gomarky: April 2005

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

"Incredible" Filipina

Gini Cruz Santos is among a growing number of talented Filipino animators at Pixar. In fact, she worked on The Incredibles. Read the article in the Philippine News.

Proud to be a Filipino.

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Nemo Meet Pierrot, Your French Wannabe

It seems there was a man who lost his case against Disney claiming Disney copied HIS clown fish named Pierrot to make Nemo.

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Small Car Company with a Big Dream

Mitsuoka Motors makes some interesting looking automobiles. I wonder if they'd ever cross over.

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Abandoned Amusement

Beautiful photos of abandoned amusment parks.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Sony Patents Connection to Your Brain

Method and system for generating sensory data onto the human neural cortex.

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Antigravity Photos

This is kind cool but I think I'd get bored with it after about 3 minutes.

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Monday, April 25, 2005

Overheard in New York

This is easily one of my favorite blogs of all time. For example...

Little Asian boy: Mommy, is it true that the world is run by giants who plug it in and make it spin?
Mom: Where did you hear that?
Little Asian boy: I made it up.
--N train

Here are some Wednesday One-liners
Hobo: ...but don't worry; us Republicans know what you're up to!
--Sullivan & W. 3rd

Woman on cell: Uh huh...yeah...right...uh huh...uh huh...the one you thought was underwear...uh huh...right...
--Lincoln Center

Girl on cell: I am so not dressed for a strip club!
--Times Square

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How to Be Creative

Interesting blog entry on how to be creative.

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Saturday, April 23, 2005

YaGooHooGle

Search on Yahoo! and Google at the same time.

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iTunes Playlist as a Personal Profile

You want to learn more about a person? Check their iTunes playlist.

From the News.com article:
Sharing playlists on an office network turns out to be something like a peacock spreading his feathers for display. The researchers found that people actively work to create an image of themselves through the music they make available to others, just as they might by buying a new car or showing off a cell phone.

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Friday, April 22, 2005

This More Creepy Than it is Cool

Umm... The NASA Jet Prepulsion Lab is working on a robot who talks back to you. They've done a nice job making her look real when she's quiet, but she's straight up creepy once she starts talking.

Kinda reminds me of some girls I've known...

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Air Tight Flickr Tag Engine

The fine people over at Air Tight Interactive have created a fascinating search engine that looks up images in Flickr. Just type a keyword and it collects all of the images in Flickr with that tag. Nice Flash work, too!

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