Minutes to Midnight - Linkin Park Official Website

We should have posted this sooner…  but the new Linkin Park AU site designed by Amnesia (and our custom AU video which hangs in with the big Cipher Riddle on the blog)  is live. Getting great traffic and the Album is #1 in Australia.

Site:

http://www.minutestomidnight.com.au/

Official Blog:

http://minutestomidnight.wordpress.com

Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look

Behind the scenes with the coffee table that will change the world. Read more.

Dotsub.com

I have to admit I was at first a bit underwhelmed with the buzzword Web 2.0 and it’s associated visual manifestations, you know the ones rounded corners, gradients, diagonal stripes, all presented on the decoratively sanitised and highly reflective glass table. But every now and then, someone comes up with a really good idea that utilises the internet community to provide a valuable service to that community. dotsub is a community translation service to translate any video online and I reckon it’s pretty sick. take a look and see for yourself.

Speaking of cool screens…

This week Sony revealed a flexible full-color organic electroluminescent display (OLED). The display, which weighs 1.5 grams, is built using organic TFT technology. It’s 0.3 mm thin and features resolution of 120×160 pixels.

A Lost Theory from Amnesia - Pandora’s Box

There are two shows most of us at Amnesia watch religiously - Heroes and Lost. Whilst there are many theories for Lost, I thought I’d post the Pandora’s Box theory I’ve had since the end of season one having. [ no spoilers ]

Here’s the story on Pandora:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora

Here’s my theory in short: The Island is Pandora’s Box. In fact the whole story is a modern day retelling of the myth and it will follow the plot - releasing everything on the island into the world when opened, ultimately to finish with ‘Hope’ - the last thing in the box.

Clues from the dialogue:
Season 1: Jack says to Locke on the way to the black rock ‘what do you think is in the hatch?’ Locke replies “Hope.”
Season 3: Ben says to Locke. What if I told you there was a box on this island, and when you opened that box…”

So we end season 3 …the overall storyline is still on track to support the Pandora’s Box theory. Let’s wait and see..

Targetted drink vending machine TVCs

…only in Japan.

A vending machine operator in Japan is starting a service, offering discounted or free drinks to consumers. The video advertisement plays for 30 seconds while the drink is pouring. Kind of like a vending machine pre-roll

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Read the story on news.com.au

Easy concept to make the world a better place

I think they should do it everywhere but New York is probably a good starting point with their 13000 cabs.

clipped from www.ecogeek.org Mayor Micheal Bloomberg is about to announce that every Taxi in New York City will be a hybrid in a mere five years. NY taxi regs require cars to be replaced every 3 years for fleet cars and every 5 years for driver-owned cars. They’re removing non-hybrids from the ‘approved’ list so that, when replacement time comes, only hybrids can be purchased.

Microsoft aquires Aquantive.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-18Advertising.mspx

We understand there is a lot of interest / questions in the wake of the acquisition of our parent company Avenue A Razorfish / Aquantive and we will be working hard to issue a statement next week. In the meantime thanks for stopping by and please enjoy our humble blog

Official press releases will be available here shortly : http://www.aquantive.com

A stunning next gen monitor from Dell

No need for a description here - just look at he pic. The amazing fact is that this monitor (due out this year sometime) is only 0.5 inches thick (1.3 cm) thick. Careful - it might blow away if you sneeze…

clipped from www.engadget.com Dell to keep the panel depth to a crazy thin 0.5-inches. Although DisplayPort is said to support a resolution 4x that of today’s HDTV resolutions, the panel on this pup was only pumping an estimated 1920 x 1200 when we saw it.

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers

Here are some really cool and useful resources for building websites. A couple of examples below and all of them here:

http://tutorialblog.org/25-code-snippets-for-web-designers-part5/

clipped from tutorialblog.org Part 5 of the code snippets series sees us take a look at more handy pieces of html, css, javascript and other usefull things to a web designer … Grid Calculator - Change the settings (by dragging the sliders, clicking on the bars, or editing the values) to calculate the overall width of your grid

Even Politicians Use MySpace

The South Australian Premier’s campaign extended to Myspace too! Honn Mike Rann left comments around a number of profiles of those who were young but just old enough to vote. He was seen commenting on an image saying“A good suit can be worn at any time - even during recreational activities. Looking smooth lads.

Vote LABOR!”

The Internet: A Series of Tubes

Still funny…

More about Net Neutrality

Hubble replacement finally unveiled by NASA.

Hubble - now 17 years old has a successor due to be launched in 2013 - The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

We can’t quite work out how much more powerful than the Hobble it will be but here’s a quote from Nasa: “Clearly we need a much bigger telescope to go back much further in time to see the very birth of the universe,” said Edward Weiler, director of Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Centre.

Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6645179.stm

The top 50 movie one liners…

According to Channel Nine here they are:
http://channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=265935

A couple of these don’t sound right? + Not quite sure what happened to #31?

