Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Shorts

Tweenbots!: What would you do if a cute little anthropomorphized robot asked you for help finding its way across a busy New York City Park?

Over the course of the following months... the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers... Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”


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Amazing photographs from Danish photographer Peter Funch. From Boing Boing: "(He) stakes New York City street corners out for two weeks at a time, taking pictures of passersby from the very same spot. He then uses Photoshop to composite the results into single images."



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Also from Boing Boing, a collection of found quotes on the internet.

"Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it." -- Lore Sjöberg

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