cubemate | Dan Ng

links for 2009-06-26

• Stoned wallabies make crop circles - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! News
  In a different world, this would make for a very funny children's book.
  (tags: drugs opiates animals funny wallabies poppies)

links for 2009-06-21

• Failed Prostate Procedures at the Philadelphia V.A. - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
  If the New York Times doesn't survive, it won't be for lack of trying. Check out this knock-out animated diagram of botched prostate cancer procedures. Explains things simply and clearly.
  (tags: newyorktimes cancer treatment medicine)
• Henry Jenkins on Transmedia - November 2009 on Vimeo
  Transmedia storytelling theory? 1. Yeah, media power to the people. This is new? 2. Storytelling is a broken metaphor when working in interactive. You can tell stories with some media but not all; this is a problem when your theory is supposed to pull all media together. 3. The best story is still The Matrix, which is a case of transmedia fandom perhaps, but not transmedia storytelling.
  (tags: henryjenkins culture technology media multimedia transmedia socialmedia convergence)

links for 2009-06-20

• YouTube - John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner
  Is Obama the first nerd president? Probably not. Hodgman portrays the Founding Fathers as nerds, but Washington was definitely a jock, and John Adams was probably a jock too. Jefferson was the first nerd president, "awkward" according to his WhiteHouse.gov biography.
  (tags: media politics humour johnhodgman obama cnet nerdcore)
• BA asks its marketing team to work for free - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic
  An unpaid month of work is desperate in a way that I remember from the 70's
  (tags: recession BritishAirways lame workplace)
• American Civil Liberties Union : Bierfeldt v. Napolitano
  Why every American - or otherwise - should fear the airport
  (tags: americaisathirdworldcountry fascism policestate)

links for 2009-06-19

• Shutting Themselves In - New York Times
  Hikikomori: young recluses of Japan
  (tags: hikikomori newyorktimes)

links for 2009-06-18

• MPs' expenses: some of the claims | Politics | guardian.co.uk
  A receipt, including horse manure, submitted by David Heathcoat-Amory, Conservative MP for Wells
  (tags: shame evidence british governance integrity)
• Grass with a story: New York Yankees seed and sod - Springwise
  Yankees-branded sod, via Greg Taylor, writing for Brand Republic.
  (tags: NewYorkYankees BrandReupublic brandextensions)

links for 2009-06-17

• Michael Geist - Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society
  (tags: copyfight music culture economics research copyright fandom p2p riaa rights creativecommons harvard filesharing)
• Clunky, trashy, nerdy - and cool: the return of the digital watch | Life and style | The Guardian
  Every once in a while I read something in The Guardian that reveals their lack of care. Fact check, please: Al Gore famously wore a digital watch in the 90's, not Bill Clinton.
  (tags: journalism integrity proof newspapers)

links for 2009-06-14

• Esbjorn Svensson: Pianist whose group e.s.t. attracted new audiences to jazz - Obituaries, News - The Independent
  found on Spotify
  (tags: music Jazz obituary)

links for 2009-06-13

• Lexington: The underworked American | The Economist
  Practice, not talent, again.
  (tags: practice usa education)

links for 2009-06-10

• Showcase: A Photographer Embraces Video - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com
  Solid design for a solid piece of documentary work (and a volunteer plug for Canon)
  (tags: newyorktimes photography Canon Lens blog ChangWLee)

links for 2009-06-05

• sprint_clock_960x250
  Goodby takes the Uniqlock to the next level for Sprint
  (tags: advertising Sprint campaign Goodby)