Links for 2006-08-31
- E4's running a parody of The Sopranos credits sequence and it's awesome and YouTube has it Probably won't make much sense to people outside of the UK. Love the Wicker Man joke. Also Scunthorpe.
- The more I see of Schulze & Webb's site, the more I think they're using NLP to make us think of them as the design equivalent of an underground electronic music collective This looks so much like an album cover. Like something by AIR or Godley and Creme or something. I'd go to a concert by these guys. We need some kind of teenage magazine-style periodical full of fanboy pin-ups of design nerds with pin-ups and stuff. This would rock.
- sudo humour from xkcd We're using this in the office now. "Get me a drink?", "No", "Sudo get me a drink?", "Okay"... etc
- Ryan Carson explains, "Why I don’t use social software" I'd argue that he does, of course - and that he'll use more in the future precisely because he has trouble maintaining all the relationships that he has now, he'll need some form of software prosthetic to make that stuff easier.
- Philips announce production-ready clothing that can act as a simple light-emitting display medium God that was hard sentence to squeeze out. Anyway, it's called Lumalive and looks surprisingly cool. First application I could think of - a pattern on the lapel that pulses when you have a phone call. Particularly good if you're somewhere noisy and dark.
- Wikipedia talks about food irradiation or so-called 'cold pasteurisation' Advocates consider it a cheap and effective way to preserve food. Critics say that it's a cheap way to kill bacteria in faecally-contaminated or badly-prepared food.
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First application I could think of - a pattern on the lapel that pulses when you have a phone call. Particularly good if you're somewhere noisy and dark.
Personally I'd rather people switched their bloody phones off once in a while, but never mind. Philips seem to have been thinking along slightly different lines:
Lumalive textiles make it possible to create fabrics that carry dynamic advertisements, graphics and constantly changing color surfaces.
Note order of priorities.
(Yes, I am feeling grumpy today...)
→ Posted by: Phil at August 31, 2006 9:33 AM
Hey Tom, sorry to be ignorant, but can you explain the sudo thing?? Sam
→ Posted by: Sam at August 31, 2006 11:05 AM
I put money on football shirt sponsorship being fully animated within ten years....
→ Posted by: Sam at August 31, 2006 11:41 AM
I love the adverts E4 makes! - I especially like the ones have that ever so slightly posh bloke saying random things like 'flip your telly box over' and '... and shes got the right ruddy horn!' - fantastic!
→ Posted by: stuart at September 1, 2006 9:13 AM
"Make me a sandwich" - "No"
"Sudo make me a sandwich" - "Password"
→ Posted by: KCanard at September 2, 2006 9:38 AM
I saw some Lumalive stuff in action in Berlin, it was a bit fuzzy looking. Fabric-based watch displays, maybe?
Smart fabrics are very interesting.
And sudo is basically a Unix joke (!) where "sudo" allows you to force another user to do something (or that's the funny version, ahem). I doubt we'll be seeing it on telly any time soon.
→ Posted by: Bobbie Johnson at September 3, 2006 10:35 AM
"that ever so slightly posh bloke saying random things like 'flip your telly box over' and '... and shes got the right ruddy horn!'"
Patrick Allen, who some may remember as The Hawk in the first series of Blackadder. I think he did the voiceovers for that too.
Sadly, he passed away quite recently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Allen
→ Posted by: jim at September 4, 2006 8:02 AM