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    Getty Images launch nifty new widget

    December 11, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Following on from Moodstream (by our favourite crew on the other side of the Atlantic, Barbarian), 27 letters is a visual reference of the most talked about, used and referenced [...]

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    design, ideas and inventions, interweb
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    FontShuffle – the new iPhone app from FontShop

    December 7, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    This application is perfect for geeking out to. Not entirely useful yet (the app contains a few hundred fonts, but its a bit fiddly to see the full range, and [...]

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    general brilliantness, mobile + location aware

    Sprint produces the Now Widget and Now Site…

    November 15, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    And creates one of the funniest pieces of work I’ve seen in a while. The kind of thing that can only be done entertainingly the first time, its made the [...]

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    advertising, general brilliantness, interweb

    You call yourself a man?

    August 11, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    This brilliant little javascript analyzes your browser history, to try to determine what gender you are. Not perfect by any means, or a totally new idea, but it IS kinda [...]

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    ideas and inventions, interweb

    Beautiful data

    August 6, 2008by laurajb 2 Comments

    Here’s a list from Beeker and myself of visual data, collected by all of us here at glue: radiohead-first-ever-bitcast Healthmap Presidential Watch ’08 Biomapping The brilliant book, “Mapping” Napoleon’s march [...]

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    design, general brilliantness, glue, interweb, theory, Uncategorized
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    Opening up the debate

    August 4, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    I’d love to add this sweet little application to the She Says site (undergoing a redesign as we speak). Made by Joe Lanman – interaction designer.

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    general brilliantness, She Says

    Cuil not su cuil…

    July 30, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

    So, this launched to a whole lot of fanfare, but the general response has been lukewarm, to say the least. I dunno – I have to say that when I [...]

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    interweb, thought pieces

    Pensieve – bad name, but potentially a really cool app

    July 29, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    From their press release: To help people remember key facts, today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a software technology created in its Research Labs that uses the images, sounds, and text [...]

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    mobile + location aware

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