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An ordinary christmas day for Bjork who talks and gets off her own CRT tv set.

Peter Sellers delivering “A Hard Day’s Night” in the manner of Olivier’s Richard III.

Via: Alex Ross : the rest is noise

I recently discovered the existence of an an open source, crowdsourcing hardware and software project for designing, building and marketing a lowcost Web tablet computer from the guys of the Techcrunch blog.

I rather agree with their original point of view: iPhone is nice but too small, most laptops are over-powered for the task” and (this is mine): netbooks are just underpowered, tiny toys almost unusable even for the web, so why don’t create a light weight, multitouch, low cost screen to surf the internets? A tablet which would be open source from top to bottom, converting or adapting minimal Linux or BSD distros, and including cost limited hardware open source multitouch display.

I’m however actually skeptical on the ultimame feasability of the operation, considering that are still no known financial resources, no market target studies, uncertain design lines (including a Macbook Air tablet mockup) just lots of comments and a huge utopia from top to bottom.

I will copy&paste one comment from the reader Chris Sears on the techcrunch page to explain the ardous possibility for this thing to see the light:

- No open source hardware project has really taken off
- Crowdsourcing doesn’t work that well
- Major companies have no doubt considered making such a product and haven’t for some probably good reason
- There’s a lot more to delivering a product to market than just getting it spec’d out and manufactured
- Once Mike has one, what reason do you have to continue with the project?
- You’re effectively taking on the iPhone, the EeePC, Nokia tablets, OLPC, and the UMPCs for hardware and OpenMoko, Android, Palm OS and others on software
- You’re a blog

“You’re a blog” is in fact strikingly ironic, summing up the distrust one can have for people who use to write about rather than realize things…

I’m curious to see if this project will go through all this. In the best of all possible worlds I’m probably buying it, unless if they will call it the “iTablet”.

The Asics story

by Chad Matt and Rob.

Nessuno, neanche in questi tempi post-postmoderni, è riuscito a sdoganare la terribile piaga del “luogo comune”. Mentre il calcio, i Simpson, la tv spazzatura, La Russa, e perfino il porno (trova l’intruso) dopo anni di snobistica esclusione, riempiono oggi le pagine dei saggi à la Isbn ed. e compagnia, nessun filosofo ha ancora avuto il coraggio di qualificare le nascoste virtù del pensare per ovvietà condivise. (o forse sì?)

Non sarò certo io ad espormi, sia chiaro.
Ma dopo questa breve introduzione ho quasi l’impressione di apparire reazionario nel presentarvi “Luoghi comuni al contrario“, uno dei blog più divertenti che abbia letto ultimamente.

Qualche esempio (loro) per darvi un’idea:
“Premetto che sono razzista”
“E’ molto meglio regalare del pesce che insegnare a pescare”
“Questa non sarà una chiacchierata, ma più una vera e propria lezione”
“Non credo in Dio ma credo nella Chiesa”

e un paio miei, a tema informatica, ma di certo non all’altezza:
“E’ impossibile ritrovare vecchi amici su Facebook”
“Userei anche Linux, ma è troppo facile”

se ne avete altri aggiungete pure nei commenti!

Sorry for the recent amount of video (and the relative lack of written posts) in Socks, but there are so many things out there and no real need to comment.

This is “The Unfinished Swam“, a “first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden”.

The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

Via: Kottke

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

Levi Van Veluw

Via: Design You Trust

by: Patrick Moberg.
Via: ffffound!, Weekendance, Phonkmeister.

Is obama president?

Mo’ basta però con ’ste foto da “Uomo del Monte”

Leif Peng selected and collected more vintage illustrators / illustrations than you will ever have the time to look at. This is simply stunning.

Stiamo partecipando ad un concorso per realizzare una t-shirt nel sito francese “La Fraise”.
Se la nostra illustrazione vi piace:
<shameless self promotion>ISCRIVETEVI E VOTATE!</shameless>

grazie a tutti

Via: Things Magazine