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Ever wanted fantastically accurate weather information on your iPhone? I have developed an application which works for London based weather information. It can be requested by sending a text message with the contents “iweather” to 84188. (50p to order.).

It basically shows you an animation of the current rainfall around London UK in a range of 1 hour including its movement. The radar information is retrieved from a local Doppler Radar.

Have a try!

These men are concreting solid steel pillars to stop vehicles from parking on the pavement outside a sports bar in downtown Manchester. They are cleaning up at the end of the day. But don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.

Remember those Star Trek episodes “Scotty, beam me up!” ?

We humans have always dreamed of “beaming” ourselves, objects or even travel in time. In fact, every morning I travel on the London Underground to work, I ask myself how the world would look like, if we could all be “beamed”. But that’s all science fiction – everybody would agree!

Not me. The world is currently coming apart. It divides itself in huge steps into what we would call the material and the virtual world. And absurdly while it splits into those two, somehow the borders between material and virtual world blur.

With virtual world I am not referring to Second Life, GTA, the Habbo Hotel or anything alike. The virtual world is the world where everybody is connected to each other and different mechanics and laws of physics play. The virtual world is the world of digital communication. The one on your e-mail client, on your iPod, your MSN Messenger, your Skype, your internet browser, your computer desktop or even your mobile phone.

And in the world of digital objects, “beaming”, traveling in time (at least backwards), copying, replicating, distributing, referencing, linking, contextualizing, tracking, recording, remixing, archiving, searching, tagging, ordering, twisting and destroying is all too common.

That’s because all can be wrapped in ones and zeroes. And there’s a lot that you can do with ones and zeroes.

A video recommended to watch not only from the aesthetical but also from the content point of view.

Just about the right thing at the moment to attract a lot of attention. Via Mayari’s Blog

I *love* great advertising. Like this one:

Via http://www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/2008/01/vw-golf-r32-2.html

Welcome my younger sister Tanja to the blogsphere. Her blog “Mayari’s Blog” can be found under www.mayari.net/blog. We will all be excited to read what you have to say, Sis. And I am convinced that there’s a lot of interesting thoughts and ideas you will be sharing with us.