Angry Birds do Libya
March 30, 2011 § 1 Comment
Disclaimer: I am annoyed by anything that becomes hugely popular and Angry Birds is no exception. However this video is good.
A mash-up of Angry Birds and the Three Little Pigs, it is the digital natives’ guide to the uprising in Maghreb, in escalating levels from Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, to Egypt and to the last level in Libya. With guest starring roles by the Twitter and the American Eagle Angry Birds.
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February 15, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Tuesday links:
- Double meanings: the egyptian presidency website is under construction – egyptian presidency via boingboing
- Knowledge is not dead: global data are more than 295 billion gigabytes – bbc
- Facebook pretty much owns all the photos in the universe (ah! and women upload twice as many photos as men) – mashable
- Play the Great Gatsby but mind the waiters – great Gatsby game
- Paris, London, Beijing, and Barcelona through typefaces (videos) – albin holmovist
- Ridley Scott and 9 other directors who sold out – flavorwire
- 20 years since Twin Peaks: the exhibition – in the trees art preview
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January 28, 2011 § Leave a Comment
It’s link time, again.
- Egypt initially blocks Twitter and Facebook and now cuts off all access to internet but Egyptians are still tweeting for freedom -guardian/bbc
- it has happened. During the holidays kindle books outsold paperback books on Amazon – dvice
- 15 free, non-pirate, Hitchcock movies online – openculture
- you already knew that the Martin Luther King “I have a dream” speech was brilliant, but now there is the infogram to prove it – fastcodesign
- apparently you can now earn a degree at The Beatles – ctv
- this, below, is a photograph (of soap bubbles), not an illustration; see more psychedelic images in science – discover
