Pie Guy by Neven Mrgan
A fun little game, but more importantly, a complete breakthrough in demonstrating the power of WebKit. It’s full-screen, runs without a ‘net connection and stores state in a local database.
This is what’s possible in a browser on the iPhone — without the App Store. Outstanding.
The Brain Wave Sofa is a representation of a 3 second wave of Alpha brain activity captured with a 3D EEG.
If you want to understand the future, don’t pay attention to how technology is changing, pay attention to how childhood is changing.
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Athlete — “Love Come Rescue”
From their only-released-in-the-UK-so-far 4th album, Black Swan.
I’m generally not a fan of BritPop, but something about Joel Pott’s voice always hooks me. I saw Athlete live almost four years ago, opening for Snow Patrol, and have been a fan ever since.
How much of the goodwill Apple once had with programmers have they lost over the App Store? A third? Half? And that’s just so far. The App Store is an ongoing karma leak.
Paul Graham, “Apple’s Mistake”
Another credible voice joins the chorus decrying the deeply broken approval process for the App Store. Squandering this kind of intangible asset — the hearts and minds of loyal developers — is a mistake it seems Apple would be far too smart to make. And so I have no doubt that they’re aware of the damage being done, but when leveled against disrupting the now $1.2B+ revenue stream that is the App Store, decision paralysis seems to have set in.
Mesmerizing geometric collages by Sarah Gee, Canadian artist and half of the most excellent Ouno Design. Materials consist of paper, acrylics, and archival ink.
Her work can be seen at Vancouver’s East Side Culture Crawl 2009 this weekend.
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Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard — “One Fast Move Or I’m Gone”
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Ben Gibbard has teamed up with Jay Farrar (Son Volt) to record a new album titled One Fast Move or I’m Gone, inspired by Jack Kerouac’s book Big Sur!
Stacking cabinet ‘tree’ from Chigo.
I find beautiful, functional design like this incredibly inspiring.
(via makenosound)
