good eyes

1.06.2006

granularity

this has nothing to do with eye food. more entertainment food.

Wow. What an idea. Cringley just wrote such an interesting speculation article about the direction of television advertising. If he is wrong then google should do what he says. Genius.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060105.html

You (anyone) can cheeply buy search result ad space on google. You create an account with google AdSense. In that account you say I will bid 25 cents to show my text-only ad about my pink flamingo ceramics if someone searches for the words pink flamingo ceramics. If nobody has bid higher than 25 cents then your ad gets shown. Your ad will be shown to someone specifically looking for what you are selling. That's "granularity" in advertising. TV advertising in contrast as very little granularity. Everyone sees the same beer ad even if they only like wine.

Ok.

What has me excited is downloading tv shows. But the sucky part is that I have to pay for the tv shows through iTunes. That is just plain wrong. I want them for free. I don't care if they have advertising built into them. Well the idea Cringely is pitching is that Google will sell AdSense concept to TV stations. If TV stations will allow people to download tv shows for free then Google will hook up granular advertising for the TV stations. So people who like wine only see wine commercials.

Brilliant.

11.29.2005

monkey's have accents

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17413711-13762,00.html

What a strange idea. Via Fark.

11.25.2005

visualize your dreams

http://www.solaas.com.ar/dreamlines

Enter a word from your dream and see it visualized.

11.09.2005

Templates for Sale for Websites

http://allwebcodesign.com/

society burning

http://watch.windsofchange.net/paris_burning.htm#view

"
Picture shows a warehouse bruning in the early hours of 04 November 2005 in Aulnay-sous-Bois on the seventh consecutive night of violence on the ouskirts of the French capital. More than 1,300 police were deployed to again do battle with groups of stone- and bottle-throwing youths that have torched hundreds of vehicles and vandalised buildings in rampages in low-income, high-immigrant districts since 27 October following a reportedly accidental electrocution of two teenagers who had hidden in an electrical sub-station to escape a police identity check in the suburb at the epicentre of the troubles, Clichy-sous-Bois.

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(Photo credit JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

11.03.2005

13 things that don't make sense

http://www.sixside.com/13_things_that_do_not_make_sense.htm

Very interesting article/blog on odd ideas that are scientifically true, like the placebo effect. Very personable and fast read.

flight as light

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/faa/

Beautiful quicktime movies of flight patterns by Aaron Koblin. Via Kottke.

The blobular one is so strange and cellular.

10.31.2005

the world from above

http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/html/Amazing-Aerial-Photography.html

10.30.2005

polor ice melting, satellite proof

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2005/2005092820527.html

polor ice melting, satellite proof

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2005/2005092820527.html

10.26.2005

waiting for the phone to ring

http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/bluetooth-vibrator-brings-joy-to-techsavvy-ladies-133325.php
From Gizmodo:

Bluetooth Vibrator Brings Joy to Tech-Savvy Ladies
READ MORE: Bluetooth Vibrator, Gadgets, The Toy

See, as a woman, I knew there was a reason I learned about technology. Not so I can report on all the fabulous things going on in the industry, but because now I can enjoy things like a Bluetooth vibrator called The Toy that, incidentally, is linked to your cellphone and controlled by SMS messages. I mean, sure, we’ve seen techie love toys before— like the G5 Massager / Vibrator / Apple Lawsuit—but this one, well, it’s different. Basically, it’s “worn internally” (let’s leave that one alone, shall we?) and when an SMS is sent from the phone it’s linked up to, it turns into vibrations, depending on what has been written (each letter has a different effect). Again, I’m going to leave that to your imagination. Oh, and in case you’re worried that your Bluetooth Vibrator is going to show up on everyone’s list of bluetooth devices, don’t fret. It will only show up on the one phone it’s linked to. Of course, it can also be used manually (thank goodness) with a rechargeable battery.

The toy - Bluetooth vibr

quirky sculpture

http://www.shaynedark.com/index.htm

10.23.2005

bush floundering around

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm

10.20.2005

fill in the bubbles

This is a pretty interesting project. The guy put blank talk bubbles on advertising and passersby added the text. Some is very funny.

http://www.thebubbleproject.com/