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• Amazing photographs’s of La Machine’s street theatre performance ‘La Princesse’ from photographer Pete Carr.
• Actor Matthew Modine talks about working with Stanley Kubrick on Full Metal Jacket.
• Google PowerMeter – prototype tool from Google that uses data from smart meters to display realtime energy consumption.

• The King of Kong, A Fistful of Quarters – Finally managed to find some time to watch this documentary on the battle by Steve Wiebe to beat Billy Mitchell’s 25 year old Donkey Kong Hi-Score. Fantastic stuff!
• Droid Fonts – Ascenders font collection for Google’s Android platform
• StackOverflow – Question and answer site for programmers. From the sounds of it, questions get answered super-quick.
• Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com – Great article on Flickr’s approach to managing user violations

• Schtock – Playing around with stock images as part of their day job. There’s some great montages here with more on the Schtock blog.
• Project 10¹⁰⁰ – Celebrating Google’s 10th birthday
• The City Wakes – A serious of concerts, exhibitions and happenings in Cambridge as part of a tribute to the late great Syd Barrett.

Browser chrome is a term used to describe the borders of a web browsers window, menu, toolbar and scrollbar but it will now become more familiar as the name for Google’s new product, Google Chrome, an open-source browser based on the WebKit rendering engine and Google Gears.

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Radiohead’s latest video for the track ‘House of Cards’ has been released through Google Code. Shot without cameras it uses two 3D capture technologies, one that captures images at close proximity and one that can capture large environments such as landscapes. The cloud point data used for the video can be downloaded for anyone interested in putting together their own video of the track. Click here for the ‘making of’ video.

• Stanley Kubrick – 79 – Hertfordshire, St.Albans. Interesting MySpace ‘homage’ page with a great collection of photos
• BBC’s IPlayer 2 goes beta. There’s been some major improvements to the interface but I guess the big news is that radio and tv are now in one place plus there’s improved functionality that allows for quick resume playing and personalisation
• Penguin announce the winners of their 2008 Design Award.
• Goosh.org. Google ‘unix-shell’ interface

• Tower running – crazy new sport where you race up a towerblocks stairwell. More over at Stair Climbing Sport.
• Ajax Libraries API – Google are now hosting some of the more popular javascript libraries including jQuery, Prototype and script.aculo.us. More information for the Google Monster but it promises faster performance and if enough developers use it there could be some cross site caching benefits as well.
• Font burner – Online tool that lets you use non-standard fonts on your website, it’s essentially a sIFR library using non-commercial fonts. Nice idea!

• Totally Wired – Looking forward to this, a documentary about Schneiders Buero, Berlin’s legendary synthesizer shop
• Two completely contrasting styles but fantastic illustrative work from Jörg Block and Sam Weber. Via Drawn
• What makes a design ‘Googley’? – A discussion on ‘Googley Design Principles‘. Sound UX advice!