After a week, we had a conclusion with the same words: these people look the same; they speak almost the same language, like twin brothers raised in different families.
It’s obvious, but they don’t see that.
The Face2Face project is to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides.
Check out the video of the project.
[via Kottke]
Ok, ninja’s rarely, if ever, use headphones…but if they did, this is how they would be tied.
[via Lifehacker]
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!
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.
[via Digg]
This is certainly one of the more entertaining stories I have heard this week.
Apparently those crazy Swedish guys from the pirate bay (one of the more famous and proactive torrent sites) have had it with Sweden and it’s copyright laws. They want their own nation, and are asking for donations to do it.
Top of their list of nations to purchase is the Principality of Sealand, just off the coast of Britain, for a meagre £65m.
They have even setup a forum to discuss how best to run the new country…why does this remind me of an episode of family guy?
Ever wonder what the Simpsons would be like if they were a manga animation…pretty evil by the looks of things. This image is by space “nina” coyote who does plenty of manga/groening style fanart.
On the back of her work and the buzz created by this image, she has been offered a job at Bongo Comics (Matt Groening’s comic company) working on guess what…a manga-style simpsons comic.
[via Waxy]
What better way to finish a year than with a good’ol’fashioned Zeitgeist.
However the 2006 Google Zeitgeist has been calculated in a slightly different manner. Instead of simply ranking the most popular searches (you know, the way one would expect), they have taken into account last years zeitgeist and ranked on the change as well as the quantity.
The Zeitgeist is “the spirit of time.” This is why when we come up with the lists of top searches on Google.com for 2006, we do not simply retrieve the most frequently-searched terms for the period — the truth is, they don’t change that much from year to year. This list would be predominated by very generic searches, such as “ebay”, “dictionary”, “yellow pages,” “games,” “maps” — and of course, a number of X-rated keywords. These are constants, and although unquestionably popular, we don’t think they actually define the Zeitgeist.
[from Google Blog]
Still interesting stuff though, even if it is a little bit played-with.
Following on from yesterdays Which Superhero Are You? post, this is the Which Supervillian Are You? quiz.
Apparently I am 82% Dr. Doom.
Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.
Ha!
[via TechCrunch]
Upon joining the Cult of Mac, a technological evangelist must speculate about the new weird and wonderful products Apple will be releasing at the next MacWorld.
These are some of the best apple rumours (and the stories behind them) which have pervaded the internet since the company was founded.
Apple to Buy Nintendo - A long-running rumour that surfaces roughly every eight months. The motive behind this story is often nothing more sophisticated than the fact that both Apple and Nintendo have exceptionally faithful fan bases. The temptation to stir both camps into action, bickering over the same rumour, is apparently too much to resist.
The Secret OSX Build - After the launch of OSX, the rumour mill worked itself up over the possibility that Apple was secretly maintaining an Intel version of OSX in a basement room in Cupertino. Because OSX was based on the NeXT OS, and the NeXT OS ran on Intel hardware, it didn’t seem impossible that Apple would have evolved the Intel version alongside the public PowerPC version.
Widescreen Video iPod - Officially the most mocked-up device after the iPhone, the widescreen video iPod does seem like a viable product. Apple has reportedly filed patents on a touch-screen user interface that covers the entire surface of an iPod, leading many to suspect that a future model will feature an LCD across its front surface.
[via Slashdot]
2007 will be the year that interacting with the web (rather than just reading it) will become mainstream. So who better to make predictions than read/write web.
RSS will go mainstream in a big way next year - not only integrated into Microsoft’s new Vista OS, but also fully integrated into Yahoo Mail when it comes out of beta (the Ajax version).
The consumerization of the enterprise trend will start to infiltrate corporate IT, in the form of web-based office apps and more collaborative systems.
Rich Internet Apps will be a major force in 2007 (a continuation of the Hybrid web/desktop apps theme we focused on this year).
…and lets not forget Browser War II - the revenge.
If I remember I will link back here next year, so we can all laugh at how wrong and innocent the predictions were.
[via Read/Write Web]
Just another day in India…
[via Digg]
#310- “We need this to look really amazing - it’s really got to stand out and wow the client. But the budget is small so don´t spend any time working on it.”
(Agency, Account Manager to Designer)
#302- “Could you possibly give us a design for the business card that’s more like the one our CEO designed in PowerPoint?”
(Client, Marketing Director to Designer)
#311- “This all looks nice, but I’m not sure about the color or the way it’s all put on the page. Here are some fabric swatches and some photos of the artwork we just redid our living room with… this is really more what I think we’re going for here. But what you did was nice too!”
(Client feedback)
Gaaah!
and there is a whole site of these quotations…also known as adverbatims.
This is an interesting social site dedicated to exploring human emotion. It scrapes a bunch of weblogs for feelings (words proceeding the phrase “I feel…” or “I am feeling…”). Then adds them along with a bit of metadata (like where the person is from, what the weather is like, how old they are etc.) and finally displays them in a bunch of flash visualisations.
It also creates top tens, such as the ‘greatest’ feeling city, the ’sickest’ city, the most ‘loved’ city…it would appear that people in australia are feeling sick, people in virginia are feeling great (?) and people in denver are angry!
Pretty neat idea and some fascinating visualisations, although the intensive flash has been nuking my poor overworked powerbook…!
When asked by Michael Calore of Wired News if the content on the new video store would contain DRM and if it would be cross-platform compatible, Cohen said, “we’re rolling out with some content DRM’d, using Windows DRM.†By this he also made it clear that content from the store would only play on Windows computers. The company seems to have no plans to expand their offering to users of other OSes.
Windows DRM has been completely left behind in the portable media player market. The iPod can’t play content restricted (read: infected) by Microsoft’s little virus, and neither can Microsoft’s very own Zune!
oh dear, the execs just don’t get it…why is napster (the pay service) failing so miserably? because people don’t want to ‘rent’ their music for the same price as they once paid to own it. Especially as it is easier to get it for free!
[via TorrentFreak]
