gDigg
TechCrunch demo of Google’s new digg like search result editing feature:
Koloroo Color Wheel
Koloroo for Window, a very cool interactive color wheel with over 100 million possible color schemes. Include six traditional color schemes: analogous, monochromatic, triad, complimentary, compound and shades.
Falling
Documentary film exploring how French photographer Denis Darzacq working with street dancers, captures some stunning images of people suspended in air
ISO50’s Process For Creating The Obama Print
Scott Hansen shares his process, from planning to print, behind making the limited edition Obama Poster.
I had been worrying a lot about how to approach the tree throughout the initial stages of the project. It was going to be the central element that tied the piece together and I really wanted it to stand out. I had batted around a few ideas but nothing really panned out until I settled on the idea of using individual leaves on a two dimensional plane as opposed to trying to create something with three dimensional depth as I had previously planned.
WordPress 2.6 Is Here
If you have barely updated to WordPress 2.5 then you will have to do another update, as WordPress 2.6 is out a month early. Some of the key new features include wiki like revision system with compare post revisions capability, theme viewer, Turbo mode with Google Gears to speed up blogging, and a Press This, blog form anywhere bookmarklet, and lot of other cool additions.
Presto: Pixar Short Film
Presto, the animated Pixar short film from Wall-E
Golden Ray Mass Migration Captured
Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, captures thousands of Golden Rays migration off the coast of Mexico.
“It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind.”
Shit Box: A Portable Toilet
Shit box, a portable cardboard toilet, and it’s reusable. The creativity behind the marketing effort on the website is priceless!
Online White Noise
SimplyNoise, a free online white noise generator for auditory zen.
Alogirthm Ink: Art With JavaScript
Algorithm Ink, a demo site for ContextFree.js a very cool and simple JavaScript drawing API by Aza Raskin. See Aza Raskin’s thoughts here.
Besides being pretty, why is ContextFree.js interesting? Because it shows the power of Open web technologies for making graphically-enabled, compelling interaction. The true power of the web revolves around anyone being able to dive in, see what someone else has done, and expand upon it. Canvas lowers the cost of entry to creating graphical mashups and other dynamic, graphical content. It also shows the progress the web has made: a year ago, this demo would not have been possible.
Attacking Shyness
20 ways to attack shyness from Think Simple Now.
Socially, we tend to have the misconception that only introverts experience shyness, but that is not true. Shyness has more to do with being uncomfortable with one’s self, especially around other people.
Google Media Server for PS3
Google has released a Media Server, which will stream video, photos, music and other media files from your PC to UPnP enabled devices like the Playstation 3. Requires Google Desktop and will play YouTube videos as well.
In the old days, we used to watch a simple device called a television. Nowadays, all the stuff worth watching and listening to tends to be stored on or accessed through a computer. To help remedy this, we are pleased to release the Google Media Server.
A good favicon for Google
Google’s latest change to their favicon is so bad, that the team at Turbo Milk has come out with their own ideas to teach Google how to draw a good icon.
Not so long ago we berated the new Google icon and called it bad. But denouncing something that is not yours is easy! But what icon would be good? We decided to answer this question: let’s take four designers and make them draw a good icon for Google. Such approach we call running ‘a creative boutique’.
