interesting 1.18.09
- A Beginner’s Guide to Alternate Reality Games
- Chart of Heavy Metal Band Names
- Congress Comes to YouTube
- Hollywood Finds Headaches in its Big Bet on 3-D
- Inglobe Technologies launches ARplug-in, 1st augmented reality plug-in for Google Sketch-Up
- Neil Gaiman on Twitter
- Security flaw in Safari’s RSS feeds reported
- Golden Gems: collection of Little Golden Books & other vintage illustrations – scans
- Aesthetic Echo by Rafael Rozendaal – an endless abstract landscape
- NZ cops claim ‘first Facebook arrest’ of bungling safe-cracker
- Microsoft Research: Songsmith – generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice
- History of the Internet [video]
- Sony launches Dress in Japanese PlayStation Store – fashion design application for avatars
- American Idol virtual world to launch within Habbo
- It isn’t easy being green – avatar customization & differentiation in virtual worlds (Thanks for the shoutout, Jonas!)
- The Rise of the Machines – Top 10 Countries by Robot Density
- US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River, NYC
- Recorded live video of US Airways plane crashing into the Hudson River
- Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown – bullying among kids bigger problem
- Developer Learning Solutions: Free eDoc on Getting Started with iPhone Development
- Coming Up Next… YouTube on Your TV
- YouTube on your PlayStation 3…in Full-screen! [how-to video]
- artforum: Virtual Realty – Cao Fei’s RMB City opening in Second Life
- 120 Seconds w/ Poster Boy, NYC artist + vigilante [video]
- The Big Picture: Earth, observed – incredible photographs from NASA’s Earth Observatory
- Study: violence in video games not that compelling for most gamers
- Vision 2020: Considering the World + the Future Architect
- NY Times: An Imagination Revealed With Text Bubbles – Amy Wilson exhibition @ Hunterdon Art Museum
- Project Transit: artistic experiment focused on improving the public image of mass transportation
- Damian Lacedaemion of kickass award-winning Halo machinima talk show “This Spartan Life” on Twitter
- CES: Does the future of TV lie in gesture-based control?
- Liveblog of Obama’s Inaugural Welcome Event at the Lincoln Memorial