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Parents to be educated about the Interweb

March 27, 2008

There’s a well-balanced piece from Patrick Wintourin the Guardian today about parents being shown how to protect their children online. It reports of a government initiative based on a review by Dr Tanya Byron (she works as a consultant in child and adolescent mental health and also presented quite a few programmes for the BBC [...]

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Photographer’s Rights

March 25, 2008

I’ve long been uncomfortable and unclear about the law when it comes to taking photos in public places and have read of several situations when ‘security’ or police have prevented or questioned photographers or downright threatened them or made them delete images (the old film cliché of opening the camera back and spooling out the [...]

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Creative Play helps children’s self-control

March 17, 2008

There’s an interesting piece about Creative Play on NPR at the moment that looks at a school running the Tools of the Mind programme. One of the findings of the research is that creative play helps regulate executive function: Executive function has a number of elements, such as working memory and cognitive flexibility. But perhaps [...]

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iSmoke – How wrong? Very.

March 17, 2008

I walked past this ‘iSmoke’ ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes the other day. How wrong? Let me count the ways… It’s lazy creative. This is a one-minute lame idea that borrows everything from someone else’s campaign, badly. The type is wrong. Apple use Myriad for the iPod campaigns (and most other marketing) now. It’s also [...]

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Film Friends Forever Oscar & Bafta Screening

March 11, 2008

I don’t normally do straight plugs for things that aren’t interactive and that I’ve never heard of, but this screening at Film Friends Forever looks pretty good. Â£2 at the Truman Brewery. You can’t complain about that. From the blurb: Film Friends Forever is returning on the 18th March 2008 with a killer line up [...]

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Social Profile – I’m interesting and boring

February 28, 2008

Disraeli’s quip, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” could do with “and Facebook” tagged onto it, although it wouldn’t roll off the tongue so well, I have to admit. I just received a spam mail notification from Facebook’s Social Profile app, where friends can rate you. Here are my results: [...]

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LED Toilet Door Mix-Up Signs, Denmark

February 18, 2008

Those crazy Danes. (Image stolen from djaphrael) Amusing project over at Halfmachine which involved making toilet door signs from LEDs in a club. Of course, they can be programmed, so they switched them around based on how many times the door was opened in order to facilitate a bit of social connection. It works too, [...]

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Podcast Interview with Hector Serrano

February 14, 2008

My interview with Hector Serrano is now available on the Core77 Broadcasts page. My thanks to Hector for an entertaining chat about his playful and insightful approach to design. (Oh, and that story about that 40 year-old cloud of plastic floating off of the coast of Hawaii is explained on the Greenpeace site.) [tags]hector serrano, [...]

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Outside of the Internet there is no Glory

February 10, 2008

I liked this and the sentiment. It’s a poster for the Biennial in Greece from Manetas. (Via Thomas). [tags]poster, internet[/tags]

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