The End of Busy Week

by Iain on May 23, 2008

Calls for something special… Penguin wins, hands down. Obligatory buttons:

ABC3D – The Most Brilliant Book Video Ever

by Iain on May 22, 2008

Sorry if this is old hat, it’s been seen by quite a few people on YouTube. But it’s one of those things that even if you’ve seen it before, you’ll be happier after seeing it again… Obligatory buttons:

How Many 5 Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight

by Iain on May 22, 2008

22 I liked this promotion for a free online dating site. Not because I endorse fighting gangs of 5 year olds (although I’ve probably had more experience of that particular activity than most, but that’s another story…). I liked it (…)

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The Mysterious Adventure of the QR Code In The Toilet

by Iain on May 22, 2008

I spotted this ‘QR Code’ stuck to the underside of a loo seat. And I thought to myself “what a peculiar, yet intriguing place to stick a QR code”. So I took a photo of it thinking that it might (…)

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Outsourcing In-Housing And All That Jazz

by Iain on May 21, 2008

I’ve been having lots of bollocksy conversations with ‘industry types’ about whether doing production in-house or outsourcing it is the right thing to do. I’ve always been of the opinion that you need at least a good core of production (…)

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Compfight.com

by Iain on May 20, 2008

Andy our latest new Poke chap alerted me to the awesomeness of Compfight.com. It’s a Flickr search tool that allows you to find and view lots of Flickr images quickly with some key filters (like Creative Commons licensing). It’s a (…)

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Don’t Count Me (dot com)

by Iain on May 20, 2008

Actually when it says pre-Alpha, I think it’s more like pre-vapourware, but this is an open call to all the inventors and brilliant people out there. Will someone please invent a web-hit-deleter. A few times recently (in fact twice today (…)

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Autechre On MySpace

by Iain on May 19, 2008

If you were glitchy techoid producers of freaked out soundz. What would you do with your MySpace page? I guess make it completely fucked up and glitched out. Right? That’s what Autechre have done anyway. Totally unusable. But I can’t (…)

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Tweetwheel Good

by Iain on May 17, 2008

This is nice. It shows which of your Twitter friends are friends with each other. Simple, but revealing and oddly engaging. Obligatory buttons:

Light Graf Goes Mainstream

by Iain on May 17, 2008

This lightwriting animation about The Very Angry Caterpillar was shown on BBC childrens’ TV show Blue Peter. More on it at Flickr. It’s nice. Obligatory buttons: