Category: On the web
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Add this to my Christmas List
If you’re a fan of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, then this book, The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, had better be on your Christmas list this year. It’s on mine 🙂 Watch the video and find out why…
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The Steve Jobs Way
Tomorrow Apple will likely announce a new look and feel for the MacBook Air and an update (perhaps significant) to their flagship operating system, OSX. And once again, the reality distortion field surrounding Steve Jobs’ presentations will be set to full power. It’ll be an interesting day, I’m sure. Especially since Steve ripped into Google,…
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Huge Lego Mindstorms Robotic Chess Board [video]
Gotta love the ingenuity that goes into stuff like this. It’s a huge Chess set, with the pieces made from Lego Mindstorm robots.
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I can haz Ikea? [video]
Randomness. 100 cats released into an Ikea store overnight, just to see what happens. Fun!
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Free and good? It’s for the birds!
Actually it’s for you and me, and I’m referring to the free online suite of tools that flies under the Aviary banner. Actually, it’s more than a suite of tools, Aviary is also a community by and for content creators: At Aviary, we believe that everyone in the world should have access to powerful creation…
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Quartet on iPad — Sweet Dream [Video]
Happy Friday! Found this earlier in the week and decided it’d be perfect for my current fascination with iPad music apps. Four musicians playing amplified iPads as a quartet. Quite nice! The iPad Orchestra from Alex Shpil on Vimeo. Oh, and the app they’re playing is Seline HD — I’ve not checked it out yet, but…
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Save the world! Play Games!! [Video]
It seems that gamers are an untapped problem-solving resource. In this TED talk video, Jane McGonigal, one of the “20 Most Important Women in Videogaming” according to Gamasutra, explains how this is so.
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One way to Get Stuff Done [video]
Another Friday and another video — this time dealing with time management and organization. The video details how the fine folk at BlueSkyFactory like to organize their day and their workload. Not exactly my cup of tea — I’m currently experimenting with the Pomodoro system described by Tris Hussey on his blog. But it is…