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14/11/2011

This is almost as good as health-focused foods ck gaining “evaporated cane nectar” … Sugar.

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13/10/2011

Nokia selects dubstep tune to install on 100Mil+ handsets

A Nokia jury has selected Italian DJ Valerio Alessandro Sizzi’s dubstep remix of the original Nokia ringtone (“Gran Valse”) as the winner of a recent user contest.

The 24 second ditty will be preloaded onto 100 Million+ handsets in 2012. Which means avoiding India and other emerging economies, as well as most western nations’ Chinatowns, for the next few years.

I haven’t heard the sub-bass fidelity on the new N-Series, but I’d reckon the pocket device’s sub-woofers might have trouble accurately representing the artist’s vision.

Nokia Tune Remake comp
http://nokiatune.audiodraft.com/entries/mostliked

Download MP3 http://brandbook.nokia.com/servlet/file/Nokia_Tune_Dubstep_Edition.mp3?uploadfile=realm_1%2Fuser_407%2FNokia_Tune_Dubstep_Edition.mp3

Original Ringtone inspiration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RbI1XjUJMuY

Interestingly enough, the Nokia contest jury picked the track as the winner even though it wasn’t the highest voted, receiving only 1394 votes. The winner by a massive margin was an off-key “duh na na nuh nuh” vocal rendition by some guy, with 39,494 votes.

My vote went to the 2nd runner up, a sunrise banger “Progressive Nokia” which added a rising synth and 4/4 club beat to a tinny rendition of the original Nokia ringtone.

(Source: thenextweb.com)

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23/09/2011

This week’s haul: less quality, more quantity. But, it’s good to now have Thailand represented in the UN Rum Council in my cupboard.

Myers’s (Jamaica)
Bacardi 8yo (Bahamas)
Sang Som (Thailand)

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09/07/2011

Nigerian sci-fi tech-rap is gonna break BIG soon. Ya heard it here first.

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14/06/2011

One-woman onepiece wolfpack

(via Black Milk — The Wolf Swimsuit)

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06/03/2011

rarepremiere:

Backstage with Anna Selezneva at Fendi Spring Summer 2011 RTW

A beautiful smile definitely makes the Spring Summer 2011 color block trend even more striking…

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29/01/2011

rarepremiere:

Beige, Powder Blue & Fire Engine Red - our favourite at yesterday’s Dior Spring 2011 Haute Couture show in Paris

Dior shows us how to capture nostalgia with Beige & Powder Blue & Fire Engine Red. Just Perfect

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21/10/2009

iPhone 3GS: Vodafone vs. Optus

[Disclaimer: If it needs to be disclaimed, I used to work for a digital agency on Vodafone, once upon a time. At that time I chose Optus iPhone 3G, but no longer.]

I sold my Optus iPhone 3G before leaving on a 9 months trip overseas, thinking the 3G reception wouldn’t be so great in the jungles of South America.

When I returned, I had to decide whether to stay with Optus, who I’d enjoyed a moderately decent relationship with over the past 11 years, or jump ship. I went with Vodafone for these reasons:

Value: This Vodafone/NRMA deal is just too good to pass up: 2 months free plus 10% off a 24month contract.
EDGE support (outside of metro);
Visual Voicemail: This is the win. I HATE the asynchronicity of voicemail, this cuts that back to something more like “audio email”;
Faster 3G speeds than Optus: Technically true, from side-by-side tests using the Speedtest app. But I’ve noticed Vodafone drops down to 2G more often in Sydney CBD;
3G Tethering supported by Vodafone: Just call them up and they switch it on;
Vodafone don’t revert to 2G when talking on phone;
You can tether and talk on phone at same time;
No Blacklisted Numbers (unlike Optus policy as of late 2009): So you can use VOIP account such as Pennytel.

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I loveLoveLOVE it when talented designers and UI/UX/IA thinkers demo their skills by re-furbing daily use systems.

In the creator’s words:

“The Facebook Facelift is a self initiated project to challenge the form and functionality of Facebook. It’s streamlined, structured and linear interface is more comprehendible, enhancing the user experience and absorbability of content.”

Scroll down to bottom for his frustratingly brief design notes. I’m really interested in his concept of the “Facebook Publisher” interface for better managing one-to-one and one-to-many communications, a function that Facebook could really start to compete against email and Twitter.

Facebook Facelift - New UI design by Barton Smith

Facebook Facelift - Home & Profiles from wearetol on Vimeo.

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17/10/2009

Whoa, Google Local Business Centre added support for coupons?

Google Local Business Center

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» Book Outlines

Because reading the whole thing is usually for suckers.

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“ Texas has more than 73,000 sworn peace officers — roughly one for every 330 people. „

Via NPR

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16/10/2009

The staff at online ladies’ mag “doubleX” experiment what it’d be like to actually drink as much as Draper and the boys do on Mad Men. Via: Slate V

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13/10/2009

” … And Arts degrees that make us come to you.”

Hey SCU, today’s world also needs Arts grads who can string a line of copy together, too.

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12/10/2009

» 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon - The Web App

Connects any two actors (defaults to Bacon) via IMDB and returns a degree of separation.

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