GRK BLOG/ZINE

Based on its company name, they selected an apple as its main form of branding. Initially, the logo depicted a small apple shape sitting under a tree with Apple Computer Co set into the frame of the picture. It is this apple that has continued to be used. The first logo design was perceived to be a bit too complex and hard to view, so Regis McKenna worked on the logo some years later and added a “bite mark” to symbolize the concept of seduction of the customers and the marketplace in general.

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A spinning, cylindrical-shaped structure with the ability to hold 10,000 residents was named the winner of an annual NASA competition which was the brainwork of a Toronto high school student. Eric Yam, a 12th grade student in Toronto’s Northern Secondary School took the grand prize making him the first Canadian to win such an award. The space colony Asten, named after the Egyptian god of balance is 1.6 kilometer-high structure made up of a series of habitation rings stuck in the shape of a cylinder. The entire structure rotates on its axis, simulating Earth-like gravity for its inhabitants. Yam’s plan calls for 15 years of planning followed by 12 years of construction and another three years to make the settlement habitable. His estimated cost to build the station is $563 billion US.

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I found this at wikipedia 5 minutes ago. It is an ABC logo in 1946!  Sorry no higher resolution available.

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Bruce Lee was a paragon of cool and an icon of the ultimate bad-ass. Not only were his martial arts skills incredible, but he had such an impressive physique that even bodybuilders in the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger admired him.

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Beautiful panoramic pictures from the German ‘Luftfahrt Museum’ in Hannover.

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Human hair is a simple thing made of keratin and dead skin cells. Its function is to prevent heat loss from a person’s head, yet it also causes women to weep, men to buy Porsches and people to spend billions each year on its upkeep.
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A study by Cambridge University scientists of highly pressured London traders, whose jobs requires risk taking and quick responses, found the most successful had long ring fingers in relation to their index fingers.

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In the world of sports, especially at the professional level, athletes use every advantage they can to remain competitive. Glare from the sun or stadium lights can interfere with performance by reducing contrast between targets of interest and their background, for example, a ball moving through a crowded stadium.

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Earlier this week Google released Google Earth 5.0 with a new ocean-centric upgrade. With Ocean in Google Earth you can dive beneath the surface and visit the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench.

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Ever heard of these words?

blandiloquent = beautiful and flattering
umbrageous = shady
mellifluous = sweet-sounding
inspissate = to thicken
pelagic = related to the sea or ocean

The alphaDictionary says they are some of the 100 most beautiful words in English.

Tilt-shift miniature faking is a post-processing technique, which involves selectively blurring a photo to simulate the narrow depth of field found in macro photography and some tilt-shift photography, making the image appear to be of a miniature model.

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geek: a person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one who pursues skill and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance.

gang signs: hand signs used by gang members to identify their membership.

Geek Gang Signs.

The world’s view on smoking cigarettes has changed dramatically over the last century. The habit was once considered to be cool, sexy, good for your health, and widely enjoyed by many people. It was promoted by sportsmen, and advertised all over television.

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Photoshoppers, have you use them all before? I started at Photoshop 7.0. Looks like the masking tool is an add-on, PS.87 and PS1 doesn’t have the masking icon on the palette.

Computer mouses have come a long way since they made their wooden box debut about 40 years ago, and now there are literally countless shapes, designs, and features for every type of computer user.

The mouse, an accessory that grew out of a purely functional need for pinpointing and clicking on the computer screen, has now developed into a highly personalized piece of gear with different technical
variations, depending on the primary use. Here is a look at the metamorphosis of the computer mouse over time.

Copy the embed code of the video you want to show from YouTube. Then add ‘&ap=%2526fmt%3D18′ at the places shown in red below.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints.

Google is digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time. Today about 20 percent of the collection is online; during the next few months, Google will be adding the entire LIFE photo archive — about 10 million photos.

The path to modern-day computing is longer than many suspect, and strewn with interesting nuggets of information. These include:

The inventor of e-mail can’t remember when he got it working.
Pac-Man was modelled on a pizza and called Puck-Man until vandals forced a name change.
The first hard drive had a 5MB capacity and could only be moved by a fork-lift truck.
Deep Blue’s chess victory over Garry Kasparov was described as a ‘psychological triumph’.

Full details of these milestones, and other gems of computing history.

Obama Grabs Headlines.

When the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, its main objective was to enable the free exchange of information via interlinked hypertext documents. Almost 20 years later, that objective has been accomplished on most parts of the world, but not in all of them.

Some countries are trying hard to keep an iron hand over the flow of information that takes place on the Web. Here are 10 countries who are censoring the web.