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Business Cards Feature Augmented Reality

Christopher Aceto — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:10:43 +0000

James Alliban, an actionscript developer in London, has developed a business card that touts an augmented reality feature when you hold it up to your computer camera. The concept is pretty neat, although I’m not sure how practical it is.

I’m sure that with some improvement and ingenuity this concept will take off in the near future. Especially for those businesses focused on interactive media and design.

AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

Michael Jackson: A Saudi Interpretive Tribute Dance

Bullshit Detective — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:00:32 +0000

What a better way to give a tribute to Michael Jackson than to have a bunch of man in turbans and white gowns grab their crotch and try to do the Michael Jackson moves. Their movement is somewhat uncoordinated and some of the guys at the back are a bit lazy, but it’s better than I would expect from this crown. I am glad our Arab brethren have the freedom to grab their crotch as they groove to the legend. It may not be full fledged democracy, but it is surely at least a taste of freedom.

Rogers To Offer 50Mbps Cable Service

Bullshit Detective — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:19:34 +0000

With one side of their face, Rogers and Bell say they need to control and slow down certain kinds of traffic across their networks, such as peer-to-peer and video streaming (and allegedly VoIP). With the other side, they are offering new video streaming PPV services and ever higher connection speeds.

How are we to believe that their networks are choking requiring the molestation of our connections, while they keep offering speeds that should in theory choke their network even further? Retorical question folks. We should not believe them.

Incidentally, World of Warcraft is a pay/month service that uses P2P traffic to spread updates between their members. Are the world’s millions of WOW players being unfair penalized when they are using their P2P for completely legitimate purposes? Is there, or more importantly, should there be an effort to force Bell/Rogers/Comcast/Verizon to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate P2P traffic? I think the burden should be on them to not filter the kind of traffic I was just discussing.