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Showing posts with label mefi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mefi. Show all posts

8.11.10

Very cool blog full of just a couple of frames from movies shown as goold ol' animated gifs, giving this weird almost 3d effect. Lots more like the Dude below here



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27.4.10

A spectacular sunrise greeted us when we finally got back



And below, a cool video showing flight paths, or lack of them, over Europe for the third week in April. When London and Amsterdam get going, the whole map goes crazy..

Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo


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1.3.10

One of the first little differences I noticed after arriving in Sydney were Flat White's - I actually thought that they were just cups of brewed coffee with frothy milk, but the difference between a Flat White and a latte is actually much smaller than that.

One thing you're almost guaranteed whenever you get a one of these is a nice presentation, and compared to the slop served in Insomnia or one of the chains back home that passes for good coffee its far nicer.



So now it seems that it's moved beyond these shores and instead of just being a curious local coffee, its made it all the way to Starbucks in London and other faffy coffee places.

"The flat white comes from Australian and New Zealand and is served by a few independent coffee shops in London where many antipodeans work. It is an espresso-based drink but has less milk, and the milk is less frothy, than a cappuccino or latte."

Can't believe they're actually charging more for it though. Its usually the cheaper coffee here!

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11.11.09

An excellent example of design done right. Brilliantly simple, seems obvious once you see it so I wonder why this isn't in the shops yet..




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29.10.09

Flies with banner-ads:



Is it possible to be cruel to flies? From the article: "The banners..seem to be causing the beleaguered flies a bit of piloting trouble. The weight keeps the flies at a lower altitude and forces them to rest more often"

Zooming into cells:

Interesting flash app that lets you zoom from the size of a coffee bean all the way to DNA.

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Future direction for computer User interface:


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..and finally a nice big list of the "best" music videos of the decade. I'm surprised, given my advancing years, how many of them that I've actually heard of.

101 best music videos of the decade

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