Archive For The “Web Nuggets” Category

With the lights down low (WN0036)

By | May 4, 2011

Another time-lapsed and tilt-shifted video gem here, from darwinfish105. This beautifully-crafted short film shows Tokyo, a city that drinks electrical power by the tanker load just to get up in the morning, with a collective cranking down of the dema…

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With the lights down low (WN0036)

By | May 4, 2011

Another time-lapsed and tilt-shifted video gem here, from darwinfish105. This beautifully-crafted short film shows Tokyo, a city that drinks electrical power by the tanker load just to get up in the morning, with a collective cranking down of the dema…

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‘My Blackberry Is Not Working!’ (WN0035)

By | January 23, 2011

A little bit of comedy here – BBC stalwarts Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield banging on about tech. The sketch is reminiscent of a different era, but the subject material is bang up to date.Wordplay at its best!

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DJ Derek (WN0034)

By | January 6, 2011

DJ Derek pt. 1 from Grand Finale on Vimeo.DJ Derek pt. 2 from Grand Finale on Vimeo.Been meaning to give this fellow an airing for months now, having stumbled across him through a comment left by Idle Format earlier last year. Finally, the moment has c…

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‘The Iraq War: A Wikipedia Historiography’ (WN0033)

By | September 22, 2010

‘The Iraq War: Wikipedia Historiography’ by STML (CC licence: BY-NC-SA)This set of books, a 12-volume collection of some 7,000 pages, was recently created by publisher/author James Bridle. An artefact for our times, it contains every edit and version o…

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The Internet in numbers (WN0032)

By | August 22, 2010

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.A nicely produced little video here that gives some idea of the scale of the Internet, at least in terms of social network users last year. Attractive use of colours, fonts and images too, I thought.

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A summer mix to treat your ears (WN0031)

By | July 23, 2010

Ambassadeurs – HIPHOPsoulAFROBEATdubstepD&BreggaeBREAKSmix by AmbassadeursI stumbled across SoundCloud ages ago and stored it away as ‘one of those things to get back to’. It seemed like a great way for sharing music, with an attractive inter…

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Robot officially weds Japanese couple (WN0030)

By | June 7, 2010

With the major parts of my course now over and the term coming to an end, there’s a fairly major backlog of Web stuff clamouring to be heard. I’ve now got a little more space to begin tackling it.First up, this little nugget and one that I couldn’t res…

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Zebra finches and a Les Paul (WN0029)

By | March 11, 2010

Came across this gem of an artistic idea today via The Guardian – an art installation with zebra finches alighting on the fretboard of a pugged-in, switched-on Les Paul. Delicately natural grunge. The installation was assembled by French sonic artist C…

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