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“We need a Wikipedia for data.”

Posted on April 9th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“The audience howled repeatedly throughout “Cubic Tragedy,” in which a female character composed of angular planes struggled with her CG ‘makeup’ and came undone by her software’s ‘undo’ function.” It’s worth staying until the end of the video.

Posted on April 8th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Gorgeous concept art of a destroyed Washington DC in 2277 for a video game.

Posted on April 8th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“…one of the most entrepreneurial artists of our generation has decided that the business of recording music is advertising.”

Posted on April 4th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Jenny will either think this is neat or despise it. Most likely the latter.

Posted on April 4th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“VCs sitting on giant piles of money that Internet startups don’t need”

Posted on April 2nd, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

The UK has gorgeous new coins. Maybe the people ruining the US paper currency could take a lesson.

Posted on April 2nd, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

iPod to compete with Wii Fit?

iPod to compete with Wii Fit?

Posted on March 27th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Unbelievable Hogwarts Cake.

Posted on March 26th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“Japan: URL’s Are Totally Out”

Posted on March 26th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“Talented people are leaving Pixar because very few people get a shot at directing a film of their own.”

Posted on March 25th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“He was hired by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google’s founders, in the belief that like a Napoleonic army, an internet giant marches on its stomach.”

Posted on March 24th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“Electronic Arts plans to make its games the basis for TV shows, books, Web sites—and the big screen.”

Posted on March 24th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“It was the Digital Marketing shot heard around the world today.”

Posted on March 21st, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

News Corp. shutters pagesix.com gossip site and lays off 18 people. Aren’t pagesix.com’s competitors each run by one person? Could the fact that they had 18 people working on it have anything to do with why it didn’t fly?

Posted on March 20th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“Functionality, utility — whatever you want to call it — brings a different level of engagement from consumers. … Marketers can build websites that do cool, useful stuff.” (Or, even better, drop us an email.)

Posted on March 18th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“It’s Official: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ to Be Two Movies”

Posted on March 13th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“What we want from the Star Wars TV series.”

Posted on March 13th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Kaleidoscope projector. Cooler than you might imagine.

Posted on March 13th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Concept art for Tim Burton’s version of Superman.

Posted on March 13th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“At the moment there’s about 700 images of pre-World War II Italy.”

Posted on March 13th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“I worked at Mile High Comics in Boulder, Colorado from about age 12 to 17. I was working there when Chuck Rozanski bought what is widely regarded as the most valuable cache of Golden Age comics on the planet.”

Posted on March 12th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“Basically, Atari’s marketing folks would negotiate a license to ship GameCorp’s “Foobar Blaster” on a cartridge for the Atari Home Computer System. That was it. That was the entirety of the deal. We got ZERO help from the original developers of the games.” [thx girlhacker]

Posted on March 12th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“I’m in my 30s and I really don’t want a game telling me I have the fitness of a man in his late 40s.”

Posted on March 12th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“The designers estimate they’ll have it built in three years. Here are some of the specs on this giant ship city.”

Posted on March 11th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“I’m not designing software for other people, I’m designing it for me.”

Posted on March 10th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“Bravo has signed Michelob to sponsor the online destination of the new season of “Top Chef.” Michelob will also sponsor Anthony Bourdain’s blog.”

Posted on March 10th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“We spend a lot of time talking about the ends and the means, but it’s also worth considering whether the journey is worth the reward. If you have to compromise what you do just to keep doing it, what’s the point?”

Posted on March 10th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“…if the tactic doesn’t enable you to make a differentiated and relevant point about your brand, it won’t do you much good.”

Posted on March 10th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“Now Mr. Not-a-bubble is trying to convince start-up companies that their income, if it’s in the $300,000 a month range–a range that most companies made up of three guys and a credit-card funded Amazon S3 account would kill for–is “noise” that distracts them from their potential.”

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »