20 December 2008 – 7:16 pm
After the Bush/Shoe incident, anyone who’d spent even a few moments in eccentric corners of web knew there would be a creative response online. And it came. Wired has a summary of the shoe-inspired games and animations.
So Sock And Awe wasn’t the only Flash game based on the Bush/Shoe event. But it was the best.
Now [...]
15 December 2008 – 3:56 am
One video which I really enjoyed this year was this 20-minute talk about endangered languages.
I wasn’t particularly following this subject in any great depth before. Let’s just say raw curiosity can take one to some unexpected places.
You can open it in a new window here.
Dr. David Harrison says:
There are 7,000 languages spoken in the world [...]
20 October 2008 – 2:20 am
Mucking about with music video streams isn’t the only misuse of YouTube I’ve been enjoying lately.
Here’s a game called A Car’s Life which is based entirely in YouTube. Click the annotations to save the car, but be quick!
As to how it works, each level has a different video with an annotation linking to the next [...]
18 September 2008 – 4:29 pm
In a dizzying round-up, Reportr alerts us to 10 tech trends, the 11th presumably being to drop letter ‘e’s now that single-word domains are in short supply (cf. Flickr, Dopplr, Tumblr…)
The thing that caught my attention was the mention of visual search. I’ve been playing with a new search engine, TinEye, for a couple of [...]