MOVED

If you're interested enough to make it here. Check out where my blog has moved to... it's WAY COOLER.

Naked People

This is a neat photography project in which people post with and without clothes. Their clothes fade away at the click of a button and are back on just as easy. It's a nice way of showing that, under all the clothes, we're all basically the same and this idealist view of the naked body is severely skewed by media. I especially like that there aren't any fancy poses... They actually look a bit awkward facing straight towards the camera.

Undo sending emails in Gmail

Woops, forgot the attachment again.... No problem! Now with Gmail you can undo those actions.

SXSW giving away music

The music industry might actually get whats going on with this whole "internet" thing they've heard so much about. South by South West, one of the largest musical festivals in the US, has posted a few torrents of 6Gb of DRM-free music from the performing artists.

The labels save bandwidth and labor by putting them on torrents, they make the public happy by giving out free music, and ultimately, everyone gets to rock and/or roll.

Creating Change

There are things that are out of our control. Things we can't change. Injustices of the world that we're helpless against... or does it only seem like it?

Carrotmob is a wonderful example of how we as a group of consumers can make a difference. They started this project by helping a liquor store renovate to be more energy efficient. Worth checking out and, more importantly, spreading.



As individuals, we may not have enough power to make change but as a group, we have more purchasing power to influence business.

Facebook, umm, yeah

This article talks about how Facebook, and social networks, give us instant gratification and no sense of long-term significance. Similar articles were written about television, when it first became popular, and it holds merit. Many take comfort under the hypnotic blank of television.

she feared "real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf. Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction."

The thought that future generations won't be communicating in real-time 3D is a bit shortsighted. Virtual worlds such as Second Life, WoW and others are allowing people to connect on a different plain of existence. Even so, as we're adapting how to best utilize these new there is not question that person to person contact is being diminished in value.

People don't even feel the need to communicate directly with other people directly. "Facestalking" seems to be equal to chatting to a person and finding out about their lives. Reading bite-sized, fairly trivial information, that the individual chooses to use to craft their online image.

Although its easier to create an image online than a real one, it makes life more complicated, which makes these instant gratifications more appealing.

And thus, another loop is added to roller coaster of life.

Adam Makarenko

He's got a site full of beautiful miniature photographs.