Product Design Data Base

Through the Lomo blog I found this link, a data base of some cool old tech brochures from Japan. Featuring scans of the original brochures for the Olympus XA I blogged awhile ago, and this other photo fetish item, the Nikon 35Ti which along with the 28Ti is covetted by photo freaks. I SO WANTED ONE back in the day! The site features all sorts of tech, stereo gear, cars, cameras etc.

Product Design Data Base

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Stuck in the 70's Flickr pool

Found this within the 70's pool of images on Flickr, amongst trhe bad
hair clothes and interior design. Its the Gucci edition of the AMC
Hornet Sportabout, which was my first car. Mine was a golden sunshine
yellow that matched well with the brown rust. Ahhh the good old days


Flickr: The STUCK in the 70's Pool

Moo Moo!

Moo Moo!
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

My Moo cards came today! They are very "cute"! Sorry no other way to describe them. A little on the dark side but whatevs. You can see the snaps of them here The stain finish on there is wonderful to touch but it does decrease contrast a bit. So the moodier shots look a bitdark. But the punchy colourful ones look great! You really need to choose images that work with this scale

Nasa lost the tapes

A heart breaking article in this month's wired about the image quality of the broadcast of the first moon landing.
Not long ago, Lebar learned why the footage had looked like mush: The transfer and broadcast had degraded the image badly, like a third-generation photocopy. "What the world saw was some bastardized thing," says Lebar, now 81. "Posterity deserves more than that." Good thing the engineers in Australia recorded the raw feed. Now Lebar and a crew of seasoned space cowboys are trying to get that original footage and show it to the world.

There is just one problem: NASA has lost the tapes.

Telstar Logistics

very cool blog talking about all sorts of wacky things, mostly machine based. Wonder where the first 747 is? What happened to a container ship full of Mazada's when the ship tipped over? James Brown as a singing member of the ski patrol?! Every see the security checkpoint at the Lousiville airport?(Hint: you can't take bats on a plane!) All sorts of weirdly wonderful stories here. I am bookmarking this one!

Plaxo for your addressbook

One of the biggest blows to my biz as a result of my break-in was the loss of my contacts list. Yes I had a back up from a few months earlier, but it was somewhat out of date. Also when several machines and some travel, having my address book syncing up was trouble some. Please don't mention iSync (aka isuck) as a solution.

So I stumbled upon Plaxo, an address book syncing tool. The basic syncing is free for everyone and is compatible with several formats including Apple's Address book, Outlook, and Internet exploder. The best part, its syncing on boot up, so everyday you are backing up your contact list. I can see in my address book who's running Plaxo, and I noticed a few very mobile and biz minded peeps are running it, so give it a try!

Moo Mini Cards

One of the things I wanted to try when I upgraded my account to "pro" at Flickr were these cute little mini cards made from your Flickr pics. I ordered some, it's like $25US with shipping but if their half as cool as they seem to be, it could be fun to stuff these into packages, letters etc. Jeope, you really need to get a set of these!:-)

Visited Countries

create your own visited countries map
Website that allows you to create a world map with the countries you've visted hilighted red. I have a few more to go.

Merry Xmas from the N64 kids

Here's hoping Christmas was as exciting as this clip. You have to read the story about it as well.

Christmas morning 1998 - packages all around the tree. Dad, video camera in hand, hits "record" as the action begins. Rachel (6) and Brandon (9) begin to tear into the wrapping of a big present and then start to scream hysterically as they realize a dream that has come true.

"Nintendo 64!... Oh my... GOD!!!!!... YES!... YES!!... YES!!!" They got the PERFECT present.

Jump ahead to March 2006 - 16 year old Brandon is sharing home videos with his girlfriend Aysha who sees it for the first time and explodes with laughter... Brandon then took her suggestion and posted the one minute video online.

The clip quickly became an internet sensation with remixes, spoofs, animations and even online tributes to the N64 kids.

