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Redez
After months of work, we finally launched the Global Voices Online redesign. This is just the beginning of many many more awesome things to come. Many thanks to all who helped! and congrats to the whole GV community....
fluokids
fluokids, kinda interesting DJ crew in france, seems to be made up of some funloving kids. However, what I find the most interesting, is their awesome logo: Made by Arthur Röing, a swedish teenager. He says: Submission for graphic design...
Indymedia is a spam host
I've been receiving tons of spam blog comments across the networks I maintain all pointing to spam comments hosted on various Indymedia websites. I have tried to contact them directly but I recently heard that their technical resources are ......
What's that movie?!
Help me out here... Mid 80's, I think the main actor was a WWF wrestler (first guess was Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, but IMDB doesn't list any movies for him). Something about aliens already here, controlling society on earth via...
"I should blog that"
I think it was sometime in 2002... I hadn't even started this weblog yet, in fact that stuff to me was still just personal websites. (that's all it still is to me, really) On a lark one Sunday afternoon I...
Otaku?
Amazon taps into otaku culture. Or what's left of it anyways. from Metropolis (no permanent URI--"permalink". get a clue people!) Now that otaku are the new trendsetters, you’ll be sure to find what’s hot in Japanese subculture wherever they congregate....
White Day
Dah White Day is a festival that was created by a concentrated marketing effort in Japan. White Day is celebrated in Japan and Korea on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day. On Valentine's Day, women give gifts to men;...
Jonathan Livingston Frilled Shark
This story about the rare deep water shark found south of Tokyo brings to mind so many things. - I'm going to soar higher and further than anyone ever has! - We *must* try to communicate with the outside world!...
That'll teach me...
... to hide in the back in group photos. :p Quinn's article about the Global Voices meeting in Delhi. But for the most part, attendees passed around a mike and trotted one suggestion after another in front of the...
Pics are up
Over on flickr, the context remixer for photos.. As a set. On a map. (or rather, the actual set/map cross-context mix view ;) In a calendar....
Twits
twit (twÄt) tr.v., twit·ted, twit·ting, twits. To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. See synonyms at ridicule. n. The act or an instance of twitting. A reproach, gibe, or taunt.Slang. A foolishly annoying person. twitter twit'ter...
Updated string 2 color
I needed to update my string to hexcolor function to also check the luminosity before returning a color cause I was often getting colors too bright to be legible when applied to text on a white background. It now takes...
Coincidence
Just came across this: What are the odds that two commenters leave the exact same comment (barring the capitalization of one word) at the same moment on the same photoblog post? "Selena" and "Mojo â„¢" both said "LOL home!!!" at...
Create a culture of design
This is exactly what I hope to set up around me, for my eventual team, modulo all the emphasis on games/gaming: pasta and vinegar � Creating a culture of design research 1. Create a space that encourages design research: “the...
Moves.
Ho. Ly. Hell. This is just cool: My question is: why is Karl surfing breakdance videos on YouTube on a Monday morning? ;)...
Aaron on his situation at Conflux
(catching up) Excellent article by Aaron about his visit to the Conflux thingy in NYC 2 weeks ago. If you're into internets OR arts OR locations stuffs... it's something good to chew on. (A couple of "Mike"s I know 'specially)...
GVO has won the 2006 Knight-Batten award for innovations in journalism
Big congrats to the team. This is a pretty big deal. The Knight-Batten awards were created by combining the existing "Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism" and a new endeavor by the Knight Foundation, of James Knight Batten, founder...
Un Rendez-Vous, en contexte localisé géographiquement
Claude Lelouche's "c'était un rendez-vous", traced on a google map while the film plays. I love it. (found on Scott Gillies' USC IMD weblog)...
Couldn't help but noticing
Jan Chipchase draws a parallel between checking out of a Tokyo hospital and checking out of the U.S. Amazing coincidence, the two photos share many many similarities as well: - shades of green near center of image - large...
