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Dear Rockers and Get a First Life

December 1, 2007

Iain posted posted a link to Dear Rockers, a website that encourages you to repent your music-stealing sins and send $5 direct to the musicians who have made an impact on your life but for whose music you haven’t paid. It’s interesting that record companies have got themselves into a position to be so hated. [...]

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Greyworld’s Monument to the Unknown Artist

November 27, 2007

Greyworld have unveiled their project, Monument to the Unknown Artist. Andrew Shoben showed me the maquette of it in Geryworld’s studio early last year and I was really wondering how and if they were actually going to make it. You really need to take a look at the video on their site to see it [...]

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Plumen – low energy, high style

November 23, 2007

My mate Nik Roope has been busily working up another smart idea to brighten up the lack of imagination in the marketplace again. This time it’s the Plumen Project. Based on the same principles as the Hulger range and the Hulgerisation project, the simple, but smart, idea is to make low-energy bulbs that actually look [...]

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Poke’s Never-Ending Web Page for Orange

November 9, 2007

I meant to post this last week but was travelling and forgot. Take a look at the never-ending web page that Poke designed for the Orange Unlimited campaign “Good Things Should Never End”. Iain also posted some secrets about the site – goodies are hidden therein. Lovely, silly animations by Rex and some smart little [...]

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Flash On the Beach Coda

November 8, 2007

I just returned from a fantastic time speaking at Flash on the Beach ’07. I’ve been to quite a few conferences over the years and this was by far the best I’ve ever been part of. John Davey really looked after everyone well and got together a brilliant line-up of speakers. My thanks to him [...]

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Purchasing Pleasure

November 1, 2007

I recently bought the very useful MarsEdit external blog editor from Red Sweater. I’d tried an earlier version and wasn’t so enamoured, but my blogging output and needs have increased and I’ve found the features of the latest version and process really great. But that’s not what this post is about, it’s about the purchasing [...]

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Games, Play and Web Applications

October 30, 2007

[Dan Saffer's](http://www.odannyboy.com/blog/new_archives/2007/10/presentation_ga.html] latest presentation called Gaming The Web: Using the structures of games to design better web apps is a great summary of many of the themes I’ve covered over the years, which is gratifying to see. In his presentation Saffer looks at the way games are structured, the difference between games and toys and [...]

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New magneticNorth website

October 18, 2007

Check out magneticNorth’s new website. As Brendan (mN’s Creative Director) says “Look beyond the site you see and you may discover something…”. Great to see more irreverence and playfulness from the mN folks. I’ll leave it as enigmatic as that and just hint that the background is not all that it seems….

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Speaking at Icograda World Design Congress

October 18, 2007

I’ll be in Cuba this weekend (20th and 21st October) to give a presentation at the Icograda World Design Congress with my Omnium colleague, Rick Bennett. On the crazy off-chance that any of you who read Playpen are going to also be there in Cuba, do come and say hello! [tags]icograda, cuba, lectures, presentations, omnium[/tags]

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Omnium need a Sys Admin

October 11, 2007

Just a quickie to say that the Omnium Research Group with whom I work in Australia are looking to hire a sys-admin. So if you’re a Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL and Shell scripting genius (pretty darn good will do) and want to work in a lively design studio at the [College of Fine Arts](http://cofa.unsw.edu.au] at [...]

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