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What happened to the beta testers community forum? [Nov. 12th, 2009|12:35 pm]
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Dear ZodTTD, I´m one of those who paid for a beta suscription last year, and I can´t even login with that acoount name (Kakarotto), because its no longer registered.

I´d like to know if there still exists a beta testers area, and what happened to my su...
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Re: N64iphone makes headlines! [Nov. 12th, 2009|11:59 am]
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Don't forget super smash bros., where the c buttons are used quite frequently to jump.
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DELETED PHRASE: "the company did not respond by press time": any phrase that can meaningfully be emp [Nov. 12th, 2009|05:14 am]
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November 12th, 2009: It's not quite definitely not planning any crimes ever! #seriouslyyouguys, but Rodney Bradford's Facebook status update of "Where's my pancakes" successfully acted as an alibi against a charge of robbery! Awesome, Rodney Bradford! He wasn't out robbing people because he was at home wondering where his pancakes were.

But as that article goes on, it slides deep into "oh man OLD PEOPLE STEREOTYPES" territory. Joseph Pollini, who otherwise sounds awesome because he lists "hostage negotiation" as his primary area of expertese, says that teenage HACKERS could have posted that pancake-centric Facebook update to Rodney's profile while posing as Rodney at his home computer, while Rodney was actually out busy robbing at the time - which, you know, is possible? But it's not very likely, and it takes some knowledge. No problem, says Joseph! Teenagers are really good at internet, because "they use it all the time". "They [teenagers!] could develop an alibi. They watch television, the movies, there is a multitude of reasons why someone of that age would have the knowledge to do a crime like that."

Is it the "the" he puts in front of "movies" that is so terrible? Is it that he believes you can get better at computers in real life by watching an actor on TV sit down in front of a monitor, a monitor so bright it projects legible text onto his face, cracking his knuckles before saying "Let's get cyber" - is that what's so terrible? Perhaps he believes that all digital photographs can be enhanced to reveal any face via the "ENHANCE" button that true hackers have access too, and that when such a hacker is faced with a screen full of the words "ACCESS DENIED" in a blinking red font while a siren goes off and laughing skulls spin in the background, they need only hit the "OVERRIDE" button.

Anyway! Where's my pancakes

– Ryan

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Über-Ich [Nov. 12th, 2009|03:40 am]
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Marionseventeen has added a photo to the pool:

Über-Ich

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Grange Building at night [Nov. 12th, 2009|03:57 am]
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AIA GUY..Rwood has added a photo to the pool:

Grange Building at night

This building takes on a totally diffrent appearance at night to me it loosed its massing, very intresting. I was lucky in catching this shot just at the right time ti get that colbolt blue sky at sun set. I just did some sharpening and cropping to this shot. I still have to do some perspective correction. I used a Nikkon D300 and a Tamron 11-17mm lens on a tripod of course. I also had my F5 and I shot some chromes , which still have to be developed, can't wait until I see them.

Stats: ISO 200, f/10 1.3 seconds, -1EV

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At Least It Isn’t Propping Open Windows [Nov. 12th, 2009|01:00 pm]
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Fragrance by Alexa Lixfeld [Nov. 12th, 2009|12:29 pm]
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Hamburg designer Alexa Lixfeld has designed a range of perfume bottles with concrete tops. (more…)

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Pi Watch by Ben McCarthy for Workshopped [Nov. 12th, 2009|11:44 am]
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Australian designer Ben McCarthy has designed a watch where the hours are marked by creases in its pressed-steel face. (more…)

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Tassenkast by Lotty Lindeman [Nov. 12th, 2009|10:46 am]
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At Design Miami next month, Dutch designer Lotty Lindeman will present a collection of suitcases that can be combined for use as a cabinet in the home. (more…)

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think outside the parking box results [Nov. 12th, 2009|01:10 pm]
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think outside the parking box

the jury was composed of:
Karim Rashid, industrial designer, usa
Steve Lazarides, art dealer, uk/usa
Shiro NAKAMURA : Senior Vice President & CCO (Chief Creative Officer), Design, Brand Management, Nissan Motor Co.,Ltd
Alfonso ALBAISA, Vice President, Nissan Design Europe
Paul WILLCOX, Managing Director, Nissan Motor GB
Jean-Paul MARI, Vice President  Communications, Nissan International SA
Jean-Pierre DIERNAZ, General Manager Marketing Communications, Nissan Europe SAS
Alasdhair Macgregor Hastie - European Creative Director, TBWA\ G1
Birgit Lohmann - editor in-chief designboom

