• Google Earth + augmented reality = wow - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic
  LONDON - Academics at a US university are laying the foundations of a new form of digital marketing that involves augmenting Google Earth with dynamic information to create a living city.

  Academics at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created an 'as live' version of Google Earth in which cars travel on motorways, people play in parks and shops and offices are open for business.
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  The technology (displayed in this video which manages to make something exciting seem rather dull) could herald a wave of new marketing opportunities for companies looking to promote their range of services.

  Shopping centres, theme parks, high street shops and car manufacturers could potentially use the technology to showcase their wares in a life-like scenario.

  (tags: google earth ar technology)

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• ClickToFlash
  Ever wanted to get rid of the scourge of the web that is Adobe Flash, but still retain the ability to view Flash whenever you want? With ClickToFlash, you can! Using ClickToFlash, all of those icky Flash bits that have infected most webpages on the internets are replaced with a nice, smooth gradient and the word "Flash" set in a nice, pleasing font. When you want to view the Flash, just click on it!

  The advantages of ClickToFlash are numerous. Since Flash isn't loaded until you specifically ask for it, your CPU usage will stay at normal levels when browsing the web. This has tons of benefits: web browsing stays speedy, your Mac laptop won't get as hot, and your Mac's fan won't come on as often. In fact, we guarantee* that ClickToFlash will quintuple your battery life and that it will protect those precious parts of your body on which you rest your laptop! (*note: not actually guaranteed)

  Best of all, ClickToFlash even supports viewing all those ADORABLE meowing cat videos, annoying d

  (tags: flash plugin browser software mac free web)

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• EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
  EtherPad is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time.

  When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more.

  (tags: online_tools web2.0 editor collaboration)
• Helvetical » I am Ad Taylor
  I know I am not alone in my love/hate relationship for Google’s apps, the functionality is brilliant but the UI is ugly. Google Calendar is most definitely not the exception to the rule, it hurts my eyes.

  Helvetical extends the work done by Jon Hicks on Helvetireader, turning the mayhem of the Google interface into something that doesn’t offend. It was created for use with Fluid.app but I’m sure you can hack the CSS to work for your needs.

  Please note that this is an on-going project so things are a bit rough around the edges. I hope to update soon.

  (tags: helvetica gcal skin greasemonkey fluid)

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• BBC NEWS | Europe | Italian producers bank on cheese
  It is a bank, but not as you know it.

  Yes, it has electronic security doors. Yes, there are cameras watching every angle. And, Yes, barbed wire surrounds the perimeter.

  But in this bank, you do not see any cash or diamonds. Instead, the deposits here have a different kind of value.

  So valuable that, just like other banks, it has been robbed. Three times.

  And what is in this vault? Parmesan cheese. Lots and lots of it - 300,000 blocks or "wheels" of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, to be precise, stored on giant shelves.

  Prince of a cheese

  Parmigianino Reggiano is the prince of Parmesans.

  It is why all the cheese here is worth about $200m (£122m).

  "It's like gold," says Alfredo Germini from Credito Emiliano, or Credem, the bank in northern Italy that owns and runs the vault.
  Alfredo Germini
  As far as Alfredo Germini is concerned, cheese is like gold

  The bank is sitting on this pile of Parmesan for a purpose - it is running a cash-for-cheese loan scheme.

  In simple terms, it will tak

  (tags: bbc italy food culture business bank interesting cheese)

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• Remember The Milk - Services / Remember The Milk for Twitter
  remember the milk task commands for Twitter.
  (tags: twitter rtm tools rememberthemilk reference)

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• 国連CEDAW委員会、日本にポルノゲーム・漫画・アニメの販売禁止を勧告 - Suzacu Late Show
  本年8月18日に国連の女子差別撤廃委員会（CEDAW委員会）は日本の報告書に対する最終見解（最終コメント）を公表した。急進的フェミニスト団体イクオリティ・ナウが日本非難の意見書を送付したあの委員会である。

  最終コメントの内容はかなり雑多だが、本ブログでは表現規制に関係があると思われる部分に的を絞って訳出した。他の内容はすべて省略しているので興味のある方は参考欄の原文をあたってほしい。
  今回翻訳した国連のサイトに公開されている最終コメントはまだ unedited version である。したがって今後内容が変更される可能性があるので注意してほしい。議事録もまだ公表されていない。

  (tags: report culture society feminism politics UN japanese animation porn media)
• Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance - Mozilla Links
  Step 1: get sqlite3, a single file command line SQLite database manager, for your platform (available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X).

