Culture Catchers
Michael Sheridan, who describes himself as a Journalistic Artist, has installed these “Culture Catchers” in the G–A–S–P gallery in Massachusetts. The devices pick up short wave radio signals from all over the globe and play them back upon detecting a gallery visitor’s movement.
Check out his site for more details of this and other interesting projects.
A Challenge: Find O2’s Pay Monthly Rates in 5 Clicks or Less
Here’s a challenge: starting from O2’s homepage, find O2’s pay monthly phone rates in five clicks or less. (Answer below.) For some reason, the websites of each of the four major phone networks in the UK make this—and a whole lot of seemingly common other tasks—extremely difficult. Is this in fact an […]
eyefall MD Dave King To Speak At The IDM
IDM - The Future of Search Engine Marketing January 2007 Conference: Dave King, a well regarded authority in IT and new media and founder of one of the best-known internet specialists in the entertainments industry will be headlining the speakers list.
Frieze Art Fair
The Frieze Art Fair setup camp in Regent’s Park once again this last weekend, filled with fashionistas, stockbrokers, and carefully groomed continentals clutching folders filled with art-sell figures. There was even a bit of art hanging about.
In its fourth year, Frieze seems to be establishing itself as the event for art buyers/geeks/spectators. More art-aware people […]
Anyone got one of those critical mass thingies?
A great idea from Spain: FON is aiming to create the ultimate global Wi-Fi hotspot network by getting you to open (in a secure way) your home wireless broadband to other FON users (”foneros”) - in exchange of course you get access to all the other foneros’ access points, allowing you to roam free… Well […]
Inspired combination
Cool. Delicious Krispy Kreme doughnuts (donuts??), celebrity chef and fantastic awareness for Leonard Cheshire….
Not much more to say really. Other than “must get me one of those doughnuts…”
UI! Possibilities! (Yahoo Photos)
10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos: Yahoo’s new photo site sports some neat visual effects–not only drag and drop, but grouped drag and drop, fancy placeholder effects, etc. (Watch the first screencast!) It’s all JavaScript (though apparently it doesn’t use Yahoo’s user-interface library).
I’ve been playing around with some Ajax/JavaScript libraries recently, […]
