Sunday, May 31, 2009
Plan your movie bathroom breaks wisely
Friday, May 29, 2009
Augmented Reality online
Terminator - Twitter Advergame
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The impossible dream
The Site With 8.64 Trillion Hits in One Day
The day before India's Lok Sabha elections, the country's election commission made a new Web site live to provide election results in real-time. The commisson overbuilt the site, so it thought, readying it for almost 3,000 hits per second--that's 80.6 billion hits in a single 8-hour day. (Below, a supporter of India's victorious Congress party.)
The six-day voting process was supposed to culminate on Saturday, May 16, but the servers were crashing, and updating stopped. TV channels and newspapers that had been counting on the site's accuracy were flailing. The servers, which live at India's National Informatics Centre, couldn't be fixed until early Sunday morning. The final hit-count: 8.64 trillion hits in just eight hours, far more than top-visited sites like Google, that gets only 5,300 visits per second, or 460 million per day. You can view the results of the elections here.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Twanalysis: I'm a boffin, Ashton is a celbrity, WilliamShatner is a robot
- TALKER (12%) - a general keen conversationalist
- SHARER (10%) - someone who shares lots of links etc they've found
- NEWBIE (9%) - someone with few friends or followers yet
- NETWORKER (9%) - a conversationalist who tweets a lot
- WRITER (8%) - a general keen tweeter of their own content
- POET (8%) - a writer who tweets more than usual
- CELEBRITY (8%) - someone with a large following
- SOCIALITE (8%) - someone who is mainly in conversation with people
- BOFFIN (7%) - someone whose language is generally advanced or technical
- ROBOT (7%) - someone whose tweets are mostly links
- LURKER (5%) - someone who doesn't tweet very much
- GURU (4%) - someone with many followers but doesn't follow back so much
- VOYEUR (3%) - someone who reads lots of others but has few followers
- PARROT (1%) - someone who retweets excessively
- ODDBALL (1%) - someone who overuses hashtags
Starbuck would so kick Uhura's ass!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Quub: brainless status updates
Architect Selgas Cano's Hidden Forest Office
Spanish architecture firm Selgas Cano recently unveiled their new office in Madrid. Located within a forest, the tube-like structure is half-sunken into the ground, giving the illusion of complete isolation. A large window runs the entire length of the structure and forms part of the roof, ensuring workers a panoramic view of the surrounding woods. The office is entered via a partially-hidden stairwell and has retractible shutters at the end of the structure. Selgas Cano’s design is seen here photographed by world-renowned dutch architecture photographer Iwan Baan.
A ‘Churchill Gene’ for Creative Drinking? - NYTimes
It’s an old notion: alcohol stirs the muse. Winston Churchill vouched for this, calling his tippling crucial to finishing his six-volume memoirs (“Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than it has taken out of me”). Faulkner, Twain, Beethoven and Van Gogh also seem to have mixed drink beneficially with their work.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Principal Exports of the Philippines
Objectified
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
spring cleaning
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