Glaciers
While eating my dinner (yes at my desk), I decided to spark up my old RSS aggregator and read some feeds I hadn't checked up on in a while. It seems some months ago Maciej escaped the binds of Manhattan...
Vhat ze heck ist zis?
I'm not sure what to make of this series of new Volkswagen GTI commercials: "de-pimping your auto." Part of me is laughing pretty hard, but another is cringing, especially at the racial/cultural stereotyping: ugly rigid "weirdo eccentric" german guy pulling...
Raye in India
Stunning gallery of travel photos from Raye Fukuda, a web designer I met in Tokyo....
Touché
Damn... I'm on the verge of popping a reblog feed of Andrew's blog in my sidebar...The Karl Rove situation is a litmus test for just how far the Bush administration is willing to go to cling to power and lie...
You don't need $ to make a hot video as long as you have the right moves
A few reasons why this is one hell of a music video:Decent tune. It's in the current not-totally-mainstreamed-to-death-yet bracket. Barely.DIY. Cheap home camera, on a tripod or picnic table. Looks like iMovie for post prod, what post prod there was...Real....
Del.icio.us hash
A month ago, joshua mentioned an easy breezy little addition one can do to one's site to allow users to easily del.icio.us bookmark entries on one's weblog. In some cases though, you might like an easy way to see how...
Shall wonders never cease?
Two words, people: transparent duct tape. Ok, ok, that's three words......
Bang on
MJ on the "Lifecycle of Bloggers". While I don't for one second believe there is any such thing as "one type of blog/blogger", this sums up very nicely what many many go through. I'm at step 12 myself. Again. Not...
Atmospheric stabilization in folksonomic tag clouds
Visual display of how choice of tags on a URL stabilizes over time on Del.icio.us. I blame "suggested tags" ;)...
Free Murakami short story
The New Yorker published a new short story by HARUKI MURAKAMI, and graciously posted it, in print friendly format, on their weblog...er... I mean website... (Whaaat... they appear in "reverse chronological order" and have permalinks... ;) (Oh and please do...
Disturbing meme
"I find your lack of" disturbing -faith I Find Your Lack of Star Wars Tattoos... Disturbing I find your lack of wires disturbing I Find Your Lack Of Banjo Disturbing I Find Your Lack Of Cream... Disturbing I Find Your...
VW Mashup
This is sick, sick as in incredibly-insanely-cool-oh-man-I-want-it-so-bad. Volkswagen Jetta // R32 - Daily progress reports This project as you can see from these first pics is going to be a complete ground up build, I'm starting with a 100% straight...
"Meet the world" flags
We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the...
I'm flying!
Whenever I imagine I can fly, I immediately think "Ok, so, where do i go? How do I get there?" I imagine myself bopping up and down, "zooming in" and "zooming out" until I find where I wanna be. A...
Google Maps application contextualizes real estate
This is stunning. By combining Google Maps and craigslist housing listings you get a very quick visual contextualization of the economic distribution of population for a city; which the affluent neighborhoods, which are less so. Not that that is necessarily...
Funner
Steven dreams out loud about where he'd like to be someday: I managed to hitch a ride on the floating city 'GCS New Mosul' by agreeing to give my presentation 'Safeguarding your cyberprivacy - without slowing down your interface' at...
I'm not gullible
It's just that when you don't believe anything, everything becomes plausible/possible. ;) Water on Mars I hate Japan...
Sound familiar?
"Attention Deficit Trait" caused by the technologies of constant interruption: Clive Thompson via Techdirt has a fascinating post on Attention Deficit Trait, a related sydrome to Attention Deficit Disorder, according to Dr. Edward Hallowell. "It has basically the symptoms as...
Folk taxonomies
Fun with Hierarchical Controlled Vocabularies Very cool, and could be very useful when everyone cools down from "OMG tags!" syndrome. Tags are great, and "folksonomies" are neat but I think, and surely others do too, we will not truly see...
Tagsurf
Just came across Tagsurf. Haven't wrapped my head around it yet but having registered and logged in (the registration process is made difficult by a barely legible capcha), it looks to be very powerful. I guess one way to describe...
Google map this
Ok so we've all seen Google Maps in action right? Just for kicks (like I have time) I asked for directions from my place here in Montreal, to Aaron's in Vancouver. Nevermind that it seems to be totally oblivious to...
Area bagel
or "What do Amazon, A9 Search, Yellow Pages, 90210, and the Mile End of Montreal have in common?" Trying to see if I had a connection, I hit my A9 bookmark. It worked. Once there I noticed a prominent link...
Culturalists
In broad terms, hyperbole generator you love to hate)--> culture is where the social - groups of individuals interacting - meets media & technology.There are plenty of technologists with weblogs, the social sciences people jumped on board about 6 to 9 months ago (in force anyways, and from where I am sitting). Journalists got invited to a fight, and the marketing world has been flexing it's muscle lately as well.What a joy it is to find the culture wonks getting in on the game!
No... frikkin.. way...
WilliamShatner.com :: The Official Shatner Website - Bill's Space That's right. The Shat has a weblog folks. Comments and all......
Showtime: no limits?
If you try to access the Showtime US site from outside the U.S.A. it gives you this lockout message: We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States (Thanks...
Morbid...
FlickrBlog - The Underbunny There was an IM/email buzz around our offices when a Flickr member with the handle 'Underbunny' posted this image, the hands of a 102 year old woman at an open casket funeral Some, er, *nice* pictures...
Master pen twirlers
Ho-ly hell... (9.5Meg WMV)...
Break it down for me fellas
Breakdancin' Deceptacons!...
International man of ...
USATODAY.com - Japanese Internet star spreads blogging gospel...
The Bottle
Great idea over at tokyo-genki.com. Gonna try this....
Weblogging behind bars
Not sure if ClearlyCalm is real, but it sure is creepy.One minute an average, middle-management accountant working for a bank. The next, sent down for 9 years for embezzlement, fraud and another 5 charges. I'm in Wormwood Scrubs. I'm in...
Light through concrete
optics.org - News - Concrete casts new light in dull rooms (March 2004) The days of dull, grey concrete could be about to end. A Hungarian architect has combined the world's most popular building material with optical fiber from Schott...
Watch your fingers
SawStop Videos In our video demonstrations, we are cutting a sheet of plywood or particle board and place a hot dog in the path of the blade to simulate a user's finger. The SawStop system detects contact between the hot...
Emergent Volvoism
The Mystery of Dalarö Thirty-two people in a small town in Sweden all went and bought the same car on the same day. A "documentary" about the "phenomenon". It'd be interesting if they also provided information about how much Volvo...
Appreciate the technique
I am not a big fan of dogs, or of stupid pet tricks, but this is really quite impressive. (WindowsMedia... of course... It's a dog's world.)...
Good tips
How to take good photos...
Historic Online Protest
Grey Tuesday It's time for music fans to stand up and demand change from the music industry's copyright cartel. Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site...
Orkut versus
Clay Johnson over at DFA just sent me these Alexa "traffic comparisons": Orkut vs. LinkedInOrkut vs. TribeOrkut vs. Friendster Truly amazing. In the space of 3-4 days, Orkut went from off the radar (ranked greater than 100,000 most visited site)...
It may not be funny
smack the pingu!!! but damn it's fun....
Classnotes Wiki
Mike's "Harkness Table" classnotes wiki is taking off! Way to go! It'll be fun to watch this develop... and spread......
Son of a gun
Reuters | Oddly Enough You'll Never Guess Who's Still Alive Tue January 20, 2004 08:55 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - British war leader Winston Churchill's foul-mouthed 104-year old parrot refused to surrender to newshounds Monday after a British newspaper...
Why... I don't wear... the bow-tie
Why tech firms are out of tune While the above article is tucked away in the BBC's technology section, it speaks directly of something very political: democracy in the digital age. Ugh, can't believe I just said that, but it's...
