Seth Godin has wonderfully picked apart the value of a bottle of soap/shower gel type stuff. Very well done. Link: The story on the label
Following on from The Shape Of Song comes this visualisation of JS Bach‘s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565). The Toccata and Fugue in D minor is a piece of organ music believed to have been composed by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime between1703 and 1707. It is one of the most famous works in the organ repertoire, and […]
This is very familiar to me, both at home and at work. Wires everywhere. So, what about making it look like this? After picking up a new desk, Seandavid010 sought out to solve he and his wife’s messy wire problem. He vaguely remembered reading about someone else using rain gutters to win the battle against […]
The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see–literally–the shape of any composition available on the Web. The resulting images reflect the full range of musical forms, from the deep structure of […]
I will explain the huge gap in posts later. Google has posted its 2010 Christmas holiday logo. It may be the best yet! A Holiday Card From Google by the Wall Street Journal has a detailed article on what went into the logo. Google reportedly started working on this logo back in July, spending 250 […]
Possibly the greatest thing to have ever happened in the history of the world. It deserves the alliterative title I’ve given it, even though I abhor alliteration. From The Guardian web site: On screen, Dick Van Dyke has been rescued from untimely death by flying cars and magical nannies. Off screen, the veteran star of […]
Google has just unveiled Google Earth 6.0 beta, and it has some great new features in it! The three main features they’ve added are: Tighter integration with Street View 3D Trees Updated historical imagery system New Street View is now similar to Google Maps – simply grabbing the Pegman from alongside of your navigation controls and […]
Finally, I have pretty much finished revamping all of my websites. ThomasJPitts.co.uk This is the main selection page if you will. It is built with WordPress and a couple of plugins. It will allow you to choose which part of my sites you want to visit. HSXs Blog Why I still use the net name […]
(The rogue apostrophe in the title is ironic… honest.) I am a hater of the apostrophe – but only its misuse. The apostrophe is used to denote missing letters in words that over the years have been dropped to ease pronunciation. The commonest examples are the auxiliary verbs and the word ‘not’. Thus I am becomes I’m […]