“It’s like a wizzard’s portal” – IE9 posters popping up on Microsoft campus in Reading
That's according to Murdoc Niccals from Gorillaz. http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/#/experience/gorillaz Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
Animals in advertising. Cats and dogs, both via @jennyt3031
Ok, a dog video and a cat video. One made me laugh, the other l love for photography. Both work brilliantly. Enjoy. One for dog lovers One for cat lovers Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
Can we ring it? Yes we can!
Bob the builder’s brother, Arthur the second hand car salesman. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
Only the nose knows
A famous feature of Admiralty Arch is its “nose”. On the inside wall of the northernmost arch there is a small protrusion the size and shape of a human nose. There is little or no public information as to why…
Bing – Sexy Maps and The Real London Tube Map
So, Bing has gone and vectorised it's road mapping which makes zooming lovely and images crisp and everything very fast. Hmmmmm, Deep Zoom me up buttercup! Anyway, I was just checking this out when I randomly clicked on a Tube…
Who said wind turbines have to be ugly?
Pics and a video. Would make an interesting addition to a Red Bull Air Race course. 10MW Aerogenerator X © Wind Power Limited & Grimshaw from Wind Power Limited on Vimeo. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via…
Street Slide – innovative shop-front mapping from Microsoft
I can’t wait till this hits a city where I need it. Very useful tech from the research labs at Microsoft. There’s some really intuitive controls and features built into this, check the video for examples and full details. No word on…
Microsoft SenseCam – a tribute to Vannevar Bush
@MarcHolmes and @SaraAllison have just been talking about the Microsoft SenseCam, a device that is being used by the Microsoft MyLifeBits project. SenseCam – read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SenseCam The reference to this reminds me of this project's inspriation,…
Son, you are now the captain of this ship.
30 years ago my dad used to bring me to this playground an I’d sit in this spaceship’s cage. It’s wonderful to see my own son doing the same thing all these years later. I’m genuinely surprised to still see…
Last.fm (@lastfm) stops on-demand streaming. But long live the Scrobble and musical homophily.
I’ve said before that the quality of Last.fm’s audio streams is far better than Spotify’s. So that i can’t go to Last.fm and click to listen to a track is slightly upsetting. Ok, so you can still listen to your radio…