Anti Virus
Submunition: heavy mojo Japanese businessmen hold a service aimed at fending off viruses and glitches for their computers in a purification ceremony conducted by a Shinto priest...
Brand memory
Brandmarker An attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos (nine international, three typically European) from memory. Things to note in this: In most cases, if not all, some respondents...
Death by vodka
www.smh.com.au - Russian dies after winning vodka-drinking contest A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care....
Once every now and again
I find myself here. Thanks Aaron....
At least Martha won't be alone...
Guardian Unlimited | Online | At home with the Führer The story in the Guardian is as strange as the article it's about....
Trojan Games
Trojan Games Quite something... watch the video coverage......
Dyslexia for cure found
Read Regular, a typeface designed to ease reading for dyslexics. Persoanlly, I think most of us have some form of dyslexia or another, albeit most probably a cultural form, stemming from "too much too fast". In any event, the explanation...
B-lock
CLOCKBLOCK1.0 ||| MONO*CRAFTS3.0 Neat. Silly, unpractical, but neat....
Seeing double
Design Media: Are U drunk This not only scews with my eyes and brain, but it also hurts to look at. (Work safe - one of those vision/brain phenomenon thingies.. except using the face recognition part of the brain.. or...
The things people do...
Charleston.Net: News: World/Nation 'Marathon monk' finishes ancient ritual of 24,800-mile journey 09/20/03 Respect. But c'mon......
Velcome Vee
I'd like to welcome my old friend "Nika Vee" to weblogging. Check out her Typepad-hosted blog, AD HOC. She writes goo eh!? Fuuuunnay! :D...
Speechless...
BBC NEWS | Africa | Congo's football officials 'go deaf'" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3201913.stm"> BBC NEWS | Africa | Congo's football officials 'go deaf' Congo's football authorities have come up with a new idea to end mounting corruption at the turnstiles of...
It's just words...
Disgruntled Asian Tattoo Artist Inks His Revenge Reads like an Onion article which makes me think it's an archived copy maybe, but definitly a joke. Update: Joi tells me the tattoo on the girl's back reads "Yellow Cab"....
Sign
This petition. Amnesty International Australia: newsletter August September 2003 Update: Amina Lawal...
Stats - beautiful, scaleable - stats
history flowvisualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors Aside from being quite beautiful, I find these rather fascinating. Context derived from patterns are central to how I think. Perhaps how we think? Hmm. More food...
BBC Creative Archive
Taped at the BBCCan the Beeb put its entire archive on the Web?By Paul BoutinFor those of us still debating whether to shell out the 40-odd bucks for Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection on DVD, BBC Director-General Greg Dyke may...
In the style of
Don Hong-OaiWorking with the style and themes of traditional Chinese painting and photography, Don Hong-Oai blends multiple negatives to create these timeless, poetic images of the landscape. Hong-Oai's calligraphy accentuates each image in the manner of Chinese painting....
Brand communities
brandchannel.com | Brand Management | Brand Communities "... brand communities exhibit three traditional markers of community: shared consciousness, rituals and traditions, and a sense of moral responsibility..." So where does that leave a company that longs for its own brand...
IKEA is swedish for...
brandchannel.com | IKEA Brand | Furniture Retailers Ingvar Kamprad founded the company in Sweden in 1943. He named his fledgling business by using his initials and tacking on the first letters in Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, the farm and village where...
Beauty
D'une beauté absolument émerveilante. Merci Mme.Keiko, pour un site splendide. Merci Karl, pour le lien. Allez! Allez voir le site!...
joi.ito.com
Well, cat's out of the bag. A bit early and a tad under the gun, but joi.ito.com 2.0beta1 is launched. Joi Ito honored me with a request to help him clean up his weblog's look and feel and get it...
Musical space invaders
This videogame, and it's player are almost as impressive as the japanese Tetris championship footage I have lying around somewhere. (nota bene: 15meg MPEG)...