Archive for October, 2006
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Scary but cool - your own face in video games
The technology now exists for you to have your own face on characters that you play in games. I blogged about it briefly on Andrew’s blog. It’s a new frontier in technology, but also a new frontier in the effect on gamers’ psyches. It’s all a bit scary, but too cool. I hate that with […]
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Projection Bombing
You might have seen some pics/video of projection bombing recently, it’s where artistic types project images onto large structures and make kinda cool statements, here is a tutorial if you have always wanted to do your own: PROJECTION BOMBING
Outdoor digital projection in urban environments is a great method for getting your content up big before […]
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
NaNoWriMo Aids
It’s almost time for Nanowrimo! The competition where you win if you managed to finish off a (50,000 word) novel in the month of November. They are now accepting registrations so if you’ve ever felt that you might have a novel inside of you, sign up and maybe find out! It may seem like a […]
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Evolution Sucks
A recent study published (subscription only) in PNAS by two scientists in WA (Australia) and the US has found that:
beetles with the biggest horns have the smallest testes, showing that in evolutionary terms you cannot have it all. [ABC Online]
Apparently according to earlier research by the scientists, the smaller horned (and sometimes hornless) males have […]
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Social Conscience, a bloody good brand
This is a great video from Dove on our perceptions of beauty. At a time when even young children have growing rates of eating disorders, we should be looking at the responsibility that advertising and the media should take for the growing dissatisfaction in our physical self-perception much in the way advertising of obesity causing […]
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
Friday Diversions - Games, More Games and Cat
Paul Neave does heaps of cool flash stuff including this nice little flower grower, imagination and a whole heap of retro games including frogger and tic-tac-toe. He also has his own experimental tv channel.
Though nothing beats zefrank’s stuff: it is the birthplace one of the most popular snowflake makers and home to odes to serendipity […]
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
White = Hot according to Google
Heard a nice little song on the radio and went to do a google search to see if I could find it. Of course by the time I’d got to the internet, I’d mixed up the artist so I typed in “whitest guy on earth dreams burning” and google asked me if I instead meant […]
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Now Reading Now Installed
Just installed a new wordpress plugin for my blog, it’s called Now Reading and you can find the results of this if you scroll down the page and look for “Now Reading” in the (right) sidebar. Anyway, it lets you put in books in your collection and allocate them to whether you plan to read […]
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
On a lighter note… Loco Roco!
I love this game so much that I am (almost) considering buying a PSP just to play it. You can play a lovely demo on the official site or download speccy stuff from the Loco Roco myspace page. There’s even a threadless loves t-shirt comp for it (entries close 1 Nov). Some favs:
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Stem Cells and Dirty Business of Political Lobbying
I have to say I am a little uncomfortable with this ad.
Maybe it’s the idea that as the congressmen weren’t “scientists or doctors” they didn’t have a right to what is essentially an ethical opinion. That you have to have a considerable background in medical science before you can say what you feel is […]
