Skube is a cute wee desktop device that connects to last.fm wirelessly via your computer, and then gets Spotify to play your playlists and favourite radio stations. Sadly it’s only in prototype right now. Lovely video, and that sugary pop tune is by Kirsten and Marie (also at last.fm) and is called My Dear. Aw!
I wrote about this classic promo about the making of Blade Runner before but it got pulled from vimeo. I found this article with a new youtube link, so lets see if it stays up!
I was absentmindedly browsing an NPR show’s episode archive and came across this little gem from 2000. Writer and commentator David Sedaris shares some stories about his family and their pets in an excerpt from his book Me talk pretty one day. (16 minutes, audio only)
I remember Lego as a gender neutral building toy. This print advert from twenty years ago concurs. Lego these days has themes such as Harry Potter, Alien Conquest and Pirates of the Caribbean. It seems these collections just weren’t selling to enough girls so a Lego marketing team conducted an unprecedented in-depth study into girls’ … Read more