WTF-Of-The-Day 2: Cultural differences
Watch this. 30 seconds of your life. Warped.
Also watch the related videos YouTube suggests, for more of the same. WTF.
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- I like new, unintended uses of objects, especially when the new use is ‘ironically’ related to the original. On my wrist I wear an analogue watch that tells the time “digitally”, using two rotating black disks with a feint through which only the current time is displayed. So Christiaan Postma’s great achievement caught my eye with a clock that actually spells out the time (well, the hour) “digitally” by lining up tiny hands from a multitude of analogue clocks. (via) Bookmark/Share: sociallist_7d06a91d_url = 'http://www.overthecounterculture.com/2008/wtf-of-the-day-2-cultural-differences/'; sociallist_7d06a91d_title = 'WTF-Of-The-Day 2: Cultural differences'; sociallist_7d06a91d_text = ''; sociallist_7d06a91d_tags = ''; ...
- 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...
- Google Earth just keeps getting better and better
- Now with amazing lighting effects (including day/night, sunshine coming through the clouds, etc) - but more importantly, now with StreetView. Watch the video below - what an incredible tool. Think back to human endeavour and exploration over human history; Humanity can be really, really proud of having got to this - a free, publically available, interactive tool with a lot of user-generated content, available to anyone with a PC and an internet connection. Bookmark/Share: sociallist_e08c0893_url = 'http://www.overthecounterculture.com/2008/wtf-of-the-day-2-cultural-differences/'; sociallist_e08c0893_title = 'WTF-Of-The-Day 2: Cultural differences'; sociallist_e08c0893_text = ''; sociallist_e08c0893_tags = ''; ...
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