we say "shapah!"

Another nifty example of how Google APIs can be implemented to make more cool web apps.

Still, like i didn’t know the Midwest was so white?

duh.

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Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, “interface-free,” touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.

This morning where i work a very cool thing happened. instead of the usual mid-week ughs around eightish Black Blondie set up and played one of their earliest-in-the-morning gigs ever and ever so slowly, hypnotically melted and rendered the sleek yet somewhat stiff corporate environs into one that had me thinking of how subtle the glass tower we were in was gently swaying in the wind.

as they played more and more the trance [and the wind outside] gained strength and everyone within earshot [which is nearly the whole place as a staircase dominates the center ceilings of each of the four floors connecting them all with a huge vortex for the sound to travel through beautifully] became fully entranced and stared out the window if even for just a moment to watch wind move through the city below blowing city street things up on thermals and dancing them like in American Beauty.

And smile they did. I saw many warm, relaxed faces today. Amazing what starting the day off with real music does.

so, let me tell you how i much i really like it just as it is — a live experience. thus, i understand their judicious use of patience, savoring the sound they’re creating and not muscle-ing the recording process.

and as if that wasn’t enough to make the day a total fucking standout, a and i went to see them again later in the evening at the Triple Rock. the sound in the Triple is perhaps unrivaled in the cities.

is it any wonder i babble incesantly on about the music in this town?

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Oct. 17, 2006 — Scientists were excited when they pulled a
154-pound meteorite from deep below a Kansas wheat field, but what got
them most electrified was the way they unearthed it.

The team Monday uncovered the find 4 feet under a meteorite-strewn
field using new ground-penetrating radar technology that someday might
be used on Mars.

It was that technology which pinpointed the site and proved for the
first time that it could be used to find objects buried deep in the
ground and to make an accurate three-dimensional image of them.

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Pretend Jean-Claude is wondering: “is this really the future of advertising? is this how Tom Sawyer got his pals to paint the fence for him? how long will it hold out? how long will it be before people are like — hey, wait a minute…i just spent three hours making an ad for Mentos and they’re not paying me shit! — ???

in the clip below we can see not only an example of this but also a case for the jingle [which is seemingly coming back around again] laid over what would be licensed footage – another avenue for Hollywood to generate revenue for films that have reached a kind of cult status if only for how bad they sucked.

this wave of consumer-driven marketing is putting the people in charge of making their own commercials, sure, and empowering them to inform creative corporations how to more fully exploit their attention, sorta.

sure, some providers, such as RevveR, are beginning to share ad revenue with creators of content [a mere pittance to be sure] but still the BIG QUESTION is : why should anyone care enough to? what makes people participate in this crap? what’s driving them to make this the biggest buzz in the industry?

cap that and you’ve got the NEXT wave that will represent true convergence of “life” in “advertising”.

good or bad, like it or not, what happens to the kids who have been so scarred by the realization of it, that they were being used all along?

there be no wrath that rivals that of a woman scorned than maybe consumer backlash?

then, again, we might not ever even stop to think about it or care! yippeee!!!

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How would you like an antidote for the motivational poster in your office?

How do you like the one I made above?

You can do it too! Make your own here: http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php

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