Friday 21 October 2005

When Reality Blurs - BPost 051004

Ever wanted to be a roadie, a film star, a CEO? Now you can be. With 20Lives the Nokia Game, whose loss I lamented here a year ago, is back.

The premise is simple. Every day you play one of 20 different lives. Living out a day in the life of one of the characters. The nicest touch is that all of the game is in a first person perspective, you see people and places only through your character's eyes – and there are a lot of people talking right in your face. Each of the lives is interlinked, inhabiting the same city. You'll play one character one day, only to find yourself encountering that same character the next day whilst you're in somebody else's skin. Useful information comes fast and without warning, and you soon learn to keep a pen and paper handy.


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Thursday 20 October 2005

Google2084

google home page in 2084


The New York Times > Opinion > Image > Op-Art

Nice one.


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Last.fm - on demand music radio

Last.fm's The Sundays virtual radio channel

Just like the virtual radio stations on MusicMatch, but a simpler client and less hassle. Just type in a band name and they play you music like that band. Type in The Sundays, and hey-presto an Annie Nightingale/ Jane Gazzo replacement. Much better than the new Dream Ticket.


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Tuesday 18 October 2005

omniGraffle and Anthracite

Mapping del.icio.us with Anthracite and OmniGraffle

Some nice Mac visualisation and dat aminign tools here. Now where's the PC equivalents.


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Blog Usability

Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Good article (as ever) by Jakob Nielsen on good blog design. I think I only fall foul of 3 of his Top 10 mistakes. So look out shortly for my biog (although I'm sure that's linked in somewhere, my photo (ditto), and a postings greatest hits!


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Wednesday 12 October 2005

Monday 10 October 2005

Science Visualisation

Slide Show: Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2005

Wonderful collection of diagrams and images illustrating various aspects of science. An annual competition.


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TMRA 05 - Topic Maps Conference

TMRA'05 %u2014 first day | Larsblog

Good write-up on the recent Topic Maps conference in Leipzig.


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Friday 7 October 2005

Mightyv

Mightyv is another web based EPG.

(this is what comes of entering the BBC Backstage TVAnytime competition. Our chatbot based talking EPG is called Charlotte.


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MythTV

MythTV

Homebrew PC bsed PVR. Very nice.


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Thursday 6 October 2005

Monday 3 October 2005

Wax Audio

Wax Audio | WAX AUDIO: MASHED MEDIA APPROPRIATED, RE-MIXED, SEXED UP & URANIUM ENRICHED

This is where the George Bush Imagine came from.


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Radio 1's Blue Room

Oh well, in the absence of Jane Gazzo looks like I'll have to hang out in Radio 1's The Blue Room.

Their George Bush version of Lennon's Imagine was wonderful!


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