I've been somewhere else lately.

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In August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first  website. Fourteen years on, he tells BBC Newsnight's Mark Lawson how blogging is closer to his original idea about a read/write web.

Full story here.

MTV : starzine, billed as Europe's first magazine to be created entirely by its readers (strapline: 'Snap, Send, Shine - Fame is just a click away'). MTV viewers are invited to contribute to the online magazine by sending in their mobile phone photographs with accompanying copy.

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I tried to register, scrolling down to find Philippines, but not any of the local carrier's prefix, so nada. Maybe you can check it out & have better luck. I did find the photo tips section cool enough for the typical phonecam user, so here.

When I reached the river bank, I couldn't tell who was who. I kept wondering where my daughter was. But  then, she cried for me, ``Mother!'' I recognized her voice. I found her in a horrible condition. Her  face looked terrible. And she still appears in my dreams like that sometimes. When I met her, she said,  ``There shouldn't be any war.'' The first thing she said to me was ``Mother, it took you so I couldn't  do anything for her. My neighbors went back home. They had wounded family members as well. I was all by  myself, and I didn't know what to do. There were maggots in her wounds and a sticky yellowish pus, a  white watery liquid coming out her wounds and a sticky yellowish liquid. I didn't know what was going  on. Her skin was just peeling right off. The maggots were coming out all over. I couldn't wipe them off.  I thought it would be too painful. I picked off some maggots, though. She asked me what I was doing and  I told her, ``Oh, it's nothing.'' She nodded at my words. And nine hours later, she died.

Voice of Hibakusha Eye-witness accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima.

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The day the sky exploded Scientists have finally pieced together exactly what happened when an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

BBC News' In Pictures section, featuring Hiroshima: Now and Then

The Shadows Project In 1988, a group of artists painted shadow outlines of people in public places reminiscent of those created when people were disintegrated by the bomb in Hiroshima. Is it time to resurrect this project, to remind people of the price of nuclear weapons?

Graphic design has become one of the most influential professions in the information/idea age in which we now live, shaping the daily lives of the world’s citizens. Truly amazing tools are at our disposal. And yet so much has not changed… peace still seems elusive, and inequities, injustices, and imbalances continue to be the norm.

Today is World Graphics Day.

//via Speak Up //Poster by Amirali Ghasemi (b. 1980), Iran

New Zealand digital designer Grant Robinson's Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters (see examples below.

I tried moleskine images for above, view bigger image here. View Robinson's other amazing projects here.

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Designers talking behind the backs of other designers. Spread the hate. Harsh Patel is in the hot seat.

//via Surfstation

“My breast flipped inside out so my nipple touched my heart.”