Creatively Distracted
Creatively Distracted
Things of interest stumbled upon.
From the web site xFruits is described as: “…a free online service offering to every user the possibility of: Enriching your home Enlarging your blog’s functionalities Creating, generally, your information system from the RSS feed XFruits makes possible the Mashup…
Heidi sent me a link to a video of a snowboarder who is absolutely mad.
Another belated installment of Fun Time Friday links, but never late than never, right? National Mechanics restaurant and bar in Philadelphia. Great web site, but I didn’t know about the place when I actually lived in PA – so I…
If you still have friends or family who haven’t heard about the issues surrounding Net Neutrality, be sure that they get the word.
There is an article in the NewScientistTech about a new process that has been developed to create chain mail on a microscopic scale that may one day be used to link wearable electronic devices or sensors together. [via]
Design Within Reach has announced the winners of their Champagne Chair design contest. Entrants were asked to design a chair using the components of a champagne bottle. The winners are posted and there is a link to runners up there…
TutorialBlog has notoriously resource-rich posts, and the latest one is no exception. If you have an eye out for vector resources for graphics then look no further. There are similar posts on this site for things like Photoshop brushes and…
A company named Zyren has an interesting "clock" that they are marketing as the sleep system Night Cove that controls the ambient light in your environment. As a huge fan of sleep I can only imagine the endless hours of well managed, scientifically crafted sleep it could provide - just the thing for the wonky winter nights in Alaska. Despite my torrid love affair with sleep I remember the days when I was a morning person and I miss them. [via]
...on The Meaning of 8. The Sneeze is featuring a review of Cloud Cult's new album The Meaning of 8 - by the resident 6-year old and music guru. Overall he gives an enthusiastic thumbs up and provides some pure insight. It is an absolute joy to read.
While your over at The Sneeze check out "Steve Don't Eat It" where all your questions about the strange mystery food on the grocery shelves are answered - or where you are just grossed out.
There are probably a whole lot of Web2.0 collections out there but go2web20.net is certainly the most Web2.0 of them that I have come across. There’s a whole lot of time-killin’ potential if you’re planning on visiting.
Over the past week or so I have been getting re-acquainted with my Yahoo account ever since Flickr decided I needed to tie my two accounts together. Lo and behold I discovered their mashup service Pipes. I can’t help but…
Streamline online tasks with the help of IMified – www.imified.com. It allows you to connect your favorite chat client to a number of your existing online services like Google Calendar, Basecamp, WordPress, MT, TP, Blogger and a few more. In…
Picnik is another handy online photo editor for those times there’s no Photoshop, Gimp, XnView, or Picassa around. Picnik allows you to rotate, crop, resize, edit color and contrast and save as JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, PDF, and TIFF. There…
Things that have caught my eye today that I wish I had time to look at more, but will probably have to wait until I get home because of all the things that need to get finished before the weekend…
Alright, this website has been circulating around and I've seen it mentioned on a few of my regular reads. Things My Boyfriend Says posts hilarious snippets of conversation between a girl and her boyfriend, and I'm sorry I didn't visit it earlier because I fell off my chair from laughter.
Adam Reuters, the Reuters correspondent dedicated to Second Life reported on Tuesday of the new build by Clear Ink of the US Congress. It appears to be affiliated with the Democratic Party, but when the space is open it will be intended to serve as a non-partisan place for open discussion and information about the 110th Congress.
Gene Koo, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society as well as Director of Online Training at Legal Aid University, lists three criteria for which computer simulations add value in an educational context: 1. The subject is best…
JustVirtual has posted a fantastic recap of the ZeroG Sky Dancer’s performance, produced and directed by DanCoyote Antonelli the other night. By all accounts this even was a huge success – even in the face of a buggy grid upgrade…
Phillips Design is planing to develop a space in Second Life, in cooperation with the design studio Rivers Run Red, to present concept products to residents and gather feedback about them. They see this endeavor as an opportunity to interact…
The folks at Terra Nova have figured the value of the inworld currency for a number of virtual worlds – and Monopoly and put it all in a nice little table. I feel I have to mention Monopoly separately as…
From the design labs at Electrolux comes the KaionWAVE washing system, a groundbreaking concept for laundry of the future. Functioning as both a washer and a dryer, the KaionWAVE washing system is ideal for houses where space is limited. No…
Ralph Koster has written one of the more well thought out articles about the emergence of CopyBot and some of the implications for Second Life. The conversation following this article is also very thought provoking and worth a scan to…
These miniature gardens are absolutely fascinating. More interesting is that the main site seems to be for a decontamination service and that these miniature little ecosystems are their targets.
Dean & Deluca have an amazing cake for halloween this year. Six layers of spiced butter cake
with praline buttercream and a center layer of rich chocolate fudge. Hand-made and decorated.
Self-education or self-directed learning. An autodidact, also known as an automath, is a mostly self-taught person — typically someone who has an enthusiasm for self-education and a high degree of self-motivation.
Linden Lab is celebrating their 1M account today. Though I am still a young resident, watching the exponential growth of SL over the past six months is nothing short of amazing. LL is forecasting 50,000 new accounts in a single day this week - ALT accounts or not, it is hard to dispute how rapidly things are growing. Kudos to the LL team of their heroic efforts as they stand in the path of such a large wave. Pull out the surfboards!
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Scripted dice now make it possible to play D&D in the virtual world of Second Life. How many virtual steps can one take from "reality"?
Kaspen has created beautiful ads for Anagram bookstore. View one. [via BibliOdyssey]
Stunning 3D rendering solutions that make real life look – well, just dirty. View the ARTVPS gallery