Links of interest that are not posted here by a del.icio.us auto-blogging widget:
– When I read this commentary on Wired (Link) discussing virtually-connected “garage bands”, a number of thoughts went through my mind; thoughts such as “How does this idea apply to fabbing?” What initially seem to me to be relatively easy-to-answer questions seem less straight forward the more I consider them.
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For the most part, last week felt… wrong. Not sure why. Maybe it was word that Microsoft is courting Yahoo, or that Murdoch wants to ownz the Dow Jones. Or maybe it was the idiotic Digg revolt. Or maybe it was all of those and more plus a helping of school board over-reactionary stupidity.
Whatever the reason, pretty much the only good thing I got out of last week was the above image of a bee-fab’d vase (courtesy of inhabitat – Link). Doesn’t it just figure that bees are mysteriously dying off in the U.S.?
{Image source: inhabitat}
Remember my previous post (reLink) on the topic of Coca-Cola’s “VirtualThirst” competition? Steve Coulson from event organizer and marketing consultant group Crayon commented today with a link to Coca-Cola representative Michael Donnelly’s response to the concerns of critics like me.
You can read Steve’s comment here – reLink.
You can watch the YouTube vid here – Link.
And here’s my response:
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Well… that was terrible. If I were Coca-Cola, I’d yank it off YouTube before someone remixes that thing in the worst kind of way.
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Just as I was pointing out that Linden Lab had yet to introduce some long-promised additions to Second Life’s modeling toolset, word comes via C|Net (Link) that so-called “Sculpted Prims” (aka “sculpties”) may be on the horizon. So what’s a “sculpted prim”? According to a FAQ on the Second Life Wiki (Link):
A “sculpted prim” is a prim whose shape is determined by a texture – its “sculpt texture”. Sculpted prims can create organic shapes that are not currently possible with Second Life’s prim system.
I’m an old school small-gauge film fan. I own a few old 8mm, S8, and off-size cameras and happen to have a small stash of Super 8 film in the fridge (for the day I have a good reason to use it). Little surprise then that some guy tinkering around with printing S8 film (Link) gets my attention (via Boing Boing). The test videos on his site are better than I expected; and he even shows different printing methods (inkjet and laser) alongside the original video footage for the sake of comparison. Nice. Hope we see this taken further.
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