http://newflesh.net/blog A personal blog mostly about everything but myself. Books, films, some music and some random thoughts. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:31:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've had an escalation in the amount of attempted worm attacks recently, and for some reason I find the fictional. world changing news headlines a bit amusing. This one, though, is in a class of its own: http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/07/23/creative-worms/ Most are probably aware of how important packaging design is in Japan, and while it's often gorgeous it can feel a little wasteful in these times. But PingMag has a How-to-Reduce-Packaging Journal up today, showing examples of things going in greener and more bio-degradable directions. Shown above is Tofu packed in ... http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/07/18/japanese-packaging-reduced/ A robot may not seek to be promoted above a human being who has been at the company longer, because the human being may have a wife and kids to look after whereas the robot just goes home and tries to have relations with a bucket. -Isaac Asimov's 30 Laws of ... http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/07/15/robot-law-21/ Official Fallout 3 trailer (HD and other download versions here) I'm not usually one who slavishly follows the presentations at E3 and general pre-release coverage of games – I'm usually happy with a summary, a few screenshots and a release date. But this Fallout sequel has had me worked up a ... http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/07/15/fallout-3-videos-from-e3/ I mentioned in the last post that while I gave in and bought a phone with a slider design, I still don't get the thing with flip-phones (or clamshells or whatever you want to call the design). They aren't that much smaller – a bit, sure, but that's usually offset ... http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/07/13/what-the-flip/ So, as my old Nokia had served my for almost half a decade, I decided it was time to retire it, and what I found was the Sony Ericsson S500i in the contrasted copper color shown in the image. And besides the first one being a lemon that I had ... http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/07/01/sony-ericsson-s500i/ I've mentioned that I decided it's about time I set up an artist's site, and I'll try to do better than most artists, who in my opinion very often don't take that very seriously. But I doubt it will end up as ambitious as Wim Delvoye's site, with a whole ... http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/06/30/wim-delvoye-website/ I was pointed to a post on PingMag (this time I remembered to put it on my feeds, btw) about the aesthetics of RFID tags – the little things that make identifying an object, like a buss pass or shipping container, without physical contact possible – and the creativity in ... http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/06/29/designed-rfid-tags/ Ah, finally a way for us with too little time on our hands to practice the art of origami. http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/06/29/origami-for-the-modern-man/ Or at least someone with a year of fine art education behind them, and another year at the same school coming up. It's somthing I've wanted to do for a long time, but for various reasons I've felt that I couldn't make the best of the sort of resource art ... http://newflesh.net/blog/2008/06/24/personal-update-im-an-artist-now/