Friday = Fun Stuff

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Someone said recently they missed all the fluff on my blog. (There used to be more).

Kermit I Love You

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God, I love The Muppets. Great song, great video.via Not The Kinda Cool

Helvetireader

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Helvetireader

I spend some time in Google Reader, so I was pleased that someone has designed another skin for it. I'm not a big fan of Google design. I like soft, sleek and unfussy. So the Helvetireader is just what the doctor ordered. Nice.

Adventure Photo Revolutionary :: Boone Speed

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By Russ Lowe via Cool Hunting

Boone Speed is his real name. Whether the Portland, OR-based photographer's brand of photography is the result of natural-born talent or sheer determination, his aesthetic likely has something to do with his father, Grant Speed. Known for his sculptures depicting Western life, the senior Speed split his West Texas home at the tender age of 12 to ride bulls and earn a living as a cowhand. Boone is keeping the all-American myth going, albeit updated for a new generation.

Star Wars: 1942

SILLOF is a dude that takes Figure Modification to another level. I am really into his WWII mods at the moment, but it is all worth a peek.

New York City Devours Los Angeles Alive

The following is a possibly entertaining but highly unedited rant, thank you:


Brooklyn, NY: The inner-sanctum of Hipster-dom, along with it's spiritual annexes; Austin, Minneapolis, Seattle, Hollywood etc. tends to house avenues and streets that bleed fresh creative explorations before vulturous bacterias grow within and feed off of the collective right-brain hemorrhages. Well, maybe not Hollywood, anymore.

Hollywood seems to have been reduced to having it's heart valves that used to gush blood for the sake of flowing become clogged with festering deleterious dyssocial disease long-time go.
The reasons for why Hollywood, unlike some other metropolises that house a constant, age-old war of what reduces down to Jedi versus Sith, has chosen to become a breeding pen of cultural ouroboros remains unclear.

Geek Hierarchy

Couldn't agree more with the majority of this, but I don't see Protein Peeps in the list. Have dropped them a line to complain.

Transparent Concrete

New Architecture in Concrete... ... from translucent blocks and photo-engraved building fronts to revolutionary materials that promise to change the rules of construction as we know them today. We all know that concrete can be concocted to look like many things, but who would have thought that the rock-solid substance could be a substitute for a window? As it turns out, a handful of academic and commercial researchers are not just dreaming of this, they’re busy making it happen. I've heard onlymatt is building his house with this stuff. Cool.

The Future of Online Advertising

Phorm is an open advertising exchange and proprietary ad serving technology that "uses anonymised ISP data to deliver the right ad to the right person at the right time and the right number of times i.e. it gives consumers advertising that's tailored to their interests with irrelevant ads replaced in the process." Got it? And they go on to say, that the technology behind it takes consumer privacy protection to a new level by not storing any personally identifiable information, IP addresses or information on user browsing behaviour. Maybe this could be the first contender to the Google AdSense monopoly. Maybe not.

The Innovation Edge

Mr Gower has just tipped me off about Nesta's upcoming conference, The Innovation Edge on 20th May at the Royal Festival Hall. The aim of the event is to "bring together a powerful mix of the world's leading academic, political and industry experts to consider the latest developments in innovation." I can't get enough of conferences at the moment, especially when they have a great line-up and they're free. Awesome.