The Neatest!

via Engadget

“Well, it looks like Google will be kicking off its forthcoming Google Editions
e-book service on a high note — Japan Today is reporting that
the company has managed to score the backing of “almost all” publishers
in the United States. That apparently brings the total number of
publishers and authors on board to over 25,000, and the total number of
books set to be available to somewhere in the neighborhood of two
million — or over four million if you include the public domain books
that Google already makes available for free. As far as we can tell,
however, Google itself still isn’t saying any more on the matter
publicly than it did last
week, when it confirmed that the service would be launching in late
June or July.”

I should probably write out all of my thoughts about Google and their desire to openly control all global public information. I would like to juxtapose this with my thoughts on Apple and their similar desire for global domintion, which would definitely not be open source. Hmmmmm… my inspiration to do these sorts of things comes in waves, so until the next time my philosophy of technology mindstate reveals itself again, jsut enjoy the music videos I’ve been posting.
Go watch and listen.
Now.
Or else I will come and find you and maybe ask if you’d like to share a cup of tea.
Thank you, come again.

via Gizmodo

so awesome. i want a bunch of these, now.

via NAXMIX

“Developed by one of the UK’s leading creative talents, Thomas Heatherwick, the
centrepiece of the UK pavilion is a six storey high object formed from
some 60,000 slender transparent rods, which extend from the structure
and quiver in the breeze. During the day, each of the 7.5m long rods act
like fibre-optic filaments, drawing on daylight to illuminate the
interior, thereby creating a contemplative awe-inspiring space. At
night, light sources at the interior end of each rod allow the whole
structure to glow. The pavilion sits on a
landscape looking like paper that once wrapped the building and that now
lies unfolded on the site.”

This is awesome. Its like a segway, but without the shame.

Developed by Masaaki Kumagai and Takaya Ochiai at the Robot Development Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan.

My favorite set during Coachella this year was Deadmau5 for sure. There were definitely some close calls, Thom Yorke!! and Rusko!, but the mau5 was on his game! And his set, designed by the people who Kanye West’ Glow in the Dark tour, was unbelievable. A new mau5 head was unveiled as well, covered in LED’s that completely animated the headgear. For the first time, deadmau5 was talking to us!

Everything came together to create probably the best live show I’ve ever seen. I ran into a crowd of people who were going of their rockers for the whole show! MDMA had all of us feeling like champions! We all got into a huge ring and started spinning in the middle of the 10,000+ person crowd! Happy, nice, energized people everywhere!

And some amazing person got the entire set on video, with decent audio, and put it on YouTube for everyone to enjoy! Here is part 1: