7.27.2006

...wow, what a word artist...

http://www.thingsthatfall.com/flowerpetals.php

at the bottom of the webpage on the right, click on 'words"

THIS IS FOR YOU JULIET !

7.26.2006

imaginary city

http://www.kottke.org/remainder/06/07/11525.html

This from Kottke.org. Linda this is for you. You will like this. A whole city that is unreal.

7.25.2006

web design in 1996

The person writing the reviews made me howl with laughter. What a smart ass.

http://www.msu.edu/~karjalae/internet96.htm

7.13.2006

the big here

http://www.kk.org/helpwanted/archives/001084.php

ways to be here.

I got a score of 6. I think I know the following ones: 8, 16, 22, 24, 28, 30

the big now

http://www.digitalsouls.com/2001/Brian_Eno_Big_Here.html

Very interesting discussion of personal space and time.

7.12.2006

seeing in the 10th dimension

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php

I don't really understand it. But it's pretty cool. It's a flash site that tries to show the concept to you.

4.21.2006

Claude LaLouche

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.

No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.

The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.

Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2851488008488190547&q=lelouch%3E%20

Make sure your sound is on, sit down, fasten your seat belt, and HOLD ON!!"

3.20.2006

DNA Project

Artist, Linda Parnell, is collecting DNA for her sculptures.

http://dnaproject.org/

1.12.2006

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.

11.25.2005

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.