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Arty things

Bad things with cardboard Funky little robot NYC Marathon Ants Matchbox cars gone mad A dysmorphic Xbox body

Better interaction

A better small-device keyboard Easier interaction with small devices 3D sculpting with multi-touch Oliver Jeffers’ new interactive iPad kids book Improving traffic lights

Content Aware Fill In Real Time

Think about it as Adobe Photoshop Content-Aware fill but in real time, using a video camera connected to your computer or smartphone. Here is the result:

Taste Kid: When you want to have ‘relations’ with your mediaz

Check it out: http://www.tastekid.com/like/American+Psycho This will at least help when you’re stuck thinking about how to use up your monthly bandwidth quota!

Google Docs Konami Code

Google has added a new easter egg to Docs. Go to your Google Docs, create a new document, and hit: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, and then enter, and behold. This is why Google forever will be fucking awesome. The Pac-Man doodle, this Konami code easter egg… they truly are [...]

Tipp-Ex + Hunter + Bear = Good funny

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tippexperience&annotation_id=annotation_820885&feature=iv It’s certainly not the first one of these YT takeovers I’ve seen, but it is one of the better ones. Obviously the fact that they’ve included the whole Subservient Chicken thing, where you can tell the hunter what to do to the bear is rad too.

Marketing vs Intelligence: The road to victory, or just some light reading

Interested in some futurey webernet things and how they’ll impact marketing, read this: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_publishing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_advertising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis http://www.chiefmartec.com/2010/01/7-business-models-for-linked-data.html http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2010/07/surfing-the-forrester-wave-listening-platforms-q3-2010/ If not, I am not bovverd. But I do wonder how far away an Australian Marketing Director is from actually being interested. My guess is a loooooooooooonnnnng way.

Bret Easton Ellis @ Melbourne Writers Festival

Some digital set-top boxes are more equal than others

A few months back, I bought a cheap digital set-top box (dgtec hd usb dg-hd6760) to go with my hundred year old CRT TV. I had low expectations to start with, but somehow, they weren’t low enough. Everything was fine, except recording to USB never worked and the aspect ratio was always wrong. So I [...]

I take it back… There is a use for stock footage.

Ratatat – Drugs from More Soon on Vimeo.