Lopolis

Flickr Places Announced
Some great new geography and mapping integration coming from Flickr. The hot tags feature sounds like a good way to provide news-worthy streams of photos worldwide (or potential for tag-bombing?).
(tags: flickr mapping geography maps photography geotagging)

Information R/evolution (YouTube)
The latest from Michael Wesch, who did the earlier “The Machine is Us/ing Us” video. [...]

Amazon One-click Patent Rejected (pending rebuttal)
This is awesome, and long overdue.
(tags: law legal amazon patent intellectualproperty)

I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome (Spoilers)
Valve entirely out-did themselves with the achievements in the Orange Box. They’re an entire sixth game of their own, but this is surely the craziest. If only my Xbox [...]

New, Full Length Golden Compass Trailer!
Looks even more amazing than the earlier trailer. I just hope they call it an “alethiometer” in the actual film.
(tags: film goldencompass movie trailer)

About a month ago I got a message on Flickr from a Japanese publishing company, CONEX Asia Network, requesting to use a photo of mine in a business magazine of theirs. Even more surprising was that they wanted to use it for Dubai Business Today which, “focuses on informing Japanese businessmen the various [...]

Having gone to school in Rhode Island, I was exposed to the somewhat odd beverage of Coffee milk. Exactly as Wikipedia describes, it is a syrup-flavored milk similar in consistency to chocolate or strawberry milk. I knew it originated in Rhode Island and was common there, but didn’t realize it was so popular [...]

Futurama – Benders Big Score – DVD-Trailer
Hooray! Futurama is back! (YouTube)
(tags: futurama dvd movie trailer humor)

How Creativity Is Killing the Culture
Long but interesting write-up on how an over-abundance of creative people might lessening the quality of actual art, music, writing and most importantly: the audience for all that art.
(tags: art creativity creative culture)

Visualizing Fitts’s Law
Great explanation and examples of the principles involved in some fundamental human-computer interaction concepts.
(tags: article design ia interaction interface hci usability ux)

Play Doh: Sony Bravia Ad
The latest Bravia ad with more large-scale colorful antics.
(tags: sony video advertisement bravia)

Buy n Large
Fake corporate website as part of the promotion for the next Pixar movie. This is supposed to be the company that built “Wall-E” the title character.
(tags: pixar film movies disney marketing humor walle)

Radiohead’s next album, In Rainbows
Coming soon, downloadable from the site, with purchase prices entirely up to the buyer. Disruptive? [...]