November 2007
43 posts
“Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the...”
– The world’s greatest description of a hangover. From Kingsley Amis’ Lucky Jim.
“Design success can breed feature excess.”
– Michael Schrage, from Serious Play - How The World’s Best Companies Simulate To Innovate
“The ability to respect the counterintuitive and embrace the unexpected is...”
– Michael Schrage, from Serious Play - How The World’s Best Companies Simulate To Innovate
“Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use...”
– Morris Hite
“When it’s a really cool technology, that’s when you have to be most...”
– John Mayo-Smith, CTO, R/GA
RCRD LBL →
An innovative new label created by Downtown Records and Engadget founder Peter Rojas. The label will offer free, ad-supported music. According to the WSJ, the label has signed up three sponsors thus far: Virgin America, Nikon and Puma.
“Tabula rasa (Lat.) is the state in which we are completely blank and our entire...”
– Wikipedia
Today's Blog Music / The Hype Machine →
The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front page.
UK Design Council - Managing Design →
Articles from the UK Design Council on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success.
“Simplicity is knowing when less is too little and more is too much. Simplicity =...”
– John Maeda
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Google Fight →
Put in your brand and your competitor’s and let them fight it out to see which is attracting the most hits.
Caracas club shooters identified →
Venezuelan Police have identified three suspects linked to Saturday night’s massacre at a Cox Cox gig in Caracas.
“On Oct. 9, 1903, the New York Times wrote:
“The flying machine which will...”
PS3 enables Folding@home project to set Guinness... →
Sony has announced that PLAYSTATION 3 systems, part of Stanford University’s Folding@home program, have enabled the distributed computing project to be recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world. The record was initially set on September 16, 2007 as Folding@home surpassed one petaflop (one quadrillion floating point operations per...
Data On Radiohead Experiment: 38 Percent Of... →
The first concrete analysis of Radiohead’s innovative pay-what-you-like plan for latest album In Rainbows shows 38 percent of those who downloaded the title indeed chose to pay something, while 62 percent kept their change in their pocket.
Gracenote: Music Maps →
Find out who is listening to what and where. The popularity map shows snapshots of current top artists and album charts by geographical location. The Flash-based interactive map works using data from the Gracenote Media Database and shows the latest artist and album lookups in states, regions, countries, and continents around the world.
“All countries must take vigorous, immediate and collective action to curb...”
– Nobuo Tanaka, head of the International Energy Agency (via Wired)
The End of Oil is Upon Us: We Must Move On ...... →
If there are any lingering doubts as to whether the age of oil is nearing its end, the International Energy Agency has put them to rest and made it clear that only a massive and immediate investment in sustainable energy will prevent a global crisis.
Tottoos.Org →
Tottoos offers an innovative solution for keeping clearly printed emergency information literally on hand for children while on trips and outings: temporary tattoos. Tottoos feature personalized text, such as ”If I am lost, please call…”
How Far Can I Go wins top award at 2007 TUANZ... →
Nice work by our team in IT Innovations & Ventures at Air NZ. I was project manager for the How Far Can I Go project, so this is a good feather in the cap!
Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity →
According to a groundbreaking new study by the Department of Labor, working—the physical act of engaging in a productive job-related activity—may greatly increase the amount of work accomplished during the workday, especially when compared with the more common practices of wasting time and not working.
Lala.com: A place to grow your music →
LaLa is offering users the ability to listen to an unlimited amount of on-demand streaming music, for free, marking the first time this has been available legally. Their new tag line is “Play albums on demand, buy the ones you love.”
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“I wasn’t like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an...”
– Hansel, from Zoolander (2001)
Gunman kills four, injures five at Carl Cox gig →
Chaos on the dancefloor in Venezuela as a gunman opens fire at a packed Caracas dance party where Carl Cox was headlining. Four people have been confirmed dead and five injured in the shooting incident, which occurred on Saturday night at Network Noise, an electronic event held at La Rinconada Terrace in Caracas, Venezuela.