You Spin Me Round, a rather lovely acoustic cover of the DoA classic on MeFi Music.
« »Empathic Painting, an interactive painterly rendering whose appearance adapts in real time to reflect the perceived emotional state of the viewer.
# art, empathy, painting, recognition, technology
I Wanna Be Your Lover, then an awkward little interview, then Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?. Brilliant.
# interview, live, music, prince
The Domesday Book is now online. Conspicuously absent from all the press coverage: it costs £3.50 to download a page. Which sucks.
« »The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.
# architecture, spam, visualisation
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.–Voltaire (More here.)
« »These bugs are controlling our brains, and the cats are to blame.
# cats, culture, parasites, science
Dangerous Beauty: The Art of the Shiv–A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner’s closed world. Crudely constructed from such things as spoons, shoelaces and upholstery tacks, shivs lie somewhere between the graceful and the grotesque.
« »My friend Tim is raising money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust by going white water rafting. You can sponsor him here, if you like.
# charity, cystic fibrosis, friends
CustomizeGoogle: Improve Your Google Experience–a Firefox extension that provides ad-blocking, links to alternate search engines, links to bookmarking services and lets you filter search results. Good stuff.
« »1000 FACES OF WALTHAMSTOW which contains, er, 1000 faces of Walthamstow.
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