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  • The people make the picture

    Website www.likecool.com has featured artist Craig Alan‘s aerial photography using people to create portraits:

  • Live data visuals – fashion and cities

    I’ve seen two examples of impressive live data visuals today, from two very different systems for very different projects from The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and French fashion retailer Pimkie. Color Forecast By analysing live webcam footage from Paris, Milan and Antwerp, this site collects colour information and presents it as trends for days, weeks and…

  • Donating to a political party

    With the recent pay-per-view Prime Minister scandal and the publicity over Conservative Party “Donor Clubs“, I was interested what a donation to each of the main parties got you. I did class the Lib Dems as a main party, but they don’t tempt you with what your money buys so aren’t included below. So here’s what…

  • The very best of Amazon customer’s reviews

    Here’s a selection of reviews I’ve seen on Amazon that I thought I’d collect together for other’s entertainment. Enjoy. Microwave for one – $19.92 Buy this book, or don’t, I don’t care anymore “It used to be that I got home from work and the only thing I’d want to put in my mouth was the…

  • My chicken is ill

    This what I like about the unpredictable side of social media (unpredictable in the sense of what catches people attention, not what happens next) and the unexpected rise of a meme. BBC documentary Deaf Teens last night was in interesting insight into the life and challenges facing teenagers as they prepare to leave school and…

  • XKCD reaches 1,000

    Today the cartoon blog XKCD posted it’s 1000 cartoon. Here’s six favourites of the previous 999: – – – – –

  • Playing about with flavours.me

    Today I resurrected an account with flavours.me after a launch of Version 2 last week. As a social portfolio it does very well. The only obvious account mising for me was de.licio.us but apart from that all the usual suspects were there along with the ability to add your own RSS feeds. You get a selection of designs…

  • How tech giants deal with dissent.

    A few weeks ago I saw this peice on The Register about an Apple employee who was fired as a result of privately making derogatory comments about Apple’s brand and products on his Facebook wall. His undoing was that not all his “friends” were friends, and one printed off the comments and showed them to…

  • Positive and negative Google Plus hyperboyle, it’s all the same.

    These opinion pieces are everywhere. Why Google+ Pages Isn’t Good for Business 4 Reasons Google+ Brand Pages Will Be Better Than Facebook’s Google Plus Finds Sweet Spot Between Facebook & Twitter Google Engineer Calls Google Plus a ‘Complete Failure’; 5 Reasons We Agree Why It is Wrong to Call Google Plus a Failure Google Plus may be…

  • Motion powered bike wheel lights.

    Two industrial design students at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, have created a new bicycle saftey system that uses the bike’s movement to light the wheels. Ethan Frier and Jonathan Ota have a created a system which lights the wheels white while the bike is in motion, and red if it detects the bike is slowing down. They…