Entries Tagged as 'Fun'

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

FaceSpooks - Your the star, be IN the movie

A hat tip to Dan Taylor over at BBC for pointing out this lovely little viral that allows you the passive, sit-on-the-couch-and-munch-crisps viewer (well fiddle with laptop) to be the star of Spooks. FaceSpook is a personalized video tool where your face is mapped onto a character in an action scene - and all via [...]

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

the rise and rise of the zoomable…

Twice this week I’ve stumbled across interfaces which I’ve found irresistible and blog-worthy. The first is PicLens (not brand new this week - but certainly within living memory ie: several months). The second is the Zoomii interface for browsing Amazon books.
PicLens is a Firefox 3.0 plugin which allows you to navigate through sites such as [...]

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

NASA’s computers brought down by biological virus!

We’ll i’ll let you read the heading again — nope, it’s not a joke. Apparently millions of tiny, hairy, reddish-brown creatures known as “crazy rasberry ants” - crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and “rasberry” after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on, are causing quite [...]

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Real or not Real… The effect of Digital Media…

The following clip you are about to see has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not feeling to it. Apparently its straight unedited footage taken from the CCTV of Raffles Place Tower building in Singapore.
It was posted on the internet a few weeks ago and like a piece of viral media, has completely overwhelmed the asian [...]

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Cracked iTouch/phone Used in Marketing Campaign

The Digg community are having fun with this one from Engadget. A bona-fide top press and poster ad for the iPhone/iTouch in the states shows the large front screen of an iTouch that has been jailbroken or hacked Now this just shows you that Apple have really gotten their ‘tie-it-down’ attitude all wrong - [...]

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

Just for fun, for all you LAMP’ers who are movie makers and game designers, here is a fascinating article on how you should arm yourself to survive a zombie apocalypse if ever needed for your project…
Step one, Know Your Zombies.

The idea of the zombie derives from Voodoo lore. Voodoo (or voudou or vodun) is [...]