Friday, September 28, 2007 Update

Greetings All.

It is with great pleasure (and relief!) that I can let you know that we finally finished the new shiner.clay album and we have it available below for your enjoyment.

If you didn't know - surprise! We're not just a blog, but a band.

It's hard-edged, bouncy experimental techno that's in the style of Tresor, Kompakt or Perlon records with some added twists and turns, if you are familiar with that kind of stuff. (You can read the whole background to the project on the music page if you like)

All tracks below are full length's - encoded in Non-DRM'd, mp3 format so if you like what you hear, tell us and tell a friend.

Sharing is caring! Enjoy and thanks for stopping by.

Your online pal,

Olli

Rue St. Catherine Is Dreaming Of You (2007)

Altruism Forgiven
Retracted Discoveries
Pendolino
Rue St. Catherine Is Dreaming Of You
A Long Distance Decision
Trails Of Danger and Sorrow
The Haunted Lake
Spectral Visions
Maranui On Midnight
Mostly Mt. Eden
Obscured By Clouds

posted by olli @ 17:06  

Friday, September 28, 2007

It looks like the new iPhone update really does cripple any 3rd party hacks

Is Apple losing interest in Apple TV?

The new Facebook? College.com is for college students only

Is China aiming to close their own digital divide?

These are good questions for user experience design roles

Why executives are stumbling in a new media world

Julius Popp creates text from streams of water

Say hello to the nine new types of consumer types in today's marketplace

How to deal with invasive clients

Say hello to the Web 2.0 simulator

These are PHP video tutorials for web designers

Say hello to Blyk, the ad-supported mobile virtual network

So are photos good or bad for LinkedIn?

This is an interesting article about social networking and narcissism

There are paintballers and then there are paintballer Panzers

Labels: Apple, Blyk, China, college.com, iPhone, Julius Popp, LinkedIn, Paintball, PHP, social networking, usability, user experience, web 2.0, web design

posted by olli @ 08:11  

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Today is Guitar Hero Day in New York

Say hello to the Frost AJAX Library for mobile phones

Check out the Seed Conference if you're in Chicago on the 29th of October

Ten usability nightmares you should be aware of

Say hello to Botta's one-handed watch

What exactly is going on with Google buying DoubleClick?

Is lazy reporting hurting the visual arts?

Michel Gondry has a dream for the new Motorola RAZR2

Five reasons why the mobile web sucks

Seven reasons why Second Life should matter for business executives

Yahoo! is closing its podcasting site

How Burmese dissidents are cracking censorship

Say hello to the Disposable Web Page

How to produce "proper" geek television

Interesting infographics on the density of home sales across the UK

How to design a fluent interface

Labels: AJAX, Burma, commercials, disposable web pages, geek TV, guitar hero, information graphics, interface design, Michel Gondry, podcasting, Seed Conference, yahoo

posted by olli @ 09:28  

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Stop Press! Amazon creates its own DRM free music store

Is your user experience team too big?

Say hello to Nokia's Point and Find technology

More cool UI tech - check out Uniqlock's Visitor Atlas

Be a responsible parent and tell your kids to make their own fonts

Yesterday was not a good day to be Vonage

The top ten coolest American small towns

Why scary video games are better than horror movies

IPTV is growing in the UK

10 more future web trends

This Happened is an ongoing interaction design meetup in London

More on that - everything you ever wanted to know about improving your design skills

What are the nine most repulsive buildings on Earth?

Design Boom looks at how to design for Second Life

Labels: Amazon, architecture, Design Boom, design skills, DRM, interaction design, London, Second Life, This Happened, UX, Video games, web trends

posted by olli @ 08:28  

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Great presentation from Josh Davis at the recent QBN sessions in LA

Japanese senior citizens aren't too keen on robot helpers

Buy one OLPC laptop and a child gets one free. How cool!

