July 2009
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IKEA's in the closet →
IKEA’s Kom in i garderoben (Come in to the closet) online, interactive advertising campaign is all kinds of at-home-shake-ya-ass fun! The campaign website advises you:
“All the movements you are about to see are controlled by sound and music. So change songs, upload your own music, play on your keyboard or sing into the microphone.”
Step 1 So, get into the closet.
Step 2 Pants. Go grab...
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“texts that rat on you”
– Pamela Samuelson on DRMed news articles.
♺ James Boyle’s TechDirt guest post.
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Gee, why ever would you think that Yahtzee doesn’t like the Wii? ”The Wii is a shiny white spunk bubble swelling out of the yellowing teeth of a crack whore,” to quote the Zero Punctuation review of Wii Sports Resort.
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“Intelligence in women is a double-edged sword: too much of it, and men beat a...”
– Pilgrim Soul writing on The Pursuit of Harpyness
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Yahtzee gets personal with his review of Red Faction Guerrilla. As always, it’s at his Escapist column Zero Punctuation.
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Surveillance Self-Defense International →
The Electronic Frontiers Foundation have released an activist ‘how to’ for using the internet to have a voice in authoritarian regimes.
As they say,
The internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those...
“In the complex web of our world, each part of the system affects all the others....”
– GOOD Magazine’s Roadmap to Harmony
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GOOD magazine's roadmap to harmony →
The world is a network of interrelated systems. If one goes down, they all do. And all systems are not “Go”. Through short video works, articles and their trade mark easy-to-understand infographics, GOOD Magazine have taken on the (huge) task of trying to map what’s going on in our world. Through nine thematic elements of the interconnected world and steer us towards a better...
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Yahtzee reviews Overlord 2 this week in his Escapist column Zero Punctuation.
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Future Directions of the Digital Economy released →
Yesterday Senator Stephen Conroy announced the release of Australia’s Digital Economy: Future Directions, the result of consultation
The Australia’s Digital Economy: Future Directions paper outlines:
why the digital economy is important for Australia
the current state of digital economy engagement in Australia and why current metrics point to a need for strategic action
the...
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[ Chit Chat ] Adam Greenfield Lecture
My tweets from this evening’s lecture ”The City The City Is Here For You To Use” by Adam Greenfield clipped together:
5:33 PM · i like greenfield’s warning; we need to think about these issues, their impacts WILL be huge. blog entry to come #AdamGreenfieldLecture
5:25 PM · future shifts: from community to network but does that reduce people to the same node status as...
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Bill Cosby in jelly shots
I am not sure why, but artist Andrew Salomone exhibited a portrait of Bill Cosby made out of jelly shots at Buoy Gallery in Kittery, Maine. Although his blog entry and his various interviews (here, here and here) about the exhibition don’t explain why, it is interesting (and includes a video ^_^). Attendees got to shot the jelly; as they got off their face they got rid of Bill’s...
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