March 2009
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Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
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"Sixth Sense" wearable technology →
Demo of a device which can project an interface onto any surface… I’m sure that where they’re at right now isn’t quite as slick as the demo, but still, pretty damn impressive.
Mar 26th
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“We have noticed a stark decline in IDF morals concerning the Palestinian...”
– Dani Filc, chairman of Physicians for Human Rights Israel in an article in the Guardian about Gaza war crimes investigations. Three videos form the basis of this article, and can be watched here, or the article in full, with supporting text here .
Mar 24th
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Heaven (Fully Flared Intro Video Remix) Another super slo-mo skate vid at the start, where it’s just beautiful shots but without any of the action - the heel-flips, and drops, and the like… …and then BAM! Skating the apocalypse. HD-tastic. New video for Unkle’s awesome track Heaven. via Fubiz
Mar 24th
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Marathon du Mont Blanc 2008 Bugger, what have I let myself in for? Although I’ll only be doing the Cross: 23km.
Mar 23rd
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Mar 23rd
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Struktable Multitouch Installation (via Vimeo) Welcome to the future… (originally seen via Fubiz)
Mar 20th
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I was using Prism for a while, for my work-based GMail as well as Remember the Milk, but the interface was just a bit clunky. The spell-checking didn’t work in GMail (en français) and the Mozilla rendering engine is just a bit ugly in OS X, compared to WebKit. So in pops Fluid, based on WebKit & a whole lot more extensible, with the support of UserScripts (aka GreaseMonkey). I’m...
Mar 19th
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Mar 18th
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Mar 18th
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You are being lied to about pirates →
The coverage I’d read about Somalia’s pirates over the couple of months has all been about what they’re doing and how ruthless they are. I had no idea that there were such (Western-rooted) causes behind it. I knew the country is in ruins since the start of the nineties, but I didn’t realise to what extent Western governments have taken advantage of this. Dumping of...
Mar 17th
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Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Every muscle aches. My hands are covered in cuts & grazes. Being in an office following a day of climbing is just not The Radness.
Mar 16th
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Skate - shot on red #1347 - 120 fps (via Vimeo) Cool wee skate video shot around the Palais de Tokyo à Paris.
Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Scourge of the humans! An amusing wee video, even if it is does pander a little to the arguments of the nay-sayers that climate change is just mass-hysteria.
Mar 13th
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Mar 11th
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REKIEM handcraft factory of skateboard, on Vimeo. (via the Condense blog.)
Mar 11th
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Guardian launches Open Platform service to make... →
Who wants to get mashing (up)?
Mar 10th
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Mar 10th
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Mar 10th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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Timelapse CSS (via Vimeo) Visualising the development process…
Mar 5th
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Mar 4th
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Mar 4th
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“He treats my team like a small startup in which he’s ‘invested some...”
– BBC Builders: Web developer Simon Cross on personalisation and the semantic web
Mar 3rd
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Mar 2nd
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Awesome rain (via Vimeo), via Fubiz At first I thought it was an ad for Adidas, but it makes me think of how much I love running in the rain…
Mar 2nd
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Natalija Gros (via Vimeo)
Mar 2nd