The new PayPal logo in seven easy steps

Say hello to Geoportail, the alternative French version of Google Maps

Uh-oh - Microsoft looking to acquire stake in Facebook

iPhone users beware - Apple aiming to destroy unlocks with new firmware upgrade

In the meantime - Wired tells you exactly how to unlock your iPhone

Related: Looking to make cheap overseas calls? Say hello to The Pudding

Revolution Money (bit long of a name, no?) is looking to be a PayPal competitor

Smashing Magazine gets a re-design

Everything you need to know about telemarketing

Attention Project Managers: How to resolve conflicts quickly and peacefully. AARRGGHH

Labels: Apple, facebook, firmware, Geoportail, iPhone, PayPal, project management, Pudding, QBN, Revolution Money, robots, Smashing magazine, telemarketing

posted by olli @ 08:09  

Monday, September 24, 2007

Flashsourcecode.com offers excellent open source flash code for you to play with

EU Benchmark showed mixed results on public service UX

MySpace to launch ad supported mobile phone

Say hello to the new BBC brand portfolio

Resonance FM gets a nice re-design

The ten rules of Twitter and how to break them all

Will Internet video really deliver a Nielsen ratings point?

City Of Sound looks at the recent Tokyo Type Directors Club exhibition in Sydney

Bokardo looks at the value to visualizing information

Great infographic on mobile phone OS usage by region - what's up with the US?

6 ways on how to find a parking spot via mash-up

More on that - Intel wants you to mash it up with MashMaker

Copwatchers is a YouTube page that watches out for police brutality

XM Radio launches a radio station dedicated to the '08 US Election

The Economist now offering unpublished content to bloggers

Megadeth will webcast a performance in real time on YeboTV

Labels: bbc, Bokardo, brand identity, Copwatchers, Economist, Flashsourcecode, Intel, mash-ups, Mashmaker, Megadeth, mobile, MySpace, Nielsen, Public Service, Sydney, Tokyo Type, UX, XM, Yebo

posted by olli @ 08:43  

Friday, September 21, 2007

1 in 3 Americans gave up friends and sex for the Internet

20th Century Fox finally comes around to joining the iPod revolution

Everything I need to know, I learned from Iron Maiden

Say hello to Adobe's new Photoshop logo

Could the Markitcart be the next generation of shopping trolley?

If you're worried about Apple's discontinued iPod Hi-Fi - say hello to the Vers 2X

These are 15 examples of excellent typography on the web

Powerpoint as a toy for thought?

How to create a better client/agency/freelance project relationship

Uh-oh - Now the MediaDefender's entire source code has been released

CBS now wading the waters of Web 2.0

Woo! T-Shirt Slayer offers super high quality death metal t-shirts

Seven habits of highly effective logos

The best and worst things about Google's shared stuff

Starting a Web 2.0 startup? You might want to read this

Written On The City looks at urban graffiti around the world

Labels: Americans, CBS, death metal, Fox, Google, ipod, Iron Maiden, logos, Media Defender, project management, Shared Stuff, Shopping, Typography, Vers 2X, web 2.0, Written On the City

posted by olli @ 07:33  

Thursday, September 20, 2007

NBC to offer DRM'd shows on-demand, on the web

Stephen Fry is a genius BUT did you know he's an expert on mobile phone UI?

Zipcar is now available on your mobile phone

Say hello to The Gloamer. He's made up of rolled up newspapers

Nobody puts on a fashion show like New York's Jack Spade

Ever wonder what happens when you open EVERY application on a Powerbook at once?

The Hoerboard is a really lovely custom made DJ workstation

The top ten laughably bad tech ads courtesy of CNET

These are the brand guidelines behind Verizon's "Can you hear me now?" campaign

Looks like this faux-GPS iPhone hack actually works

Why Europe's mobile startups are singing

Twitter + audio and video? Say hello to Utterz

Is your taste in music determined at birth?

Labels: branding, CNET, DRM, Gloamer, Hoerboard, mobile, music, NBC, startups, Stephen Fry, twitter, Utterz, Verizon, Zipcar

posted by olli @ 08:36  

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

What's on your bookshelf says a lot about you

On that note: Brian Dettmer creates book autopsies

Experientia looks at the French and their mobile phone use

This is a fabulous look at the history of type in the Toronto subway

Here are two really cool Kuler screensaver mash-ups for you

Is the Wall St. Journal next line to lose on-line subscription fees?

