This is too cool… We are all used to square and rectangular dinner tables that can easily be expanded to accommodate more guests, but I have never seen a circular one until now. Very clever!
The table made by DB Fletcher and can be found on their website at http://www.dbfletcher.com/capstan/
ShotCode wants to bring the idea of web links to the real world.
It’s pretty interesting… Imagine you a concert poster while walking down the street, your favorite band is playing next week! Usually you’d have to remember to order tickets when you got home, but if that poster has a ShotCode on it, a little cog like image that acts like a real world link, you can use your mobile phone to take a photo of it (image below) and order tickets right there.
But what is wrong with URLs?
The ShotCodes seem to act more like AOL keywords than traditional hyperlinks, so presumabily they would be very good for presenting very specific data for a given link, like the ability to buy concert tickets.
This is a service that I could easily imagine being very usful for an array of scenarios from city and museum tours to ordering event tickets. The largest barrier is educating the public on this service, you could easily walk past a cog-link any never know it.
See how shotcode works here:
http://www.shotcode.com/data/movieformat
Live painting is amazing enough to watch all day long.
The Rinpa Eshidan is a Japanese art group that does live paintings, but their take is not on the final piece:
Instead of focusing on the finished project, we believe the process of creation itself is where art comes to life and our videos aim to engage our audience in that process. - rinpaeshidan.jp
I really miss blank cassette tapes. Sitting all night in glued to my stereo, mixing tapes, mashing songs together, pause-rwd-stop-rec. These early theft tools did not steal any of the history attached to music like the digital medium has. I really miss passing tapes wound with friends, talking about the music we recorded. The funny thing is that music is actually kind of hard to share with your friends now simply because there really isn’t a need to, you can sample or buy/steal virtually any song in the world.
I’m losing focus of why I started this post, sparked by the article Cassette Tape Culture. They have pictures of one of my favorite toys from when I was a kid… Cassette tape Transformers. I had a few of these and I completely forgot about them until I came across this post.
Finding love for a 29-year-old computer scientist in France can be rough, so this guy takes his search to the subway.
2003 Academy Award Live Action Short Film Nominee “I’ll Wait for the Next One (J’Attendrai Le Suivant)” short film from France.
A great story and an even better product, Trunki is ridable luggage for kids. These dinosaur looking cases are designed by Rob Law, a Dragons’ Den reject. What’s Dragons’ Den? It’s a UK television show where inventors get to present their invention to potential investors. Law’s invention was not well received, to say the least, by the judges. Here is what one had to say about him after he introduced his Trunki:
And the notoriously brusque tele-communications tycoon Peter Jones declared: “I meet people like you all the time - you think you have something. I tell you, you don’t.” - DailyMail
This guy must have been high, of course these inventor shows are complete rubbish anyway, highlighting the panel of “experts” over the inventors.
Anyone who has ever spent any amount of time in an airport notices kids who are tired after a flight with nowhere to sit and rest… Hell you could make one for adults, I’d ride that thing around!
They are not available in the U.S. yet, but you can pre-order them: Trunki US Site.
Bald? Hair Club for Men a waste of time? Don’t go for surgical transplants? How about a come-over… This guy has perfected it!
Here is the before and after (er, after and before)… the comb-over how-to video is below!
Need a puppy for a few hours, a few days, maybe to walk around your neighborhood to help get attention from the women in your neighborhood? Then FlexPetz, a sort of puppy escort service, is for you!
Here is the lowdown from their site:
WHAT IS FLEXPETZ?
FLEXPETZ is a unique concept for dog lovers who are unable to own a full-time doggy pal, but miss spending time with a canine friend. Enjoy our website to learn more about FLEXPETZ, and we look forward to welcoming you as a FLEXPETZ member. - FlexPetz
The process is pretty simple and they have quite an array of breeds to choose from, to find your perfect match, or if you have a specific type of dog that you go for. After an initial meet and greet with your puppy and trainer you will get access to the online registration service and can book your time share with your new puppy.
Meet two of their puppies
I had some leftover ground lamb from my dinner last night, spaghetti with ground lamb bolognese sauce, so I decided to put it to some good use, Ground Lamb Pita Pizza!
It might sound strange, Ground Lamb? On a pizza? But yes, it is fantastic! Lamb has such a distinct, almost sweet flavor, it is a neglected meat in this country. So here we go, my recipe for Ground Lamb Pita Pizza.
Ingredients List (Makes 4 Pita Pizzas)
Cooking Directions
Next time I think I will try some toppings on mine… Maybe some green peppers and kalamata olives!
I believe this was discussed on the latest TWiT, well it was one of Leo Laporte’s shows. GMail, as with all Google services, such as Google Reader, does not encrypt your session while using the service.
What this means
This means that when you are reading your email via http://mail.google.com your data can potentially be viewed by someone else. While they do not have the ability to change account settings, such as passwords, there is the possibility that they could read your emails.
A dead simple fix
Instead of going to http://mail.google.com to read your emails, go to https://mail.google.com.
Notice the extra s in https://? This will run an encrypted connection between your PC and Google’s server, instead of passing the data back and forth in plain text.
FeelImage.net is a new site that discovers Flickr photos based on your mood. Simply type in your mood and it will grab a slew of photos from flickr.com based on what you entered.
I believe what makes this site different from simply searching on flickr’s site is that it actually looks at a photos color and maybe its hue(?). It then attempts to determine a good pairing between photos and the mood you are searching.
That said, since it is a color discovery tool, you can search for things like “green car“, and a list of green car photos will be found. If you click the green car link you will see that not only green cars are found, but also cars that are among a good deal of green, such as in a grassy field.
Pretty funny. The BullShitr is The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™.
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