Monthly Archives: May 2011
links for 2011-05-30
Coles and Woolies loom as Big Tobacco's rivals Big tobacco companies are fighting the plain packaging rules. There are many arguments they put forward, but are they worried about competition from other sectors? An interesting article by Ross Gittins. (tags: … Continue reading
links for 2011-05-29
Ads Implant False Memories | Wired Science | Wired.com How your memory works, and how advertising to be used to implant false memories. (Worth reading) (tags: advertising Coke memory JournalofConsumerResearch study PriyaliRajagopal NicoleMontgomery commercial Wired JonahLehrer) News Desk: Manning, Assange, and … Continue reading
links for 2011-05-28
'Stuck in the past': investors call for Ballmer's scalp Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn has called for Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the world's largest software company's long-time leader is stuck in the past. (tags: … Continue reading
Scroll Battle, an iPhone created webcomic
Scroll Battle is an experimental webcomic, drawn in Zen Brush on an iPhone and then uploaded. This page will have links to the images.
links for 2011-05-18
Ben Grubb | Transcript of police interview an edited transcript of the recording made by journalist Ben Grubb during his police interview and brief arrest over the reporting of a Facebook 'break-in'. The police officers present gave permission for the … Continue reading
links for 2011-05-16
links for 2011-05-15 | Leefe rates the world… Paintwork with Zen Brush | Leefe rates the world… Some of today's work experimenting with a new iPhone drawing program (tags: ping.fm)
Lots of green crap, or Just flush it: a tale of green toilet paper
Shopping in the local Coles supermarket today I noticed that there are now 4 brands of ‘green’ toilet paper. It is interesting to note that the green market must be getting bigger if it can service this many brands. Now, … Continue reading
Paintwork with Zen Brush
Some of today’s work experimenting with a new iPhone drawing program Zen Brush. Takes a bit of getting used to how the brush stroke is defined by movement. But looks to be good.
links for 2011-05-12
Your photos? Not so according to many popular photo-sharing apps – TNW Industry There are a number of online photo sharing sites, but may of them have notes in their Terms of Service (ToS) that allow them to get payment … Continue reading