FriendFeed beta, Twitter and Facebook
A new FriendFeed beta interface was released today. Launched in late 2007, FriendFeed is a social aggregator or lifestreaming service for sharing information with your friends. After fooling around with it last May following WebVisions 2008, I was inspired to start using FriendFeed today because the redesigned beta release looks really nice (even Twitteresque). FriendFeed […]
April Fools’ Day, self-publishing, World Expo 2010
Today is not a very good day to try to read the news, because there’s always doubt. Is it real or is it an Internet annoyance? April Fools’ Day Google did its usual array of hoaxes for 2009, this time featuring a panda named CADIE (the world’s first Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) who showed up […]
Alice in Wonderland, Spike Jonze, DOOM, Kafka
I’m very curious about Tim Burton’s plans for his live-action 3D version of Alice in Wonderland, especially how much animation/CGI he’ll use. The cast includes Johnny Depp and Crispin Glover, plus Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter as the queens. Read more: “Tim Burton Talks Alice In Wonderland.” The film isn’t scheduled to be released […]
Batman logo evolution, art, brackets, narcissism
Art and design Check out this cool animation of how the iconic Batman logo has been refreshed or re-branded over time: Batman Logo Evolution. I enjoyed the variety of cool illustrations (and Mario wallpaper) by smashmethod on deviantART. Take a look at these awesome Ghost in the Machine cassette tape portraits from iri5 on Flickr. […]
Free SXSW music, NIN|JA EP and garden yeti
Missed out on SXSW ’09? Do not despair. Over 1,000 free MP3s by SXSW artists have been reviewed and can be downloaded here: “Six-Word Reviews of 1,302 SXSW Mp3s.” Also, here is a live performance MP3 by The Decemberists (and many others) from this year’s SXSW. I’ve been listening to the free NIN|JA EP (made […]
Stanley Donwood, microscopic Alice, SXSW, Twitter
I enjoy the insights and random tidbits found in artist Stanley Donwood’s Slowly Downward Taglibro. See last week’s issue, Taglibro 14, and subscribe to Donwood’s irregular ‘news’paper. (For the uninitiated: Stanley Donwood is perhaps most famous for producing a lot of Radiohead’s album and promotional art over the years. I love the guy. I received […]
WordPress 2.7.1 upgrade (and cool art)
Today I got around to upgrading spiral::notepad to WordPress 2.7.1, which is the first maintenance release for 2.7. It’s a bug-fix version that was two months in the making. Keeps getting better. Now, to help fill out this post, I will share some cool art and technology, with assistance from Gizmodo. With the Academy Awards […]
Pharm animals, The Prisoner and Caduceus Cellars
Today we’ve got science, art and technology . . . to the seventh degree. 1. Pharm animals Would you like some therapeutic drug milk? Here’s an interesting story about another controversial FDA approval: “F.D.A. Approves Drug From Gene-Altered Goats.” They are producing drugs in the milk of genetically engineered goats, rabbits, hamsters and more. The […]
Havidol, Dr. Horrible, funny cats and GigaPan
A friend sent this article to me: “Art Tackles Big Pharma.” I think it’s more than a year old, but I don’t remember seeing it before. It’s a fake ad campaign for Havidol, a drug treating Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder. DSACDAD is an illness characterized by a sense of lingering unhappiness. Funny. […]
RIAA, MPAA and the Orphan Works legislation
I am going to refrain from ranting about the RIAA, MPAA and Orphan Works legislation at the moment, but I would like to share a collection of recent articles about digital media sharing, piracy, copyrights, etc. A bunch of the articles are from Wired. RIAA and Internet Service Provider (ISP) filtering No ISP Filtering Under […]