The NY Times looks at new ways to advertise on MySpace

Google is turning widgets into ads

Mixko make some really interesting furniture

Mango is a free online service where you can learn a foreign language

If you're trying to send Flash via email, you might want to read this article

45% of Germany's on-line population are on a social network

Say hello to Virgin 1

Brand Avenue has a great article on corporate HQ's and the rise of the "boomburbs"

It's about time! Threadless are opening a T-Shirt retail store in Chicago

This is a pop-up lamp in a pop-up book

Tetsuya Nakamura makes crazy psychedelic bathroom furniture

Labels: books, Boomburbs, Brand Avenue, France, Germany, Kuler, mash-up, mobile telephony, MySpace, NY Times, social networking, Tetsuya Nakamura, Threadless, Toronto, type, Virgin 1

posted by olli @ 08:31  

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

European residents get ready - BIG Apple event at Regent Street store in London, 10am BST today

The NY Times finally wakes up and ends its subscription news service

Avatars are protesting against IBM in Second Life

Coca-Cola creates bottles with ice cubes in them

Is Bath's Britain's most backward city?

Why some users are choosing to commit "Facebook Suicide"

This is a mash-up of design shops in New York

The one single book you need to read to get ahead in your profession

Say hello to Ad Week's new social network - At The Roundtable

Design In Europe is a blog about exactly that

What's the secret to the best mobile broadband experience? 4G!

Why some Web 2.0 sites will never attract big ad dollars

How to open your XBOX360

YouTube vs. American Idol? Say hello to MC Hammer's new site - Dancejam

Hector Serrano makes some wonderful products - especially the Superpatata

Is Bioshock Art?

Labels: Ad Week, Apple, At The Roundtable, Bath, Bioshock, Coke, Dancejam, Design in Europe, IBM, London, NY Times, Second Life, Serrano, web 2.0, XBOX360

posted by olli @ 07:51  

Monday, September 17, 2007

Techcrunch has a review of Yahoo's new social networking site - Mash

And...MTV's social network Flux launches. Anyone spot a trend here?

Say hello to the world's largest high resolution video walls

Vastpark allows you to create your own virtual world

Are MBA's losing their lustre on Wall Street?

What is this large wooden dome in Russia?

Airifier uses Adobe Air to make any website a web application

The most wanted iPhone games

How computers transformed the baby boomer generation

Brazillian physicists are boycotting Dell

How to use a 404 page as a marketing tactic

Say hello to the Weave Mirror

The Magistrates Blog takes an inside look at the UK legal system

Oh dear. EMI brings in John Birt (Yes. That one) to help manage its roster

Why the medical community is looking to New Zealand to design its equipment

Labels: 404, baby boomers, Dell, EMI, Flux, Mash, New Zealand, Russia, UK legal system, wall street, yahoo

posted by olli @ 08:32  

Friday, September 14, 2007

Say hello to the new Google Moon

More space: Earth to Mars in....a week?

Ooyala is a new start-up looking to do interesting things with video

Restricted Audiences Only is a site that features R rated red-band film trailers

This is some cool gaffer tape art from Tokyo's subway system

US viewers watched an average of 3 hours of online video in July

Integrated 2007 is a design conference taking place in Antwerp on 2 November

Who are the most vulnerable media companies in the US right now?

Evian launches a new bottle design for use in restuarants
Warner Bros. to launch 23 projects for broadband TV

Extermiknit! - How to knit your own Dalek

Who Does is free web-based project management software

Is MTV working on a branded social network?

How to write "remarkably creative content"

Germany's Hans and Franz make some beautiful products

Labels: creative content, Dalek, Google, Hans and Franz, knitting, media companies, movie trailers, mtv, online video, Ooyala, social networks, space travel, Who Does

posted by olli @ 08:18  

Thursday, September 13, 2007

iPhone now unlocked in 32 countries with 69 carriers

Business Week takes a look at service prototyping

RodCorp has good round-up of this years DConstruct activities

Related - A round-up of the Yahoo! Hack Day

Top 10 Wikipedia tricks

If you're in London - get ready for the London Design Festival on 15 Sept.

Also on 15 Sept - The Chicago Renegade Craft Fair

This is an interactive tour of Amsterdam's Schiphol's airport

Social network types, motivations and the future

Lessons on shutting down a service from 37 Signals

Will the recent slowdown in ad spending also reach the web?

Is MySpace the new MTV? Will launch original show "Quarterlife" in November

Are Digg headlines real news?

