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Spectre

chris — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:34:44 +0000

It’s always nice to help out and to get a mention

Spectre

Helicopter ride

chris — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:46:03 +0000

Craftivism videos

chris — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:00:30 +0000

So after over 2 years, I’ve finally put my videos up from the Craftivism exhibition that I was a part of here. Enjoy

Lego album artwork

chris — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:02:25 +0000

I have loved lego ever since I was a kid and it’s always good to see it used in a creative, unusual way….such as reproducing album covers with it. So check this out – 30 Classic Music Albums Recreated With Lego

QR code on headstone

chris — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:41:40 +0000

Part of me likes this as an interesting use of technology and of celebrating someone’s life. But at the same time, part of me is saying “huh???” You can make up your own mind – http://mashable.com/2011/07/15/qr-code-tombstone/

Twitter

chris — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:21:00 +0000

It’s no wonder the impact Twitter had on the News of the World phone hacking scandal when you consider these statistics – http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html

Wheels of Steel

chris — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:54:09 +0000

This is another really cool HTML5 site. Wheels of Steel was developed by Scott Schiller who works on Flickr and brings to the online, digital age turntables in your browser. Give it a go and you might just become a superstar dj

wheelsofsteel.net

Such Tweet Sorrow

chris — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:42:02 +0000

I’m a bit late in finding this but Such Tweet Sorrow is Romeo and Juliet set in modern Britain and on Twitter. Really cool way of re-telling a classic play

http://www.suchtweetsorrow.com/

Nobody surfs the web anymore

chris — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:24:51 +0000

Here’s quite an interesting article about how no-one seems to surf anymore. It’s picking up on a talk Steve Rosenbaum gave at Confab 2011. Essentially the argument is because of the sheer volume of data being created, we can only handle pre-curated now, such as RSS feeds, Twitter timelines etc. Not sure I agree as I like to think I ‘surf’ as part of research for my job. I’m not saying I don’t use RSS feeds or other forms of curated data but they’re just part of the sources that I look at. Anyways, read the links and make your own mind up.

http://www.entradista.com/post/6516636415/nobody-surfs-the-web-anymore

http://www.magnify.net/blog/item/3K61WZ2J4WDYZK97/Sleep-Friends-Work-All-Victims-of-Data-Overload-

Women in computing

chris — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:35:07 +0000

This is a very interesting article on how programming was initially perceived as ‘women’s work’. The quote from Grace Hopper liking it to planning dinner seems a bit condecending to me.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/cgi-bin/wordpressblog/2011/06/researcher-reveals-how-computer-geeks-replaced-computer-girls/