Great idea! Creative Commons licensed samples: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu
archive for April, 2005
Amazing “future-Russia” designs for uber communist buildings. A strange look at what could have been had it not all fallen apart: http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/.
Neat front onto amazon for charities to generate revenue: http://www.givezilla.com
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From lipsum.com. Someone has come up with a few alternatives, including “techno babble” which is just great 
In August the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival has loads of free (I think) screenings of upcoming game footage and talks by industry types. I missed it last year for some reason but heard good things about it. More info here.
James, Alex and I have started up a collaborative blog spotting cool stuff in the satellite photos on google maps. Go take a look.
Update: Well, that was massively more successful than we initially thought. We’ve had over eight hundred submissions and apparently we are using up to much of the server’s resources. We’re currently relocating to a friendlier host.
Update, update: Woo-hoo, we’re back!
Great articles on the New York Times about Japanese convenience stores:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03EAT.html
Reminds of the ‘Lucky Dragon’ chain in William Gibson’s books.