20 December 2008 – 7:16 PM
After the Bush/Shoe incident, anyone who’d spent even a few moments in eccentric corners of web knew there would be a creative response online. And it came. Wired has a summary of the shoe-inspired games and animations. So Sock And Awe wasn’t the only Flash game based on the Bush/Shoe event. But it was the [...]
15 December 2008 – 3:56 AM
One video which I really enjoyed this year was this 20-minute talk about endangered languages. I wasn’t particularly following this subject in any great depth before. Let’s just say raw curiosity can take one to some unexpected places. You can open it in a new window here. Dr. David Harrison says: There are 7,000 languages [...]
20 October 2008 – 2:20 AM
Mucking about with music video streams isn’t the only misuse of YouTube I’ve been enjoying lately. Here’s a game called A Car’s Life which is based entirely in YouTube. Click the annotations to save the car, but be quick! As to how it works, each level has a different video with an annotation linking to [...]
18 September 2008 – 4:29 PM
In a dizzying round-up, Reportr alerts us to 10 tech trends, the 11th presumably being to drop letter ‘e’s now that single-word domains are in short supply (cf. Flickr, Dopplr, Tumblr…) The thing that caught my attention was the mention of visual search. I’ve been playing with a new search engine, TinEye, for a couple [...]
