Lols

Biggest lol came from “Business guys on business trips.” A satirical illustration and commentary on the design industry

The annotated weekender’s characters add a bit of spicy augmentation to the editorial.

Tech

Video for everybody with the HTML5 spec of video embedding… until is got squashed.

A decent summary of core user experience links, book recommendations and other signposts for further investigation from Whitney Hess.

Brian Christiansen’s pattern collection captures findings of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows from across the web.

Site check

Graze’s food delivery service uses carefully considered interaction that extensively uses AJAX to provide a smooth experience, focusing the user on their activity.

The Magnetic North agency uses gestural techniques to create a playful way of exploring their offering.

Music

Awesome tapes from Africa dusty tapes of blissful music from Africa. Reminds me how much incredible music is being made beyond the realms of our digital world.

Gadget

Pacemaker gadget want. Playful interaction on a portable mixing device.

^ Sam Potts, “Putting Tweets On Paper Since May 26, 2009.”

Received my Twitter-by-jpg. Very exciting. Futile in many ways but hugely appealing and valuable in many more. The initial idea was that you could request a tweet on paper, which you’d receive by post…. living outside the US I could only request the .jpg option.

The subversive concept intriguing of it - without wanting to disappear into a stenching art critique hole - but also the craft. It reminds me of Dada and Fluxus artist’s who used the postal system to create and collaborate on art work as well as the participatory art of Sophie Calle who will often use the correspondence between herself and the subject as part of the final work.

Remote villagers

Doing a quick search around for other services and sites that do this kind of thing I stumbled across a few companies that will turn your emails into atoms, integrating with Salesforce.com, offering API’s the whole shebang but it was the justification suggested at Digital Inspiration that appealed the most:

“1. Some of your relatives live in remote villages where they don’t have computers let alone access to Internet.

2. Your grandparents know computers but they’ll probably feel more happy if you could send them emails and photographs in paper form that they can read in the lawn outside.”

All very worthy and especially amusing when it comes to thinking about Twitter.

…My last tweet was “Vision going.” Some more interesting reading about postal art. If you would like to send me a Tweet: 6 Salem Road, Bayswater, London W2 4BU