"The next time you check in to a hotel room, look behind the mirrors,
paintings and headboards because you might just find some art. And if
you don’t, make some!"
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Secret Wall Tattoos
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Online Commercials too Long
unmediated: Adding commercials to video streams.
Running 15 second video spots online "is just further evidence that the advertising industry has its head firmly up its backside when it comes to the age of empowered consumers."
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TV Shoes
BBC NEWS | Technology | Shoe kick-starts active lifestyle.
"It could be the ultimate incentive to get kids exercising – a shoe that controls the amount of TV they watch.The shoe – dubbed Square-eyes – has a unique insole that records the amount of exercise a child does and converts it into television watching time."
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Media Tuner
"an easy-to-use webbased Rich Media Aggregator and Player. MediaTuner allows you to easily manage both Text and Rich Media RSS Feeds, all through your browser. With the proprietary MediaTuner Universal Player/Viewer, you can view and listen to: Video Blogs, Podcasts, Images, Streaming Video, Audio, Text Blogs and News."I was pleasantly surprised to see my blog in the default video blog list. Props.
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Paris Hilton Commerical Download .mov .mpg .mpeg Video
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10.4.1
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Cars and Jedis
Jon’s buddy has this sick dragster called Lucille. Check it out (.mov ~20 MB)
Speaking of cars: I want to drive this thing. (.mpg 26 MB) [via]
Totally unrelated: Jedi Pose Down.
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Out Of The XBox
TIME Magazine — Out Of The XBox.
This is a great article on the Xbizzy Threesity:
( login: 16229759670 and n@a.com ) [via]"If the old Xbox looked like something recovered from a fallen asteroid—an angry, evil asteroid—this looked like something created on planet Earth, albeit a near future, slightly utopian planet Earth.
It definitely wasn’t from planet Microsoft. "We knew we had finalized it when the research came back from Japan," Moore says. "We asked people, Who do you think designed this? And they said, ‘This has to be from either Sony or Apple.’ That was the seminal moment."
Another great quote from the article:
"Let’s not miss what’s happening here. Microsoft, a company known primarily for making highly profitable business software, has put a box in your living room. It entered your house under the humble pretense of being a game machine, a toy for the kids, but it just ate your CD player and your DVD player, and it’s looking hungrily at your telephone. It’s all up in your media cabinet. It’s talking to your iPod, your digital camera, your TV, your stereo, your PC, your credit card and the Internet. It has created a miniature electronic ecosystem inside your home, with itself at the center."
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I want my ambient video
souvenirs from the earth – videopaintings, ambient video, video replaces paintings.
[via my favorite site this week we make money not art]
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Free WiFi Vancouver
Wifi Mug is a " community-run directory of free wireless cafes in and around" Vancouver.
"Vancouver has a vibrant independent cafe culture, though it’s easy to be discouraged from seeking it out. Persistent rain, boring coffee chains, and expensive wifi services leave many laptop users to dwindle in their homes and offices. This directory is an attempt to bring together all of the area’s great cafes, community spaces, and the like that offer free wireless internet. So get outside, enjoy some of Vancouver’s best wifi — not to mention its best coffee — and share in building this site with your discoveries."
Blessed are the gardeners.
