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Oh how I miss England. Such a relief to see my friends haven’t changed one little bit. Mortgages don’t effect them, marriages or even having children. Life is a party!
I raise a glass to you all. Rob, Bruce and Olly!

A 35-minute feature filmed entirely in Second Life has been sold to HBO. Its entitled ‘Molotov’s Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey’. The video below is an overview of the feature, below that is the trailer.
This cross medium narrative I find extremely inspiring. Second Life inhabitants have been filming/recording their [...]

I was asked to write an article for the August issue of Australian Creative on the Internet in 10 years. Sadly the whole thing didn’t get published (only up to 16.00, that’ll make sense when you read the following) so here is the full version for your pleasure.
If you get the actual edition you’ll [...]

New work from us (aka HOST) for New Line Cinema’s Rush Hour 3, its a Trailer Translator… go translate!

Found it through StumbleUpon, here

It seems that in the future we’ll all sound Italian, and still talk in uneccesary jargon.

Punch the sky, wipe away the tears. This is a fantastic piece of footage from Britains Got Talent.

Steve at work just sent this round, classic.

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Originally uploaded by sns2006.

A real installation for the virtual globe of the software Google Earth.
A Semacode measuring 160 x 160 meters was mown into a wheat field near the town of Ilmenau in the Land Thuringia. The code consists of 18 x 18 bright and dark squares producing decoded the phrase “Hello, world!”.

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Well the idea of ditching my mobile for this would be perfect, no more bloody ringtones, just turn it on when I want to be connected. Unfortunately Sydney is behind on the wifi networks around town, so you’d need an alternative connection channel.
No doubt this is the first of many devices that will bring these [...]

Birdy Nam Nam, at the DMC world championships.

Not sure the origin of the image, but found on the Hi-res blog - love it!

BT (UK) has introduced ‘talking text’ to and from home phones and for the first three months, they’ll be spoken by Tom Baker the most notable of The Doctors (Doctor Who). To listen to some samples, visit The Doctor Says.
Many thanks to Jonty for sending the link.