My friend Woes from the Roquefort Kru gifted me their first (signed and numbered!) compilation album the other day. RF is a dj collective that play a nice blend of various grooves to make you move, basically. Hear them on Myspace here and check out when they’re roqueing in your stadsdeel.
‘Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness –- shut down one by one. An astonishing story’.
Found this speak on the amazing TED the other day. Check this clip out!
This is pretty clever: Enter a long world and Thsrs will make it smaller for you. Handy for fitting all that text into something like Twitter or an SMS.
Also available as a plugin for Firefox.
I downloaded a few demos the other day from Xbox Live and amongst them was Ninja Gaiden II. Which is a pretty fast ride. When starting up it felt as if I was watching someone else play instead of myself. I didn’t really know what was going on. Good thing the game explains tricks as you go, like running up to walls ‘crouching tiger’ style and then slashing your way down.
Ninja Gaiden II is a great action game with a platform flavor. The visual (combat) effects are great, but this is a very linear experience: you can’t really step outside a fixed path. But then again you don’t really need to. All you need to do is fight, fight and hack-and-slash your way trough. On the box (I picked up the full game straight away) it says “Hard stopping action”. And that’s actually quite true. I had to put the controller down after a while. Its that intense.
I’m not really sure what the plot is though. You are a ninja. You fight. I guess that’s the plot.. but what the hell who needs a plot anyway?
Wearing saggy pants in the city of Flint (USA) is now officially classified as Criminal Behaviour: it can send you to jail for 93 days to a year and/or $500 in fines.
Police Chief David Dicks, who took over the Flint (yes, that same Flint from Moores’ Roger and Me) police department last month on an interim basis, announced that his officers would start arresting people wearing saggy pants that expose skivvies, boxer shorts or bare bottoms.
Complete lowdown (ha!) here (via Tobias)
I think people who pull their jeans up all the way to their shoulders should also be sent to jail - perhaps even a bit longer.
The infamous Rubbishcorp tagged me - already a few weeks ago and alongside MC Hammer - for a ‘7 favorite songs for spring/summer’ meme type thing. I’ve taken my time to come up with a good list. Because this ain’t easy. And I’m not sure if the aim is nighttime boogie or daytime dreaminess?
Anyway, I chose a mix of both:
I’ll probably keep editing this post until end of times..
I knew Firefox was conquering ground fast. But not *this* fast: Google Analytics shows visitors to this blog (measured from July last year) have been 40% Firefox users vs. 27% Internet Explorer users. That’s quite strong numbers for Firefox!
But what surprised me most is that Safari is coming up fast with 26% - only 1% to go to kick Internet Explorer of the second lap. That’s some pretty good numbers for my favorite browser.
I’m quite pleased with the 0,19% PSP users too ;)
Most of the times its the creatives/agencies that get honoured for coming up with great work. But if a client isn’t signing of great ideas and concepts you are left with nothing*. In a time where great work is becoming much more about doing stuff that hasn’t been done before, or doesn’t fit a certain media like radio/print/tv/banners, its the clients that dare to be different that’ll enable agencies to do great work.
So that’s why I think there’s room for yet another award in the already cramped award-roster of the advertising industry, something like ‘The CBA’ - The Client Bravery Award. I think people from various agencies should be in the jury. Perhaps a people’s voice award, too.
I’m wondering who would be good nominees for the CBA 2008 Gold? Or perhaps there’s even a Grand Prix nominee? A Lifetime Achievement?
* Ofcourse not-signed-off work can still see the light of day; in Holland for example there is the ‘Slash ‘n Burn Awards‘, an award show for rejected work (although I think its not running anymore).