Verisign launches multi-screen content delivery platform

Burning World creates mix tapes for you

Labels: 37 Signals, advertising, Amsterdam, Burning Wold, digg, iPhone, mtv, MySpace, service prototyping, VeriSign

posted by olli @ 10:24  

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Say hello to Netscape's new portal - Propeller

The porn industry is now thinking about how to combat piracy

Has the PS3 been a complete failure for casual gaming?

Long awaited - the war between Nokia and Apple finally begins

The eight product touchpoints of consumer use

Say hello to CreateSpace - an "inventory free self-publishing platform"

Mimoa helps you find cool architecture while you're travelling

The 10 biggest video game flops

Will the IAC create a new "Facebook for shopping"?

Mapskip mashes up Google Maps with blog entries

What is the holy grail for mobile social networks?

Engadget has the story behind the iPhoneSIMfree unlocking saga

Phillips now offering a remote control that's bigger than your head

Say hello to Vista's black screen of piracy

Say hello to Sidereel - mixing P2P and YouTube

Foster + Partners zero carbon emissions city in Abu Dhabi is pretty awesome

Labels: Apple, Engadget, Foster and Partners, iPhoneSimFree, Mapskip, Microsoft, Mimoa, Nokia, Phillips, porn, Propeller, PS3, Siderell, Video games

posted by olli @ 07:45  

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Shulze & Webb talk about the Experience Stack

There is information design and then there is the genome of Craig Venter

I, Cringley takes on Steve Jobs

On that note - iPhoneSIMfree goes retail - let the unlocking begin!

Is China hacking Germany, the UK and the US?

The Economist asks - If Belgium stopped existing, would anyone care?

Belle & Sebastian need vocalists/extras - here's how to submit

Say hello to TypePad for the iPhone

The Good: Say hello to the Yahoo! design innovation team

The Bad: Is Yahoo! about to axe Yahoo Music?

Fifteen last.fm power tweaks for you

How to bootstrap your startup

Say hello to Ringles. Yes. Ringles

How to retain younger workers in the workplace

Labels: Belgium, Belle and Sebastian, China, Craig Venter, DNA, Experience Stack, iPhoneSimFree, last.fm, Ringles, startups, workplace, yahoo

posted by olli @ 08:56  

Monday, September 10, 2007

Is Steve Jobs sick of the cell phone industry?

These lamps are made from lightbulbs

MTV offers a peek at their upcoming website developments

Taking a look at mobile phone design heuristics (.pdf)

GigaOm takes a look at the wonder that is Habbo Hotel

Dan Hill takes a really interesting look at life in Sydney with the APEC summit in town

The Economist wants to know why computers are still so difficult to use

What are the first steps in freelancing?

John Maeda explains how he designed the latest cover of The NY Times Key Magazine

Do you buy graphic design services? If so - why not take this poll?

Will Joost address the copycats?

Dilbert does Web 2.0

How to launder money

30 years of Shinjuku skyscraper construction in 10 seconds

Say hello to Google's corporate desktop push

The basics of newspaper.com design

Say hello to...Tesco Jails?

Labels: APEC, Apple, computer interface usability, Dilbert, Google, graphic design services, John Maeda, money, newspaper design, NY Times, Shinjuku, Steve Jobs, Sydney, Tesco, web 2.0

posted by olli @ 08:10  

Friday, September 7, 2007

Could RockMe.dium be the future of the music festival?

This project from Yahoo! gives an instant snapshot into people's feelings on the web

What will the metropolitan newspaper look like in 2020?

4 mistakes Apple made with the recent iPhone price drop

The US Dept. Of Justice says "No" to Network Neutrality

Say hello to Warner Bros. new animation project - T-Works

Human Locator is a new interactive form of outdoor billboard advertising

The 50 loudest websites in 2006 and what made them successful

The 7 habits of highly ineffective people

Has The White House created a mandate to sell a war with Iran to the American public via the media?

Hurrah! Netscape's rather obvious Digg clone is going away

Hate your friend's Avatar? Then re-do it!

Say hello to the Ikea hackers

"Hi. My name is Stephen and I'm a design addict"

So, really - at the end of the day, why should you follow the news?

