March of the Emperors is an absolutely hilarious commercial. Browse around the site after you’ve watched it, there are a lot of other good ones on there as well.
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A fantastic prank. Just watch it.
While the pictures may be mediocre, this video of rock balancing in practice is really cool. I first found out about this art through the works of Andy Goldsworthy. One of my favorite artists, he does amazing things with what nature gives him.
The big news of the day is of course the launch of the Tesla Roadster, the first electric sportscar. I’m pleasantly surprised at how good it looks – apparently they poached a lot of people from Lotus for the design. Check out Autoblog’s video and write-up. I bet I’ll see a few of these at Google when they become publicly available (mid 2007).
Music for one apartment and six drummers, a fun video by some Swedish artists.
Eye candy: cool breakdancing video.
BumpTop
BumpTop, a new interface for manipulating documents on your computer desktop. While some of the interactions here are cool and novel, I’ve got to wonder how useable this would be in practice (especially given that the documents have no accompanying title). A really interesting aspect of computer interaction design is the inherent advantage of previously learned interactions – replacing folders is hard partly because folders are such a well-understood metaphor.
update: PeterMe had the same reaction, except that he expressed it much more eloquently than I did and offers some interesting links to other UI experiments – including the very cool zooming interface.
Something funny for the weekend: TrunkMonkey. Viral advertising for an Oregon Ford and Chevrolet dealer (Suburban Auto Group).
A couple of fascinating updates on the $100 laptop project: a video demonstrating a working prototype, and an article on WorldChanging explaining why the design has changed from earlier incarnations (see my previous posts). This project just keeps getting more and more amazing.