  Step 2: Copy the downloaded binary to your profile folder where all your .sqlite files reside.

  Step 3: Close Firefox.

  Step 4: From a command line prompt in your profile folder, run:

  sqlite3 [SQLite database] VACUUM

  replacing [SQLite database with the name of a SQLite file, like places.sqlite.

  On Windows, to defragment all SQLite databases in one command, run:

  for %a in (*.sqlite) do (sqlite3 %a vacuum)

  (tags: firefox tips performance)

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• Real-Life Decepticons: Robots Learn to Cheat | Wired Science | Wired.com
  At first, the robots moved and emitted light randomly. But their innocence didn’t last. After each iteration of the trial, researchers picked the most successful robots, copied their digital brains and used them to program a new robot generation, with a dash of random change thrown in for mutation.

  Soon the robots learned to follow the signals of others who’d gathered at the food. But there wasn’t enough space for all of them to feed, and the robots bumped and jostled for position. As before, only a few made it through the bottleneck of selection. And before long, they’d evolved to mute their signals, thus concealing their location.

  Signaling in the experiment never ceased completely. An equilibrium was reached in the evolution of robot communication, with light-flashing mostly subdued but still used, and different patterns still emerging. The researchers say their system’s dynamics are a simple analogue of those found in nature, where some species, such as moths, have evolved to use

  (tags: science evolution design technology sociology biology interesting hardware ai intelligence robotics)

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• WPtouch: Mobile Plugin + Theme for WordPress ↔ BraveNewCode Inc.
  WPtouch: WordPress on iPhone, iPod & Android

  More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple's app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.

  Find out more below.

  (tags: iphone wordpress plugins webdesign)
• iPhoneビューを最適化するプラグイン「WPtouch」のcssをカスタマイズして2つの画像を横に並べて表示する方法。
  WordPress のiPhone Safariからの閲覧を最適化してくれる「WPtouch」というプラグインを利用して、WordPressのiPhoneビューを作っている方は非常に多いかと思いますが、先ほどAppBankでちょっと手を入れたのでそのご紹介。

  スクリーンショットの大きさによって画面内ががたがたになっていて見にくかったので、CSSをちょっと手直ししたところPCでの閲覧とほぼ同じ状態にできました。特に2つの画像を横に並べてきれいに表示したい！と思われている方はこの方法で解決できると思います。紹介します。

  (tags: wordpress plugins iphone css webdesign)

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• Johnny Holland - It’s all about interaction » Blog Archive » The iPhone is Not Easy to Use: A New Direction for User Experience Design
  If the iPhone is so difficult to use, why is it still regarded as a game changer by both the design and business worlds? Because it does several important things right, but most of all because it’s fun.

  Fun is the New Usable

  As a user experience designer, I thought my job was to make things not suck. Until recently. As technology has evolved, human behavior has evolved along with it. Since behavior is the basis of user experience design, my job has evolved as well. Now, my job is to make things people love. At the 2009 IA Summit, Karl Fast articulated the value proposition of user experience design with sparkling clarity. “Engineers make things,” he said, “we make people love them.” And then he held up an iPhone as an example.

  This is a crucial change, the importance of which cannot be overstated.

  (tags: iphone usability interaction design apple ux ui game)

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• 心の身体性 (arclamp.jp アークランプ)
  デザイン、社会、文化、心脳、ソフト、ハード、哲学、進化、IT、全部が巻き込まれる、全部が真摯に熟考する必要のあるトピック。
  (tags: design society culture brain psychology hardware software internet philosophy evolution science)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile data show friend networks
  Friendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy from call records and the proximity of users, says a new report.

  Researchers fitted 94 mobiles in the US with logging software to gather data.

  The results also showed that those with friends near work were happier, while those who called friends while at work were less satisfied.

  The data, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed a marked contrast with answers reported by the users themselves.

  "We gave out a set of phones that were installed with a piece of 'uber-spyware'," said the study's lead author Nathan Eagle, now at the Santa Fe Institute.

  "It's invisible to the user but logs everything: communication, users' locations, people's proximity by doing continuous Bluetooth scans."

  The researchers then compared the data with results from standard surveys given to the mobile users - and found, as the social sciences have found time and again, that people reported different behaviour than the mobile data rev

  (tags: society sociology social_science culture mobile_phone phone experiment us technology data visualisation bbc science)

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