How To Do Laser Graffiti

A fascinating form of "non-destructive" graffiti that uses a laser, to draw images on buildings in real time. Great for hijacking political events, etc. but rather scary if you happened to be looking out a window into the laser beam! [a Weekend Project from MAKE Blog]

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A silly little YouTube movie

This clip says something about the nature of humour. People seem to find this type of slapstick incredibly funny or are not moved at all. I'm one of the former...
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What a Wonderful World - amazing shadow puppet performance

The Helpmann Awards recognise artistic achievement in Australian musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, dance and physical theatre.

An absolute highlight of the 2007 event was the shadow puppetry of Raymond Crowe shown in this YouTube video...

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iPhone keyboard operation - interesting Apple tutorial

The non-physical keys of the Apple iPhone offer fantastic advantages of standard phone keys, but some think this may be the greatest weak point of the device. The early reviews do suggest it will take users several days to adjust, but in the end this should not be an issue.

This Apple iPhone keyboard tutorial is worth looking at to get a feel of the iPhone and understand the different software mechanisms to make text entry accurate, e.g. anticipating specific mis-hit errors and changing the key target area according to predictive lookup of words.

Artist doodling (movie)

Intriguing YouTube movie of apparently aimless doodling on a wall.

Maybe it says something about the value of micro and macro level views. Watch it to the end (3 min)!

Amazing Photosynth demo

This is an amazing TED Conference presentation of "Photosynth" technology that enables the user to fly through images and information on the Web. Quite breathtaking, but hard to describe so just watch it.



[thanks to David C. for this]

New (dog-related) Apple iPhone ad (video)

You've probably see the Apple iPhone ads - in a class of their own.
Here's a new one that shows how the iPhone can stream YouTube videos.

Aiko fetching (movie) - a cat doing dog-type tricks

This is Aiko doing her best trick - playing fetch.
She'll do this quite a number of times before she gets tired.
The mice are her favorite playthings which require regular replacement as they become lost or fall apart (can be bought in '9-packs' from the Murphy Brothers)
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Aiko foot stamping trick (movie)

Here's Aiko up to her tricks again, stamping her little back feet for food