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23.02.2010 Costume

Costume Costume

22.02.2010 Melvin Sokolsky

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21.02.2010 Lenny and Shirley

Ruth Orkin - Lenny-and-Shirley-in-Green-Room-of-Carnegie-Hall,-after-the-Israel-Philharmonic-Concert,-March-1951

20.02.2010 Charles Joseph Minard

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Des tableaux graphiques et des cartes figuratives (Paris, 1862)
via: http://www.edwardtufte.com

19.02.2010 Hares and Jackrabbits

Wayne Anderson, Valley of Peace, 1976John James Audubon - Northern Hare (Winter) - From the Imperial Folio edition of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Hand-colored stone lithograph by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia, 1845Ferdinand Puigaudeau - Shadow Rabbits, 1895

18.02.2010 Best Friend

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17.02.2010 Claude Elwood Shannon

Claude Shannon

Outside of his academic pursuits, Shannon was interested in juggling, unicycling, and chess. He also invented many devices, including rocket-powered flying discs, a motorized pogo stick, and a flame-throwing trumpet.

Read: Shannon – A Mathematical Theory of Communication – 1948

Graphical representation of the constraints on telegraph symbols

Graphical representation of the constraints on telegraph symbols

17.02.2010 Helen Levitt

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16.02.2010 

Door Girl, posingMovies Crown

via: http://www.squareamerica.com

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