Labels: Apple, avatars, design addiction, digg, hacking, Ikea, ineffective habits, iPhone, loud websites, Netscape, News, newspapers, Rockme.dium, T-Works, White House, yahoo

posted by olli @ 08:12  

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Your Facebook profile will soon be indexable by search engines

Apple to offer iTunes purchases via Starbucks

More on that - Starbucks Gossip is a blog about "America's favorite drug dealer"

We're really into Amy Bennett's "Neighbors" series of paintings

Voice Forge allows you to turn your own voice into synthetic speech

Core77 offers you a back-to-school design cheat sheet

8 tips on how to find a mentor and get mentored

The Single Hauz is a house on a stick

HubBuzz is a neighbourhood matchmaker for rentals across the Western US

What is really means when a client says "can you make it pop?"

A Brief Message offers design thoughts in 200 words or less

ReadWriteWeb takes a look at 10 future web trends

What are the 8 most dangerous consumer technologies?

If you work for AOL, you might want to polish up that resume

Say hello to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix album

These are photos of very creative bus ads from around the world

These are questions for the agency executive

Labels: agency executives, Amy Bennett, AOL, Apple, bus ads, facebook, itunes, mentoring, Nine Inch Nails, Single Hauz, Starbucks, Voice Forge, web trends

posted by olli @ 07:47  

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Say hello to Beta records - an online record label

Say hello to Monocle's quality of life index

Don't design website navigation like advertising

Who's afraid of imitating Business Week?

Cool panoramas of the 7 wonders of the eWorld

NBC says goodbye to Apple and says hello to...Amazon?

There are bookshelves and then there is The Quad

Brands are inside-out. User Experience is outside-in

Say hello to Survivor Duck

How to get the most out of your books

Say hello to college.com

Bokardo looks at increasingly sophisticated social interfaces

Say hello to Metacard - the first virtual world credit card

What worries scientists? Direct brain to game interfaces

BMW has a pretty cool print campaign for its X3

Say hello to Virgin Galactic's spaceport

Labels: Amazon, Beta records, BMW, Bokardo, branding, college.com, Metacard, Monocle, social interfaces, Spaceport, survivor duck, Virgin Galactic

posted by olli @ 07:47  

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Most Chinese children spent their summer holidays online

The BBC's John Humphries on the threats looming over the BBC's Today programme

Corporate Vandals Not Welcome is a blog that focuses on anti-advertising campaigns

Yahoo! takes a look at sites that blur the lines between video and the web

7 reasons why Microsoft is doomed

5 facts about the upcoming Google Phone

Sarkis Parazyan creates art out of spray paint cans. We like

The X-Base is a laptop stand that acts as a heat sink

Ridley Scott creates a new edit of Blade Runner which is "the way it should have been"

Do you remember your first experience with the Internet? We do. It was at college in 1993

What do you think the top web technology will be in 10 years time?

Here's a hint - a quick roundup of the future of media from Great Blend

The NY Times takes a look at the world of mash-ups

interactivearchitecture.org is a blog about just that

Like tea? If so - you'll be needing a Serapot

Everything you've ever wanted to know about lucid dreaming

Labels: bbc, Blade Runner, China, Corporate Vandals Not Welcome, future, Great Blend, internet, Lucid dreaming, media, Microsoft, NY Times, Serapot, web technology, X-Base

posted by olli @ 07:51  

Monday, September 3, 2007

The IHT has a great profile of Rick Rubin and a look at the future of the music biz

There's Google Search and Google Search from your BMW

Jeff Jarvis on correcting errors when publishing content

Idents.tv is a blog that looks at the design of television and news idents

Boxes and Arrows looks at banking form usability

BLDGBLOG takes a look at making music from plants

Confessions of a wedding photographer

kAk is a Russian design magazine

Check out this highly stylized users manual for the original Macintosh 128 circa 1984

FiLife is a finance blog from the Wall Street Journal

Is Facebook blocked for you at work? Here's how to get around the block

Format is a magazine that looks at urban art and fashion

One man and his 100mbps fiber connected life

MMS and Buy will be an on-demand e-commerce mobile phone service

Say hello to Beijing's Internet police force

Have you played with Google Earth's hidden flight simulator yet?

The Guardian looks at the UK's Top 50 designers

Labels: Apple, avant-garde, Beijing, BLDGBLOG, BMW, Boxes and Arrows, design, facebook, Flife, Format, Google, Guardian, Jeff Jarvis, kAk, MMS and Buy, usability, wedding photography, wideband

posted by olli @ 07:47