this would almost be funny, if it were a joke… (via ‘yacco vijn’)
me news
in praise of prizes
amusing project from ‘lernert & sander’: a public competition to vote for the best prize… prize
the website invites you to drag the nine remaining losers to the bin, leaving the clear winner over… it is also quite a useful visual archive of the dazzling array of prizes in the arts & culture sector, do we really need them all and which are truly worthy? discuss…
wonderwater
a new film by ‘christian borstlap’, on nowness… erm now
the scale of things
…we are all guilty,… it is about consumerism…
the premsela institute has posted a summarised version of the talk (which i missed) given by UK designer ‘angus hyland’ in amsterdam last week, it is also available (in it’s entirety) as a podcast download via itunes, alas it is a rather disjointed and not very interesting / challenging or revealing hour-long talk i have to say… having just patiently listened to the whole thing
read it sideways
wired magazine has an article on mister ‘scott e fahlman’ who sent the following email way back on the 19th of september 1982 and thereby invented the smiley emoticon…
19-Sep-82 11:44, From: Scott E Fahlman :-)
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use: :-(