- organized by designboom in collaboration with Nissan



3059 designers from 96 different countries participated

see the results here



1st prize winner
'rotary parking machine' by tanzim hasan salim from bangladesh



2nd prize winner
'solasis light tower' by : klaud wasiak + yongbang ho from canada



3rd prize winner
'parkscope' by davide aquini from italy



'ferris_wheel' by : benet dalmau, saida dalmau, jordi huguet, anna julibert, carmen vilar from spain

see the results here

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#thingsdarkiessay [Nov. 12th, 2009|12:08 pm]
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Dan Scherlis has pointed me to the recent #thingsdarkiessay TwitterStorm. Khaya Dlanga described it at length in a weblog post a week ago ("Yesterday, a short-lived war broke out between the US and SA"):

A virtual war between the United States and South Africa was full-on yesterday, the weapon of choice being Twitter. Unfortunately, the weapon was an American one too. Of course in the bigger scheme of things, even in the smaller scheme, this was an insignificant spat. The war was fought at 140 characters at a time.

It was between South African blacks and African Americans.

[…] The tweet that caused all the trouble is a certain trending topic that went as follows — before I say, I should explain what a trending topic is. Twitter tracks the 10 most popular topics of the day and ranks them according to popularity. These topics are usually preceded by a hash tag. Allow me to demonstrate. #khayasthoughtleaderblogsucks. That would be a trending topic, notehowtherearenospacesbetweenthewords. Yes. WedothatonTwitter. The native that caused all the trouble started a trending topic that reached number 1. #thingsdarkiessay. That was the topic. One would say for example, “#thingsdarkiessay I have high-high”. Elderly black folks say they have high-high, by this they mean high blood pressure. Perhaps using more words than necessary increases their blood pressure. Maybe they were the original tweeters.

Someone else would then say, “#thingsdarkiessay Stop nonsense”. You get the picture. Completely harmless. Unless you were African American. An avalanche of misunderstanding descended on the South Africans like a ton of 140 character insults.

As a result of the complaints, the Twitter management removed #thingsdarkiessay as a "trending topic".

In explaining the intercultural misunderstanding, Dlanga offers this exchange:

Dream Hampton, (@dreamhampton) who became the first woman editor of The Source Magazine asked me if “darkie” wasn’t “more akin to the N word?” I explained to her “No, here that would be the K word”. She was fine with the explanation, if not completely comfortable with it.

In other words, this is one of those cases, like the Tiger Woods "spaz" debate, where a word that's innocuous in one variety of English is seen as deeply offensive in another.

Dlanga feels unfairly treated by Twitter:

It would seem to me, according to Twitter, tweets Americans find offensive but are innocent to others will not be allowed to be trending topics it seems. Part of social media is that we get to learn about each other. It’s not always going to be just fun, sometimes we have to get a little uncomfortable with one another before we can be truly understanding of each other. Even in our hyper-emotional responses we may pause for a moment, breathe, think and learn something about someone else. They were not wrong in their outrage, nor were we when we joked about things darkies say. What was wrong was the inability to try to understand or explain why we held the views we did. Most of the responses were emotional, not rational.

And this feeling leads him to a little anti-American joke:

At some point I even tried to get the US Embassy (@USEmbPretioria) to intervene, they responded by saying, “@Khayadlanga has more pull power with Twitter than we ever will”. The comment was followed by a smiley face. This response was enough for my over-inflated ego. It’s true, flattery will get you anywhere. All I need is flattery and oxygen. I am more powerful than the United States. I feel like invading something. Anything. Suggestions anyone? Should we vote on it? I say let’s invade Khanyi Mbau or Julius. Kidding.

But there's an obvious problem, from Twitter's point of view.  If a term X is harmless in region A but problematic in B, then not only will right-thinking people in B be offended, but not-so-nice people in B may enthusiastically join in.  Whether (and to what extent) Twitter ought to police such things is another question, of course.

