Friday the Third of July, 2009

Multicolr Search Lab - Id=E9e Inc.
"We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most 'interesting' Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour." (filed under: colour photos)
I think there are stairs hereCraters of the MoonGlanced at: Martin Moore Blog: The Case of the Missing Journalists • Ferreting out swine flu - virus causes slightly more severe disease than seasonal flu : Not Exactly Rocket Science • Kevin Kelly • Government warns public not to buy anti-swine flu drugs on internet | World news | guardian.co.uk • The online royalty free clipart 20378 - vector clip art online, royalty free & public domain • Billie Tweets - a Twitter tribute to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" • File:723px-Orang-utan bukit lawang 2006.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Procter & Gamble (Health & Beauty Care) Ltd • Symbols.com - Symbol 24:44 • Adam Harvey :: AHProjects >> Anti-Paparazzi Fashion
Recently listened to:
River of Bass Underworld
86 TV's I Am Kloot
Miri It Is Circulus
The Ruling Class The Monochrome Set
Don't Drop the Baby Low
I Have Forgiven Jesus Morrissey
Now We Slide Things in Herds
Essential Wear for Future Trips to Space Ballboy
Beardyman And The Mimics BBC Radio 4
Gin Soaked Boy The Divine Comedy

Recently played on the Xbox 360:
The Orange BoxThe Orange Box
500/1000
Magic: The GatheringMagic: The Gathering
40/200
Saints Row 2Saints Row 2
335/1250
Kane & Lynch: Dead MenKane & Lynch: Dead Men
110/1250
Alone In The DarkAlone In The Dark
80/1000

Thursday the Second

BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world
"Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another." (filed under: ants world genetics apocalypse)
Former soy processing plantfizzPOPGlanced at: Guardian Activate 09 - Roo Reynolds • ZX Spectrum vs BBC Micro: the TV drama News // Retro /// Eurogamer - Games Reviews, News and More • Pez Suing Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia • Free Criticism, Science After Data, and Airport Books - Anil Dash • a minor revelation - Anil Dash • BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up | Online Journalism Blog • Gizmodo - I Dare You to Not Buy This PlayStation iPhone Case Immediately - iphone cases • Cake Orchestra (with additional percussion) on Vimeo • Radio Spiritworld (Inter-dimensional) • UK swine flu can no longer be contained | World news | guardian.co.uk • The Nut and the Feisty Weasel • OECD Factbook eXplorer for analysing country statistics

Tuesday the Thirtieth of June

China Cracks Down on Virtual Currency, For Real - China Journal - WSJ
"According to new regulations released jointly by the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Culture last week, virtual currency should be exchanged only for virtual goods and services provided by the issuer of the currency. ‬‪‬‪Gambling and lotteries involving virtual money are also prohibited under the new rules, which could put a big dent in online game activities. According to Sohu.com, 90% of online games in China include loopholes that allow users to bet with virtual money. " (filed under: money china games mmorpgs)
The shardThe Gigantic Robot VodkaMinimalism175. In the parkGlanced at: Pizza Party • Project Wonderful - Log in • From Spanish to swine - how H1N1 kicked off a 91-year pandemic era : Not Exactly Rocket Science • Making poetry at Shift Happens | My Place Or Yours • Michael Jacksons Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search • Delia Online relaunch goes sour >> malcolm coles • 'Lightbulb' molecule has a bright future - tech - 23 June 2009 - New Scientist • How an Indie Musician can make $19,000 in 10 hours using Twitter | Music Business and Trend-Mongering • bigblueglobe...Ramblings from Tom about Antarctica, New Zealand, Colorado, ECUADOR and the World... • The Straight Dope: Why do wintergreen Life Savers spark when crunched? • copyranter: High-tech anti-domestic violence advertising. • Dot Matrix Mighty Wallet Tyvek: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home • drawdio - a pencil that lets you draw music • Craziest banner-ad ever? // Current • Elsinore Baby! New Hamlet Preview! (Magical Wasteland) • Wonderland: Sociable television (as it should be) • Why 20p in the hand may be worth 300 - Home News, UK - The Independent • Stop campaigning and start committing / we are social • U.S. Finishes A 'Strong Second' In Iraq War | The Onion - America's Finest News Source • In the Kidney Trade: Seller Beware - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com • TAG

