Friday, August 22, 2008

Bunch of interesting digital things

Thanks McCrudden for these

http://www.summize.com (twitter search tool)
http://www.netvibes.com/rgleeson (Renny's netvibes page that shows what he reads to keep up)
http://www.compfight.com (a flickr search tool that WILL FIND YOU PICTURES YOU WANT)

http://www.twistori.com (the twitter/summize tool searching twitter for 'love', 'hate', etc.)
http://tinyurl.com/5lgtrk (MadV on YouTube - he did the "one word" video thing where folks wrote on their hands)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoOCiaxIZF4 ("Follow Your Instinct" Choose-your-own-adventure video)
http://www.thewhalehunt.org/ (jonathan Harris's whale hunt site)
http://www.wefeelfine.org/ (Jonathan Harris's blog 'feeling' scanner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fwQTHYTJQA (Star Wars "Revelations", the first ten minutes of the Fan Film.)
http://thisissand.com/ (The falling sand toy. Try it. You like it)
http://blip.fm/invite/rgleeson (Blip.fm - the endless playlist and song recommendation tool - this is an invite from Renny to join)

Http://www.ted.com (great website, clean interface, amazing films)
http://www.conversespellingbee.com/ (the converse spelling bee)
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ttp://flickr.com/groups/whats_in_your_bag/ (the flickr group where people dump out their bags and photograph and tag the contents)

http://www.brandtags.net (clicking 'whatever it is they say it is' link lets you choose by brand to see responses to date)

http://digg.com/ (the user generated news source that feeds many blogs around the web)
http://labs.digg.com/ (different ways to look at the stories and experience of digg through some pretty freaking cool interfaces)

http://www.dipity.com/ (the timeline builder into which you can import flickr, blogs, twitter, etc, and see them on a timeline)

http://www.constantsetting.com/ (pulls sunset images from flickr in an endless slideshow)
http://www.noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/ (Miranda July's stovetop interface)
http://www.opensourceresistance.net/ (the video of the NIN secret concert and "raid" by SWAT team - the conclusion of the Alternate Reality Game)

and as a bonus,
the future of pornography (mapping avatars/real world persona over robots you can interact with)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-hg4qCaR74

the robot that will hunt down the last surviving humans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJJQ0zNNOM

1 comment:

Julian Cole said...

Nice links here, plenty to have a good look at!