Archive for April, 2005
Cool widgets everywhere
I need to get my Mac upgraded NOW. Joi is having a 24 hour Spotlight indexing break, and cool widgets are showing up everywhere. And check out John’s Tiger details list. If you wonder what that music playing when finished installing is, James has the answer. If you need to see the weather in Norway, [...]
I feel for one
Amazing sofa/bed/chair/thing from Anima Causa, called Feel. The Feel seating system consists of 120 polyurethane balls, 20 cm each, put together in a grid covering 180 x 220 cm. You can shape it into almost any shape you like. Check out the animation at Anima Causa. Via MocoLoco.
My own tags at Del.icio.us and Flickr
I’m following Brad Choate’s idea, and making my own tags at Del.icio.us and Flickr. If there is a link or photo you want me to see (and don’t bother to mail me) just add the tag “foroyvind” (=For Oyvind) at Flickr or Del.icio.us. I have added the tag already to one of my own photos [...]
Microsoft “copies” Delicious Library?
And Wil Shipley does not like it.
How to make your own comics – in Comic life
I just bought a copy of Comic Life from Plasq. It’s an application that lets you take pictures from iPhoto (or Finder), drag them into Comic Life, and make your own comics with speech bubbles and sound effects: Zap! Pow! Kaboom!! It’s so fun. Highly recommended! When your new comic is finished, put it on [...]
Sumo tube
Wow! Kind of removes the need to shape up your body before the beach season? For sale at SportsStuff (via Boingboing).
Coldplay math and a-ha admiration
Todd links to the story about the cover of the new Coldplay album, and the math behind it. Norwegian daily Dagbladet reports that Chris Martin loves a-ha: “Everybody always ask about who inspired Coldplay, who we are stealing from, and which music we listened to when growing up. Questions like that reminds you about your [...]
Opera CEO will swim from Norway to USA
The CEO of Norwegian browser company Opera will swim from Norway to USA if downloads reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch. He will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother’s house in his home country, Iceland. Make him [...]
Papercasting is the new Podcasting
Dead trees, digitally delivered. And this nice gentleman has his other projects here.
For hire
Out of work. Lots of experience.” (via The J-Walk Blog)
If you ever need to style a bowl of cereals
Well, you never know, do you?
Bono for pope
Marc Pincus thinks Bono is the the new pope: “what makes Bono stand out as a true leader is that he is helping us realize our own power”. Support the One campaign and watch the video.
How to think when designing (or anything else)
Jeff Veen has been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink”, and reflects about how he thinks when designing things. Interesting reading. “And I sort of realized that I do design that way. I build up a tremendous amount of background data, let it synthesize, then “blink” it out as a fully-formed solution. It typically works like this: [...]
Using iChat AV when editing
According to sources who saw the Apple FCP5 demo at NAB, iChat AV will be able to show what you play in FCP while videochatting. What a great feature! If your boss or client is somewhere else, you can use iChat AV to show your progress to him/her.
Individual freedom
Do you care about your personal freedom? And others? Bruce does: Individual-i stands for Freedom from surveillance Personal privacy Anonymity Equal protection Due process Freedom to read, write, think, speak, associate, and travel The right to make your own choices about sex, reproduction, marriage, and death The right to dissent (via Boingboing)