Monday the Twenty-Ninth

Marc Steinmetz Photography | Escape Tools
Scratch-built tools and weapons. "Shotgun made from iron bedposts; charge made of pieces of lead from curtain tape and match-heads, to be ignited by AA batteries and a broken light bulb." (filed under: prison technology design germany) (via: amuchmoreexotic)
28/06/2009Glanced at: Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts - SFScope - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror • Gallery - Picture of the day - Image 1 - New Scientist • An iPhone app for Barcelona's bike sharing service - Springwise • Keeping News of David Rohdes Kidnapping Off Wikipedia - NYTimes.com • Swedish parents keep 2-year-old's gender secret - The Local • Killer of Oregon man gets pizza, fried chicken in plea deal • Why slime oozes appeal for the planets future - Building Design • laboratory tests of vegan restaurants in la | vegan food and living in Los Angeles • Michael Jackson's death hit Glastonbury hard and the news channels harder | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian • Global Update - Drug-Resistant Swine Flu Turns Up in Denmark - NYTimes.com • Bloomberg Announces 'Big Apps' Contest, Says He'll Dine With Winner | Politicker NY | New York Politics News, Reaction, and Analysis • kidmapper - FriendFeed • The Associated Press: Police arrest Sri Lanka astrologer for prediction

Thursday the Twenty-Fifth

Electronic Arts invites the pirates to tea | Blog | Futurismic
"The CEO of computer games publisher Electronic Arts is openly asking software pirates to redistribute their titles. Why? Because they’ve worked out that it’s easier to make money selling stuff within the framework of a game than it is to sell a game itself." (filed under: games future money business piracy) (via: suttree)
BBC - Archive - Moon LandingsSite safetyEmergent GameRM1941 at Bow ChurchEmergent GameEmergent GameEmergent GameGlanced at: YouTube - Dome Over Houston June 13 2009 Channel 2 KPRC • Strange Gel Remote Concept by Panasonic by CubeMe • Sev's ScummVM notes: GPL, ScummVM and violations • Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardians (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment >> Nieman Journalism Lab • If you lived here you would be home by now • DenverAdvertising Agency Design MarketingJobs News for Colorado The Denver Egotist: The Eolution of Online Journalism • BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' • Manor of Northstead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • OBKyC.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x545 pixels) • Creating A Monster • Resurrect Pages :: Add-ons for Firefox • BBC NEWS | England | London | No anthrax in Crossrail remains

Tuesday the Twenty-Third

revcanonical: url shortening that doesn't hurt the internet
"RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative." (filed under: web)
The Gigantic Robot is here...Ponzi! poster designRoof-Bikingmore reactableGlanced at: The Devil Is in the Digits: Evidence That Iran's Election Was Rigged - washingtonpost.com • AndroGamez- android WifiArmy • Panthalassa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Play me Im yours • Machine Minds - Forbes.com • Playmakers Film #2 - Public Space Playmakers • LCROSS_NASA (LCROSS_NASA) on Twitter • Capture The Flag London: SUGGESTED RULES/ORDER OF PLAY • Capture the flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Cambridge University Capture The Flag! • Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival • Flickr: BBC Picture Editors • Leather laptop bag folds 8 ways | Boing Boing Gadgets • Scratch Interact • freeze-b • Big Chief I-Spy (bigchiefIspy) on Twitter • The 1KB CSS Grid by Tyler Tate :: A simple, lightweight approach • http://www.geocities.com/richardsipie/cuttle.htm • Bank charges are normal in Canada | Money | guardian.co.uk • C4 backs creative writing game | News | Broadcast • YouTube - '2012' Trailer HD • War Book reveals how Britain planned to cope with nuclear attack | UK news | guardian.co.uk • Cheap Hotels: 5 star, hostels or unnamed bargains...

