Kingyo Senbei

Here are some of the most amazing shots of water drops I’ve ever seen. With digital cameras it makes it so easy for anyone to try out techniques which would have tried anyones patience with just film.
There’s many unique examples which could never be duplicated again. For me that’s what makes it so special, the […]

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I think I MAY NEED A BATHROOM break. Is this possible? G.W.Bush
Well that’s what the memo said when Dubya sent a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations.
Isn’t it interesting the words he chose to […]

This short flash clip is hilarious (via a friends blog). Well maybe not that funny, but I’ve never seen anything quite like it. The closest that comes to this is some songs and animation about living on the farm and elephant droppings (hard to explain, I’ll need to provide links when I find them).

Update: More […]

“Samsung Electronics is planning to produce a new memory chip that will double the storage capacity of digital cameras, reports Reuters. It is expected that Samsung, which holds a 60% share of the NAND flash memory market, will launch a 16-gigabit chip late next year. NAND flash memory chips are built into memory cards or […]

Don’t you find it annoying when shopping catalogs try and explain what digital technology really is?
They have little boxes with ‘helpful hints’ and ’special facts’. Yet you’d learn more in a product manual. One of my pet peeves is the way digital camera resolution is marketed. The more megapixels the better is the adage and […]

With the help of flickr and some code you too can have random letters to make up any word you fancy.
You can get the addresses for fixed images or run the script to get random letters.
(Via Burning Evanescence)

Here are the Lomoize action sets:
LomoizeV1
LomoizeV2
I hadn’t wanted to put them up for a long time as I had forgotten where I downloaded them. Now I feel dumb cause it was still from Redscreen via the Internet Archive.
I prefered the V2 action as it provided many more options and if I remember correctly […]

With the release of the nano I could be buying something from apple for once. I was always undecided on the iPod with so many other mp3 players out there. Yet this ones rather nifty. Price seems alright but with a little extra money you could always go from a 2GB to 20GB. That’s the […]

World renowned composer Philip Glass received a 15 minute long standing ovation in Germany this week. It was at the world premiere of his new opera ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’. The opera does not try to encompass one culture or time period in history but to present civil rights in a timeless way.
Here ‘barbarians’ are […]

A year back when I found the first lomo action file and instructions I was so excited. Since then I’m finding more and more websites with actions and plugins available that tweak the original concept. Here are a couple that range from boosting your pics with more contrast and saturation to emulating cross processing. (first […]

This is too good to be true. A ‘printer’ which uses water to create images. It’s really like a fountain with drops coming out at set times instead of a continous flow of water. It’s still hard to get my head around it as the picture it creates must go by fast. The company has […]

It’s amazing what you can with a little html and javascript! Play DHTML Lemmings with full sound, music and animations.
Or try out Super Mario World with slightly cuter modified characters…Mario is a cat now?

It’s not a magazine or a book it’s a mook! Well that’s what one reviewer at Amazon called it. I’m talking about Make: technology in your time. I haven’t had the chance to look over a copy but from the website, what subscribers say and some scanned articles it’s pretty cool.
There are articles on the […]

Having had serious spam when using MoveableType and after transferring to Wordpress I decided I needed to take drastic action.
I was on the uni server when I used MT, but it didn’t have the PHP graphics module so the Captcha didn’t work. I left that blog, there were so many spam comments and trackbacks.
I have […]

Fruits Basket Card Game, scheduled to release in the first quarter of 2006, marks the first time Score Entertainment has ever released a single purchase game. Each deck sells for a suggested retail price of $9.99 and contains 121 cards including a poker deck of 54 cards, a play deck of 53 cards and 14 […]

Remember those plain old speaker boxes from over a decade ago? The ones only available in black, beige or fake wood trim (for as poorer people)? Well I don’t!
The past few years have seen so many cool gadgets being produced. And sound systems haven’t missed out. Okay so I’m focusing on the physical […]

I’ve been meaning to find some design orientated websites which are not english. I’ve seen some european ones though not many asian ones. It would help if I knew the different languages and could search for information. But while searching on google I accidently came upon home-keiji.com a nice little flash site full of surprises […]

Please grow your Flip Flap in your mind and bloom your own special flower.
A friend told me about these cute pot plants. They are available in a bright array of colours and are solar powered. Some glow in the dark and can be used to ‘communicate’, by means of little message cards being placed in […]

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I am starting to wonder how long Australia will stay in this fashion rut. I mean for the last few years there hasn’t been too much of a difference in menswear. Sure, trends have changed and every year women get new designs. Yet for men there doesn’t seem to be much variety.
A couple […]

Courtesy of the Nippon Television Network we have this funny clip. I’m guesssing it might be from some comedy show.
http://www.ntv.co.jp/channel/kasoh/kin10.html
But you gotta check out the rest of the clips, these are hilarious and original. I’m starting to think this might be a talent show of some sorts?