Archive for August, 2008
The 2008 US box office visualised
Aug 29th
A nice week-by-week visualisation of the US box office takings throughout 2008. It gives you a good sense of how quickly many films drop off the radar, and also of the size of the gap between successful movies and (comparative) flops. As you scroll along to the right, for example, you’ll find yourself thinking that [...]
links for 2008-08-29
Aug 29th
No, You Cannot Turn Facebook into a (Decent) Movie I agree with Stan Schroeder (writing for Mashable) here, the idea of a Facebook movie made me check that it wasn't April 1st when I saw it on the BBC site earlier today. It's particularly stupid that the person apparently tasked with writing it openly admits [...]
links for 2008-08-28
Aug 28th
BBC NEWS | England | Shropshire | Man's 'pants' password is changed Hilarious story about a man who found that his banking password, "Lloyds is pants", was changed to "no its not" without his knowledge, and his attempts to get it changed back. Needless to say, he had the last laugh… (tags: password internet security)
RocketDock – Close but no cigar
Aug 28th
RocketDock is a nice idea. Billed as a “peace offering” from the Mac community to Windows users, it’s a recreation of the OS X dock – the customisable ribbon of icons allowing quick access to files, folders, applications and URLs. I’ve just installed it on my Windows XP machine and for the first five minutes [...]
links for 2008-08-27
Aug 27th
TiltViewer – About A three-dimensional image viewer (tags: visualization viewer webdesign)
links for 2008-08-26
Aug 26th
Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history Mapping out history's greatest journeys, from Magellan to Lindbergh (tags: maps visualisation) Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' | The Onion – America's Finest News Source An old article—and no doubt familiar if you read the Onion back in the [...]
links for 2008-08-25
Aug 25th
Journey of Mankind – The Peopling of the World A Flash-based timeline depicting the migrations from Africa that led to humankind's propagation. A low point was the aftermath of Mount Toba's eruption in 74,000 BC during which the human population dropped to around 10,000 (tags: history maps timelines)
links for 2008-08-23
Aug 23rd
MC Hammer discusses analytics Web analytics and behavioural targetting. Let MC Hammer show you it. (tags: analytics mchammer)
links for 2008-08-20
Aug 20th
WorldChanging: Museum of Jurassic Technology Review of the Museum of Jurassic Technology – a kind of modern-day Cabinet of Curiosities – in Los Angeles (tags: museums)
links for 2008-08-19
Aug 19th
NSF and the Birth of the Internet – Special Report The National Science Foundation's interactive quasi-timeline on the birth of the internet, from the development of ARPANET in the 1960s, the first email sent in the 1970s ("LOLZORZ", it said) and right up to the "web 2.0" of today. …No mention of Goatse (tags: internet [...]
The harsh reality of life as a Burger King ingredient
Aug 18th
A very strange tray liner, found in an airport Burger King, depicts some very strange goings-on. The scene is from Veg City Airport, where passengers are being screened for their suitability as Burger King ingredients. It’s quite a cutesy idea but—as you can probably see above—it’s received quite an adult treatment. We can see: A [...]
links for 2008-08-15
Aug 15th
Digital Drugs: New Worry for Parents? Fans of The Day Today and Brass Eye will enjoy this baffling article about "digital drugs", the new scourge for the 21st century. (tags: music FAIL) McCain: "In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations" Republican presidential candidate McCain should read up on recent history, with a specific [...]
links for 2008-08-14
Aug 14th
The Implications of Robot Cars and Taxis Brad Templeton on why robot cars will be good (tags: technology robots cars) Aurora – Forecasting Scenarios (PDF link) Some forecasting scenarios that informed the Adaptive Path/Mozilla Labs "Aurora" concept (tags: web aurora internet) Knowledge Navigator concept piece by Apple (1987) The Aurora browser prototype featured a hidden [...]
Brands that suck on Twitter
Aug 13th
Here in the UK, Twitter has yet to seriously catch on although many organisations are attempting to make use of it. But the marketing and communications departments of large US companies are becoming increasingly aware of the need to establish a brand presence in Twitter. The case of Janet, who masqueraded as an ExxonMobil spokesperson [...]
links for 2008-08-13 [delicious.com]
Aug 13th
adaptive path » blog » Kumi Akiyoshi » Aurora: Visual Design Kumi Akiyoshi of Adaptive Path writes about the visual design work that went into the Aurora user experience concept video (tags: design aurora) Online virtual piano keyboards: free way to learn notes! – A Consuming Experience A collection of links to piano & keyboard [...]
Don’t be afraid of your Freedom
Aug 12th
Yesterday, Lifehacker featured a free Mac OS application called Freedom. You specify a time period and the program then shuts off your network connectivity until it elapses. I heard about it here and the Daily Telegraph has published a link to it too. Pretty simple, isn’t it? But is it useful? Not everyone thinks so. [...]
links for 2008-08-12 [delicious.com]
Aug 12th
kwout | Firefox add-on Really handy Firefox plugin, allowing you to take screenshots from your browser, crop them, upload them and specify style attributes literally within minutes (tags: screenshot plugin tools kwout firefox extension) Remember The Milk – Services / Remember The Milk for Twitter As part of my ongoing absorption into the world of [...]
I’ve seen the future and it’s… a bit like MacOS X
Aug 11th
My friend Lindsey sent me this link earlier on today. It’s a video exploring a future user experience concept, developed by Adaptive Path for Mozilla Labs. Jill looks at the New York Times website In the video Jill, the principal user, makes use of a number of futuristic interface devices to: Interact with a friend [...]
links for 2008-08-11 [delicious.com]
Aug 11th
Visualising Ligeti’s “Artikulation” Graphic visualisation (plus audio) of Ligeti's "Artikulation" from 1958. Shapes and colours are used instead of traditional musical notation. (tags: visualisation electronicmusic) Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Snowl Mozilla Labs post about their Snowl project, an experimental Firefox extension integrating messaging into the web browser. Intended to combine all inbound [...]
My picks from “On the Bus”
Aug 11th
I posted recently about Tweets on the bus, a little site that aggregates all Twitter posts containing the phrase “on the bus”. Since that post, I’ve been following the “on the bus” posts using Google Reader. Every now and again there’s one that makes me laugh. Here’s a digest of my favourite “on the bus” [...]
