TV Carnage sells dvds created from hundreds of hours of exceptionally bad TV, lovingly fused together. I have no idea what’s real and what’s not in this video and i love it.
I ended up playing the theme tune to an classic kids cartoon in the office today, and a few of us chatted about how we loved all the old TV themes and great intros.
Listen:
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Benni Lees got in contact with PigeonStreet.com and gave us this information:
My real name is Marion and I wrote the music for Pigeon Street. I am a classically trained musician and in the seventies I had a rock band called Soulyard, in which I player the Bass. We had a sax player called Ruthie Smith who is now working as a psychotherapist, an American trumpeter called Jim Dvorak, a guitarist called Jonny Meringue (also American), a pianist called Laka Koc, a conga player called Linda Malone and a drummer called Nigel Watson. I live in Edinburgh and work as a pianist.
Now I am 53 years old with a fifteen year old son who is a singer and a daughter who plays the harp. They both loved pigeon street when they were little. My wish is for the world to be a peaceful place.
Obviously the media has changed dramatically in the past 20 years with the “Credits Squeeze” now a regular part of a channels marketing weaponry.
I’ll leave Charlie Brooker to give you his view on the new end-device. Wonder what he makes of the theme to the new Knight Rider. “Shit” i hope.
This is from his excellent BBC Four show, Screenwipe.
What do you get when you cross an iPhone with an iPod shuffle? Designer Alexei Mikhailov has dreamed up this gadget to show what he thinks that hybrid should look like.
The iStick is modeled after a tube of lipstick. However, all four sides have a touchscreen providing for a slick interface.
AppFresh helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. All from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X. AppFresh works by checking the excellent osx.iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.
Appfresh isn’t in Beta yet so there are some glitches, and be careful about downloading Leopard only apps if you’re on Tiger, but it’s shaping up to be a really great bit of kit. If you’re a bit of a software nerd you can also show off your apps via Facebook.
Beatboxing Basset Hound developed for Tele2 Sweden. I can’t understand a word on the site, but you hit “Space” to start the recording, then you use the keys to have you Hound do pull out some “improv beats”.
Spitzer consists of a couple young men raised in the same house in Lyon, France. These brothers have one goal: Make you dance. Currently, the duo is working on a four song EP called Roller Coaster and if the four tracks on their myspace page are any indication of what we’re in for, we’re in for some big, bright and bold dancefloor action.
Listen to Disco Biscuits:
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Expect to seem something similar on TV soon, probably a BMW ad.
It was created using Processing, an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. Set the player to Fullscreen mode and enjoy.
Apple has just released an update to their Apple TV. Now you can download movies for rental, so iLounge took a sussed out the quality difference between Blu-Ray / Apple TV / HD Cable / DVD.
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.