February 2006 Archive
This is where you will find all the weblog entries posted in February 2006.
What you should know about bird flu. Avian influenza, or "bird flu," is a contagious disease of animals caused by viruses that normally infect only birds, and less commonly, pigs. Avian influenza viruses are highly species specific, but have, on rare occasions, crossed the species barrier to infect humans.
Nosferatu is available on Google Video. Great soundtrack.
Law of the People's Republic of China on Love
Soviet War Photography. Images of the Second World War and its Aftermath.
Mel Rosenthal: Photographs from In the South Bronx of America
Butabu - Adobe Architecture of West Africa
Ten Random Cliches!
Ten Random Clichés from the cliché finder
hell is chrome. My God all the chrome in the new outlook.
Street photography in and around Tokyo, Japan
PatentRoom.com: The Art of Industrial Design
Human Nature and the Power of Culture
Interested in Teaching in China?
Out of site. Gallery of places, many abandoned.
MacDevCenter.com: Tweaking Tiger Mail
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography
Music of Nigeria. "Nigerian music includes juju, highlife, fuji, afrobeat, apala, gospel, sakara, jazz, reggae, hip hop and much more. But whatever the style, the theme and the focus of the songs are often greatly influenced by the deep traditions of the over 400 cultural groups which make up Nigeria and in equal parts influenced by the numerous global cultures whose products and aesthetics bombard Nigerians daily through the airwaves and in print and other media."
Holy Land - photos by Shaun O'Boyle
Koffee Korner - Home for the coffee connoisseurs. Planet Earth's most passionate coffee website.
Karl Hartig: Data Visualization
Grandmas' Antique Labels - Something For Everyone!
Under the Open Sky - Photos from Helsinki
Alternative photography. " ... photographic progress has not pleased everyone—and some artists are reviving the antique tools of their trade. Long exposures and cumbersome equipment are back."
For Paul Cyr who I wrote to but had the email bounce. The typeface I use for Shao Kelake and Kelake is P22's Cézanne. I like it very much.
Creativity on Credit - Best websites of the year
Kamat's Potpourri: The Colors of India. The late Raghubir Singh, one of India's most prominent photographers, once said that India is inherently is a colorful nation and black and white photographs can never do complete justice to India's vast diversity.
Feng Shui is much more than a way of arranging furniture for good luck. The Chinese geomancers have a very intricate set of beliefs with roots in Animism, Taoism and Confucianism. Feng shui teaches that the earth has rivers of energy, much like the meridians in the human body of the acupuncturists. Feng shui also takes into account stellar alignments, including some mysterious invisible stars in the north which don't seem to correspond to a present-day constellation.
