Archive forJuly, 2008

RIP Olive Riley – World’s Oldest Blogger

July 16th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
I was sad to discover today that Olive Riley, the woman thought to be the World's Oldest Blogger, died last week, aged 108. Olive's blog 'The Life of Riley' chronicled her life growing up in the Outback, raising kids, and working as a bartender and farm cook in New South Wales, Australia. Her friends Mike Rubbo and Eric Shackle, who helped her maintain the blog, have written touching tributes on both her site and the temporary World's Oldest Blogger blog and its a testament to her popularity that her main blog is currently experiencing technical difficulties after having been overwhelmed by...
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PES reinvent cooking

July 15th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
I saw this on Creative Review today and just had to share: Rarely is cooking so...
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UK Catalyst Awards

July 14th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
Alfie over at Moblog alerted me to the UK Catalyst Awards, which are in their words, awards for: "inspiring stories of people who help their community by using social technology in new and exciting ways." It's a government-sponsored initiative and it's great to see that these innovative grassroots sites and communities, and the shortlist shows plenty of really good sites. Some of them use the power of the web bring people together - such as School of Everything or Slivers of Time - whether it's finding someone to teach you something or a way of finding extra work. Others bring together...
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Flee Digital Cam – aerial shots without risking your cameraphone!

July 10th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
Via TechDigest comes this lovely bit of Bluetooth hardware - the Flee Digital camera. It's a camera equipped with Bluetooth that you can throw into the air and take lovely aerial shots, which it sends back to your mobile via Bluetooth before returning to ground undamaged: It reminds me of the great photos you can see on the Camera Toss blog or Flickr pool. While the camera might not match up to your cameraphone's quality it saves risking the poor thing if you drop it. That said, if your phone's tough enough to stand up to it then it might not...
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Looking Lively

July 9th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
There's been a lot of buzz today's over Google's latest venture, Lively, which is their new 3D Virtual World. Similar in outlook to Second Life, it looks a little more cartoony and maybe even aimed at a younger market, judging by the official trailer video shows: TechDigest point out that it's not quite the same as Second Life though: Rather than having a single persistent online space, Google intends Lively to be more of an addition to existing web space. User can enter a Lively space from a blog or website and then interact with fellow users, chat and prance about making...
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Kinetic beauty

July 9th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
This kinetic sculpture from the BMW museum is at times astonishing. Bear with it - it starts out looking quite random but after a minute becomes beautifully undulating and full of form: A truly beautiful way of using movement to showcase your design - I can't say much more than that!...
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Bubble wrap calendar

July 8th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
I don't know about you but one of my guilty pleasures is popping bubble wrap. Bubble wrap is an ubiquitous feature of modern life - whenever you need to send something fragile, it does the job. In fact it's been with us for over fifty years, having been invented in 1957 according to Wikipedia, and people love popping it so much there's even an online version of the stuff, although popping it is not quite as satisfying as the real thing. Bubblewrap-poppers everywhere have traditionally had to resort to scavenging for discarded envelopes and packaging or even raiding the bins to...
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Educational and fun..

July 7th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
Just a couple of quick links to share with you today - sort of a saw this and thought of you post! Isn't this lovely? (I feel I'm doing a bit of a Di over at Designers' Block today!) It's a page from Ecodazoo("The Eco Zoo") a gorgeous Japanese site about being eco-friendly with advice issued by various creatures and critters from the pages of a pop-up book! (Made of recycled paper I'm sure!) And while the title is completely covered by that site, here's another one which is fun but possibly educational.. The Secret of Johan Lorbeer's Still-Life Performance Johan Lorbeer has been...
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ComputerWeekly.com blog awards – in the final shortlist!

July 4th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
Last month we mentioned we were in the public nominations for the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 08. Thank you to all of you who supported our nomiation and we're really pleased to say we have made the final shortlist of ten in the Company category, as hand-picked by the judges! We'd like to say our thanks to them, and to tell you the shortlist is now open to a public vote so if you're a fan of the LG blog then get voting! in Company Blogs We're in some good company, including SMS Text News and Tracy & Matt in the Mobile category,...
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“Come dressed like a trifle and ready to party”

July 4th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
 
Not your typical Friday night invite is it? - Or is it?! I heard on the breakfast news this morning that the London Festival of Architecture is hosting an 'Architectural Jelly Banquet' tonight, where jelly creations submitted to the Architectural Jelly Design Competition will be on display (and the title suggests eaten but I'm not entirely sure on that point..) Having seen a couple I'm torn, the lovely St Paul's replica by Greta Ilieva for example: It almost seems a shame to eat it, but then it is made of jelly and jelly is made to be eaten... If it's art...
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