Monday the Twenty-Second

Brain treats tools as temporary body parts : Not Exactly Rocket Science
"These studies show that our brains are quick to update our body schemas when tools fall into our hands, and that the revised representations last for at least 10-15 minutes." (filed under: brains technology cutlery)
Sketchbook page 16Gent's AlarmMayor of GrumpytownGlanced at: Digital Ministry - How not to use Twitter: HabitatUK as a case study • The return of the seaside pier | Jonathan Glancey | Art and design | The Guardian • Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com • Metal Heart on Vimeo • Are research labs just too scary? - 90 Percent of Everything • NLA goes hell for leather to destroy newspapers online with backlink charging plan | Media is Social: Craig McGill, PR, Social Media, Digital • Twitterers claim victory over loaded Daily Mail gypsy poll | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog • The Tenth Level (1975) (TV) • Monday Puzzle: The Lady or the Toaster? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com • British Library publishes online archive of 19th-century newspapers | Media | The Guardian • Stweet - Latest Tweet for london

Thursday the Eighteenth

Investigate your MP's expenses - guardian.co.uk
Crowdsourcing boring research. "Some pages will be covering letters, or claim forms for office stationery. But somewhere in here is the receipt for a duck island. And who knows what else may turn up. If you find something which you think needs further attention, simply hit the button marked 'investigate this!' and we’ll take a closer look." (filed under: politics money news crowds)
Twitter Fire ActionGlanced at: 'Green Box' Product Promo (Pizza Box) on Vimeo • Symmetric difference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • b3ta.com board • Hillcrest Labs: Loop pointer • Ruleset Voting - Playtest #5 Playmakers • Why We Protest - IRAN - Powered by vBulletin

Wednesday the Seventeenth

Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. | Derek Sivers
"Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen. Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed. " (filed under: psychology)
Alice and Kev
"This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes." (filed under: simulation society narrative) (via: dan)
Not a LibraryTen Grand in IE5.5Glanced at: Bitterness: The Next Mental Disorder? | Psychology Today • Far Cry 2: Who am I? at roBurky • Space Rangers 2: Arthur Stone and the Rusty Nail at roBurky • YouTube - First bike trick EVER. Edison All • gameplaywright.net // story, games, together • Michael Geist - Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society • No Rock And Roll Fun: Digital Britain: a world where no file need fear violation • Op-Ed: Microbes May Be More Networked Than You Are | Wired Science | Wired.com • Terror law used to stop thousands 'just to balance racial statistics' | UK news | guardian.co.uk • ID Scanning Systems and Data Protection Best Practice Advice - WhatDoTheyKnow • A Metaphor for ARGs | Mssv • ::.BEACON.::

Saturday the Thirteenth

Mobile phones: Sensors and sensitivity | The Economist
"Sense plans to collect positional information from a control group of infected patients. [They] will then be able to determine which neighbourhoods these patients frequent, and their commuting patterns between them. They hope this will then enable them to work out the characteristics of typical TB patients, so that they can then spot potentially infected people in the wider population." (filed under: phones maps pestilence surveillance) (via: badscience)
The Yale of BeaufortGlanced at: CRAP paper accepted by journal - opinion - 11 June 2009 - New Scientist • Ian Bogost - Cascading Failure • Emptyage Hey Is That ... ? • Romn Corts >> The Simpsons Minus The Simpsons • Wikipedia : Rob Matthews • microsia - molecular tunes / a game by harmless fishes • Kotaku - This Flight Sim Needs 120 Graphics Cards Just To Get Off The Ground - Technology • YouTube - Ilta-Sanomat: The way it was meant to be • Penny Arcade! - Automata

Friday the Twelfth

iCream - Google Maps
"Using the music played by ice cream vans to learn stuff. Maybe. What do ice cream van territories look like? How big are they? Do they overlap?" (filed under: food maps ice music transport sound)
KukulkanAbstractGlanced at: UNIQLO CALENDAR • Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate • Trending Topics: Hot Wikipedia Topics - Powered by Hadoop & EC2 • Salon.com News | The Learjet repo man • Mr. Penumbras Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com) • Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - Video Blogs - Kudo Tsunoda Demos Project Natal - Jimmy Fallon's Video Blog | NBC Official Site • RConversation: "All new computers are required to wear condoms...." • Cache-cache pour les petits, Hide&Seek pour les grands | Fais Moi Jouer ! • jaggeree /Blog : : QNTMFSLC - a game of espionage over Twitter • In the Pipeline: • fizzPOP >> Blog Archive >> City of a 1000 spaces? • Nintendo announces DS Classroom News // DS /// Eurogamer - Games Reviews, News and More • Twitter Moves Up The Twitpocalypse. All Hell May Break Loose Today. • Why next-gen games went gray, brown, and grey. Allegory of the Game • Dungeon Tile Mapper -- v1.2.0 • Literary Lesson: Authors, Poets Write the News Forward.com • Ecocomics: Batman Villains and Cooperation: A Utility Analysis

