Last.fm: Michael Jackson, Tracks played per hour after announcement of his death

 

(via last.fm photostream)

how to get the girl (based on successful attempts)

 

(via thedoghousediaries)

twitter your album review

Twitter all over the place right now. Everyone has his twitter feed and idem do artists. Consequently, today’s musicians have a myspace page, a facebook group/profile, a blog, a last.fm profile, a flickr photostream and a twitter feed. .. and probably an official web page.

Moby just released his 9th studio album (”wait for me”) and let fans write reviews via twitter. Twitter users just post your review starting with @thelittleidiot and ending with #waitforme. Further, the most creative review wins an original ‘Wait for Me’ artork by Moby!

(via moby/journal)

hooray! – how to be happy in business.

(via swissmiss)

London’s shop fronts

Emily Webber from londonshopfronts.com rows up pictures from the fronts of London’s numerous corner shops. Love’em!

empire state cloud

Today I found this wonderful picture taken by moby. It looks indeed like it was taken in the 40’s/50’s. Read the context to it on his blog.

I share, therefore I am.

G20 in pictures

The G20 summit last weekend in London is finally over but well documented on flickr. A lot of impressive pictures were taken. Find them here.

lovely package

I noticed that more and more blogs about packaging pop into the web. Most of them talk about nice designs and graphics, some about the functional aspects and rather fewer about the ecological thoughts when designing packaging. Since I love nice and clever designs and often buy goods just because of the design, I love to browse through these blogs and discover what other packaging is out there. -  lovelypackage.com is one of them.

Sevva Bar & Restaurant, Hong Kong

This breathtaking view is not a rendering but a bar in Hong Kong. The terrace belongs to the sevva bar on the 25th-floor penthouse of the Prince’s Building. Privileged with an amazing view over Hong Kong’s harbor one can enjoy drinks, live music and tapas. Prices ranges from $25-$100 (meal cost per person) according to the Trip Adviser website.

Ikea launches telephony, internet services in Spain

Swedish group Ikea will launch fixed, mobile telephony and internet services on the Spanish market in the coming weeks. The services will be launched in partnership with Telefonica, British Telecom and Vodafone, local newspaper El Economista reports. Leveraging Vodafone Spain’s mobile network, Ikea will launch a MVNO service, under the Ventaja Movil (Mobile Advantage) brand name. For EUR 10 per month, Ventaja Movil customers will receive free mobile calls, with no call set-up fee, within the operator’s network. National calls to other mobile operator’s networks will be charged EUR 0.10 per minute, plus the call set-up fee of EUR 0.15. Additionally, Ikea will offer discounted prices on mobile phone purchases for customers who choose to port their mobile numbers to Ventaja Movil.

Schwarzenegger’s budget battle

Not sure if this is the right approach. Made me laugh… rather unexpected on a Sunday morning.

groovy dancing girl

While browsing through Daft Punk videos I found the following video through synopse. It’s a girl dancing along Daft Punk’s track “Harder Better Faster Stronger”. This video made me laugh – great! … makes the track even more groovy.

(via synopse)

just a wonderful picture…

… which increases my need of spring/summer even more!

photo taken by yyellowbird.

(via flickr)

Water needed to produce 1 litre of beverage (litres)

Quite surprising how much water is needed to just produce some of our daily goods. This already gives a precise idea of the value of water (and of how much it will increase in the future).

explaining life

A friend of mine noticed me today about another great blog. Jessica is the author describes simple life facts/situations with great little graphs. Very simple (optically) – very funny!

More on indexed.com

In Steve Jobs’ Dreams: Apple Will Own 40 Percent Of The Smartphone Market By 2013

Little-known research firm Generator Research, which also counts Apple as one of its customers, is predicting that in the next four years, Apple will surpass Nokia and as the largest smartphone company, and that it will own 40 percent of the global market. If you don’t believe it, here’s how they justify it: the report said Apple has “the resources, competencies and motivation to invest in the mobile sector just at the time when the economic climate is forcing many established players in the mobile industry to cut back on product development.” Even more, it said Nokia’s marketshare could fall from 40 percent today to 20 percent in that same period. Of course, Apple won’t get there with one measly iPhone 3G. Generator predicts that in order to sell 77 million iPhone in 2013, Apple will have a range of different models to address different market segments.

You can buy the full report for £ 190 here

(via moconews)

Burger King campaign: Whopper Virgins

Burger King has launched a new campaign/”documentary” for which a whole team travelled around the world to find Whopper Virgins – people who have never been exposed to hamburgers. The interesting part are the pictures and the authentic people, however, I do not see that this is very beneficial for Burger King – much effort for little output.

digital polaroid

The new TOMY xiao™ TIP-521 Digital Camera with Built-in Printer is a full-featured 5 Megapixel digital camera with a built-in full color ZINK™ printer.  The xiao™ is a first of its kind integrated digital camera and printer that allows consumers to capture, view, and immediately print their digital images without ink, anywhere.  Photos can now be viewed and shared right away – anywhere and all from one device.  The xiao™ produces borderless, full-color, 2×3″ (5×7,6 cm) prints in less than 60 seconds.

The TOMY xiao™ TIP-521 Digital Camera with Built-in ZINK Printer will be available in Japan on November 28, 2008.

Found on zink.com

aesthetics of failure

Nice collection on flickr of photos which are the results of a miscarried photo processing, of having accidentally dropped the camera, of the end of the film or just of experiments.