July: VH1 airs the video on "WebJunk 20"

September: Jay Leno highlights the video on "The Tonight Show" as part of a segment dedicated to videos found on YouTube and the immense impact that these videos can have on modern culture.

November: N64kids.com is launched, BMW uses the kids in their Holiday TV commercial, MTV uses clip in video game show commercial

The N64 kids have created a place for you to view, laugh, and share your own "Dreams Come True!" videos with friends and family.

Explore all that this site has to offer. Come back often to see updates with new exciting content. Tell your friends and family about us. Please email us your comments or suggestions.

Brandon & Rachel wish that your holiday dreams come true too!

Great Ads

This is an old link, lost it and found it again... great ads from around the world. They also have a wonderful section hi-lighting the rip offs and copy cats.

By reading this,You are the person of the year?

The reaction to Time's Person of the Year choice has been generally negative. You, the users of the web and web 2.0 are the "Person of the year" The same people won't buy Time magazine! I googled it!

The venerable but not-much-venerated newsweekly is sucking up to you, its hoped-for audience, pure and simple. In naming "you" as its Person of the Year for 2006 - complete with reflective plastic on the cover - the fading publication demonstrates how its weakening financial condition has led to a weakening of editorial judgment.

If you look at the list of previous Persons of the Year, they have subverted the concept before, as far back as 1975, naming The American Woman as Person of the year.

If your looking for me,...

This is where I'll be

Inside the DVXuser.com Phenomenon

When Panasonic released the DVX100 camera in November of 2002, they had no idea of the passion and fanaticism that would soon grow around their product.

The first 24p DV camera available to prosumers quickly became the talk of the online world by providing its owners with a visible means of producing footage at least visually equal to high-end film originated material. Frustrated by simply being a bystander in the existing online communities discussing his new favorite camera, Vancouver-based independent filmmaker Jarred Land decided he could do them one better. So in July of 2003, Jarred registered the domain DVXuser.com and opened an online discussion forum focused on DVX100 owners.

DVXuser"Our first couple of days were pretty quiet, just me saying 'welcome' and a few people stopping by to lurk or say hi," Land recalls. But the calm didn't last long. Word traveled fast among other online communities that a new home had sprung up. Within a year, DVXuser.com had over 3,000 registered users and many of them were talking about subjects other than the DVX100."

Flickr Easter Egg

crowded
Originally uploaded by drcolossus.

Gonna send this one and see how long it takes to populate the net... you add a note in Flickr and enter the test ho ho ho hat and the note becomes a santa hat! Go to the shot in Flickr to see what I mean. This is a shot of Jeope's. Wonder if he'll notice? ;-)

UPDATE: ho ho ho beard does the same thing to finish the look!:-)

Skype Hype starts now!!

I am starting my Skype Hype now, if only because until the end of the year you can call anyone's REAL phone in N America for FREE! After that a flat rate of $15 for the year will be in effect.

Don't worry,call direct to Skype users will still be free. Thats why I am encouraging you to either download or upgrade your installation of Skype. Mac users gain the video features and with the 2.5 beta, SMS messaging.

So try it out over the holidays, get Grandma to load on her PC and talk as clear if not clearer than the phone for FREE.

With my new laptop and the built in iSight, I will be running Skype at Macworld in January. Though the Wifi is limited to ceratin areas of the Expo floor, wouldn't it be cool to see live? Download it now!!

Don't ask me

This time of year I get all sorts of emails and phone calls, "which camera should I get this Xmas?" hmmm what day is it, Wenesday? Well that means ALL the cameras have upgraded and changed, so I don't have a clue. Cameras change now as fast as cell phones in terms of features and models. The link takes you to the Flickr page that tracks which cameras were used the most by Flickr users. sigh, Canon wins over Nikon hands down, but still its neat to see which Point and shoot models and which SLR's are actaully been used. So go there, millions of Flickr users can't be wrong.

Line Rider

Not enuff snow to go tobogganing, so I offer a link to Line Rider. Addictive toy where you make a line for the lil guy to ride. Don't make him wipe out!