Archive for October, 2006
Friday, October 13th, 2006
Laws to protect Chinese workers from slave labour conditions - how shocking!
Finally China Drafts Law to Empower Unions and End Labor Abuse (New York Times)
SHANGHAI, Oct. 12 — China is planning to adopt a new law that seeks to crack down on sweatshops and protect workers’ rights by giving labor unions real power for the first time since it introduced market forces in the 1980’s.
The […]
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Boba Fett v 50Cent v Queen
Penny Arcade’s Gabe has posted a video of his screen while he’s doing a Boba Fett sketch on a Tablet with a mashup of 50 cent and Queen in the background. It’s pretty cool.
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
More user input business models
In the trend of youniversal branding*, this is interesting spin on the threadless.com model: innerTee - Where art and apparel become one. The idea is users can be artists or mixers - artists create design elements and mixers put them together into shirts which people can buy. When shirts are bought, presumably there is some […]
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Avastars
I have made myself a yahoo avatar:
It’s really great to see that you can also get “plus sized” avatars unlike Stardolls Medoll app where you can go as far as slightly curvy (albeit somewhat breasty) as the maximum setting on body type. Apparently, the Stardolls service, social networking via paperdolls, is growing in popularity and […]
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
Ig Noble prize for Mathematics goes to CSIRO scientists
In a media release from the CSIRO today, two of their scientists, Dr Piers Barnes and Ms Nic Svenson have won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics for “figuring out how many photographs to take of a group of people to be confident of getting at least one where no-one’s blinking”. The maths is […]
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
Friday Diversions - Fighting Pets and Slugs
Posting this video probably makes me a bad person, but this is one very stupid dog and one very fat angry cat. My Miffy is exactly the same, she keeps getting whacked on the nose every time she gets too close to my Burmese cat but harrassing her is still her favourite past time.
If that […]
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
The Face of Sydney - Apparently
Let’s Face It – Sydney’s City of Villages: The City of Sydney council commissioned Karen Donnelly, Raimond de Weerdt and Tony Nott to build composite faces of Sydney based on Bureau of Statistics figures. The Sydney faces are a result of 1400 photographs, layered and morphed using a specialist program. They have used the stats […]
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Exploding Hello Kitties
You have to be grateful for the joy that Hello Kitty has brought us, especially a story like this one: Exploding Hello Kitty toys recalled - Engadget
Takara is being forced to recall specific Hello Kitty dolls which featured a heatable disc that could be warmed and stuffed within the lining to keep kids toasty while […]
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
“IP lawsuits are so 2004″ - Marvel and Cryptic Make Up
The quote’s from this GigaOm story on Marvel and Cryptic’s new found mutal appreciation society. Marvel caused a bit of a stir a couple of years ago when it sued Cryptic Studios for copyright infringement because its superhero online game City of Heroes (they also do City of Villains) allowed users to customise their avatars […]
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Moths - Terror of The Night!
The creator of my favourite web comic EVER - Beaver and Steve - has just submitted his first Threadless submission which I imagine has something to do with this moth story arc. Anyway, vote for him, it’s all in a good cause (so I can get a Beaver and Steve Threadless tee!).
