pong clock

Originally uploaded by hobart65

While the game of Pong plays randomly, the computer controlled players score the time. The left player scores the hours, and the right player scores the minutes, i.e. the right side wins every minute, left side wins every hour.

Spent the last hour or so playing with now.sms. I was trying to come with a simple way to have people txt a laptop presentation. Either as a live voting thing, or to mimic the ‘txt the stage’ mechanic that you find at many big gigs.

“NowSMS is an easy-to-install SMS Gateway, MMS Gateway, WAP Push Proxy Gateway and Multimedia Messaging Center (MMSC) for Windows NT/2000/XP”

I linked my mobile via bluetooth to the laptop, installed now.sms and this allowed me to send and receive txt and mms on the laptop. The content gets stored in a folder, so it should be relatively easy to get a flash player to load this straight from the disk locally. I had to get a bit of help from Angus on the configuration settings, and outgoing MMS remains a mystery, but it did seem to be remakably easy to link screen content to a room full of mobiles.

The software has a 60 days trail and costs around £500 for a licensed version.

xkcd is “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”.Link: xkcd

This interactive art piece/toy from Uniqlo lets you play about with their logo, scaling, rotating and dividing it to create comopsitions like the one above. Several people from around the world will be collaborating on one grid at any one time, so you have to move fast, as the grid is constantly changing…

Link: UNIQLO_GRID

My name’s Sean,

I’m a Graphic Designer at The Brand Union, London office, please be gentle, this is my first…

Here we go. More posts to come once I’ve got my head around it all, I promise…

In Korea their problems with internet addiction are so bad they’ve set up boot camps to wean people off.

Browsershots is a free service that lets you preview your site across all major browsers and operating systems. I’ve used Browsercam before, and the features on Browsershots are equal to if not better than Browsercam– however processing time is slower, taking anywhere from 30 minutes to half an hour on Browsershots, compared to 3 or 4 minutes on Browsercam.

Still, it is free, and ‘priority processing’ costs just 10 Euros a month, compared to $60 a month for the cheapest plan on Browsercam.

If you think your workspace is dull, then witness the saddest cubicles in history. Via Wired news