Thursday February 2, 2012
Thursday February 2, 2012
Hello.
Videos of people singing or rapping drive-through orders date back a long way. The most famous example is probably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sw2OvIgoO8from, which spawned uncountable parodies and copies and even 'inspired' this revolting ad for Taco Bell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzVqwHR61g. All of which made this glorious bit of drive-through amazingness from http://www.youtube.com/user/321GGO, captured by his friend in the back seat, all the more welcome. I love every second and especially the fact that the person taking his order can't stop giggling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGDTfoVyr5Y
Channel 4 Education is launching The SuperMes, an online drama played out by virtual actors. Produced by Somethin' Else and powered by Sims 3, it was devised by Paul Bennun and Jo Roach and commissioned by Jo Twist while she was still at Channel 4.
"It's like real life, but improvised by robots".
http://www.playsuperme.com/
The new Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) a tiny and cheap computer that plugs into your TV) appears to be able to run Quake 3 faster than my �1000+ desktop computer could have done in 1999. Blimey. I can't wait to spend my $25.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDuJuvZjI
Matthew Sommerville (@dracos) is a programmer who made a contribution to the open source GOV.UK beta yesterday (https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/pull/1). He found that his tweak raised some surprising questions, including whether Scotland may have actually celebrated the wrong Bank Holiday in 2010 and 2011. I love Matthew, and this is exactly the level of attention to detail I've come to expect from him.
http://www.dracos.co.uk/scribblings/bad-bank-holidays/
The Guardian are running an Open Weekend, March 24 and 25. Looks like some great sessions. �60 for the whole weekend.
"Guest speakers from around the world will join our own writers, editors, digital developers and photographers, to participate in more than 200 programmed sessions on everything, from the American presidential elections to the Arab spring."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-weekend
You're no doubt familiar with Kemp Folds (http://kempfolds.blogspot.com/, the blog dedicated to Ross Kemp's face, folded). It's been around since 2008 but experienced a new found new surge in popularity recently.
In the latest Kemp Folds post it seems that Zoo magazine managed to get Kemp to fold his own face, compete with [annoying auto-playing] video evidence.
http://kempfolds.blogspot.com/2012/02/ross-kemp_02.html
Every time an unusual scientific breakthrough is demonstrated, someone generally decides to show off its safety by putting it in his mouth and eating it.
"Why is so important for this product to be biodegradabale and edible?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO7NVC23Stw (eating occurs at 1:15) and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pN9Ri4fAuw (eating occurs at 2:40) and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoCAxS4vqwQ (eating occurs at 1:00)
Well then.
"An e-mail to Rupert Murdoch's son James that referred to "a nightmare scenario" of legal repercussions from widespread phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid was deleted from his computer less than two weeks before the police opened their current investigation into phone hacking, lawyers said Wednesday. The deletion was part of an "e-mail stabilization and modernization program" in which accounts were "being prepared for the migration to a new e-mail system" said Linklaters, a law firm representing News International". ... "Mr. Murdoch said that while he received and answered the e-mail, he did not scroll all the way down through the chain and so did not read everything in it."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/world/europe/e-mail-rife-hacking-deleted-from-james-murdoch-computer-lawyers-say.html?_r=1
Shift Run Stop is back - on an occasional basis, at least. In episode 61 (out today) we meet Ed Jefferson, aka Ben from @shippamspaste, and Danny O'Brien is our man in New York.
http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2012/02/02/episode-61-ed-jefferson/
Finally, more Qudrocopter fun, with a potential glimpse of the future.
"Imagine walking down a street and seeing something like this on a city lot, or looking out from your high rise window into a cloud of swarming bots"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/12/29/144453374/flying-robots-build-a-tower-near-paris
Yours sincerely
Roo
Hello.
Videos of people singing or rapping drive-through orders date back a long way. The most famous example is probably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sw2OvIgoO8from, which spawned uncountable parodies and copies and even 'inspired' this revolting ad for Taco Bell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzVqwHR61g. All of which made this glorious bit of drive-through amazingness from http://www.youtube.com/user/321GGO, captured by his friend in the back seat, all the more welcome. I love every second and especially the fact that the person taking his order can't stop giggling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGDTfoVyr5Y
Channel 4 Education is launching The SuperMes, an online drama played out by virtual actors. Produced by Somethin' Else and powered by Sims 3, it was devised by Paul Bennun and Jo Roach and commissioned by Jo Twist while she was still at Channel 4.
"It's like real life, but improvised by robots".
http://www.playsuperme.com/
The new Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) a tiny and cheap computer that plugs into your TV) appears to be able to run Quake 3 faster than my �1000+ desktop computer could have done in 1999. Blimey. I can't wait to spend my $25.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDuJuvZjI
Matthew Sommerville (@dracos) is a programmer who made a contribution to the open source GOV.UK beta yesterday (https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/pull/1). He found that his tweak raised some surprising questions, including whether Scotland may have actually celebrated the wrong Bank Holiday in 2010 and 2011. I love Matthew, and this is exactly the level of attention to detail I've come to expect from him.
http://www.dracos.co.uk/scribblings/bad-bank-holidays/
The Guardian are running an Open Weekend, March 24 and 25. Looks like some great sessions. �60 for the whole weekend.
"Guest speakers from around the world will join our own writers, editors, digital developers and photographers, to participate in more than 200 programmed sessions on everything, from the American presidential elections to the Arab spring."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-weekend
You're no doubt familiar with Kemp Folds (http://kempfolds.blogspot.com/, the blog dedicated to Ross Kemp's face, folded). It's been around since 2008 but experienced a new found new surge in popularity recently.
In the latest Kemp Folds post it seems that Zoo magazine managed to get Kemp to fold his own face, compete with [annoying auto-playing] video evidence.
http://kempfolds.blogspot.com/2012/02/ross-kemp_02.html
Every time an unusual scientific breakthrough is demonstrated, someone generally decides to show off its safety by putting it in his mouth and eating it.
"Why is so important for this product to be biodegradabale and edible?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO7NVC23Stw (eating occurs at 1:15) and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pN9Ri4fAuw (eating occurs at 2:40) and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoCAxS4vqwQ (eating occurs at 1:00)
Well then.
"An e-mail to Rupert Murdoch's son James that referred to "a nightmare scenario" of legal repercussions from widespread phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid was deleted from his computer less than two weeks before the police opened their current investigation into phone hacking, lawyers said Wednesday. The deletion was part of an "e-mail stabilization and modernization program" in which accounts were "being prepared for the migration to a new e-mail system" said Linklaters, a law firm representing News International". ... "Mr. Murdoch said that while he received and answered the e-mail, he did not scroll all the way down through the chain and so did not read everything in it."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/world/europe/e-mail-rife-hacking-deleted-from-james-murdoch-computer-lawyers-say.html?_r=1
Shift Run Stop is back - on an occasional basis, at least. In episode 61 (out today) we meet Ed Jefferson, aka Ben from @shippamspaste, and Danny O'Brien is our man in New York.
http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2012/02/02/episode-61-ed-jefferson/
Finally, more Qudrocopter fun, with a potential glimpse of the future.
"Imagine walking down a street and seeing something like this on a city lot, or looking out from your high rise window into a cloud of swarming bots"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/12/29/144453374/flying-robots-build-a-tower-near-paris
Yours sincerely
Roo
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