shipping.

This is an insightful article (yes, it’s longer than 140 characters). Remember, before there was LOLing, there was lolling.

Cory Doctorow gives a short review of a speculative/historical/science fiction novel that sounds enthralling. I can’t believe I somehow missed this. It’s now part of my Kindle collection.

I really loved Pownce because it handled media so well. Now, Twitter is shoe-horning the features in, and it’s just plain sloppy. I would love it if Pownce were revived. It was the perfect place between Twitter and Facebook, and it only failed because it was available too early in the game.

Hilarious, and most likely all true. Bravo, John.

Apple has released a letter to the public today addressing the iPhone 4 antenna issue. To start with, gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception by 1 or more bars. This is true of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, as well as many Droid, Nokia and RIM phones. But some users have reported that iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the lower left corner of the metal band. This is a far bigger drop than normal, and as a result some have accused the iPhone 4 of having a faulty antenna design. ...