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Steve Rura - buff!

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Take a look at Steve Rura’s work - it’s stunningly good. Simple, smooth, beautiful. (via KN)

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Revolution over at EvokeONE
Fascinating virtual art exhibition loosely based around the theme of revolution (there are many others including Fable, Calligraphy, Muse, etc) featuring digital design art, music and photography - really, really high quality stuff. Love the music too, unexpectedly! I'll be returning frequently to Evokeone.com if they can keep this up. del.icio.us Tags: design,art,photography,music...
Cool tshirt
Startups are full of creative people, and sometimes, just sometimes, those creative people know the value of cool swag. Here's a Tshirt design from the man who by day directs the visual creativity at Ubisoft (Jean-Philippe Rajotte), made for startup Praized (one of the many "Local 2.0" ventures out here trying to take on Yelp and co). I doff my cap to NotCot (but MocoLoco had it first) ...
Is Google using your brain as you browse?
I just stumbled across a research paper published by a Google employee and a Microsoft employee entitled "A Case for Usage Tracking to Relate Digital Objects". I have no idea who Elin Rønby Pedersen is but she's published both on this and on Google's much vaunted foray into organising your health data. The paper highlights an interesting idea, potentially just as important to Future Google as Pagerank has been to Google so far. It's not groundbreaking - you see it on, for example, Amazon. But it's worth thinking about, applied to the whole web. The idea is that related objects - and I use the term extremely loosely here - can be identified because you looked at them during a session of Internet browsing; you started with one, and your later browsing takes you to related objects - blog posts or news articles on the same or related subject; similar videos; etc. Your brain does the hard work of deciding what objects you're looking for; average that with other similar datasets and Google has a pretty damn good idea of what objects on the web are related, no matter what format the object has (could be visual, textual, a flash...

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