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New York 12/12 [Nov. 12th, 2009|04:42 am]

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my first show in New York is coming up next month!
titled 'Hajimari. a prelude'.
December 12th through January 9th.
opening reception Dec. 12th 7~9pm
@ the Jonathan Levine Gallery.

will feature 20 new works.
im still at work but should wrap things up within the week.
excited and nervous all together. eeep! (@_@)
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(no subject) [Nov. 12th, 2009|04:31 am]

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Sketch Theatre just uploaded the time lapse video of the Baby Tattooville Art Jam,
where about a dozen artists collaborated on a single 4x5foot canvas for 24 hours.
its pretty fun to see the whole process!
check it HERE.

the Sketch Theatre site also features many notable artists,
where you can watch videos of them drawing. its all very inspiring!
check it out HERE!
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С днём рождения, Толя! [Nov. 12th, 2009|03:21 pm]

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Сегодня - день рождения Толи ( http://trolleybassist.livejournal.com/ ), моего товарища, человека в костюме:
112.26 КБ
Толя - обладатель множества разнообразных талантов, специалист по западной музыке '60-х годов, по старому авто- и железнодорожному транспорту, автор замечательнейшего эссе о "Москвиче" - 408:
http://trolleybassist.livejournal.com/603.html

(Спасибо Зайцу (http://g-rabbit.livejournal.com/) за фото)
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Fujitsu's splitting F-04B cellphone gets tested, found to contain no Energon cubes [Nov. 12th, 2009|07:13 am]
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Fujitsu's splitting F-04B cellphone gets tested, found to contain no Energon cubes
Sometimes you want a phone with a physical keyboard. Sometimes you want one that fits in the back pocket of your skinny jeans. And sometimes, when you're feeling really crazy, you want one with a pico projector. Impossible dream? Not if you're Fujitsu, who have made official the bizarre splitting F-04B first showed as a prototype last year, and AkihabaraNews has managed a hands-on. Both the touchscreen and keyboard portions operate independently and connect via Bluetooth, as does the 854 x 480 projector that can clip on in place of the keyboard. Overall impressions are good, the phone said to be a bit too bulky with the keyboard attached but quite fit with just the screen, and though that LCD didn't get high marks for responsiveness, the 12.2 megapixel camera did. If you're looking for price or release info you're out of luck, but we'd guess advise against getting any hopes up. We know, it's hard.

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Readius-Like Folding eReader Planned for Next Year [EReaders] [Nov. 12th, 2009|07:02 am]
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Polymer Vision have gone bankrupt and been bought by Wistron since we first saw their unique Readius prototype in Feb 08. However, the new owners now confirm plans for a similar 5- to 6-inch handheld in 2010. Stay tuned. [DigiTimes]




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Vimeo Videos Get Friendly With the iPhone and Android [IPhone] [Nov. 12th, 2009|06:34 am]
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I love Vimeo's video quality, but unlike YouTube, it doesn't make my uploads iPhone friendly. But that may change: they've already converted all "Staff Picks" and HD video showcases into iPhone and Android-friendly formats, and say there's more to come.

We've been working on it for the last few weeks. This is sort of the prelude of offering Plus members iPhone support; and in the future, an app. In the future, like the next several weeks—maybe longer, we'll be offering Plus users the option to transcode their videos to an iPhone version too."

Sounds good, but don't forget that with Flash 10.1 on the way, pretty much every phone (including Android handsets, not just the Hero) should get Flash support around mid-next year. Wild guess: except for the iPhone, probably. Ugh. [CNET]




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Leaked Shots: PlayStation 3 to Get Facebook in Next Update? [PS3] [Nov. 12th, 2009|06:04 am]
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These dashboard screens—reportedly found directly on the UK version of PlayStation.com—suggest the PS3 will soon have Facebook integrated into the Cross Media Bar interface, plus a new photo viewing option, and the ability to change gamercard colors.

OK, the last one isn't super interesting, but the Facebook feature would be nice. Looks like Sony caught on before we had the chance to confirm the pics ourselves, but ScrawlFX says it found the them here, here and here. [ScrawlFX via Kotaku]




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Isn’t it yadda yadda yadda? [Nov. 12th, 2009|12:00 pm]
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epic fail pictures

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Picture by: dunno source Submitted by: bradleyvu via Fail Uploader

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette South edition. 11-5-2009



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VR bike ride through Google Street View [Nov. 12th, 2009|04:00 am]
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Maker Aki Mimoto wrote in to let us know about his exciting new Arduino/VR/Web app mashup. He's wired up his wife's bike on a stationary platform to an Arduino using a reed sensor. Using the sensor data from the bike, along with data from a head mounted display (HMD), Ari is able to accurately pinpoint his position within Google Street View. Additional data from the HMD allows Ari to look around at his surroundings for a true VR experience.

Pragmatically explained, it means that I don't have to sit in the darkness or stare at my garage door while I'm huffing away. Hopefully once this is done, I'll be able to spend a few nights a week pedalling away downstairs and work my way across the US or Australia over the course of the year.


In the Maker Shed:


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Arduino Family


Make: Arduino


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