September 2009
WatchAmazing 3D projections on buildings (via @dannytatom)
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Twitter dragon mascot - update
Made some progress on this tonight, mostly just adding the grass to imitate the Welsh flag a bit more. Still not finished though.
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Twitter dragon - a mascot for Welsh tweeters
A simple mashup of the Twitter cartoon bird identity and ‘Y Ddraig Goch’ that appears on the Welsh flag. It’s not finalised yet, but it’s nearly there. When I look at it again in a few day, I’ll probably spot exactly what needs to be tweaked to make it just right. Of course, feedback at this stage is often useful too. :)
I’m thinking about putting him on a...
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Ubuntu for girls
Mark Shuttleworth has kicked up a bit of a storm by apparently saying that Linux was “hard to explain to girls”. There is an open letter post about this on the Geek Feminism Blog, followed by a hell of a lot of comments on the subject. It seems to boil down to ‘he didn’t really mean it like that’, ‘it’s not okay to say that kind of thing, even if you...
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WatchTrailer for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. Looks every bit as kinetic and surreal as Body Hammer.
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