Some unpleasant, some meaningful, some humorous…
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Monthly Archive for January, 2007
Ok, so the image is pretty misleading…there really aren’t that many images of the device yet.
The Seagate D.A.V.E. is a little portable hard disk which stores about 20Gb of stuff, that’s about 500 albums in iPod language. The exciting part is that it will also have bluetooth and WiFi built in, something which the iPod has been very shy about adding and which third parties have been incapable or unwilling to do.
This means you wont even need to remove the device from your pocket to load/unload it, no un-knotting, no crawling and no plugging. This means two devices can exchange files without a computer. This means (potentially, in the not too distant future) people can carry their operating systems around with them…computers can become dumb terminals again.
Oh yeah, the D.A.V.E. also has an API so crazy developers can do what they do best…we like Seagate!
This neat little device will apparently be officially shown off next week and released in the US in the summer for about $150, or dirt cheap if you are in the UK.
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Bill Gates on the Daily Show promoting Vista…
I must say, after my long time apathy towards Vista, I am kinda looking forward to giving it a try. Especially after finding that the (some of) the irritating paranoia messages can be turned off.
Some very good casting there…
See the rest of the ads here.
Bubble Bobble spotted in South London.
There are so many little things like this that you notice when you look up in London. Yet so few people notice them, because once you have been here for a while, you seem to stop looking at anything above ground level.
It’s probably because of having to avoid the crazy taxi drivers all the time!
This is a pretty impressive rendition of Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat with a difference. The artwork is made up from 106,000 cans, a visualisation of how many cans of soda are consumed in the US every thirty seconds.
It is from the Running the Numbers series by photographer Chris Jordan.
[via Reddit]
This is one of the Manimali by extraordinary body painter Guido Daniele.
Check out a gallery of his other works, the detail is amazing!
[via Fresh Pics]
This youtube video has received almost 200,000 views…thats a lot of self-hypnotism!
The pattern design on buses and trains is something of an art form. It is about creating a pattern which doesn’t show the copious quantity of stains, marks or rips, rather than making something aesthetically pleasing.
This interesting flickr set is a collection of many patterns from public transport around the world.
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This huge creation, almost 150cm long is entirely made from lego. The detail is quite amazing!
Check out the gallery for more images, and this other lego starship by a different artist.
[via BinaryBonsai]
The underwater sculpture gallery in Grenada, West Indies. The piece shown is The Lost Correspondent
Check out the gallery of other, undersea works, as well as a quicktime video showing some of the works.
Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly.
This is oddly compelling viewing, especially if you are trying to get a screenshot of a good one to put on your blog.
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After a little tinkering here and there, and a few hours where everything was broken and I was to be found furiously grimacing at the laptop screen, the tag system is now finally fixed!
The tag system got broken when I first added the morehistory.js or EverScroll as I like to call it. The break was caused by some rather inflexible code which I had used to get wordpress to pickup the right posts to be displayed.
After an extended stretching session, it is now limber enough to be able to call only posts with particular tags (such as imagery, tech, video etc). The same inflexible code had to be fixed on the AJAX portion which makes the content appear as you scroll, this was a little more complex, but is now also fixed.
I also added a tweak to remove the rather nasty category pages and replace them with the nifty everscrolling tag pages, so you can now press the category links at the top of the post to be spirited away to a listing of posts in that category, displayed nicely…with everscroll 
A gallery of images of eyes…fascinating!
[via It's Knuttz] - as much as I dislike the ‘made for digg’ ethos behind this blog, some of the stuff is kinda interesting.