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 Boeing recently showcased a full-scale model of their new 747-8 passenger jet featuring rounded, well, everything to make the cabin seem more inviting. Unfortunately the coach passengers still get about 3" of leg room. We give and give, but the oceans just don't seem to appreciate our tremendous generosity. "Some 200 tonnes of oil have leaked from a fuel tank on the stricken cargo ship MSC Napoli, beached off the Devon coast, coastguards have confirmed. The ship has also lost some 200 containers overboard, including two holding 'dangerous but low-risk' goods." When a photo or act is potentially tantalizing and arousing but not explicitly sexual, who determines what, exactly, porn is? "Sam's example, a 12-year-old Japanese actress named Saaya Irie, publishes pictures of herself in bathing suits and cute little outfits. Are we reading suggestiveness into them? Or are they making suggestions that we can't help but notice?"  Darren Firth has some astoundingly beautiful work up at his site Keeps Me Sane. This is his submission to the second edition of Grafuck, posted [via Design Is Kinky] Google wants to control the Internet when bandwidth use becomes so heavy the regular Internet is crushed. By building local data centers and connecting them with their incredible amounts of leased dark fiber, the most of any company, Google could take over our data. "By renting instead of buying, Google was able to acquire its fiber assets primarily in secret. The game was over before most of us even knew there WAS a game." Glenn Reynolds from Instapundit suggests that since Windows Vista's DRM could make commercial HD video look sorta crappy, that could be a great benefit to homemade productions. [via BB]  I had not seen this excellent photo/shop of the Pirate Keyboard. As mentioned previously on Wider Angle, Google had a little talk with publishers at the New York Public Library last week called Unbound. "The event was largely a response to Google's controversial Library Project and corresponding Book Search tool, which have met strong opposition from the publishing industry. At 'Unbound,' the tech-savvy authors, publishers and analysts more or less agreed that to grow and profit in an increasingly digital world, the publishing industry will have to expand its boundaries." iJigg is a cool place to listen to new music, but where to buy and download? You mean I have to Google it myself?  OMG! A DIY Wii laptop. It's so beautiful. Advertising/Design Goodness posted a very funny cartoon illustrating 8 types of creative critics/clients that we all deal with. I've had clients that were many of these types combined. What makes a product or design have an IT factor is closely related to tapping the dominant emerging cultural aesthetic right before its peak. "The Polaroid SX-70 camera, for instance, hasn't stood the test of time, and in most people's minds Frederick's of Hollywood Lingerie has been superceded by Victoria's Secret. But it says a lot that the single object in the book that looks truly dated is the one that was discontinued and then revived: the VW Beetle." Really?!? with Seth & Amy from SNL this week. [YouTube] The Jeep DLD (Digital Liquid Display) waterfall they licensed for trade shows. [YouTube] Labels: Sunday Reader |
 
  
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