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Good Morning 2/19/10

Good morning, I’m off to the UK next week so no news is good news. If time permits I’ll keep you informed of the Brighton scenery. Until then, here are three projects that are blowing my mind, on my radar, and inspiring:

This first is Annie Musselman’s Finding Trust project. She is a Seattle based photographer that recently showed the work that she shot while volunteering at the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Project. Mind blowing stuff (navigate through her site to the Personal section linked from the bottom of the page and click Finding Trust). Check them out, the photos are amazing and the work they do is magical.

The second project is Take Part’s awareness campaign. Take Part offers a platform for social organizing around causes. They are making one PB&J for a homeless person for each person that follows them on twitter. Delicious, rewarding and easy way to make a small impact by clicking that follow button, try it.

Lastly, All-ages Music Project, a spin-off from The Vera Project, has been working for years to bring all-ages music and art venues to the other 50 49 (duh) states. They are in the running for $50,000 from Pepsi’s refresh challenge. I challenge you to help keep them in the running by clicking a link, once a day, for the rest of the month.

That’s all, except that Spring is early here in Seattle and some news is expected to return in March.

Sample of Annie’s work:

Good Morning 2/17/10

Good morning, eat some lunchtime comics…

An awesome book/comic archive here. Example:

This is a rad one about a dangerous beard I found on Flickr.

Of course, XKCD (be sure to read the alt text):

And there is this from Jessica Levey:

That’s all. Except for this, it’s not a comic, but it is a funny drawing by Irana, a favorite illustrator:

Supposedly...

…you can reply to my posts if you are a tumblr user that I follow. This is a new beta feature. Does it really work? Whatevs.

Good Morning 2/16/10

Good morning, it’s technology Tuesday I guess. I just got a Kindle and am getting the hang of it, but the iPad seems strange to me, probably because I don’t have an iPhone…Steve Jobs knew people are attached to keyboards, with the iPhone he has retrained everybody to use a tiny screen with tap-it-out screenboards. Now iPads seem like the most obvious and greatest thing evar, due to his foresight and restraint from diving into unknown markets without preparing them first. Dudes like Jobs are way ahead of us, and cleverly training our behaviors to adapt to, and thus adopt, their wares. I prefer to keep it small and feel that mobile projection has much cooler potential, so the Samsung Beam caught my eye this week. It’s an Android projector phone. NICE. Can’t wait for the hyperspeed Google-net to come to Seattle so I can stream projected movies while riding the light rail. Mayor McGInn’s already got the ask in for the fat pipe.

As software and hardware continues to develop, these items seem like lame trinkets. We’ve all heard of the robot being developed to haul old folks around their homes (yay future!). Now a robot can draw a nice picture of you too.

Robots are even making more robots (yikes?).

That’s all, except for the fact that the Robot Wars have begun.

(hat tip to Slog)

Maybe not web design...?

Apparently it was a hiccup, but funny no less.

LINK

Vote for All Ages shows, a click a day=$50k payday...

I need your help. If there is one thing you do today, tomorrow, and for the rest of the month, once a day, on the internet, it must be to click on this *brilliant!* link. Log in with via, FB connect and BLAMMO, click to vote, you’ll see a thank you pop up, and done. This is a Pepsi challenge. They are giving away 50 grand and the All-ages Movement Project is in the top ten and *MUST* stay there. Let’s help Pepsi take karmicly (sp?) corrective action for all the corn syrup they’ve peddled into our collective cellular structure.

As the AMPers say: “Let’s prove that a people-powered campaign of hip-hop activists, DIY punks, youth organizers, underground musicians and fans, and their friends and families can unite to wrestle some cash away from the fizzy-sugar-water industry!”

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