Odds and Ends, Sun 14 June 2009
1. geoGreeting
<http://www.geogreeting.com/main.html>
This site uses satellite imagery to generate custom messages. Here's
an example of a personalised greeting:
<http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?yrovvyUpBywUlBExyUkxnBsqroDDyU975>
2. DespairWear
<http://www.despair.com/deviall1.html>
From the people behind the Demotivator posters, a range of humorous and
highly relevant t-shirts. For example, the eerily accurate "Social
Media Venn Diagram":
<http://www.despair.com/somevedi.html>
3. "Mark Twain Motivational Posters"
<http://www.sloshspot.com/blog/05-08-2009/Mark-Twain-Motivational-
Posters-155>
4. "50 Classic Album Covers Made Awkward by Technology"
<http://i.gizmodo.com/5284795/50-classic-album-covers-made-awkward-
by-technology>
A Photoshop contest updating some classic (clbuttic?) album covers.
5. "Roomba, Economics and Long-Exposure Photography"
<http://signaltheorist.com/?p=91>
Someone "... set up a photo camera ... turned out all the lights and
took a long-exposure shot ... The result is a picture that shows the
path of the roomba through its cleaning cycle"
6. "Apple stuns WWDC crowd with pulsating App Store hyperwall"
<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/09/apple_stuns_wwdc_crowd_
with_pulsating_app_store_hyperwall.html>
"In a rare treat for developers at this year's WWDC, Apple is showcasing
20,000 of the most popular iPhone apps on a massive hyperwall built out
of Cinema Displays -- one that pulses in sync with each and every App
Store download."
7. "10 Beautiful and Creative World Records"
<http://www.dirjournal.com/internet-journal/10-beautiful-and-creative-
world-records/>
