July 2010
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I think I'll take a diet coke with that →
We live in truly amazing times, with tools at our disposal that answer all our fundamental questions in the blink of an eye. Such as, “what’s the calorie count of a cubic parsec of fried chicken?”
Jul 25th
“Likewise, we released a movie called Sherlock Holmes at the end of last year and...”
– Burn of the day. Spoofing the big film blockbusters: a BBC news article about mockbuster studio Asylum, source of treasures such as Transmorphers and Snakes on a Train.
Jul 25th
Jul 25th
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HOOD x MISHKA: TRILLWAVE — ergonomically designed for your summertime: the soundtrack to the party after the afterparty or maybe to a sun-drenched backyard barbecue the next day. Download and track list
Jul 24th
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MASNAVI (by Murat Pak)
Jul 10th
June 2010
3 posts
Jun 5th
Jun 5th
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ENVISION : Step into the sensory box A video projection exhibit commissioned by Alcatel-Lucent for the Mobile World Congress, created by French agencies Superbien (lame Flash site warning) and Auditoire.
Jun 5th
May 2010
2 posts
May 27th
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Pools to halfpipes — repurposing the foreclosed ruins of the American dream
May 17th
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April 2010
4 posts
Apr 6th
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Something I just realised after my last post about Cardon Copy: if your site does not offer an RSS feed, it ceases to exist for me after my first visit.
Apr 6th
Apr 6th
“Collapse is simply the last remaining method of simplification.”
– The Collapse of Complex Business Models by Clay Shirky
Apr 1st
March 2010
7 posts
Mar 28th
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Tron Title Sequence, Reimagined for 1960
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February 2010
11 posts
Feb 25th
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Feb 21st
The largest shopping mall in the world - and it's... →
The largest shopping mall in the world is located in Guangzhou, China. And it’s 99% vacant - the perfect location for your next amateur zombie movie. Creepy, ghostly, 14 minutes well spent.
Feb 17th
Feb 17th
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TED Blog: Augmented-reality maps: Blaise Aguera y Arcas on TED.com Worth watching completely, but if you are in a hurry, jump ahead to 04:30 to see a jaw-dropping demo of integrated live video. This is the most interesting technology I’ve seen come out of Microsoft in quite some time.
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Google Streetcar in Berlin | F.A.T. →
How meta: guys plant GPS tracking device on Google Streetview camera car in Berlin, let you follow it on Google Maps.
Feb 7th
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“Figuring out when a software project will ship is a famously difficult problem,...”
– FogBugz: EBS 2.0
Feb 3rd
January 2010
11 posts
Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. Those incantations that only we can perform to heal their computers, those oracular proclamations that we make over the future and the blessings we bestow on purchasing choices. Ask yourself this: in what other walk of life do grown adults depend on other people to...
Jan 30th
“To say that “either a device is user friendly or it’s open” is...”
– Adam Pash on The Problem with the Apple iPad I would be honestly interested in a good example of the contrary being true — something Pash unfortunately doesn’t provide.
Jan 29th
Some open questions on the iPad
Will there be a way to print iWork documents from the iPad? This is one feature I would deem essential if Apple is trying to sell this as a standalone machine for people with limited computing needs. Can it be used completely on its own without ever synching it with iTunes? Can I get emailed MS Office/iWork documents into the iWork apps? How do I get them out of them, and in which formats...
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Jan 16th
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“To put yourself forward as someone good enough to do interesting things is, by...”
– Clay Shirky - A Rant About Women Notwithstanding the title, this is a good read on self-confidence for anyone, irrespective of gender.
Jan 16th
First-Person Tetris →
Jan 15th
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December 2009
13 posts
Dec 30th
“Mike Wilson, a former games marketer with id Software and 15-year veteran of the...”
– Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem
Dec 21st
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