Archive for December, 2006

Want To Be Mii

Posted 07 December 2006 | By | Categories: culture, design, people, technology, webstuff | No Comments

Separated at Biirth? Beatles Minipops from FlipFlopFlyin Paul McCartney Mii from Megnut Ramones Minipops from FlipFlopFlyin Wiimones from HolaKitty Lust for the Nintendo Wii didn’t really kick in until I started seeing Miis (3D avatar players you create to represent yourself in the games) pop up on Flickr and YouTube. Evoking the pixel utopias of [...]

links for 2006-12-06

Posted 06 December 2006 | By | Categories: links | No Comments

Swivel – explore and visualize information Get your freakonomic on at Swivel, a place where curious people explore all kinds of data. As a preview it’s rough around the edges. May your love for data guide you. (tags: data visualization web2.0 tools information analysis graphics)

links for 2006-12-05

Posted 05 December 2006 | By | Categories: links | No Comments

Zamzar – Free online file conversion useful tool: upload any (doc, image, audio, video) file up to 100mb, zamzar converts to another format of your choice and emails you the new file. (tags: files formats online web productivity lifehack mpg mov webapp) FSI Language Courses Download worldwide language courses developed for Foreign Service Institute free [...]

One Way or Another and Gilded Splendor at Asia Society

Posted 05 December 2006 | By | Categories: art, culture, emily approved, funny, interconnected, nyc | No Comments

Two compelling exhibitions right now at Asia Society and Museum in New York explore the evolution of culture through interaction. One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now (through December 10, 2006) offers fresh views on Asian American identity and experience from 17 contemporary artists born in the late 1960s and 1970s. Moved by Binh [...]

links for 2006-12-04

Posted 04 December 2006 | By | Categories: links | No Comments

Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service – New York Times Yahoo and Reuters are introducing a new effort to showcase photographs and video of news events submitted by the public.Photos and videos submitted will be placed throughout the most popular news Web site in the US. Reuters [...]

World AIDS Day thanks to Dr. Bob Frascino

Posted 01 December 2006 | By | Categories: culture, emily approved, health, links, love, passions, people | No Comments

This World AIDS Day, I’d like to send a big woo-hoo to Dr. Robert J Frascino, MD, aka Dr. Bob, founder of the Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation and witty wise writer of the Safe Sex and HIV Prevention forum as well as the Fatigue and Anemia forum at The Body, an amazing HIV/AIDS Resource…. Beyond compassion, detailed statistics and risk analysis, informed political commentary and grammar corrections, Dr. Bob provides endless compassion, patience and side-splitting humor.