Thursday the Eleventh

Galleri Tom Christoffersen - Henrik Menne
"Their process is always silent, controlled and structured by repetitive movements as the machines transform a single material - plastic, wax, metal or stone - into peculiar objects." (filed under: art emergence plastic)
ClubsGlanced at: MUTR Teaching Resources - Solar active Threads - Fabrics and Fibres • BBC - Horizon - How to make better decisions • Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash • Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity | FactoryCity • Dolores Labs Blog >> Bing is an Improvement over Live, but Still Not Google Quality: Evaluating Bing With Mechanical Turk • The Escapist : Robbing Gods • BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Periodic table gets a new element • Social Sciences and Society - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com • YouTube - DEADLINE post-it stop motion • YouTube - DEADLINE the making of • GC Summit 2009 • Are downloads really killing the music industry? Or is it something else? | Technology | guardian.co.uk • BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Nature, Series 2, Pollination • Who should get the blame for the new iPhone pricing models? • BBC World Service - Special Reports - Save Our Sounds • DozoR

Wednesday the Tenth

Urban adventure game kills entrant | RT
A death in pervasive gaming. "22-year-old Kirill Zhirovov was killed when he was trying to accomplish one of the game’s tasks, the Russian newspaper Trud reports. The organizers hid the code on top of a forsaken transformer box." (filed under: games pervasive death russia) (via: pgtd)
Ripping Palettes for Better Colors - Indiegamer Developer Discussion Boards
"Here's a process that yields great color schemes fast, from any source image. The process extracts the color scheme from an existing work of art and arranges the colors into an organized palette image. Use this resulting image like a painter's palette to choose colors for your own artwork or game assets." (filed under: art hacking) (via: zarba)
Schulzian bust? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Beat the STRIKE - get a BIKE! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Ghost Story on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Board Games (gamerati) | Ed Healy - London's Metropolitan Police accused of waterboarding suspects - Times Online - A List Apart: Articles: Managing Werewolves - Welcome To The North >> A whole lot of nothing - YouTube - paper computing - Magic 2010 Rules Changes : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering - nuTsie.com : Free Your iTunes - Listen now! - playlists, music, songs, ringtones, MP3s, lyrics, and CDs. nuTsie.com - The Geek Atlas | O'Reilly Media - How 18th Century Technology Could Down An Airliner | Autopia | Wired.com - rooreynolds's microprinter at master - GitHub - Last.fm the Blog Message from the Last.fm founders, Felix, RJ and Martin - Remembering the true* first portable computer The Register - Science Museum - Home - To Improve Public Health, City Urges Use of Stairs - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com - At Bronx Court, Elevator Woes Slow Justice - New York Times - Capes. And bees. on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - , dozor, , dozor, , , , , , , , , , ra - DozoR / - Army Mechanic's Garage Tinkering Yields 18-Foot Mecha Exoskeleton | Popular Science - Come Out and Play 2009 - Time Out New York - Ghost Story on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Sleeping on it - how REM sleep boosts creative problem-solving : Not Exactly Rocket Science - Meet Your Heartbeat Twin, un gameplay base dmotion ? - culture mobile_le blog - Bullion and Bandits: The Improbable Rise and Fall of E-Gold | Threat Level | Wired.com - Steam Tech Gets Less Punk, More Stimulus Money | Wired Science | Wired.com - Humans prefer cockiness to expertise - life - 10 June 2009 - New Scientist - Lost Southwark @ The Cuming Museum - Londonist - Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / This is Not a Game...in 60 Seconds - TheWayoftheWeb >> Why is mainstream media still confused by the 80/20 rule? - Llewtube >> The BBC and You Tube. - Who or What is Bubblino? | MCQN Limited - Beat the STRIKE - get a BIKE! on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Schulzian bust? on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog: The WHO cocaine report the US didn't want you to see - Whitechapel - How to fuck with the BNP - please distribute -
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