I’ve been playing with the Nokia N95 for the last few days and have posted a review on the YRB blog. The basic gist is that its a fantastic device with crappy battery life – click through to read more.
For the Nokia fanboys I have pictures from my unboxing below
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Nithya and I just hosted a very delicious event – the very first YRB Recipe Exchange. The idea for the exchange came from our February trip to Tahoe when we found that a good number of the people at the lab are foodies. Since we all cook very different kinds of food, we decided to have a recipe exchange where we would be able to not only eat various dishes but also learn how they were prepared.
For this event we had Ryan, Yuki, Ayman, Carrie, Nithya and myself meeting in the afternoon to cook a wide variety of dishes (mostly) from scratch before Jeannie joined us for the consumption part of the evening.… Read the rest
The Audi R8 is a mid-engined supercar named after a 5 time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. You’d think that it would pretty easy to made a stirring advertisement for a car like that, what you do get is the most soul-less sports car advert I have ever seen in my life. You hear the cars engine for precisely two seconds and see a few shots of the car on a road. There is a long voice-over listing the past technical achievements of Audi and there is no mention made of the performance of the car itself.… Read the rest
Shell has just released ‘The Circuit’, a new advertisement to celebrate 60 years of its partnership with Ferrari. It features several historic Ferrari F1 cars driving through the streets of cities like New York, Monaco, Rio de Janerio. The ad took over a month to film and at a reported $2 million it is the most expensive commercial ever made.
Just sit back and enjoy hearing some of the most glorious sounding engines ever made.
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Higher rez original here (16 MB mov)
[tags]F1, Ferrari, video, advertisement, Shell, grand prix[/tags]… Read the rest
SFF1 just used a version of my F1 circuit guide on their site. It was inspired by Shane SF neighbourhood guide and is a mashup of several technologies including:
I’ll go into more details in a later post but it basically uses the TagMaps callback function to pull in content from Flickr, Wikipedia and Youtube to give a quick overview of each track.
You can also play with a version of the guide on my website.
[tags]F1, Formula 1, circuit guide, TagMaps, mashup, Pipes, Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube[/tags]… Read the rest