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links for 2006-04-30

YouTube - Every Breath You Take
Economists + Sting + humour = a surprisingly good parody.
(tags: economics humor youtube video parody alangreenspan glennhubbard benbernanke)

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Lite Brite Graffitti

Good lord, will the LED throwie madness never end?!!
Lite Brite Graffitti:
Night Writer (embedded .mov). "The night writer extends the functionality of LED throwies by allowing a writer to catch a tag in lights. It?s cheap, easy to make and writes 12-inch glowing letters 25-feet in the air on any iron or steel surface." [...] (…)

Galbraith memorial thread

Sad news - J.K. Galbraith has died.
Galbraith memorial thread:
John Kenneth Galbraith, an influential and unorthodox economist, has died, at age 97.
(Via MetaFilter).
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LED Throwies at Maker Faire

Remember LED throwies? Here’s a how-to vid from last week’s Maker Faire.
LED Throwies at Maker Faire:
Mark Frauenfelder:

The Graffiti Research Lab was at Maker Faire last weekend with a large black bus and a bunch of raw materials to make LED Throwies. Huong Ngo of G.R.L. was kind enough to explain to me how to make [...] (…)

links for 2006-04-29

YouTube - C For Cookie
V for Vendetta meets Sesame Street. Genius!
(tags: sesamestreet cookie cookiemonster vforvendetta youtube video natalieportman mashup)

MAKE: Blog: Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP
Very cool - watch MAKE’ s Phil Torrone play around with Logitech’s new facial recognition software for their face-tracking QuickCam Orbit MP.
(tags: logitech video hardware fun 3d funny tech technology MAKE makezine [...] (…)