• 50. APOLLO 13
  “Houston, we have a problem.”
• 49. WALL STREET
  “Greed, for want of another word, is good.”
• 48. COOL HAND LUKE
  “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
• 47. AUSTIN POWERS
  “Yeah baby!”
• 46. SCARFACE
  “Say hello to my little friend.”
• 45. BLUES BROTHERS
  “We’re on a mission from God.”
• 44. JAWS
  “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
• 43. GHOSTBUSTERS
  “Who you gonna call?”
• 42. TRUMAN SHOW
  “Good morning, and in case I dont see ya, Good afternoon, good evening and good night.”
• 41. DIRTY DANCING
  “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.”
• 40. BATMAN
  “Have you ever danced with devil in the pale moonlight?”
• 39. GLADIATOR
  “At my signal, unleash hell.”
• 38. ON THE WATERFRONT
  “You don’t understand, I could’ve been somebody, I could have been a contender.”
• 37. TITANIC
  “I’m the king of the world.”
• 36. DEAD POETS SOCIETY
  “Carpe Diem, seize the day, boys.”
• 35. THE MASK
  “Smokin’!”
• 34. PULP FICTION
  “Bring out the gimp.”
• 33. OLIVER
  “Please sir, I want some more…”
• 32. ROCKY
  “Yo Adrian.”
• 31. PSYCHO
  Stabbing scene
• 30. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
  “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”
• 29. GOOD MORNING VIETNAM
  “Good morning Vietnam!”
• 28. MAE WEST
  “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?”
• 27. POLTERGIEST
  “They’re here.”
• 26. TOP GUN
  “I feel the need… the need for speed.”
• 25. MURIELS WEDDING
  “You’re terrible Muriel.”
• 24. THE ELEPHANT MAN
  “I am not an animal. I am a human being.”
• 23. FIGHT CLUB
  “First rule of fight club is - never talk about fight club.”
• 22. TERMINATOR
  “I’ll be back.”
• 21. KARATE KID
  “Wax on, Wax off.”
• 20. THE CASTLE
  “Tell him he’s dreaming.”
• 19. ET
  “ET phone home.”
• 18. CROCODILE DUNDEE
  “That’s not a knife, that’s a knife.”
• 17. WIZARD OF OZ
  “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
• 16. SIXTH SENSE
  “I see dead people.”
• 15. FORREST GUMP
  “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never what you’re gonna get.”
• 14. TAXI DRIVER
  “You talkin to me?”
• 13. STAR WARS
  “May the force be with you.”
• 12. BRAVEHEART
  “They can take our lives, but they can never take our freedom.”
• 11. THE SHINING
  “Here’s Johnny.”
• 10. DR NO
  “Bond. James Bond.”
• 9. DIRTY HARRY
  “Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do you?”
• 8. SUDDEN IMPACT
  “Go ahead, make my day.”
• 7. JERRY MAGUIRE
  “Show me the money!”
• 6. CASABLANCA
  “Play it again Sam.”
• 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
  “I’ll have what she’s having.”
• 4. A FEW GOOD MEN
  “You can’t handle the truth.”
• 3. THE GODFATHER
  “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
• 2. LT.APOCALYPSE NOW
  “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
• 1. GONE WITH THE WIND
  “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Xbox 360 sells for $24,300

Xbox Australia have been running a great charity auction on Ebay for the “Make-a-Wish Foundation” - We’ve been helping them with the design and online marketing for this, so it’s great news that this signed Bungie Halo3 console has sold for over $24 thousand dollars. Well done to the generous bidder!Ebay Auction

http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/konsolesforkids/

clipped from cgi.ebay.com.au AU $24,300.00�

Ze Frank at TED: What’s so funny about the Web?

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/87

Ze Frank giving an entertaining talk at TED, a conference in Monterey, California with an amazing collection of speakers. From the site:

Performer, web-toymaker and philosopher-comic Ze Frank offers his signature blend of comedy, technology and social theory, with hilaious takes on Google, video games, and haiku, to name but a few. All the while, he makes brilliant use of the screen to twist the meaning of his spoken words.

Other speakers include Al Gore, Bono, Chris Anderson, Jeff Bezos and many, many more.

www.ted.com

Desperate Internet search for a missing sister

A desperate plea across the internet has made the front page of Digg today. We are posting this here in the vein hope that the viral effect will reach someone somewhere who can help.

Digg Story here:
http://digg.com/world_news/My_Sister_Nicole_Vienneau_Has_Gone_Missing_in_Syria

clipped from vienneau.livejournal.com My Sister, Nicole Vienneau, Has Gone Missing in Syria [April 29th UPDATE: There is still no word, but we suspect she never made it out of Syria. The RCMP (Canada’s police force) have involved Interpol (the nearest “local” police) and the FBI (to access her email records). Canada does have diplomatic relations with Syria, and we’re pretty certain she’s not in a Syrian prison. She made no bank transactions after we last heard from her. It’s not looking good.