120,000 dead people’s number seems detached from reality… big numbers are just too much to grasp.
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Paper Clips is a movie about an american teacher’s idea: to collect one paperclip for each jew killed in the holocaust. six millions of paper clips, so.
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just to put things in figure.

masters of deception
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this sculpture is made of welded forks, spoons and knives, and under a special light, cast the shadow of a motorcycle.
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cat in zero G (quicktime movie). man, it’s just mean!

what they really mean!
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the truth in advertising:

• part I: the briefing
• part II: the reel truth
• part II: 3 years later

suck your printer dry
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waste all ink you still have on your printer with these two nice websites.
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on science fiction papercraft (crude engrish a japanese website) you can choose to build between some starwars robots or other sf movies (how about the back to the future delorean?)
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in the other one, called rasterbation, you send a picture (upload or the web) and they give you a big pdf file to print (in black & white, huge dots and tiled). good to tell the world about your last obsession.
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the same data, new media
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nice idea this cinema redux: the app pintscreens a movie every second and builds a big image with all (tiny-tiny) thumbnails. the result is an “unique fingerprint”, an image you can glimpse how many takes and turns the director made… good source of information, I hope more movies to be released this way (he used the technique in 8 classic movies), you can really get some insight of the direction here (perhaps even index movies on different ways).

about wi-fi, dsl & cable different contracts for ISP, janet (my teacher & friend! ;) talks about the 1-way vs. 2-way growing nuissance for the media conglomerates (putting it bluntly, the more we interact with each other, the less we spend in their entertainment solutions).
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One symptom of conglomerates not wanting to promote interpersonal communication online is the failure of major instant messaging providers to agree on a common set of protocols as has been done for other online systems such as email. Active users providing their own content are competition for the media conglomerates. I suspect this is one reason we don’t hear much about the lack of standards for instant messaging — or the difficulty in establishing standards in general for cell phone telephony — but we do hear tons about how upset the media conglomerates are about users stealing content (i.e., downloading music and movies).

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@ MEA discussion list, not that intense as the printed journal (nice original papers there), but a good source anyway.