Asked by TV channel how the party started he laughed ‘I can’t remember, I was off my head,” prompting Daily Telegraph columnist Andrew Ramadge to dub him a ‘genius’. “Corey Delaney’s talent for showing up interviewers trying to trade on his vilification, while still looking like an extra from Clueless, has made him a pin-up for a generation of young Australians suspicious of the media and clued-in to the ways of modern marketing,” he enthused.
“In the past week, this seemingly brain-dead 16-year-old has left seasoned media personalities looking like bigger twits than himself by refusing to flinch during on-screen interrogations and out-manoeuvring the questions of interviewer.
Their latest album has been out for a while, but this is still a standout track track for me off Oblivion with Bells.
Listen to Beautiful Burnout:
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First up happy new year, hope that Xmas and New Year were good to you. I’ll try and get a decent amount of posts up here, but have already found myself using my Tumblr account loads more. I’m trying to find some way of integrating them but you can take a look here. http://hellokinsella.tumblr.com/.
I came across this great Widget from Radiohead to promote their new album. Get the 2CD version of this album if you haven’t already for it.
Aaron Koblin Aaron Koblin is an Artist / Designer / Researcher focused on creating and visualizing human systems. Currently working out of San Francisco, California, Aaron creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork. Koblin's work has been shown internationally and is part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Internet key to Obama victories The internet has been moving to the mainstream of political life in the US for some years.
But in this presidential cycle it has been particularly important for the Obama campaign, which was starting from scratch with few resources and little name recognition.
BBC NEWS | UK | Online lessons for UK in Obama win The internet is widely accepted to have played a huge part in the election of Barack Obama. Now one of Obama's web team is setting up business in the UK.
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site Developing this site was very different from any other project; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow celluar connections. Here are a few of the lessons we learned (sometimes painfully) while developing this site.
New York Times - Visualization Lab Welcome to Visualization Lab, where you can create visual representations of data and information using the "Many Eyes" technology from IBM Research.
Where is Your Username registered Thinking of doing a social-media campaign. Chosen your identity / campaign name - got started, only to find it taken on some sites. Worry no more.
Rubiks Cube + Pantone = Rubitone Concept by Ignacio Pilotto. Not intended to be a commercial product. There is no affiliation between Pantone, Inc. and the Rubitone.
New electric vehicle with an unusual form factor - Core77 Canadian teenager Ben Gulak has invented a rather unusual vehicle: a unicycle with two wheels. Well, isn't that just a bicycle, you say? Not if the wheels are next to each other.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Can robots 'think' like humans? The Turing Test - Judges having IM conversations must guess whether they are talking to a human or computer. If a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time it passes the test and can be assumed to have passed a significant milestone in artificial intelligence.
Candidate Supporters' Use of Gadgets as Symbols Reveal Power of Brands | Gadget Lab from Wired.com A thread on Fark produced a series of images that compare the presidential candidates to one another through their perceived symbolic equals. A close look at the images reveal that they are more than a just meaningless, amusing outgrowth of this crazy election. They suggest that people who demonstrate their enthusiasm toward the candidates in this way mirror the enthusiasm of gadget lovers in their personality traits, obsessions, and political leanings.
